English Recordings

I awoke to the sound of running water.
Morning had come, dazzling. I arose drowsily and went into the kitchen. There was “Eriko-san,” her back turned to me. Her clothing was subdued compared to last night’s, but as she turned to me with a cheery “Good morning!” her face, even more brilliantly animated, brought me to my senses. “Good morning,” I answered. She opened the refrigerator, glanced inside, and looked at me with a troubled air.

“You know,” she said, “I’m always hungry in the morning, even though I’m still sleepy. But there’s nothing to eat in this house. Let’s call for take out. What would you like?”
I stood up. “Would you like me to make something?”
“Really?” she said, and then, doubtfully, “Do you think you can handle a knife, half-asleep?”
“No problem.”
The entire apartment was filled with light, like a sunroom. I looked out at the sweet, endless blue of sky; it was glorious.

In the joy of being in a kitchen I liked so well, my head cleared, and suddenly I remembered she was a man. I turned to look at her. Déjà vu overwhelmed me like a flash flood.
The house smelled of wood. I felt an immense nostalgia, in that downpour of morning light, watching her pull a cushion onto the floor in that dusty living room and curl up to watch TV.

Unable to think of much of anything after hearing such a (fantastic!) life story, I had watched a video with Yuichi. We had chatted about things like the flower shop and my grandmother, and time passed quickly. Now it was one in the morning. That sofa was delectable. It was so big, so soft, so deep, I felt that once I surrendered to it I’d never get up again.

“Your mother,” I said after a while. “I bet the first time she sat on this sofa in the furniture store, she just had to have it and bought it right then and there.”
“You got it,” he said. “As soon as she gets an idea in her head she does it, you know? I just stand back in amazement at her way of making things happen.”

** ** **

I put on the borrowed pajamas and, barefoot, went into the silent living room. I just had to go back for one more look at kitchen. It was really a good kitchen.

Then I stumbled over to the sofa that was to be my bed for the night and turned out the lamp. Suspended in the dim light before the window overlooking the magnificent tenth-floor view, the plants breathed softly, resting. By now the rain had stopped, and the atmosphere, sparkling, replete with moisture, refracted the glittering night splendidly.

Wrapped in blankets, I thought how funny it was that tonight, too, here I was sleeping next to the kitchen. I smiled to myself. But this time I wasn’t lonely. Maybe I had been waiting for this. Maybe all I had been hoping for was a bed in which to be able to stop thinking, just for a little while, about what happened before and what would happen in the future. I was too sad to be able to sleep in the same bed with anyone; that would only make the sadness worse. But here was a kitchen, some plants, someone sleeping in the next room, perfect quiet…this was the best. This place was…the best.

At peace, I slept.

Bait-Bet
Date-Debt
Ale-L(the letter)
Neigh-Never
Jail-Gel
Main-Men
Laid-Led
Fate-Vet
Came-Chem
Whale-Well
Say-Says
Raid-Red
Late-Let

Once there was a powerful ruler of ancient Egypt called Pharaoh. In old Egypt, Egyptian and Hebrew people lived together. Pharaoh treated the Hebrews like slaves. He made them work very hard from early in the morning until late at night.

Many Hebrew children were being born. Pharaoh didn't like having so many Hebrews in Egypt. He was afraid that they would take over the country.

He told his officers: "Let the Hebrew girl babies live, but kill all the boy babies!"

A Hebrew woman gave birth to a fine baby boy. She hid him for three months. He cried and cried. She couldn't hide him any longer. She built a small boat made of plaited bull rushes. She placed her son in it and left him on the Nile river. The baby's older sister, Miriam, was watching.

Just then, Pharaoh's daughter, the Princess, came down to the river. She heard the baby cry and looked at the little boat. "This is one of the Hebrew baby boys," she said.

Quickly, Miriam ran forward and said: "Shall I find a Hebrew woman to look after the baby for you?" The Princess said: "Yes, please!"

Miriam brought the child's real mother. "Take the child," the Princess said, "I will pay you to take care of him." A few years later, the Princess adopted him. "I shall call him Moses," she said, "because I rescued him from the river."

Moses became a member of Pharaoh's family and lived in the palace. The Hebrews, however, were still treated badly by Pharaoh. Moses left Egypt, but returned to lead his people to another land.

18.
A world without this is almost unimaginable. This plays an essential role in various scientific fields and in industry. It is used throughout the home, at work, and often in play. One of the greatest benefits of this is that it lets in light and provides protection from the weather at the same time. This allows daylight in but keeps out cold or stormy weather. Electric bulbs transmit light but keep out the oxygen that would cause their hot filaments to burn up. Television picture tubes enable viewers to see the image that is formed inside the tube. Bottles can reveal their contents without being opened.

19.
The first true piece of sports equipment that man invented was the ball. In ancient Egypt, pitching stones was children’s favorite game, but a badly thrown rock could hurt a child. Egyptians were therefore looking for something less dangerous to throw. And they developed what were probably the first balls. They were first made of grass or leaves held together by strings, and later of pieces of animal skin sewn together and stuffed with feathers or hay. Even though the Egyptians were warlike, they found time for peaceful games. Before long they devised a number of ball games. Perhaps they played ball more for instruction than for fun. Ball playing was thought of mainly as a way to teach young men the speed and skill they would need for war.

20.
It is my great pleasure to inform you that your sons and daughters have completed all the academic requirements over the last three years of study at Hutt High School. We feel as if the day they entered our school were yesterday, and now they will proudly receive their graduation certificates. Not unlike many successful graduates in our long history, your children will go out into the world, and successfully participate in the fields of politics, economics, culture, and education. The graduation ceremony will be held next Friday in Hutt High School’s Assembly Hall. On behalf of the school, I would like to extend our invitation to you and your family. I look forward to meeting you there.

45.
Everywhere in the world, the issue of how to manage urban growth poses the highest stakes, complex policy decisions, and strongly heated conflicts in the public area. The contrast between Western Europe and America is particularly sharp. In Western Europe, steep gasoline taxes, investment policies favoring built-up areas over undeveloped greenfields, continuous investment in public transportation, and other policies have produced relatively compact cities. Cities in Western Europe tend to be economically healthy compared with their suburbs. By contrast, in the United States, cheap gas, massive
highway investment, policies that favor construction on the edges of cities, and heavy reliance on property taxes to fund public schools have encouraged much more car-reliant and spread-out urban areas, where eight in ten
Americans now live.
Different public policies resulted in relatively centralized cities in Western Europe but resulted in spread-out urban areas in the United States.

46-48.
One Saturday during the summer, I asked my
father if he would go down to the schoolyard and play basketball with me. I had just finished the fifth grade, and wanted desperately to make the middle school team
the coming fall. I couldn’t believe my ears when he called for my mother and sister to come along, for, in the traditional fashion, my mother was the house accountant, the launderer, and, of course, the cook.
When we arrived, my sister immediately ran off
to the swings, and I recall being annoyed that my mother wasn’t following her. I dribbled awkwardly around the free-throw line, almost losing control of the ball, and made a flat shot that bounced wildly off the basket. The ball fell to my father, who took a few not
so graceful dribbles and missed an easy layup. He rebounded his shot and passed the ball to my mother, who had been watching us from the foul line.
She turned from the basket and began heading the other way.“Um-mah,” I cried at her, my irritation already bubbling over, “the basket’s over here!” After a few steps she turned around, and from where the professional three-point line must be now, she effortlessly flipped the ball up in the air, its flight truer and higher than I’d witnessed from any boy or man.
The ball curved cleanly into the basket, stiffly popping the chain-link net. All afternoon, she rained in shot after shot, as my father and I ran after her.
When we got home from the playground, my mother showed me the photograph album of her high school days. I was shocked to learn that she had been the top player for the national high school team that once won the all-Asia championships. For years I kept it in my room, on the same shelf that housed the scrapbooks I made of basketball stars, with magazine
clippings of great players such as Bubbles Hawkins, Pistol Pete, and George Gervin.

49-50.
Some scientists have shown the practical power of looking at the world through ‘could-be’ eyes. When a group of students were shown an unfamiliar rubbery object and told, “This could be a dog’s chewy toy,”they were later able to see that it might also be of use as an eraser when they made some pencil mistakes. In
contrast, students who were told that it was a dog’s chewy toy did not find its alternative use.
Another group of students watched a video about
physics after being told, “This presents only one of several outlooks on physics. Please feel free to use any additional methods you want to assist you in solving the problems.” On tests of factual comprehension, these
students performed no differently from students who had watched the video with a different introduction: “This presents the outlook on physics. Please use the method
you see in the video in solving the problems.” But when they were faced with questions that asked them to use the information more creatively, the ‘could-be’
students performed much better than the others. Just a simple change of language seemed to invite the students to process and store information in a much more flexible format, and thus be able to look at it and
make use of it in different ways.

42.
Most people have a vase or two in a cupboard, but lots of things can be turned into stylish containers for a flower arrangement, so before you rush out to buy anything, look around your own home. For instance, goldfish bowls look
stunning filled with flower heads or petals, magnifying their contents. Wine, milk, mineral water, or olive oil bottles look particularly good with one or two stems in them. Try a collection of bottles in various shapes and
sizes, lined up on a shelf or grouped on a table. An old teapot which has lost its lid becomes an ideal container for a bunch of roses picked from the garden.

43.
In Pamplona, a white-walled, sun-baked town high up in the hills of Navarre, is held in the first two weeks of July each year the World’s Series of bull fighting. The
cafes under the wide arcades that run around the Plaza de la Constitucion have every table crowded. All day and all night there is dancing in the street. Bands of blue-shirted farmers circle and lift and swing behind a
drum and various wind instruments in the ancient Basque Riau-Riau dances. And at night there is the beat of the big drums and the military band as the whole towndances in the great open square of the Plaza.

44.
Whether their grandchildren have special needs or not, grandparents shouldn’t overlook the value of incidental learning experiences. Every day, opportunities exist in the form of errands, meal preparation, and chores. At the farmers’ market, for example, a child might discover a new meaning for the word ‘ears’when choosing corn. Similarly, when filling the tank at the gas station, older children can compare prices and practice estimation, asking questions such as “How much do you think it will cost to fill the tank?” One grandmother hires her grandchildren to help with gardening chores. As a result, they can learn the names of flowers and understand the tools and processes involved in growing vegetables. Activities like these also enhance the value of hard work and persistence.

7"
5 1/2"
2 7/8"

15/16
5000 psi

3^2
(5x25)/3
(x+y)^2 = X^2 + 2xy + y^2
(x^2 - y^2) =(x+y)(x-y)

When testing casing from 177.8mm (7") - 273.1mm (11 3/4") you get an entire test of the connection area.

The testing bar tools have a working pressure rating of 70 MPA or 10,150 PSI. With a 3-1 safety factor for testing 7"( 177.8mm), 7 5/8"( 193.7mm), 8 5/8"( 219.1mm), 9 5/8" (244.5mm), and 11 3/4"( 273.1mm).

This is the magical story of Santiago, a shepherd boy who dreams of traveling the world to seek the most wonderful treasures known to man. From his home in Spain, he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and, from there, into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him.

Coelho’s fascinating storytelling, with its mixture of spirituality, magical realism and folklore, makes “The Alchemist” a story that will delight any reader and inspire us all to follow our dreams.

A convoy of buses drew up at the airport and they all climbed on board.
The Metropolitan Police force is drawing up plans to recruit more ethnic minority officers from overseas.
He is always trying to dredge up something about the politician�s private life.
He didn't dress up for the occasion at all, wearing an orange baseball cap, baggy khakis, and an oversized black sweater.
I thought I'd dropped in and say hello.
Drop in to see us next time you're in town.
The girl was so tired that she dropped off to sleep at once.
Unfortunately, attendance has dropped off over the last few months.
Temperatures will drop off quickly as northwest winds strengthen.
Come on. I'll drop you off at your flat.
He dropped out of the course after finding the study program very difficult.
The State Governor is about to go on a tour of the state to drum up support for his reform policy.