project-learning English from websites

music:
1. Yahoo! Music
http://music.yahoo.com/
*People can search songs, albums, artists and videos on this website.
*The search engine is easy to see on the top.
*Download music need to pay money.
2. AOL music
http://music.aol.com/
*Clear categories to see.
*People can search artists, videos, songs and albums.
*Also can click those categories under the search engine.
*People can listen to samples on the Internet.
lyric:
1. 魔鏡歌詞網
http://mojim.com/
*This website has 2 kinds of languages.
*Categorizes the website into several parts let us easy to search the lyrics what we need.
*The search functional box is on the left side.
*When you enter the name of singer then you can find whole albums.

2. 歌詞酷
http://www.lyricool.com/
*In the main page only showed the search functional box let us to enter the name of song or singer.
*This website is very clear and specific.
*This website not only provides the lyrics but also the top 10.

Tornado of flames' kills 9 firefighters

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Story Highlights• NEW: Charleston mayor: Arson not suspected; unsure if building had sprinklers• Losing nine firefighters "is just unbelievable," says Mayor Joseph Riley• Witness describes "a 30-foot tornado of flames" that killed nine firefighters• Warehouse roof collapsed, throwing debris on rescuers, witness says
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) -- Fire swept through a furniture warehouse, collapsing the building's roof and claiming the lives of nine firefighters in a disaster the mayor described Tuesday as "difficult to fathom or quantify."
"Nine brave, heroic, courageous firefighters of the city of Charleston have perished fighting fire in a most courageous and fearless manner, carrying out their duties," Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley said at a morning news conference. "To all of their loved ones, our heart goes out to them."
Two employees in the building were rescued from the blaze, which broke out at about 7 p.m. Monday in the Sofa Super Store and warehouse, Riley said. (Watch firefighters salute as comrades' bodies are brought out )
Firefighters punched a hole through a wall of the warehouse to reach them.
Firefighters, police officers and other rescue workers saluted as the bodies were carried from the warehouse during the night.
"To lose nine is just a tragedy of immense proportions," Riley said. "To lose nine is just unbelievable."
Riley said the county coroner planned to disclose the names of the dead.
The cause of the fire was under investigation, but Riley said arson was not suspected. He said the blaze apparently started in a storage area. He was unsure whether there were sprinklers in the building.
Witnesses said the store's roof collapsed, throwing debris over about two-dozen rescue workers. Onlookers were hit with flying ash. (See bird's-eye view of warehouse)
"It was like a 30-foot tornado of flames," said Mark Hilton, who was struck in his eye.
Firefighter Eric Glover told CNN that he was at a golf tournament to benefit the family of a firefighter who had recently died when he heard the call on the radio. By the time he arrived, he said, the roof had already collapsed.
"It all happened pretty fast. They didn't have a chance," Glover said.
"You're always close to the guys because you spend a third of your life with these guys. Every third day you spend 24 hours there, so you get real close," he said.
Daniel Shahid, a salesman at a nearby car dealership, said firefighters came in asking for towels.
"The next thing you know, we were carrying hoses, directing traffic, everybody from the dealership," he said.
Shahid said he saw firefighters rescue four people from the building. "They were struggling. They were covered in black soot. They looked scared out of their minds," Shahid said.
He later told CNN the roof collapsed too quickly for anyone to escape. "It came from nowhere," he said. "It was a standing structure and five seconds later it was on the ground."
Riley called the missing firefighters heroes.
"This is a profession that we must never take for granted," the mayor said. "There's a fire raging and they go toward it."
On Tuesday morning, flowers were left on the sidewalk in front of the wreckage of the one-story furniture store and its adjacent, slightly taller warehouse, both of which continued to smolder.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.


1.cour.geous
<<形容詞>>
勇敢的; 英勇的
<<副詞>>
(cou.ra.geous.ly)
<<名詞>>
(cou.ra.geous.ness)
2.apparently
<<副詞>>
a.似乎, 好像
Mary has apparently forgotten to bring books to me.瑪麗似乎忘記把書
帶給我了
Apparently, women are weak, but they have hidden courage.女人表面上
看起來軟弱, 但她們有潛藏的勇氣
b.明顯地
3.tournament
a.<<名詞>>1 競賽, 比賽, 聯賽
b.中世紀武士的馬上比武大會
4.
wreck.age
a.<<名詞>>1 遇難破損的船隻與貨物
b.殘餘物; 殘骸; 破片
c.失事; 遭難; 毀壞

COMPUTERS CHANGE THE LEARNING STYLE

summary:The computer had modest beginnings in areas where it was used as a specialist tool. The first electronic computer was built in the 1930s and was solely for the use of undergraduate students in Iowa State University to handle mathematical computations in nuclear physics.However, only 10 years later computers were starting to change our life style, the way we do business and many other things (Elliot, 1994) and by the late 1980's networks were expanding to embrace sections of the general public.

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