NEW YORK

New York City is of the largest cities in world. It is also one of the most densely populated , with
an estimated 8 million inhabitants. Manhattan is the popular part of New York with tourists and has many
interesting sights. There is also a large number businesses in this area of the city , including the head offices of
some of the world's leading companies. New York's subway system provides transport for more a third of the
city's workforce.
New York is also regarded the centre of entertainment. Broadway is the scene of many box-office hits,
Carnegie Hall is one of the most famous concert halls in the world and the city is also home of several opera and ballet
companies.
With choice of food, entertainment and social life than other city , it is wonder that
people flock to New York to experience life in the Big Apple.

Moving House

I think one of most difficult things to do is to move house, especially when you have somewhere
all your life. As well as leaving your home, you also have the problem of packing everything own into boxes.
You don't realise how much you have until you have to pack it all up ! We moving house in about two weeks'
time so I know what I'm talking about! My father found a new job in another village about a hundred kilometres
from here. He has looking for an opportunity like this a long time so the whole family agreed that we
should move. Our house is sold , and my parents have found a new one. It is much bigger than the one
we live in the moment. My sister and I will have our own rooms, I'm glad about because she has been
annoying me lately. She is borrowing my clothes without asking me. She isn't very glad about moving , but I'
quite excited about it, and I don't I'll mind about living in a new town.

GAP YEAR

By now you've arrived at school and I hope you're feeling comfortable in your new surroundings. I
remember excited I was when I went abroad for the first time. I don't know your experience will be like
mine but I did think that you being a little optimistic when you predicted that you n't be homesick at all.
I imagine you may start to feel a little lonely in the next few weeks. Just case, I'm attaching a leaflet on
"culture shock" . It explains you might have certain feelings and tells you to do about them.
Anyway, I'm sure that you'll have a great time in England - but always remember you can rely on me if you need
anything.
 The First Kiss

I’m going a difficult time at the moment – my mother says it happens to all teenagers. Anyway, there’s
this girl who moved into my block of flats year – she’s a couple of years older than me but the truth is I’ve
wanted to kiss Samantha ever I met her and last week I finally up my mind that I was to do it.
On Friday I was coming up the stairs I saw her walking down carrying two huge boxes.

‘ I help you with those?’ I asked. - ‘Thanks – they’re really heavy, I think I’m to collapse.’I
carried them to the entrance, and put the boxes down for a moment she opened the front door. This was my
opportunity – I had been wanting to do it for months and now I was really going kiss her.
‘I just can’t put into how I feel about you,’ I stammered. ‘So I thought I’d show you instead.’ I leant over
and was about to kiss her when my neighbor came through the door. As as she had gone, Samantha
turned to me, grabbed the boxes and said, ‘Let me give you a of advice– stick to girls your own age!’
So that’s it for me – I think I’ve gone girls completely for the moment.

How Transport Has Changed

When we consider how the world has changed our great-grandparents’ time, it’s important to
take account how transport has changed. Of course, people complain traffic now, but even in the past
people to think that the roads were dangerous. When cars were a new invention, a man walk in front of
them with a red flag, warning everybody. Now of course, we have used to them.
Another thing we don’t find strange more is the range of products in our shops. As we go our
local supermarket, we see tea form China, bananas from South America and radios from Japan. All these
products be transported. Every day goods moved from one part of the world another by all kinds
of means of transport. One of the wonders of transport is that, if we stay in one place, the whole world comes to us.
The Human Computer
In the novel Dune by Frank Herbert, which is set hundreds of years the future, it is forbidden to build computers.
This is because thinking machines have become so powerful they almost took over the world. Instead, there
are Mentats - humans trained to perform the kinds of calculations and analysis that you normally expect a
computer to carry .
Even Mentats are a fictional creation, human computers are something real. The word "computer" was
first used than 300 years ago and referred to a person job was to perform mathematical calculations. In
the middle of the 18th century, Clairault, a French mathematician wanted to calculate the date when Hailey's Comet
would return. Although he knew to do this, the calculations were very complex, so he shared the work with
several computers who helped him arrive at the correct answer.
In the 19th century an Indian mathematician was employed as a computer by a team of British explorers, and was
the first person to calculate the height of the highest mountain the world , was later named Mount
Everest. During the World Wars of the 20th century, huge teams of human computers employed to work
on maps, codes and countless other military and engineering projects. It was not about 1950 that mechanical
computers began to take over, and the days of the human computer were finally numbered.