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西南财经大学 大学英语2
People like to decorate (1) houses at Christmas time. They decorate the inside of the (2) and the outside (3) . Inside they usually decorate a (4) tree and the fireplace, if there is one. Outside they place wreaths, ribbons, and colored (5) on the door and windows. If there is a tree in front of their house, they place colored lights (6) it too.In New York City, (7) is a very tall, beautifully decorated Christmas (8) in Rockefeller Center at Christmas time. In Washington, there is also a big decorated tree in front of the White House. People (9) from many cities to admire the trees and the colorfully decorated store (10) on the important streets of large cities.
Cars are an important (1) of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And (2) if a person is poor he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.There are three main reasons the car become so (3) in the United States. First of all, the country is the huge one and the Americans like to move (4) in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. (5) a car people can go any place without spending a lot of money. The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never developed (6) and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been (7) common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air-service providing planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently. The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is (8) really made cars popular. Americans don’t like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to (9) an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule (10) time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.
Mr. Clarke works in a middle school. He likes reading and often (1) some books from the library. He keeps (2) to the radio every morning and reading newspapers after supper. So he knows much and teaches well. His students worship(崇拜)him very much. Mike , Mr. Clarke’s little son, is only nine. He (3) likes reading books. And he often asks his father some questions. Mr. Clarke always thinks he’s too (4) to understand him and (5) the easiest ones to answer. Of course the boy is not (6) with that. One day Mike read (7) about the lights and was interested in it. When his father told him to do some house work, he (8) thinking of it. He asked him (9) questions, and his father answered all. Then his father said proudly, “Fathers (10) know more than sons!” The boy thought for a while and said, ”I don’t think so!”
All matter is made up of molecules. The molecules do not remain in the same position. They are not all moving at the (1) speed. When the molecules in matter are very close together and are (2) in a certain order, the matter is called a solid. When the molecules are close together, but can freely move, the matter is called (3) . When the molecules are not close together, and can fly (4) , the matter is called a gas. The form of matter can be changed by the increases or (5) of its temperature. (6) , water is liquid. But it can be changed into a solid or a gas. In winter, the temperature (7) below o ℃. The water turns into ice. When the ice is (8) into a warm room, it will be changed back into water. When (9) , water will be changed into vapor. Solids, liquids, and gas can be changed from one to another. These (10) are called Super Morph.
An old woman suddenly went blind. She gave a doctor a lot of money if he could make her (1) again. “If you fail,” she said, “You will get (2) .” The doctor agreed.The doctor soon discovered (3) was wrong with her eyes, but he decided not to cure her right away, (4) each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things. When he had taken everything, he was going to cure her blindness and set a large bill. Now when the old woman could see again, she noticed that all her things had gone and she (5) to pay the bill, so the doctor took her to a judge. “ (6) the doctor says is true,” she said to the judge, “but I am not well (7) because I still (8) any of the things in my house.” The old woman (9) the case and the doctor went angry unhappily (10) getting his pay.
Jules Verne’s most famous book is “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”. (A “league” is an old word (1) about three miles.) In those days submarines (潜水艇) had not been (2) , but he describes an underwater ship very like a modern submarine. The captain of the submarine, Called Captain Nemo, and his men have many strange adventures and find many strange things (3) the bottom of the ocean. He was a very good (4) . His characters often did surprising and sometimes impossible things, but they always seemed (5) real people. In another book, “Around the World in Eighty Days”, Jules Verne creates Mr. Fogg, the hero, (6) made a bet that he would travel around the world in eighty days. Nowadays this may seem (7) to you, but in those days there were no planes or even cars. Mr. Fogg and his servant traveled in many different (8) , even on an elephant at on time! If you want to know their result, you should read the book. In all his books Jules Verne used his scientific knowledge (9) his imagination in describing future inventions. (10) he was wrong, of course, but often the accuracy of his descriptions is very clever.
Japan is a small country with few natural resources. （1）this, Japanese productivity, the rate at which goods are produced,（2） more than eleven times in the past thirty years . Many people in the West wonder how the Japanese do it. The key（3）Japan’s success can be discovered by looking at some basic differences between Japanese and Western attitudes towards works.People in the west generally view work（4）a necessary evil— one must give up part of one’s freedom to earn the money needed to live. To the Japanese, however, work is the central interest of one’s life; it’s（5）that a Japanese establishes his identity.A Japanese business firm is like a family, When an employee joins a company, he expects to work for that company for the rest of his working life; （6）is anyone dismissed. Promotion is based on the seniority system, the length of employment（7）one rank in the company, Those at the bottom do not（8）chances for promotion because those at the top retire at a certain age（9）others may have their turn. In addition, the difference between the lowest and the highest salaries is much less than（10）in the West
Until 1983, Tillson Lake had been a lovely weekend and vacation place for many families. Then everything changed. During the Fourth of July weekend, residents woke up one morning to find that the lake had disappeared.Some people didn.t believe what they were seeing. They looked again, but to their amazement they found they had been right the first time. The lake was simply no longer there. In its place was a muddy crater（坑）, 30 feet deep. It was as if the lake had been a giant bathtub（浴盆）and someone had pulled the plug. The lake.s owner, Joseph Unanue, did indeed pull the plug. That.s exactly what happened. The dam（水坝） that held back the water to form the lake was falling apart, so government officials ordered him to repair it. They issued him a permit to lower the dam level "five feet or more." He did much more. Mr. Unanue found repairs to the dam would cost $100,000. He didn.t want to spend that much, so he opened the dam and lowered the water level until the lake was completely drained. People living above the dam ended up with no lake. People living below the dam ended up with tons of mud and lots of dead fish. Everyone involved was angry with Mr. Unanue. Area residents believe Mr. Unanue acted out of spite（恶意）. They say he wanted to get back at them because the town wouldn.t let him develop an amusement park on the lakeshore. When he couldn.t build his park, he just went away and took his lake with him.
Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it.s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you.re "hot". That.s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: "Get up, John! You.ll be late for work again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and -energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has. You can.t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you.re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won.t change your cycle, but you.ll get up steam and work better at your low point. Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.
If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to analyze defeat was actually profit by it in his next undertaking. Confuse defeat with failure, and you are doomed indeed to failure. For it isn.t defeat that makes you fail: it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.Defeats are nothing to be ashamed of. They are routine incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it without humiliation, analyze it and learn why you failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to cure its own muse. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing can amuse within us a compelling desire to success. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more tightly until his whole weight is suspended. It is this same reaction that should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you exploit the power that defeat gives, you can accomplish with it far more that you are capable of.
Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a C.D or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk （民间） musiC.It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country musiC.This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
Dieting to lose weight has become very popular in recent years. People have become more health conscious and try to take better care of their bodies by eating more nutritiously and exercising more regularly to lose any unnecessary fat that they may have.Not only are people being more careful about what they eat, they are also concerned with how they eat and how their meals are prepared. People are taking more time for each meal. Many avoid the so-called "plastic" fast-food hamburgers and choose to eat a salad or a sandwich of more healthful ingredients in a quiet restaurant with a more leisurely at mo-sphere. At home, they also try to take enough time to eat a relaxed dinner without phone or TV interruptions. While dieting may be viewed as beneficial, it has also become a serious problem for Americans, particularly for young women. Dieting for them has actually become a psychological addiction. They eat so little that they can lose as much as fifty percent of their total body weight, and although they look like skeletons, they still insist that they are fat. The current wave of exercising, dieting and the problems produced have caused many organizations to begin educating the public. Many schools, hospitals, health organizations, news-papers and magazines, for example, are offering classes, printing booklet articles, etc. to inform the public of the way to exercise and diet, of the dangers of dieting too rapidly, and of the places people can go for medical help if they find themselves on the road to "diet addiction".
When I was a little girl, my brothers and i collected stamps for many years. My mother didn’t use to work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house on Saturdays and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued(发行).On the day of World Cup football final in London in 1996, we were very excited because England were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother told us to go to the post office straight way after the match if England won, but she didn’t tell us why. At 2 O’clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watching the football on TV at home.Although she wasn’t watching the match, she was listening to it on the readio.England won 4：2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my mother was standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with ENGLAND WINNDERS on eah stamp. We were over the moon.We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money.
Because smoking is a form of addiction, 80 percent of smokers who quit usually experience some withdrawal symptoms. These may include headaches, light-headedness, and chest pains. Psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, short-term depression, and inability to concentrate, may also appear. The main psychological symptom is increased irritability. People become so irritable, in fact, that they say they feel “like killing somebody.” Yet there is no evidence that quitting smoking leads to physical violence.Some people seem to lose all their energy and drive, wanting only to sleep. Others react in exactly the opposite way, becoming so over-energized they can.t find enough activity to burn off their excess energy. For instance, one woman said she cleaned out all her closets completely and was ready to go next door to start on her neighbor.s. Both these extremes, however, eventually level off. The symptoms may be intense for two or three days, but within 10 to 14 days after quitting, most subside. The truth is that after people quit smoking, they have more energy, they generally will need less sleep, and feel better about themselves. Quitting smoking not only extends the ex-smoker.s life, but adds new happiness and meaning to one.s current life. Most smokers state that immediately after they quit smoking, they start noticing dramatic differences in their overall health and vitality. Quitting is beneficial at any age, no matter how long a person has been smoking. The death rate of an ex-smoker decreases after quitting. If the patient quits before a serious disease has developed, his/her body may eventually be able to restore itself almost completely.
In 1926, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So, he invented a very simple camerA.He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo. The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837.That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything clearly, even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype(银版照相).Soon other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all around the worlD.People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains. In about 1840, photography was developeD.Then photographers could take picture of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the US worked so harD.Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike(栩栩如生的).Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real worlD.They showed feelings, like other kinds of art.
Cars are an important (1) of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. And (2) if a person is poor he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.There are three main reasons the car become so (3) in the United States. First of all, the country is the huge one and the Americans like to move (4) in it. The car provides the most comfortable and cheapest form of transportation. (5) a car people can go any place without spending a lot of money. The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never developed (6) and inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been (7) common in the United States as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air-service providing planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently. The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is (8) really made cars popular. Americans don’t like to wait for a bus, or a train or even a plane. They don’t like to have to (9) an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule (10) time. And this is the freedom that Americans want most to have.
Mr. Clarke works in a middle school. He likes reading and often (1) some books from the library. He keeps (2) to the radio every morning and reading newspapers after supper. So he knows much and teaches well. His students worship(崇拜)him very much. Mike , Mr. Clarke’s little son, is only nine. He (3) likes reading books. And he often asks his father some questions. Mr. Clarke always thinks he’s too (4) to understand him and (5) the easiest ones to answer. Of course the boy is not (6) with that. One day Mike read (7) about the lights and was interested in it. When his father told him to do some house work, he (8) thinking of it. He asked him (9) questions, and his father answered all. Then his father said proudly, “Fathers (10) know more than sons!” The boy thought for a while and said, ”I don’t think so!”
All matter is made up of molecules. The molecules do not remain in the same position. They are not all moving at the (1) speed. When the molecules in matter are very close together and are (2) in a certain order, the matter is called a solid. When the molecules are close together, but can freely move, the matter is called (3) . When the molecules are not close together, and can fly (4) , the matter is called a gas. The form of matter can be changed by the increases or (5) of its temperature. (6) , water is liquid. But it can be changed into a solid or a gas. In winter, the temperature (7) below o ℃. The water turns into ice. When the ice is (8) into a warm room, it will be changed back into water. When (9) , water will be changed into vapor. Solids, liquids, and gas can be changed from one to another. These (10) are called Super Morph.
An old woman suddenly went blind. She gave a doctor a lot of money if he could make her (1) again. “If you fail,” she said, “You will get (2) .” The doctor agreed.The doctor soon discovered (3) was wrong with her eyes, but he decided not to cure her right away, (4) each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things. When he had taken everything, he was going to cure her blindness and set a large bill. Now when the old woman could see again, she noticed that all her things had gone and she (5) to pay the bill, so the doctor took her to a judge. “ (6) the doctor says is true,” she said to the judge, “but I am not well (7) because I still (8) any of the things in my house.” The old woman (9) the case and the doctor went angry unhappily (10) getting his pay.
Jules Verne’s most famous book is “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”. (A “league” is an old word (1) about three miles.) In those days submarines (潜水艇) had not been (2) , but he describes an underwater ship very like a modern submarine. The captain of the submarine, Called Captain Nemo, and his men have many strange adventures and find many strange things (3) the bottom of the ocean. He was a very good (4) . His characters often did surprising and sometimes impossible things, but they always seemed (5) real people. In another book, “Around the World in Eighty Days”, Jules Verne creates Mr. Fogg, the hero, (6) made a bet that he would travel around the world in eighty days. Nowadays this may seem (7) to you, but in those days there were no planes or even cars. Mr. Fogg and his servant traveled in many different (8) , even on an elephant at on time! If you want to know their result, you should read the book. In all his books Jules Verne used his scientific knowledge (9) his imagination in describing future inventions. (10) he was wrong, of course, but often the accuracy of his descriptions is very clever.
Japan is a small country with few natural resources. （1）this, Japanese productivity, the rate at which goods are produced,（2） more than eleven times in the past thirty years . Many people in the West wonder how the Japanese do it. The key（3）Japan’s success can be discovered by looking at some basic differences between Japanese and Western attitudes towards works.People in the west generally view work（4）a necessary evil— one must give up part of one’s freedom to earn the money needed to live. To the Japanese, however, work is the central interest of one’s life; it’s（5）that a Japanese establishes his identity.A Japanese business firm is like a family, When an employee joins a company, he expects to work for that company for the rest of his working life; （6）is anyone dismissed. Promotion is based on the seniority system, the length of employment（7）one rank in the company, Those at the bottom do not（8）chances for promotion because those at the top retire at a certain age（9）others may have their turn. In addition, the difference between the lowest and the highest salaries is much less than（10）in the West
Until 1983, Tillson Lake had been a lovely weekend and vacation place for many families. Then everything changed. During the Fourth of July weekend, residents woke up one morning to find that the lake had disappeared.Some people didn.t believe what they were seeing. They looked again, but to their amazement they found they had been right the first time. The lake was simply no longer there. In its place was a muddy crater（坑）, 30 feet deep. It was as if the lake had been a giant bathtub（浴盆）and someone had pulled the plug. The lake.s owner, Joseph Unanue, did indeed pull the plug. That.s exactly what happened. The dam（水坝） that held back the water to form the lake was falling apart, so government officials ordered him to repair it. They issued him a permit to lower the dam level "five feet or more." He did much more. Mr. Unanue found repairs to the dam would cost $100,000. He didn.t want to spend that much, so he opened the dam and lowered the water level until the lake was completely drained. People living above the dam ended up with no lake. People living below the dam ended up with tons of mud and lots of dead fish. Everyone involved was angry with Mr. Unanue. Area residents believe Mr. Unanue acted out of spite（恶意）. They say he wanted to get back at them because the town wouldn.t let him develop an amusement park on the lakeshore. When he couldn.t build his park, he just went away and took his lake with him.
Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it.s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you.re "hot". That.s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: "Get up, John! You.ll be late for work again!" The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and -energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has. You can.t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you.re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won.t change your cycle, but you.ll get up steam and work better at your low point. Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.
If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to analyze defeat was actually profit by it in his next undertaking. Confuse defeat with failure, and you are doomed indeed to failure. For it isn.t defeat that makes you fail: it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.Defeats are nothing to be ashamed of. They are routine incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it without humiliation, analyze it and learn why you failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to cure its own muse. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing can amuse within us a compelling desire to success. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more tightly until his whole weight is suspended. It is this same reaction that should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you exploit the power that defeat gives, you can accomplish with it far more that you are capable of.
Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a C.D or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk （民间） musiC.It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country musiC.This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
Dieting to lose weight has become very popular in recent years. People have become more health conscious and try to take better care of their bodies by eating more nutritiously and exercising more regularly to lose any unnecessary fat that they may have.Not only are people being more careful about what they eat, they are also concerned with how they eat and how their meals are prepared. People are taking more time for each meal. Many avoid the so-called "plastic" fast-food hamburgers and choose to eat a salad or a sandwich of more healthful ingredients in a quiet restaurant with a more leisurely at mo-sphere. At home, they also try to take enough time to eat a relaxed dinner without phone or TV interruptions. While dieting may be viewed as beneficial, it has also become a serious problem for Americans, particularly for young women. Dieting for them has actually become a psychological addiction. They eat so little that they can lose as much as fifty percent of their total body weight, and although they look like skeletons, they still insist that they are fat. The current wave of exercising, dieting and the problems produced have caused many organizations to begin educating the public. Many schools, hospitals, health organizations, news-papers and magazines, for example, are offering classes, printing booklet articles, etc. to inform the public of the way to exercise and diet, of the dangers of dieting too rapidly, and of the places people can go for medical help if they find themselves on the road to "diet addiction".
When I was a little girl, my brothers and i collected stamps for many years. My mother didn’t use to work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house on Saturdays and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued(发行).On the day of World Cup football final in London in 1996, we were very excited because England were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother told us to go to the post office straight way after the match if England won, but she didn’t tell us why. At 2 O’clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watching the football on TV at home.Although she wasn’t watching the match, she was listening to it on the readio.England won 4：2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my mother was standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with ENGLAND WINNDERS on eah stamp. We were over the moon.We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money.
Because smoking is a form of addiction, 80 percent of smokers who quit usually experience some withdrawal symptoms. These may include headaches, light-headedness, and chest pains. Psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, short-term depression, and inability to concentrate, may also appear. The main psychological symptom is increased irritability. People become so irritable, in fact, that they say they feel “like killing somebody.” Yet there is no evidence that quitting smoking leads to physical violence.Some people seem to lose all their energy and drive, wanting only to sleep. Others react in exactly the opposite way, becoming so over-energized they can.t find enough activity to burn off their excess energy. For instance, one woman said she cleaned out all her closets completely and was ready to go next door to start on her neighbor.s. Both these extremes, however, eventually level off. The symptoms may be intense for two or three days, but within 10 to 14 days after quitting, most subside. The truth is that after people quit smoking, they have more energy, they generally will need less sleep, and feel better about themselves. Quitting smoking not only extends the ex-smoker.s life, but adds new happiness and meaning to one.s current life. Most smokers state that immediately after they quit smoking, they start noticing dramatic differences in their overall health and vitality. Quitting is beneficial at any age, no matter how long a person has been smoking. The death rate of an ex-smoker decreases after quitting. If the patient quits before a serious disease has developed, his/her body may eventually be able to restore itself almost completely.
In 1926, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So, he invented a very simple camerA.He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo. The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837.That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything clearly, even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype(银版照相).Soon other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all around the worlD.People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains. In about 1840, photography was developeD.Then photographers could take picture of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the US worked so harD.Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike(栩栩如生的).Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real worlD.They showed feelings, like other kinds of art.