Nu Wa patched up the sky (3-2) Nu Wa found her sons and daughters lived in deep water and scorching fire, felt extremely worried. She decided to patch up the sky to save the people from miseries. Nu Wa spent four years in TianTain mountain, she made 36,500 pieces of five color stones with thickness of twelve feets and width of twenty-four feets. She patched up the hole on the sky with these five color stones. Nu Wa worried that the sky would collapse again. Just at this time , a 10,000 year-old and big tortoise swam around. It donated its feets. Nu Wa made the four feets as hold up pillars, placed in four corners on the grand to brace the sky. Nu Wa also captured and killed the evil black dragon, and curbed the swollen arrogance of dragons and snakes. In order to prevent the flow of floods, Nu Wa collected and burned lots of reeds to ashes, placed these ashes in the widespread floods, filled up the gullies which had covered by water.

Nu Wa patched up the sky (3-1) Nu Wa's sons and daughters lived in a happy life on the ground. However, "There're something unexpected may happen anytime". One day, god of water GongGong fighted with god of fire ZhuRong. GongGong was defeated by ZhuRong. He was very angry and he started to head-butt the mountain BuZhou. The mountain located on the west and it was the big pillar to prop up the sky. Now the pillar was knocked down, half of the sky collapsed, a huge hole occured on the sky. The earth was also quacked and cracks camed in many places. Raging fire erupted from the cracks and burned out people's houses and crop. Vast floods overflowed its banks ,inundated the grand, the earth became a vast expanse of water. Dragons,snakes, and fierce beasts also came out and hurted people. The human being was faced with a greater disaster than ever.

Nasty noisy of floorboards My home floorboards are made of wood,and because some special reasons, there is not under-floor joist. Also the surface of the ground under the floorboard is not very smooth. These floorboards always squeak when you walk on . It's so nasty! I've troubled by it for a long time. I'm searching relevant solution from Internet, but it seems no simple and effective way to deal with this issue . Some people suggest to puff a soft pencil , French talk or talcum powder on mating surface,this way could not reduce the movement between boards but can lubricate the surfaces so that they do not squeak because the less surface rubbing.

Number When I was 7 year-old, I want to register in primary school. A teacher there asked me to recite the number from 1 to 100. Fortunately , I passed the test, so i got a chance to study. Now , I want to get an access to English, should i start from reciting the number from one to one hundred?

How to learn English Today I find a useful article on Tianya English forum about the ways of earning english, especially some ideas are fresh for me. Key points as follow: (1)It's no sense how many words you recognize, the most crucial is how many words you really maste , that is you can speak, wirte these words without thinking , not only recognize them on paper. (2)The write skill is important than listen, oral and read, it's more active,not passive (3) For the aim of simple communication, it's enough to bone up on english for 3 months. There's a interesting story about the forum article's author. Once time, the author met two foreign girls, both were beautiful , they asked the way to their hotel. Actually the hotel not far away, only 200 meters . Even the author knew the way, but the author could not explain it clearly. This experience really stricked the author, he decided to jump the English barrier. He made a series of hard work (3months) to learn english ,which included watching english TV programme, listening international radio channel (91.5Mhz), reading "21 century" carefully and thoroghly, writing two pages article by english, remembering vocabolary, etc. And he summarized some key points during the process, that is the points mentioned in the first paragraph. I think these suggestions are valuable, I'd like to practice based on these basic concepts.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hi, My name is Albert. I'm living in east-south of China. I began to study English when I'm teenager. On the beginning, it's mandatory in middle school, no matter you want or not to learn. But now I thinks a language is a door to other sides of the world. Your life will expanded when you master a new language, so i decided to learn english again. Albert