People often say that a dog is man's best friend. Over thousands of years, man has taught his dogs to do many kinds of work besides guarding the home. For example, sheepdogs are famous for their ability to control a flock of hundreds of sheep.
Dogs have been used to aid disabled people for centuries. A guide dog can lead its blind owner. Nowadays, dogs can be taught to turn on light switches, open refrigerator doors and dial the telephone for their disabled owners. For the majority of people, however, dogs are simply pets and friends for both young and old members of the family.
My school had a policy about homework, students should not spend more than ninety minutes per night doing homework, this is how I use the time for my work:
Fifteen minutes looking for assighment,
Eleven minutes calling a friend for the assighment,
Twenty three minutes explaining why the teacher is mean and does not like teenagers,
Eight minutes in the bathroom,
Ten minutes getting a snack,
Seven minutes checking the TV guide, six minutes telling my parents that the teacher never explained the assighment,
Ten minutes sitting at the kitchen table waiting for mom and dad to do the assighment.
Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people all over the world, it is also called the Spring festival or the Lunar New Year.
The exact date of the Spring Festival on the western calendar changes from year to year. However, Chinese New Year takes place between January 1st and February 19th.
On the Chinese calendar every years has an animal's name, these animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snack, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A Chinese legend says that these twelve animals had a race, the first year was named after the rat, the winner. The other eleven years were named according to the order in which the animal arrived in the race. The clever rat jumped onto the ox's back and then at the end jumped over the ox's head to arrive first.
The Chinese believe that a person born in a particular year has some of the characteristics of that animal!
