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My favorite book There are way too many good movies, foods, songs, musical artists, etc. to narrow down a favorite of each, but I recently finished what's become my absolute favorite book: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. I've heard good things about this book and I've enjoyed other John Irving novels in the past, so I asked for Owen Meany for Christmas last year. I finally got around to starting it this summer, and about halfway through book, I decided it had potential to being my favorite book ever. Irving is consistently able to depict dynamic characters in such a way that makes them easy to imagine, easy to relate to and in some cases easy to fall in love with (figuratively, of course). If a book can make me wish it's characters were real people, it's got to be pretty good. To me, Owen Meany is a perfect combination of spiritual, comical, political and heartbreaking. I actually took out a pen a few times and starred or underlined certain paragraphs that stood out to me like I used to do in English class. This book made me laugh out loud, flip the pages in eager anticipation and cry on an airplane as I finished the last several pages. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a good read.

Newspapers Vs. Internet The advence of mass printing in the l6th century has once brought about magnificent influence to the world both socially and politically. A piece of newspaper in hand, one could be in formed of what was happening around the world even without having to get out of his armchair. Nowadays, however, the role of newspaper is being seriously challenged by the booming IT industry or world wide web, satellites, optic-cables, to name just a few. As a matter of fact, In today's world where nearly every thing starts with an "e", newspaper will be replaced by other computer based means. First of all, newspaper can never match internet in its speed. Actually, information of any kind can be transported digitally at up to 300,000,000 meters per second. In a world of efficiency, newspaper can be defeated for this reason solely. Besides, with internet, information can be transmitted 3 dimentional, which consists of sound, live show and even interaction. Whereas in the paper, only words and photographs could be presented in news stories. Therefore, the former has been made more vivid and descriptive. Last but not least, computerizing the process of information dissemination provides us with a more objective and state-of-the art point of view. Through internet, we can obtain every detail we might want to know, which was sometimes unrevealed by newspapers for this or that reason. Obviously, the more accurate the facts are, the more easily an objective opinion can be formed. In conclusion, though newspaper is still regarded as indispensable for our daily routines,it cannot match internet in many aspects.^_^......顶！love english ...

In The Air Matt and his wife lived in the country. Matt was very stingy(吝啬) and hated spending money. One day a fair(集市) came to the nearby town. “Let’s go to the fair, Matt,” his wife said, “We haven’t been anywhere for a long time.” Matt thought about this for a while. He knew he would have to spend money at the fair. At last he said, “All right, but I’m not going to spend much money. We’ll look at things, but we won’t buy anything.” They went to the fair and looked at all the things to buy. There were many things Matt’s wife wanted to buy ,but he would not let her spend any money. Then , in a nearby field, they saw a small airplane. “Fun flight!” the notice said, “$10 for 10 minutes.” Matt had never been in an airplane and he wanted to go on a fun flight. However, he didn’t want to have to pay for his wife, as well. “I’ve only got $10,” he told the pilot. ( 飞行员). “Can my wife come with me for free?” The pilot wasn’t selling many tickets, so he said , “I’ll make a bargain with you. If your wife doesn’t scream or shout, she can have a free flight.” Matt agreed, and got into the small airplane with his wife. The pilot took off and made his airplane do all kinds of things. At one moment it was flying upside down. When the plane landed , the pilot said, “O.K. your wife didn’t make a sound . She can have her ride free.” “Thank you,” Matt said. “it wasn’t easy for her, you know , especi ally (尤其 ) when she fell out.” 赏析：夸张是指借助艺术想象，以现实生活为基础，抓住描写对象的某些特征加以夸张，以突出事物本质。夸张的修辞手法往往能造成幽默的效果。这种修辞手法在我国的相声段子里面非常普遍，在外国的幽默故事中也随处可见。 这则幽默就是用夸张的手法讽刺了一位极其吝啬的男人。吝啬鬼在世界文学作品中并不少见，中国古有多点了一根灯草就不能安然死去的严监生，外国有临死前瞪着发金光的眼睛想夺取金色十字架的葛朗台。 吝啬是落后的生活方式、不健康的封建思想在人脑海中的根深蒂固。它不独存在于哪个制度，哪个社会。即便在享受现代物质文明----乘飞机旅行的今天，我们的主人公麦栋夫妇，为了那可怜的10美元，也会置生命安全于不顾，“宁死不叫”。他们的这种小气跟他们所享受的现代文明形成了极大的一个反差。 作者在文章的最后运用了夸张的修辞手法“it wasn’t easy for her , you know ,especially when she fell out”.一切显得那样的不尽情理，一切又似乎是那样的合情合理：一旦一个社会的精神文明不能赶上他的物质文明时，就有可能会产生一些变态的东西。 读之此，我们就不难体会我们国家为何一再强调两个文明一起抓了

We live under the happy illusion that we can transfer news-gathering to the Internet. News-gathering will continue to exist, as it does on this Web site and sites such as ProPublica and Slate, but these traditions now have to contend with a new, widespread and ideologically driven partisanship that dominates the dissemination of views and information, from Fox News to blogger screeds. The majority of bloggers and Internet addicts, like the endless rows of talking heads on television, do not report. They are largely parasites who cling to traditional news outlets. They can produce stinging and insightful commentary, which has happily seen the monopoly on opinion pieces by large papers shattered, but they rarely pick up the phone, much less go out and find a story. Nearly all reporting -- I would guess at least 80 percent -- is done by newspapers and the wire services. Take that away and we have a huge black hole.

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A great deal of people can't give birth to child in now days on the world. In western countries those people would rather to adopt baby from orphanage, the kid possesses of exactly the same as other kids in their family. Chinese people is still very conventional, especially in some typical areas of China, people will try everything for their attempt to have a baby by their own, it's like a kind of faith planted in people's mind, it's the first aim to have a baby after marriage, then it's better and evident to have boy. In countryside of China, people will feel proud with a boy when they chat and concentrate on family details. Even in city, it's convinced that a happy family is consist of one boy and one girl. But it can only happens by coincidence due to the one child policy. On the other hand, from the difference between China and western countries we can see, China is still a developing country and people is still not as open as westerners. 纯手译， 供你参考，说的是中西方在领养孩子和生男生女上的差异。