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Mike: Which do you prefer, art or music?

Kate: I prefer music to art. I think music is more interesting than art.

Mike: Really? Art is more interesting than music. I prefer art to music.

Kate: No. Music is much more popular.

Mike: But I have to say you don't sing well. I'm afraid nobody likes to listen to you when you sing.

Kate: But you draw badly.

Mum: Oh, children, stop talking like that, please. They both make our life more interesting.

A. They are both important.     
B. You can see nice art everywhere.

C. It can be heard every day.
D. I can't agree with you more.

E. I admire your pictures very much.
F. I can't agree with you.

G. No one enjoys your pictures.

Finders Keepers?

Mel Kiser was driving along a busy highway in Columbus, Ohio. He saw an armored truck (运钞车) and a few cars ahead of him. Suddenly the doors of the armored truck opened, and a blue plastic bag fell out of the truck. A car in front of Mr. Kiser hit the bag. The bag ripped (撕破) and money spilled out. Then another bag fell out of the truck, and another. Money was flying everywhere.

At first, drivers thought the green papers on the highway were leaves. Then they realized that the green papers were not leaves－they were money! Drivers stopped their cars right in the middle of the highway. People jumped out of their cars and began picking up money. They were putting ten-, twenty-, and one-hundred-dollar bills into their pockets. One man said, "Money, money, money! It's all free! Grab some while you can!"

Mr. Kiser also got out of his car. He grabbed a plastic bag of money, put the bag in his car, and drove away.

    Later Mr. Kiser counted the money. He had $57,000. For the next two hours Mr. Kiser thought about the money. He dreamed about spending it. He needed a new furnace(火炉) for his house. He wanted to take a vacation in Florida. But he decided to return the money. He drove to the police station and gave the police the $57,000.

The armored truck company offered 10 percent reward, so Mr. Kiser got a reward of 5,700. A few more people returned money and got rewards, but over one million dollars were still missing. Then a man telephoned the armored truck company and aid, "I was driving along the highway when I saw the money. People were running everywhere. I had a camera in my car and I took some pictures. Would you like the pictures?"

"Yes!" answered the company. The company gave the pictures to the police. The police looked closely at the pictures. They looked at the cars, the license plates, and the people's faces. They tried to find the people who had taken the money, but they didn't have much luck.

One man telephoned a Columbus newspaper. The man did not give his name. "I took two bags of money," he said. "I'm going to take the money and leave Columbus. I have enough money for the rest of my life."

Why do we count things in group of ten? The reason (原因) is that we have ten fingers. Long 1, when people had to count a lot of things, they matched them against their 2 . First they counted out enough objects to match the fingers of 3 and then put them 4 in one group. 5 there were more than ten, they formed more groups. We can call our numbers "two-handed" numbers, because they developed from the 6 that people counted things on two 7.

Some people had "8 numbers", too. Because there are five fingers on one hand, they counted things out in groups of five. It was 9 by Romans (罗马人) who lived in Italy over 2000 years ago. We call their 10 numbers Roman numerals and we use them even today. In Roman numerals, "Ⅰ" stands for one, and "V" stands for five. 11 six, the Romans wrote "VI".

    12 people counted objects in groups of 12. We 13 use the 12-in-one-group system(系统) for telling time with a clock. We count the 14 from one to twelve and then start 15 one again.

—No, ________ .

   — _________ they are!

— My parents and my best friend.

—Er，it's about ten minutes' walk.

  — A pen pal.