SUNSET

When the air is clear, the sunset will appear yellow, because the light from the sun has
passed a long distance through air and the blue light has been scattered away. If the air is
polluted with small particles, natural or otherwise, the sunset will be more red. Sunsets
over the sea may also be orange, due to salt particles in the air. The sky around the sun is
seen reddened, as well as the light coming directly from the sun. This is because all light is
scattered relatively well through small angles, but blue light is then more likely to be
scattered twice over the greater distances, leaving the yellow, red and orange colors.
ULTRALIGHT AIRPLANES
An ultralight airplane is very different from a conventional airplane. It looks like a lawn
chair with wings, weighs no more than 254 pounds, flies up to 60 miles an hour, and
carries about 5 gallons of fuel. Most ultralights are sold as kits and take about 40 hours to
assemble. Flying an ultralight is so easy that a pilot with no experience can fly one.
Accidents are rarely fatal or even serious because the ultralight lands so slowly and gently
and carries so little fuel. Some models now have parachutes attached, while others have
parachute packs which pilots can wear.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
Modern scientific and technological developments in the practice of medicine and public
health have drawn nursing into new and wider fields of activity, and its functions have been
expanded accordingly. Therefore, nursing is no longer limited mainly to activities within the
hospital, or to what is called curative nursing. It has become also a community service in
which preventive and rehabilitative functions are a vital part of its program. The modern
concept of nursing considers the hospital, however central, as only one of many health
agencies in the community.

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Much of the blood on the street flows essentially from uncivil behavior of drivers who refuse
to respect the legal and moral rights of others. So the massacre on the road may be
regarded as a social problem. Safety standards for vehicle have been raised both at the
point of manufacture and through periodic road-worthiness inspections. In addition, speed
limits have been lowered. Due to these measures, the accident rate has decreased. But the
accident experts still worry because there has been little or no improvement in the way
drivers behave.
HUMAN DEVELOPING
When early humans hunted and gathered food, they were not in control of their
environment. They could only interact with their surroundings as lower organisms did.
When humans learned to make fire, however, they became capable of altering their
environment. To provide themselves with fuel they stripped bark from trees, causing the
trees to die. Clearings were burned in forests to increase the growth of grass and to provide
a greater grazing area for the wild animals that humans fed upon. This development led to
farming and the domestication of animals. Fire also provided the means for cooking plants
which had previously been inedible. Only when the process of meeting the basic need for
food reached a certain level of sophistication was it possible for humans to follow other
pursuits such as the founding of cities.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake

The Great Hanshin earthquake, or the Kobe earthquake as it is more commonly known
overseas, was an earthquake in Japan that measured 7.2 on the Japanese Scale. It
occurred on January 17, 1995 at 5:46 am 52 seconds in the southern part of Hyogo
Prefecture and lasted for approximately 20 seconds. The epicenter of the earthquake was
on the northern end of Awaji Island, near the cosmopolitan city of Kobe with a population
of 1.5 million. A total of 6,433 people, mainly in the city of Kobe, lost their lives.
Additionally, it caused approximately ten trillion yen in damage. It is listed in the Guinness
Book of Records as the costliest natural disaster. It was the worst .earthquake in Japan
since the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, which claimed 140,000 lives.

Mother Tongue
First language, also known as mother tongue, is generally the language a person learns
first. However, one can have two or more native languages thus being a native bilingual or
indeed multilingual. The order in which these languages are learned is not necessarily the
order of proficiency. Incomplete first language skills often make learning other languages
difficult. Often a child learns the basics of his or her first language or languages from his or
her family. The term mother tongue, however, should not be interpreted to mean that it is
the language of one's mother. For instance, in some paternal societies, the wife moves in
with the husband and thus may have a different first language or dialect than the local
language of the husband. Yet their children usually only speak their local language.
World War I
Many consider World War I to have been the first modern war, a total war where the
civilian populations were deliberately endangered as a direct tactic of war, which has
continued in all subsequent wars. While civilians have always died in wars, World War I
made civilian casualties accepted and commonplace, from, for example, aerial
bombardment. All aspects of the societies fighting were affected by the conflict, often
causing profound social change, even if the countries were not in the war zone.
Stonehenge Monument
Stonehenge is an ancient monument situated about ten miles north of Salisbury in England.
It was built about 4500 years ago, but by whom and for what purpose remains a mystery.
The builders must have known of geometry. They may have been influenced by the
Mycenaeans, whose architecture was similar. Some of the stones must have been brought
from West Wales, over 135 miles away. These stones weigh more than fifty tons. They may
have been brought on rafts and rollers. Experts say that it must have taken 1500 men
more than five years to transport them. Stonehenge was probably built in three stages.
First, settlers from continental Europe built a temple for sun worship. Later the "Beaker"
people added the stone circles. Finally, people of the Wesse Culture transformed
Stonehenge into an observatory. They could calculate the exact time of Midsummer and
Midwinter and of equinoxes.
A tic is a repeated, impulsive action, reflexive in nature, which the actor feels powerless to
control or avoid. Only when the individual performs the tic, is tension and anxiety released
within the individual with a tic disorder. Tics can be triggered by an emotional state or
sensation, or can happen for no obvious reason. General types of tics include verbal tics,
facial tics, and other muscular tics. Physical and psychological therapy and medication can
cause tics to go away, often permanently. Muscular tics look something like twitches or

quick grimaces, and often affect the eyes and hands. Muscular tics can affect multiple
muscles at once. Some forms of stuttering are caused by muscular tics in the throat,
tongue, or vocal cords when speaking or preparing to speak.

FILMMAKING
In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of
speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound
films were initially distinguished by calling them talking pictures, or talkies. The next major
step in the development of cinema was the introduction of color. While the addition of
sound to film revolutionized the medium, quickly driving out silent movies, color was
adopted more gradually. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as
opposed to black-and-white. But as color processes improved and became as affordable as
black-and-white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of World
War II, as the industry in America came to view color an essential to attracting audiences in
its competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid60s. By the end of the 1960s, color had become the norm for filmmakers.

POESIA
People seldom feel neutral about poetry. Those who love it sometimes give the impression
that it is an adequate substitute for food, shelter, and love. But it isn't. Those who dislike
poetry on principle sometimes claim, on the other hand, that poetry is only words and good
for nothing. That's not true either. When words represent and recreate genuine human
feelings, as they often do in poetry, they can be very important. Poems provide, in fact, a
language for feeling, and one of poetry's most insistent merits involves its attempt to
express the inexpressible. One of the joys of experiencing poetry occurs when we read a
poem and want to say, "yes, that is just what it is like; I know exactly what that line means
but I have never been able to express it so well." Poetry can be the voice of our feelings
even when our minds are speechless with grief or joy.
Nature vs Nurture
People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed.
Two distinct schools of thought on he matter have developed. The two approaches are very
different from one another, The controversy is often referred to as nature and nurture,
Those who support the nature side of the conflict believe that our personalities and
behavior patterns are largely dtermined by biological and genetic factors. That our
environment has little to do with our abilities, characteristics, and behavior is central to this
theory. Proponents of the nurture theory claim that our environment is more important
than our biologically based instinct in determining how we will act. They see humans as
beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. Neither of these
theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our
behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the controversy will continue
for a long time is certain

Common Cold and Flu

Scratchy throats, stuffy noses and body aches all spell misery, but being able to tell if the
cause is a cold or flu may make a difference in how long the flu lasts. That's because the
prescription drugs available for the flu need to be taken soon after the illness sets in
although the symptoms can be eased with over the counter medications. As for colds, the
sooner a person starts taking over-the-counter remedy, the sooner relief will come. Cold
symptoms such as stuffy nose, runny nose and scratchy throat typically develop gradually,
and adults and teens often do not get a fever. On the other hand, fever is one of the
characteristic features of the flu for all ages. And in general, flu symptoms including fever
and chills, sore throat and body aches come on suddenly and are more severe than cold
symptoms.

Bringing up Children Answer the questions according to the reading passage.

In bringing up children, every parent, regardless of ethnicity, income, education, or
geographic location, watches eagerly the child's acquisition of each new skill. However, it is
often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, which can set up
dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any
stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged
to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand,
though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his
natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself. Parents vary
greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in
money matters. Others are severed over times of coming home at night or punctuality for
meals. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values
of the community as much as the child's own benefit.

Active Passive Smoking Answer the questions according to the reading passage.

Psychologist George Spilich at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to

find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to think and concentrate. He
put non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived of cigarettes through a series of
tests. In the first test, each subject sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as
soon as he or she recognized a target letter. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers
and non-smokers performed equally well. The next test was more complex. Non-smokers
were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine, active smokers were faster than deprived
smokers. In the third test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but
deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers. In the fourth test, nonsmokers were the best and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette
just before testing. As the tests became more complex, non-smokers performed better than
smokers by wider and wider margins.

Active Passive Smoking

Answer the questions according to the reading passage. Psychologist George Spilich at
Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many
smokers say, smoking helps them to think and concentrate. He put non-smokers, active
smokers and smokers deprived of cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each
subject sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a
target letter. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and non-smokers performed
equally well. The next test was more complex. Non-smokers were faster, but under the
stimulation of nicotine, active smokers were faster than deprived smokers. In the third test
of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers
committed fewer errors than active smokers. In the fourth test, non-smokers were the best
and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. As the
tests became more complex, non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and
wider margins.
The Difference Between Men And Women
Although there is a great deal of variation within each gender, on the average men and
women discuss a surprisingly different range of topics. According to some studies, women
and men ranging in age from seventeen to eighty described the range of topics each
discussed with friends of the same sex. Certain topics were common to both men and
women: work, movies, and television proved to be frequent topics for both groups. The
differences between men and women were more striking than the similarities. Female
friends spent much more time discussing personal and domestic subjects, relationship
problems, family, health and reproductive matters, weight, food and clothing. Men, on the
other hand, were more likely to discuss music, current events, sports and business. Women
were more likely to gossip about close friends and family. By contrast, men spent more
time gossiping about sports figures and media personalities. These differences can lead to
frustration when men and women try to converse with one another.
Choose the appropriate options according to the reading passage
One of the major processes that takes place in schools, of course, is that students learn.
When they graduate from high school, many can use a computer, write essays with threepart theses, and differentiate equations. In addition to learning specific skills, they learn to
think critically, to weigh evidence and to develop independent judgment. The extent to
which this development takes place is related to both school and home environments.
Teachers who are more open to new ideas and less authoritarian produce students who
have greater intellectual flexibility and higher achievement test scores. Studies show that
teachers are most demanding when they are of the same social class as their students. The
greater the difference between their own social class and that of their pupils, the more
rigidly they structure their classrooms and the fewer demands they place on their students.

Fears of Children Parents teach their children to be fearful and cautious of specific
dangers, such as fire or crossing the road.
Anxiety can be useful, because it helps protect the child from harm. However, children can
be fearful of situations or objects that adults don't consider threatening. The sources of fear
may change as the child matures; for example, a fear of the dark or monsters under the
bed may give way to fears of burglary or violence. Tactics that don't work include teasing
the child for being afraid, or compelling them to confront fearful situations. Helping the
child to deal with fear includes taking their feelings seriously, encouraging them to talk
about their anxieties, telling them the facts, and giving them the opportunity to confront
their fears at their own pace and with your support.
Panda Bear
Panda is the name for two nocturnal Asian mammals: the red panda and the giant panda.
The red panda, also known as lesser panda and cat bear, is found at high elevations in the
Himalayas. It resembles a raccoon but has a longer body and tail and a more rounded
head. Its thick fur is rust color to deep chestnut, with black on the under parts, limbs, and
ears. The red panda spends much of its time in trees but feeds on the ground, eating
primarily bamboo leaves but also fruit and roots. The giant panda superficially resembles a
bear. The body is chiefly white, and the limbs are brownish black, with the dark color
extending up over the shoulder. The ears and eye patches are black. Giant pandas live in
restricted areas of the high mountain bamboo forests of central China; their diet consists
entirely of bamboo shoots. Rare in the wild, they produce young poorly when they are not
in their natural environment. Giant pandas are protected by law in China.
Women Taking the Husband's Name Many
Women in Western society, aware of the power of names to influence identity, are aware
that choosing how to identify themselves alter marriage can be a significant decision. They
may follow the tradition of taking their husband's last name, hyphenate their own name
and their husband's, or keep their birth name. One fascinating survey reveals that a
woman's choice is likely to reveal a great deal about herself and her relationship with her
husband. Women who take their husband's name place the most importance on
relationships. On the other hand, women who keep their birth names put their personal
concerns ahead of relationships and social expectations. Female forms of address influence
others' perceptions as well. Research conducted in the late 1980s showed that women who
choose the title Ms give the impression of being more achievement oriented, socially selfconfident, and dynamic but less interpersonally warm than counterparts who prefer the
more traditional forms Miss or Mrs.
Is Tea Beneficial
Tea had a reputation for being both safe and almost always beneficial. However, scientists
are now suggesting that tea may not be as safe as we had previously believed. Tea
contains caffeine, and caffeine has been linked to sleeplessness and to the unpleasant
jumpy feeling some people get when stressed. More seriously, there is a link between
miscarriages, and pregnant women are advised to reduce their intake of tea until after their
baby is born. Due its dangerous side-effects, many people who drink a lot of tea solve the
problem by drinking a beverage from which the caffeine has been removed, decaffeinated
tea, but others claim that it simply doesn't taste right. The sensible course is probably one
of moderation: continue to enjoy your cup of tea, but don't enjoy too many!

Speaking vs Listening
It often appears that we have more to gain by speaking than by listening. One big
advantage of speaking is that it gives you a chance to control others' thoughts and actions.
Whatever your goal is, the key to success seems to be the ability to speak well. Another
apparent advantage of speaking is the chance it provides to gain the admiration, respect,
or liking of others. Finally, talking gives you the chance to release energy in a way that
listening can't. In the same way, you can often lessen your anger by letting it out verbally.

How to Discipline Children's Behaviour

A book has just been published to help parents to deal with their children's naughty
behaviour at home. The author, Dr James Bruno, says that the first positive discipline
technique is for parents to remain calm because nervous parents don't get good results.
Parents who cannot often remain calm find that their children stop taking any notice of
them. The second challenge is to know how to correct bad behaviour in an effective way.
For instance, punishing children by preventing them from watching their favourite TV
program is not an ideal solution. Dr Bruno believes parents should establish clear rules for
children to follow. If children refuse to follow these, they know they will be disciplined.
Finally, the most effective way of encouraging good behaviour is to give positive feedback
as often as possible, to show that it is not only naughtiness that attracts attention.
Homeless People Answer the questions according to the reading
The sad situation of the homeless remains a problem.
It is difficult to estimate how many people are homeless because the number depends on
how the homeless are defined. There are street people - those who sleep in bus stations,
parks, and other areas. Many of these people are youthful runaways. There are the socalled sheltered homeless - those who sleep in government supported or privately funded
shelters. Many of these individuals used to live with their families or friends. While street
people are almost always single, the sheltered homeless include numerous families with
children. Conservatives argue that many homeless are alcoholics, drug users, or mentally
ill. In contrast, many liberals argue that homelessness is caused by a reduction in welfare
benefits and by excessively priced housing. They want more shelters to be built for the
homeless.
Answer the questions according to the reading The sad situation of the homeless
remains a problem.
It is difficult to estimate how many people are homeless because the number depends on
how the homeless are defined. There are street people - those who sleep in bus stations,
parks, and other areas. Many of these people are youthful runaways. There are the socalled sheltered homeless - those who sleep in government supported or privately funded
shelters. Many of these individuals used to live with their families or friends. While street
people are almost always single, the sheltered homeless include numerous families with
children. Conservatives argue that many homeless are alcoholics, drug users, or mentally
ill. In contrast, many liberals argue that homelessness is caused by a reduction in welfare
benefits and by excessively priced housing. They want more shelters to be built for the
homeless.

Communication in Groups
The sheer number of people in a group affects the amount of communication. Consider the
difference between communication between two friends and communication in a group of
live people. When friends talk, there are two people sending and receiving messages. In a
group of live, there are live people doing the same thing. Each idea that is expressed must
be understood by four others, who may also choose to respond. Consequently, the greater
number of people in a group, the fewer contributions any individual may make. Because
there are disadvantages to large groups, you might assume that small groups would be the
most effective.However, groups can be too small as well as 100 large. With 100 few
members, a group has limited resources, which eliminates a primary advantage of groups
for decision making. Also, in very small groups, members may be unwilling lo disagree or
criticize each other's ideas. I believe that five to seven members is the ideal size for a small
group.
Unconditional Love / Motherly Love
Motherly love by its very nature is unconditional. Mother loves the newborn infant because
it is her child, not because the child has fulfilled any specific condition, or lived up to any
specific expectations. Unconditional love corresponds to one of the deepest longings, not
only of the child, but also of every human being. On the other hand, to be loved because of
one's merit or because one deserves it, always leaves doubt and there is always a fear that
love could disappear. Furthermore deserved love easily leaves a bitter feeling that one is
not loved for himself but is loved only because he pleases, and that he is not loved at all
but used. No wonder that we cling to the longing for motherly love, as children and also as
adults.
The Origins Of Written Literature
The origins of a written literature can be found in most of the civilizations of the ancient
world; in India, China, and among the Jewish people whose great work of literature is taken
to present. The start of Western literature is the Old Testament of the Bible. Their greatest
single contribution was drama, a form of literature that has continued undiminished to the
present day. Other literary forms that developed from the time of the Greeks and Romans
onwards have been Poetry in its many different styles and forms; the essay; biography and
autobiography; and the novel.

Struggle Against Obesity

Obese people don't want pity and we don't want anything but a hand up so we can get back
to work. Some of us would like to contribute and even pay taxes again but we need some
assistance. There are all kinds of programs assisting young people to go to school, like
student loans and grants. This really large group of our population could benefit from some
sort of program that might involve education, liposuction, special footwear, and a part-time
personal trainer who would develop individualized solutions for each person. Let's get some
intelligent kind of operation going. Let's develop a war on fat.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice, by far the most popular of all Jane Austen's novels, requires no
detailed description. Jane Austen said of it that it "is rather too light, and bright, and
sparkling; it wants shade," and this is perhaps the reason for its popularity. The precision
and vivacity of style carry the reader through the novel with ease and spirit; there is a
sparkling life about the characters and rainwashed freshness about the scenery which
combine to make this gayest of Jane Austen's novels, in spite of deeper overtones which
emerge when Charlotte Lucas agrees to marry Mr. Collins or when Lydia is discovered to
have run off with Wickham with no prospect of marriage. The speed and ski ii with which
the author moves into the story is remarkable.

Experimenting on Animals
Life processes are similar in all animals with backbones. So physiologists can find out a lot
about the human body by studying animals such as frogs, rats and rabbits. Sometimes
research involves the death of these animals. But physiologists take great care not to hurt
the animals. The animals are usually put to sleep during the experiments so they do not
feel pain. Many people think animals should not be used for experiments. But it is only by
physiological research that medicine has been able to advance. Polio is a disease that
attacks the nerves. Millions of people have been protected from polio by a fluid called a
vaccine. Tissue from monkeys is used to make the vaccine.

Magellan Ferdinand
Magellan is a Portuguese navigator who shared the idea of Christopher Columbus and
others that the Far East could be reached by sailing westward. He embarked from Spain in
August 1519 with a fleet of five ships, sailed southward down the coast of South America
and reached the Pacific Ocean through the Strait named after him. He then gave the Pacific
its name, because his first impression of it was one of peace and calm. Magellan was killed
by warring tribesmen in the Philippines, but one of his ships finally arrived back in Spain in
September 1522 via the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, the first to have circumnavigated the
world.

Poisonous Snakes
The most dangerous animals on the North American continent, by a margin of 1000 to
one, are not bears, mountain lions or wolves but poisonous snakes. Attacks occur far more
frequently than most people suspect; 6500 to 7000 humans are bitten by venomous snakes
in the United States each year. Fortunately, the death rate from snakebite is low, largely
because of widespread knowledge about snakes and the fact that in most cases treatment
is prompt. Yet for the victims, even though they survive, the ordeal is a dreadful experience
sometimes resulting weeks or months of illness, permanent crippling, the loss of a hand or
foot, or other lasting handicaps.

Alcohol And Women Infertility

Alcohol consumption may be linked to a women's risk of infertility, say researches
supported by the National Institute of Child Health. In a study of nearly 6000 women,
researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health looked at Data from those evaluated
at seven infertility clinics. After adjusting for other factors that could affect results, such as
age and cigarette smoking, researchers found a strong association between alcohol (more
than the equivalent of seven cans of beer a week) and infertility due to ovulation problems.
The inability to conceive was about 30 percent more likely to occur in women who drank
moderately and about 60 percent more likely in women who drank heavily.

Note Taking While Reading

One can write notes either in the novel one is reading or in a separate notebook. The
advantage of the former method is that it doesn't disturb one's reading too much;
disadvantage is that it spoils a book, it affects one's second reading of the novel, there is
not always too much room for the notes in the book. One way round these problems is to
write brief notes in pencil in a novel as one is reading, then to copy these up and expand
them in a separate notebook. These also allow one to copy out brief extracts from the novel
which strike one as important, and it means that you file for future reference only notes
about which you have thought a second time after having finished reading the novel.
Nuclear Danger
Answer the questions according to the reading Our demand for electricity is climbing so
fast that over the next decade our generating capacity must increase by a third. Fossil fuels
supply nearly three-quarters of this energy. But the smoke expelling coal, gas, and oil-fired
plants are also responsible for half of our air pollution. That might be considered as a small
price to pay for progress. But there's an alternative, .one that produces no smoke and can
actually create more fuel than it consumes. In many regions it's even cheaper than coalfired electricity: nuclear power. It may directly bring danger of radioactivity to the mind,
but if other types of power didn't present equal and even worse problems, it would make
no sense to consider nuclear power at all. But they do.

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in the German city of Ulm. He had been no infant prodigy;
indeed, he was so late in learning to speak that his parents feared he was fool. In school,
though his teachers saw no special talent in him, the signs were already there. He taught
himself calculus, for example, and he told me that his teachers seemed a little afraid of him
because he asked questions they could not answer. At the age of 16, he asked himself
whether a light wave would seem stationary if one ran side by side of it. It seems an
innocent question, but this shows. Einstein going to the heart of a problem. From it there
would arise, ten years later, his theory of relativity.

How To Live Longer

A group of researchers has demonstrated that pleasure and positive states of mind are
better for our health. This new intellectual approach to health is not only more powerful,
but also has no side effects. Central to this claim are recent findings that eve n getting an
education may add as much as 10 years to your health. That is why National Geographic
featured John de Rosen in its book The Incredible Machine, which discussed old age. De
Rosen, an artist, continued to paint until the week he died at age 91. The book notes:
"Same scientists believe that retirement to a sedentary lifestyle initiates or aggravates
medical problems, thus shortening life. According to a study of retired people, adults over
65 can learn a creative skill, like oil painting, as readily as younger students." So retiring
from a job in a sense means retiring from life unless supplemented by some other,
preferably new activity.
Mental Illnesses
There are many times when someone suffering from either mental illness or depression
may not even realize there is a problem. I have suffered from depression myself. I was
completely unaware of what was wrong with me, my family doctor pointed it out to me, as
I did not have any one else around me that recognized the symptoms. It was hard for me
to accept at first, but after having the hard facts placed in front of my face and
understanding that it may get worse, I had no choice but to get help. A lot of people who
suffer from such problems tend to be more alone than anyone realizes. I suspect that
anyone who was unaware of their condition would probably be shocked, as I was, to have
someone confront them about it. A good friend would confront them anyway, and hopefully
they would seek help.
Is Too Much Togetherness Annoying?
I've heard of the problems, newly retired men and their wives face because of too much
togetherness. And I was always amused, the way they so often get on each other's nerves.
I never thought I'd face such a problem, but it's been two months now, and matters around
are pretty bad. I ran out of patience. As soon as our son, Mike, leaves home, Dave busies
himself by following me around, inquiring into my household routines. I have tried to
interest him in any number of activities, with little success. "What you really need is a job
"I told him, knowing he would never be able to find one at this age. You'd think that
someone with so much intelligence, someone I truly love, would not be totally annoying
when faced with a change in routine.

Princess Diana
Answer the questions according to the reading Diana, Princess of Wales, became famous
when she decided to marry Prince Charles. She became the most photographed person in
the world. Everywhere she went, there were photographers taking pictures of her and
people were very interested in her clothes, where she went on holiday and who she was
with. They were also interested in the problems between her and her husband. When they
divorced she remained very popular. In addition to her image as a 'star', Princess Diana
used her influence to attract attention to some charities. She was very sympathetic to all
people who were ill and unhappy and dedicated time to helping them and drawing public
attention to their problems. She used to visit homeless people regularly and did a lot of
work for the National AIDS Trust; she visited people suffering from AIDS.