Everyone remembers the favorite films and television programs of his or her .

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childhood very fondly. Cowboys and cowgirls always rode their horses very
expertly. They noisily shot their pistols. They usually sang romantics songs too.
All this seemingly happened simultaneously. We cannot forget the jungle films
either. In them, our heroes bravely fought savage, wild animals and recklessly
swam raging rivers. Such films sometimes made us exceedingly envious of the
heroes. However, we were most envious of the superheroes. Usually, they ere
exceptionally quiet in real life. However, at the first sign of evil, they
immediately became unbelievably superhuman. They flew magically through the
air. They soared high in the night sky. They rescued swimmers from the ice-cold
winter sea. But the superheroes never got cold themselves. Alas, we grew up
.rapidly and left our heroes behind. We seldom remember them now

The bank clerk had a look of trustworthiness about him. He had clear, intelligent .2
eyes surrounded by plain, old-fashioned eye-glasses. One could trust those eyes.
The few hairs left on his balding head were neatly and carefully brushed into
place. He seemed to have counted each hair as carefully as he probably counted
his money. His shoulders were rounded from years of leaning over his desk, as if
he and the desk were one and the same. His suit was plain and sensible. It was
obvious that this same suit had served him for several years, just the sort of good,
long-term investment the bank no doubt believed in. In short, everything about
.him seemed as solid, sensible, and reliable as the institution he worked for

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, .3
when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone,
on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found
myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House
of Usher. I knew not how it was but, with the first glimpse of the building, a
.sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit

There were several reasons why the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain .4
rather than in France, the other great power of the day. In the first place, Britain
had the money necessary to finance the larger enterprises. England's supremacy
on the seas had encouraged commerce, and the English had been amassing wealth
through their commerce and industry. The newly rich class in that country was
not the aristocratic group, but merchants who were willing to devote themselves
to industry and scientific agriculture. They did not believe that to engage in
business was beneath them. The wealth of France, on the other hand, was largely
in the hands of the nobility, and they were not willing to do the necessary work to
.develop industry

It has been said that half the world's knowledge consists in knowing where to find .5
the other half. This statement may be arguable, yet with the daily increase in the
amount of available knowledge and information, the task of finding a given fact
grows increasingly difficult. For example, scholars were once expected to know
and hold in their minds all the accumulated knowledge of civilization. Indeed,
this was once possible. However, today even the most brilliant person cannot
retain in his or her mind all the facts and information necessary to even one
specialized field. Consequently, we must all turn daily to one source of
information or another. Moreover, the number of these sources is constantly
 increasing, as the struggle to catalog, classify, and systematize new information
continues. Therefore, we will find it necessary to rely very heavily on reference
materials. Furthermore, the forms and varieties of these materials will change and
.expand greatly in this technological age

Food is the source of energy for the body. Food and the energy it produces are .6
important. Indeed, we need this energy just to keep alive. Naturally, energy is
required just to digest the food needed to produce energy in the first place.
Moreover, energy is essential for all continuous body processes such as breathing,
the beating of the heart, and the maintenance of muscle tone. Also, children and
youths need energy for growth. In brief, we need the energy produced by food for
carrying out all work and leisure activities. However, when the food we eat
provides more energy than is needed to meet the demands of the body, the extra
energy is stored as fat. As a result, we gain eight if we furnish the body regularly
with too much food. On the other hand, the body uses stored fat if the foods we
eat provide less energy than is needed. Accordingly, the body loses weight. Thus,
if all fatty tissues are used up, the body uses its other tissues for energy, thereby
producing an unhealthy and dangerous condition. For these reasons, it is
important to understand the relationship between the food we eat and our body
.weight