2006年6月1日

Don't be a baby in the whole life!      

  2006年4月10日

 [<TextPos1>我的听写] ----可在此处逐句听写

April is National Poetry Month in the United States. The Academy of American Poets started the special celebration ten years ago. National Poetry Month brings together publishers, booksellers, poetry groups, libraries, schools and poets around the country. They celebrate poetry and its important place in American culture.

Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations take part. They hold readings, celebrations, book displays, educational events and other activities.

This month, the Academy of American Poets will launch the first-ever Poetry Read-a-Thon. This is for students ages ten to thirteen. The goals of the Read-a-Thon are to celebrate the reading of poems and writing about poems. Students will choose poems to read and then write about the poems they read.

Poetry is very popular in the United States. America even has a chief poet, known as the Poet Laureate. Robert Pinsky was the Poet Laureate a few years ago. He started the Favorite Poem Project, to find out which poems Americans liked best. Thousands of Americans wrote to Mister Pinsky about their favorite poems. He chose two hundred poems by poets from the United States and many other countries.

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The thin green leaves of fern plants seem to reach out to welcome visitors as they enter the United States Botanic Garden. The Botanic Garden is just a short walk from the United States Capitol building. Plants from around the world grow there. Plants also grow across the street in the Frederic Auguste Bartholdi Park.

People come to the Botanic Garden to see its large collection of flowers, trees and other plants. It is probably one of the most beautiful places to see in Washington.

From early April through early June, the Botanic Garden is presenting an exhibit that honors its beginnings. The show will recognize the United States Exploring Expedition. The expedition was a navy trip made for scientific research in the nineteenth century. Some educators say it was America’s most important scientific naval exploration before the Civil War.

The trip began on August eighth, eighteen thirty-eight. At the time, a Navy officer named Charles Wilkes led ships from the eastern state of Virginia on scientific travels.

  2006年3月29日

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There are many kinds of avian influenza. The one that has many people concerned is caused by the virus h-five-n-one. This virus has killed birds in about forty countries. It is highly deadly to chickens, turkeys and other poultry. But birds are not the only ones at risk.

The first known cases in humans appeared in nineteen ninety-seven in Hong Kong. Since two thousand three, the virus has been found in more than one hundred eighty people in at least eight countries. More than one hundred of them have died.

So far, experts say most of the victims have been infected directly from sick birds. But there is concern that the virus could change into a form that spreads easily from one person to another.

Infections have been found in sixty kinds of wild birds. The part that migratory birds play in spreading the virus is still being studied. Experts still do not know exactly how the virus spread from Asia to Europe and Africa.

Migratory birds fly long distances between a winter home and a summer home. Some researchers say these birds are getting too much blame. But American scientist Robert Webster believes ducks are a big part of the problem. He says ducks might not get sick from bird flu but spread the disease easily to chickens.

As a result, it is now responsible for the current and future pensions of more than one million workers. At the end of last September, it reported a deficit of almost twenty-three thousand million dollars in its single-employer insurance program.

The agency takes control of pensions that do not have enough money to pay claims. It currently guarantees thirty thousand plans. Forty-four million Americans are in these plans. But there are limits to how much they can receive if their pension fails.

The other major kind of retirement plan is called a defined contribution plan. Two things define how much a worker will get at retirement. The first is how much both the worker and the employer paid into the plan. The other is the performance of its investments.

One popular version is a four-oh-one-k plan, named after a part of the tax law. It offers investments for workers to put money into. Their employer usually adds to the savings.

Defined contribution plans can reduce the taxes of workers and employers.

But some plans are very complex. An easier way for small employers to offer retirement savings is through a Savings Incentive Match Plan. It permits contributions of up to ten thousand dollars a year toward retirement.

  2006年3月21日

At first,IRA is only for people not covered by pensions at work.But in 1981 everyone could open an IRA.Six years later congress band highly paid individaul from cleaming tax with ductions.Arough IRA is a simler plan.Workers can invest up to 4000 dallors of earnings yearly.But there is no tax savings on the year's earming.Instead withdrawels from rough IRAs is genurely not tax.Rough IRA withdrawels can not start until the saivery is 59 and one half years old.There are also fines for putting too much money in it.But people over 70 can still invest.Small businesses can also set up by kind of IRA. Simplify in Employee pentions or sep IRAs have emlyments of both triditional IRAs and mentions.Samplier IRAs are simple for ivestment 

control like the saver and like pentions plans,Employee had monty to there too.Limites are their chount.A worker and Imprount can invest 25% of the employ yearly pay upto 420chaorenze.The money is not passed until it is withawel

  2006年3月19日

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One of the most important questions a worker can ask is: "Will I have enough money for retirement?"

For more than thirty years, Americans have used individual retirement accounts, or IRAs, to increase retirement savings. Today, there are several plans that let workers invest. The plans also offer tax savings.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of nineteen seventy-four provided for the first IRAs. It set rules for retirement plans run by big businesses. Other measures provided for individuals who did not qualify for such plans, called pensions.

The first kind of IRA is now called a traditional IRA. A worker can put up to four thousand dollars of his or her yearly earnings into a special account. Workers over the age of fifty can invest four thousand five hundred dollars. Unlike a pension, the saver controls the account and decides how it is invested.

Money put in a traditional IRA is not taxed until it is withdrawn. But, savings cannot be withdrawn before the account holder is fifty-nine and one-half years old. If the money is withdrawn before that time, it is taxed like income and there is a ten percent fine. The account holder must start withdrawals by age seventy and one-half or there also are fines.

  2006年3月8日

我在成长过程一直都是受到女人的照料，实在感激不禁！从已经过世的奶奶，育我成人的母亲，体贴爱护我的老婆，欣赏满足我的情人。。。还有身边的女性朋友、同事、长辈们。向您真切的道一声“节日快乐”！

  2006年2月21日

周末与朋友玩了一天后便开始紧张的工作了，本打算补全所缺voasp，但竟然连当天的也完成不了了！！看起来还是态度问题啊。。。如何在娱乐之后收心对我来说是个大问题。目前只有增加自己的定力了。voa还是得听当天的，拉下的只有周末补。

学习之路漫漫，需时刻保持良好的求学心态。