A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and lay around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow... He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by... the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree everyday. One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. "Come and play with me," the tree asked the boy. "I am no longer a kid, I don't play around trees anymore." The boy replied,"I want toys. I need money to buy them." "Sorry, but I don't have money...but you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money." The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad.

One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited. "Come and play with me" the tree said. "I don't have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me?" "Sorry, but I don't have a house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house." So the boy cut all the branches off the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was delighted. "Come and play with me!" the tree said. "I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?" "Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy." So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time. Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. "Sorry, my boy But I don't have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you..." the tree said."I don't have teeth to bite" the boy replied. "No more trunk for you to climb on" "I am too old for that now" the boy said. "I really can't give you anything ... the only thing left is my dying roots" the tree said with tears. "I don't need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years." The boy replied. "Good! Old tree roots is the best place to lean on and rest. Come, Come sit down with me and rest." The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears.......

This is a story of everyone. The tree is our parent. When we were young, we loved to play with Mom and Dad... When we grown up, we left them, and only came to them when we need something or when we are in trouble. No matter what, parents will always be there and give everything they could to make you happy. You may think that the boy is cruel to the tree but that's how all of us are treating our parents.

　

Be honest with yourself by paying attention to your actions. Actions speak louder than words, and they always tell the truth. What do your actions say about you? If you say you
love your job, but your actions say otherwise, which do you think is more true - your words or your actions? On the other hand, if you say you're not good at a certain job, but your
actions say otherwise, that's also important. What do you do with this insight? You can use it to make more beneficial choices in your life. By being honest with yourself based on your previous actions, your actions moving forward will be based on truth instead of just what you tell yourself.
　

Take time out during the day for quiet time to listen to your inner voice. I call this inner voice the voice of God. This is similar to point number one, but it takes it a step further - beyond the natural mind to the supernatural heart. You may want to use your quiet time to meditate or pray. However you use this time, the key is to shut out all of the noise around you by focusing deep within yourself. Breathing deeply during quiet time will also help you focus. I know it's hard to find quiet time during a particularly busy day, but it's so important - even if it's just 10 minutes a day and you have to sneak away to get it. Quiet time can really make a difference in your life. It enables you to hear God speaking to your heart reminding you of His perfect love for you.
　

Despite what your subconscious may be telling you, you can have love with no limits. The key is to unconditionally love yourself first.

An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money left. They were moving to a smaller house because they could not afford to stay in the present house after paying the doctor's bills. Only a very costly surgery could save him now and there was no one to loan them the money.

When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother with whispered desperation, 'Only a miracle can save him now', the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her piggy bank from its hiding place in the closet. She poured all the change out on the floor and counted it carefully.

Clutching the precious piggy bank tightly, she slipped out the back door and made her way six blocks to the local drugstore. She took a quarter from her bank and placed it on the glass counter.

"And what do you want?" asked the pharmacist. "It's for my little brother," the girl answered back. "He's really, really sick and I want to buy a miracle."

"I beg your pardon?" said the pharmacist.

"His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?"

"We don't sell miracles here, child. I'm sorry," the pharmacist said, smiling sadly at the little girl.

"Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs."

In the shop was a well-dressed customer. He stooped down and asked the little girl, "What kind of a miracle does you brother need?"

"I don't know," she replied with her eyes welling up. "He's really sick and mommy says he needs an operation. But my daddy can't pay for it, so I have brought my savings".

"How much do you have?" asked the man. "One dollar and eleven cents, but I can try and get some more", she answered barely audibly.

"Well, what a coincidence," smiled the man. "A dollar and eleven cents - the exact price of a miracle for little brothers."

He took her money in one hand and held her hand with the other. He said, "Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of miracle you need."

That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed without charge and it wasn't long before Andrew was home again and doing well.

"That surgery," her mom whispered, "was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost?"

The little girl smiled. She knew exactly how much the miracle cost ... one dollar and eleven cents ... plus the faith of a little child.

Perseverance can make miracles happen!

Computer—Our Good Fellows

       Whatever you are, a scientist, a manager, an architect, a lawyer, a notice or a successful scholar; and no matter whatever you are diligent, or lazy, in the modern work, study and life , you always need our common good friends – computers.

       A computer is an erudite tutor, and a talented secretary who can draw up documents, manage data, design blueprints, type papers and so on. Furthermore, the computer is the most obedient and diligent “house-keeper” or “servant” of housewives; it is also a game expert admired by children. Oh, the computer is really a welcome fellow of ours.

Office Automation

       Office Automation (OA) is the application of the computer and communication technologies to improve the productivity of clerical and managerial office workers, The major functions of the OA system include text processing, electronic mail, information storage and retrieval, task management, and etc.. Today, there have been many OA systems, for example, desktop publishing, video conference, videotext and so on. So, many office workers can easily find the information they want through a personal computer sitting on his or her desk, It changes substantially the way people work in an office.

Artificial Intelligence

       For many years, researchers have been exploring the way people think in hopes of creating a computer that thinks like a person. This is so called Artificial Intelligence (AI). It aims at producing a computer system that will be able to communicate with us by speech and hearing, and be capable of solving intelligent problems. One practical application of AI has been in the area of expert systems. An expert system is a computer program that solves the specialized problems at the level of a human expert.

Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI)

       CAI is an educational concept that places the student in a conversational mode with a computer that has a preprogrammed study plan. The programmed course selects the next topic or phase of study according to previous responses from the student, allowing each student to process at a place directly related to his or her learning capability.

Expert System

       An expert system is a software system having some domain knowledge, which can solve some problems for people. Its performance depends on the facts and the rules that are fed into the computer. The expert knowledge is gathered by knowledge engineers from human experts in the field such as medicine, engineering, or geology. For example, in the field of medicine, one question that might be asked of an expert system is whether one treatment is better for a patient than another one. An expert system has the capacity to store the collection of knowledge and manipulate it in response to user’s inquiries, in some cases, it can explain responses to the user.

计算机应用    

计算机－－我们的好伙伴

　　无论你是一个科学家还是管理人员，无论你是建筑师还是律师，无论你是一个初踏学路的学生还是成就卓著的学者，无论你勤奋还是懒惰，在现代工作、学习和生活中，我们有了一位大家共同的好朋友－－计算机。

　　计算机是一个知识渊博的家庭教师，是一个有才华的“秘书”，他能够起草公文、管理数据、设计图纸、编写稿件等等，甚至，它是一个家庭主妇们最听话、最勤奋的“管家”和“服务员”，它也是孩子们钦佩的游戏高手。噢，计算机是受大家欢迎的好伙伴。

　　

办公自动化

　　办公自动化是计算机和通信技术在改善办事人员和管理人员的工作效率方面的一种应用。办公自动化系统的主要功能包括文本处理、电子函件、信息存储和检索、任务管理等。今天已经有许多办公自动化系统，如：桌面印刷系统、电视会议、电视传视等，所以，许多办公室工作人员可以通过他们桌子上的个人计算机轻松地找到他们所需要的信息。这极大地改变了人们在办公室里的工作方式。

人工智能

　　许多年以来，研究人员就开始探索人们思考问题的方式，期望创建一种能够像人一样思考的计算机。这就是所谓的人工智能。其目的就是为了建立一种计算机系统，使之能够通过“听”和“说”同我们进行通信，并具有解决智能问题的能力。人工智能的一个实际应用领域是专家系统。所谓专家系统是一个计算机程序，它能够用人类专家的水平去解决一些特别的问题。








计算机辅助教学（CAI）

　　CAI是一种教育思想，它使学生在计算机进行对话的过程中学习。计算机中存有预先测定好的学习计划，这些预先编制好的课程能够根据学生回答情况选择下一步学习的标题或阶段，使每个学生以适合自己学习能力的速度进行学习。

　　　　　　
专家系统

　　专家系统是具有某一领域的专业知识，可以帮助人们解决某些问题的软件系统。它的运行以储存在计算机中的事实和规则为依据。这些专家知识是知识工程师从相应的医学、工程、地理等领域的人类专家那儿收集得到的。例如在医学领域，可以向专家系统提问对某病人的一种诊断方案是否比另一种更好。专家系统具有储存收集的知识并操纵这些知识对用户的提问作出反应的能力，在某些情况下，它甚至可以向用户解释作出这种反应的原因。

Internet  has  four  main  applications  as  follows：

    l．E－mail． With Internet， people can compose， send， and receive electronic mails． Many people get dozens of messages a day and consider it as their primary way of interacting with the outside world, far outdistancing the telephone and snail mail.

    2．News． Newsgroups are specialzied forums in which users with a common interest can  exchagne messages．Thousands of newsgroups exist on Internet，on technical and nontechnical topics，including computers，science，recreation，and politics．

    3．Remote login．Using the Telnet，Rlogin, or other programs， the  user anywhere on  Internet can log into any other machine  on  which  he  has  an  account．

    4． File transfer．Using the FTP program， it is possible to copy files from one machine on Internet to another． Vast numbers of articles， databases， and  other information are available in this way．

The Network Computer

    The network computer， also known as the Internet toaster，Internet appliance or Internet device，is the low cost，no　maintenance desktop device． It allows users to effortlessly connect to　Internet and network resources． From there， they can share any　resource and perform all computing tasks that they currently do on　their PCs．

    The network computer offers simplicity．Stripped of the　hardware and software that　complicate the PC life and only capable of network access and display, the network computer relies on the network for virtually all software， services， processing， data， and resources． It eliminates the continuous cycle of desktop hardware and software upgrades， pushing that burden instead on to the network．

    Need the latest word processor or spreadsheet？ Run it off the server， Want to save your work？ Just send it off to the network，where it will be stored secured, and backed up．

Firewall： a Measure of Network Security

    With the popularity of Internet，it is increasingly difficult to guarantee the network security．Sometimes the network  was breached because of not only hackers’ visit but also authorized users’ care out of ordinary. Firewall just is an effective measure of network security．It will ensure that all communications conform to your Security policy．

    Once two lads broke into the university network，created a bulletin board，loaded popular commercial software on it and invited users across Internet to download the packages．Thanks to a firewall, network administrators found the system breached. They checked the audit and found the students’ IP addresses， names and location． The police arrested the two hackers．

E－mail

    One important application for Internet is communication between computer users by the electronic mail，or E－mail． E－mail allows users to electronically transmit and receive messages，text， or data．E-mail functions futher like a mailbox：the user can send messages whether or not the intended receiver is currently on the network and the message is stored， along with a signal for the receiver that indicates that there is a message waiting．

   E-mail has replaced the telephone for many messages．Users can respond when it is convenient，without being interrupted,  and can get their message either on-screen or in the printed form．

  Electronic Bulletin Boards

Another interesting application for Internet is the electronic bulletin board which is also called bulletin board service, BBS for short. It allows users to post and retrieve messages that are not directed to a specific user, much like announcements are posted on an office bulletin board. BBS has been used for everything from dating service and want ads to highly specialized applications such as the exchange of research data in a narrow scientific field.

   Once attached to me host Program，the viruses then look for other programs to "infect"．In this way， he virus can spread quickly throughout a hard disk or an entire organization when it infects a LAN or a multi-user system． At some point，determined by how the virus was programmed the virus attacks．The timing of the attack can be linked to a number of situations，including a certain time or date， the presence of a particular file，the security privilege level of the user，and the number of times a file is used．Likewise，the  mode  of  attack varies．So－called "benign"  viruses might simply display a message，like the one that infected IBM’s main computer system last Christmas with a season's greeting．Malignant  viruses  are  designed to damage the system．The attack is to wipe out data， to delete flies， or to format the hard disk.

What Kind of Viruses Are There？

There are four main types of viruses: shell, intrusive, operating  system  and  source  ode．

    Shell viruses wrap themselves around a host program and don't modify the original program．Shell programs are easy to write，which is why about half of viruses are of this type．

    Intrusive viruses Invade an existing program and actually insert a portion of themselves into the host program．Intrusive viruses are hard to write and very difficult to remove without damaging the host file.

    Shell and intrusive viruses most commonly attack executable program flies－those with a．corn or．exe extension， although data flies are also at some risk．

    Operating system viruses work by replacing parts of the operating system with their own logic．It is very difficult to write operating system viruses and these viruses have the ability once booted up， to take total control of your System．FOF example，some operating system viruses have hidden large amounts of attack logic in falsely marked bad disk sectors．

    Source code viruses are intrusive programs and they are also inserted into a source program such as those written in Pascal prior to the program being complied．There are the least－common viruses because they are not only hard to write，but also have a limited number of hosts compared to the other types．

Be Wary of the Second Network Viruses

    Do you believe it？ Network viruses can steal money！So far Internet has become the main channel through which the computer viruses spread．Look，here come the second network computer viruses．Even without "snatching" information from  the network your computer can be infected by the second network computer viruses， which are hidden in some machines on the network． Your computer is， so to speak， in danger once being connected to the network to browse．

    The virus that can steal your money belongs to a kind of the second network viruses.  It was designed and put in some machines on the network． When your computer is linked to one of these machines，the virus will invade your hard disk and search whether Intuit Quicken， an accounting software， is installed． One of this accounting software's functions is to transfer accounts automatically. Once infected， your money will be transferred to an additional account opened by the virus program without anybody knowing it．

1．What is language for? Some people seem to think it is for practicing grammar rules and learning lists of words--the longer the words the better. That’s wrong. Language is for the exchange of ideas, for communication.

语言到底是用来干什么的呢？一些人认为它是用来操练语法规则和学习一大堆单词——而且单词越长越好。这个想法是错误的。语言是用来交换思想，进行交流沟通的！

2. The way to learn a language is to practice speaking it as often as possible.

学习一门语言的方法就是要尽量多地练习说。

3. A great man once said it is necessary to dill as much as possible, and the more you apply it in real situations, the more natural it will become.

一位伟人曾说，反复操练是非常必要的，你越多的将所学到的东西运用到实际生活中，他们就变的越自然。

4．Listening and imitating should always go together. Use the LIP method! Listen－Imitate－Practice!

听和模仿一定要同时做，使用“LIP”方法：听、模仿、操练！

5. Use all your senses to learn English. You must hear English, read English, touch English, smell English, and taste English. Feel English with your heart. Immerse yourself in this language. Begin to think in English.

运用一切感官学习英语。你必须听英语、说英语、触摸英语、闻英语，还要尝尝英语的味道。用心去感受英语。让自己沉浸在这门语言当中。学会用英语思考。

6. Relax! Be patient and enjoy yourself. Learning foreign languages is just a piece of cake.

放轻松！要有耐心，并且享受英语带来的乐趣！学习外语只不过是小菜一碟。

7. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Work harder and practice more. Your hardworking will be rewarded by God one day.

God is equal to everyone!

冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。更加努力的学习，更加勤奋的操练，你所付出的一切将会得到上帝的报答，上帝是公平的。

8. Use a dictionary and grammar guide constantly. Keep a small English dictionary with you at all time.

When you see a new word, look it up. Think about the word--use it. in your mind, in a sentence.

经常使用字典和语法指南。随身携带一本小英文字典，当你看到一个新字时就去查阅它，思考这个字——然后学着去用它，在你的心中，在一个句子里。

9. Try to think in English whenever possible. When you see something, think of the English word of it;

then think about the word in a sentence.

一有机会就努力去用英文来思考。看到某事时，想想它的英文单词；然后把它用到一个句子中去。

10. Practice tenses as much as possible. When you learn a new verb, learn its various forms.

A thousand words will not leave so an deep impression as one deed.

尽可能多的操练时态。学习一个动词的时候，要学习它的各种形态。千言万语不如一个行动

“新动力”学校提醒您：

学习任何语言都是需要花费很多努力，但绝不要放弃。从绝望中寻找希望，人生终将辉煌!