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Singapore may be small, but packs in quite a punch. Only about 655 square kilometers in area, it is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, with about 6430 people per square kilometer. Although it is one of the 20 smallest countries in the world, its economy is a world leader, and has the world's busiest port in terms of tonnage handled.
Today the financial and technological hub of South East Asia, Singapore was once a sleepy Malay fishing village, which came into its own as a British trading colony in the 1800's. The population is a mix of Malays, Chinese and Indians with a smattering of other ethnic nationalities. There are four official languages in Singapore - Mandarin, Tamil, Malay and English. The Chinese ethnic population is originally from South-east China from the provinces of Fukian and Guangdong. Immigrants from the Malaysian peninsula, Sumatra, Java and other islands of the Malay Archipelago have thronged the state. About two-thirds of the Indians are Tamil, with a smattering of Malayalis, Punjabis and Gujratis.
Singapore consists of one main island, and 58 smaller ones. The terrain is flat lowland, the highest point being Bukit Tima Hills, standing at 164 meters. Its climate is hot (ranging between 22 and 30 degrees centigrade) and muggy (humidity remains at 75%). The rainy season is from November to January, although being near the equator, intermittent rains occur throughout the year.
Although about 50% of the land is occupied by vertical urban settlements in modern skyscrapers, Singapore has a thriving agricultural economy specializing in rubber, copra, fruit, orchids, vegetables, poultry, eggs and fish. It is the world's largest exporter of ornamental fish. It has thriving industries of electronics, chemicals, financial services, oil drilling equipment, rubber processing, food processing, ship repair and other industries, with the economy heavily dependant on its electronics and manufacturing exports.
With typical Singapore control and determination, the government has made up for its lack of natural flora and fauna by building gardens and zoos, waterfalls and underwater parks. Singapore has one of the best zoos in the world, and has the world's highest man made waterfall in Jurong Park, standing at 30 meters. The Bird sanctuary in Jurong even has simulated tropical thunderstorms。
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Long long ago，there was a king who liked to write stories．He thought the stories he wrote were very good．He showed them to some people．Although the people didn't like the stories，they were afraid to say it to the king．So they said his stories were good.
译文：很久很久以前，有一个国王喜欢写故事。他认为他写的故事很好。他给一些人看了。虽然人们不喜欢这些故事，但他们不敢对国王说。所以他们说他的故事很好。
One day he showed his stores to a well-known critics．The critic said that they were bad．The king got very angry and sent the critic to prison（监狱）。
译文：一天，他向一位著名的评论家展示了他的商店。评论家说他们很坏。国王非常生气，把评论家送进了监狱。
After some time the king sent his men to he critic （批评家） to tell him that he was free．When the critic retuned from the prison，the king invited him to his palace to dinner．Again he showed him some of his stories and again asked him what he thought of them.
译文：过了一段时间，国王派他的人去见评论家(批评家)告诉他他有空。当批评家从监狱回来时，国王邀请他去他的宫殿吃饭。他又给他看了一些他的故事，并再次问他对这些故事的看法。
The critic said nothing but turned to the solders，who were standing behind him，and said，“Take me back to prison．”
译文：批评家什么也没说，只是转向站在他身后的士兵，说:“带我回监狱。”批评家什么也没说,只是转向站在他身后的士兵,说：”带我回监狱。“
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我上初中的时候，学过那一套教材，很久以前的教材了。那篇文章是在当时的《初中英语第五册》。
故事大意：一群农民在盐湖城安家，种植庄稼生活。有一天，天上突然飞来了一群蝗虫，开始吃农民的庄稼。正当农民们不知道怎么办的时候，突然天上飞来了一群海鸥，把蝗虫给吃掉了，拯救了农民。农民们给海鸥立了纪念碑，且决定从此以后不伤害海鸥。
The seagulls of Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is a beautiful city in the west of North America, which was founded over a hundred years ago. At that time, a group of men, women and children arrived at a valley with high mountains all around it. They had traveled a long way. They had begun their journey far away in the east. After they had crossed the mountains, they found the valley. In the middle of it there was a salt lake. This was where their city now lies.
The land seemed good, and they decided to stay there. They built their homes, and made their farms, and planted their crops. The people had to work hard on their farms. If they did not grow enough food, they would have nothing to eat.
One day while they were working in the fields, some farmers saw something strange in the sky. “what is that?” asked one of them .
“Where?” asked another farmer, as he stopped to look.
“Over there ,”he answered.
They saw something coming towards them. It looked like a cloud, but it was too low in the sky. As they watched, it came nearer and nearer. Suddenly a shout went up: “Locusts! Millions of locusts!”
Every one stopped working, and looked at the sky. They were all frightened, because they knew what locusts could do. They had never seen so many of them before.
In no time the locusts came down and started eating their crops —the wheat, the vegetables, even the grass, and the leaves on the trees.
Everyone—men, women and children—tried to fight against the locusts. They tried everything , but while they were killing locusts in one place, millions more arrived in another.
What could they do?
Suddenly they heard a great noise. They looked up into the sky and saw another great cloud coming towards them. To their surprise, they saw not locusts, but seagulls. The farmers cried out, “They have come to eat what the locusts have left!”
But they found that the seagulls had come to eat, not their crops, but the locusts. Usually, the seagulls lived near the sea. But they had seen or smelt the locusts and had come to eat them. Now they were eating the locusts. In a short while they ate up millions of them. The farmers’ crops were saved!
The people were very thankful. They decided that from then on no one should ever kill a seagull . And today, if you go to Salt Lake City, you can see a monument with seagulls on top of it.
对盐湖城海鸥这篇课文我印象深刻，我不记得有long long ago, 而且原文也放出来了，也没有long long ago. 在我没回答你的问题之前，你妈还记得故事大意吗？如果记不得了，那么这个long long ago也许是她记错了。要不然就是，她学的那篇文章是另外一篇不同的文章。如果那样，那么我就不知道了。我学的这篇文章，现在30多岁的人都学过，呵呵，那时全国统一教材
