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Thứ Năm, 4 tháng 9, 2014

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The city of Cambridge

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"Where is the university?" is a question many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no one can give them a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found around the university. The university is the city. You can find the classroom buildings, libraries, museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and teachers or professors of the thirty-one colleges.

Cambrige is already a developing town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew up by the river Granta, as the Cam was once called. A bridge was built over the river as early as 875.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew faster in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a city in 1951 and now it has the population of over 100000. Many young students want to study at Cambridge. Thousands of people from all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all around the world.

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The Taj Mahal

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In the city of Arga in northern India lies the mausoleum complex known as the Taj Mahal. Made of white marble and decorated with gemstones, the mausoleum is considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. It was built by a ruler named Shah Jahan as a monument and tomb for his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The construction began in 1632. 20,000 people from India, Persia and other countries worked for 22 years to complete the project.

The interior of the mausoleum is an eight-sided chamber that has monuments to Jahan and his wife. Beneath the monuments, at garden level, lie the actual tombs of Jahan and his wife. The Taj Mahal has been affected by pollution from nearby factories as well as from motor vehicles. However, steps are being taken to prevent further damage to the site. Some factories have been closed and vehicle traffic has been limited around the complex. In 1983, the Taj Mahal was designated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.

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Michelle Yeoh

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Action stars like Bruce, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat are well known for their skill in acting fighting scenes. But there are also quite few female actors known for their skill in acting in martial arts movies. One of the most famous female stars in action movies is Michelle Yeoh. Yeoh was born in 1962 in Malaysia and grew up watching movies with female action stars like Angela Mao and Hsu Feng. After studying ballet, Yeoh became Miss Malaysia in a beauty contest in 1983. As Miss Malaysia, she made some commercials for television with Jackie Chan and was then chosen to act in several action movies. Yeoh did not know martial arts at that time, but while training to prepare for her roles, she worked out up to nine hours a day. Her acting and the 1985 hit Yes, Madam made a huge star in Hong Kong. In 1992, Yeoh starred in Super Cop with Jackie Chan. The film was a blockbuster and Yeoh became the highest paid female actor in Asia. Later, Yeoh starred in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Both films helped Yeoh become even more famous worldwide.

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World Cup

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For centuries, people have been playing kicking games with a ball. The game of soccer developed from some of these early games. The English probably gave soccer its name and its rules. In European countries, soccer is called football. Some people belive that the name "soccer" came from the high socks that the players wear.

Organized soccer games began in 1863. In soccer, two teams of eleven players try to kick or head the ball into the goal of other team. The goalkeeper, who tries to keep the ball out of the goal, is the only player on the field who can touch the ball with his or her hands. The others must use the feet, heads, and bodies to control the ball.

Every four years, soccer teams around the world compete for the World Cup. The World Cup competition started in 1930. Brazil is the home of many great soccer players, including the most famous football player of all time, Pele. With his fast dazzling speed, he played for many years in Brazil and then later in New York. People in more than 140 countries around the world play soccer. It is definitely the world's most popular sport!

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Tchaikovsky

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May 7, 1840 was the birthday of one of the most famous Russian composer of the nineteenth century: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The son of a mining inspector, Tchaikovsky studied music as a child and later studied composing at the St. Peterburg Conservatory. His greatest period of productivity occurred between 1876 and 1890, during which time he enjoyed the patronage of Madame Von Meck, a woman he never met, who gave him a living stipend of about $ 1,000,000 a year. Madame Von Meck later terminated her friendship with him, as well as his living allowance when she herself was facing financial troubles. It was during the time of Madame Von Meck's patronage, however, that Tchaikovsky created the music for which he became most famous, including the music for the ballets of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. Tchaikovsky's music, well known for its rich melodic sometimes melancholy passages, was one of the first that brought dramatic music for dance. Before this, little attention had been given to the music behind the dance. Tchaikovsky died on November 6, 1893, ostensibly of cholera, though there are now some scholars who argue that he committed suicide.

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Conserving the world natural resources

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In the decade of the 1700s, the United Nations organized several important meetings on the human environment to study a very serious problem. We humans being are destroying the world around us. We are using up all of our natural resources. We must learn to conserve them, or life will be bad for our children and our grandchildren.

There are several major parts to this problem.

Distribution: Scientists say there is enough water in the world for everyone but some countries have a lot of water and some have only little. Some areas get all the rain during one season. The rest of year is dry. There are huge forests in the Amazon area of Brazil. In other parts of the world, there is only desert.

Petroleum: We are using up the world's petroleum. We use it in our cars and to heat our buildings in winter. Farmers are using petrochemicals to make their soil rich. They use them to kill insects that eat plants. These chemicals go into the rivers and lakes and kill fish there. Thousands of people also die from these chemicals every year. Chemicals also go into the air and pollute it. Winds carry this polluted air to other countries and other continents.

Poverty: Poor farmers use the same land over and over. The land needs a rest so it will be better next year. However, the farmers must have food this year. Poor people cut down trees for firewood. In some areas when the trees are gone, the land becomes desert. However, people need wood to cook their food. Poor people can not save environment for the future.

We now have information and the ability to solve the huge problems. However, this is not the problem for one country or one area of the world. It is a problem for all humans. The people and the nations of the world must work together to conserve the world's resources. No one controls the future, but we all help make it.

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