The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its dreary gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endles…

Marie Curie was one of the most accomplished scientists in history. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered radium, an element widely used for treating cancer, and studied uranium and other radioactive substances. Pier…

1. These... my friends. 2. Ram ... sick. 3.... he Indian? 4. His tests... very difficult. 5. My parents are not rich, but my aunt....  6. I... older than my brother. 7. My sister and I... twins. 8. That... a really good movie! 9…

A revision lesson. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate verb form. The first one has been done for you. 1. I am in the classroom. (am/is/are)  2. Mrs Hill's daughter ________ clever. (am/is/are)  3. Sasha and Valera _____…

We couldn't arrive ________ the airport in time. (At/to/in/on) Prepositions are words that indicate relationships with the other words in the sentence. Prepositions of place are used to refer to a place, usually to denote th…

The Indian Premier League (lPL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during April and May of every year by 8 teams representing 8 cities of India. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricke…

l arrived in London at last. The railway station was big, black and dark. I did not know the way to my hotel, so asked a porter. I spoke English not only very carefully, but clearly as well. The porter, however, could not unders…

The body of primitive man, a faraway and primitive man called Homo sapiens, so far as we can reconstruct from the fragmentary evidence we have, was exactly like our own, and his brain was as big as that of modern man and quite a…

Ever since humans have inhabited the earth, they have made use of various forms of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts and feeling has been in the form of oral speech. When there is a language barrier, communic…

The elephants left the shade, crossed an open piece of grass between bushes, and came towards the mud-pool where my truck was parked. One by one, they arrived on the shore, but, just as they seemed to be about to bathe in the in…

Many thousands of children have accidents in their houses. As a result Some children die. The most common accidents are with fire and hot water. Small children often touch pots of boiling water on the stove. The pots fall over a…

Television is one of man's most important means of communication. It brings events and sounds fromaround the world into millions of homes. A person with a television set can sit in his house and watch the President making a …

For many years people believed that the cleverest animals after man were chimpanzees. Now, however, there is proot that doiphins may be even cleverer than these big apes. Although a dolphin lives in the sea it is not a fish. It …

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and emigrated to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted "to become a doctor". That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle…

Hatred is a tundamental human emotion that has deep root in society and culture. Psychologists believe that group identity and cohesion depend to a large extent on having a common enemy. It seems that the existence of "bad …

A combination of sewage, salt, airpollution, sun, sand and wind may destroy the huge statue on the outskirts of Cairo. This statue of the Sun God has the body of a lion and the face of a human being. It is five thousand years ol…

For many years people believed that the cleverest animals after man were chimpanzees. Now, however, there is proot that doiphins may be even cleverer than these big apes. Although a dolphin lives in the sea it is not a fish. It …