Thursday, March 25, 2010

Stolen Henry Moore sculpture found in Toronto


Summary: A Henry Moore bronze sculpture stolen from a New York City gallery in 2001 has been recovered from a Toronto gallery. The $80,000 abstract sculpture of a reclining figure was found Wednesday at Miriam Shiell Fine Art. The gallery's owner said the consignor brought it in last week, and she searched the Art Loss Register database to see if it had been reported stolen. he abstract Moore sculpture titled "Three Piece Reclining Figure: Maquette No. 4" (1975) was reported stolen in November 2001 by the James Goodman Gallery. The bronze piece is about 7 inches (17.8 centimeters) by 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) by 3 inches, a model of a larger sculpture.
The vocabulary I found:
1.consignor 2.diligence 3.executive 4.database 5.dealer
The sentences:
1. The consignor told us that he had finished doing all of the work
we consigned him to do before we reached.
2. Diligence combined with patience is often the door to success.

3. Jim is one of the men of greatest executive ability in the government.

4. To be frank, the main database can only be accessed by the authorized manager.
5. The dealer is glad to admit that he has already firmly established
his status in his business.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010


Question six: Give examples of junk foods.What are the effects if we eat too much junk food.

Answer:As we all know there lots of junk foods in our daily life,which makes us cannot help to eat,for instance,hamburgers,lollies,chips,ice cream and hot dogs and so on.We can always easily make a conclusion of that Too much fat in the diet will cause people to put on weight and get fat or obese .Transparently, Being overweight is a risk to the health of the heart and can cause other diseases.Moreover,so much salt as well as sugar can also cause many diseases more than do harm to our teeth or heart and blood.


Question five:Describe the different types of olive oil. What are the benefits of olive oil to our health?

Answer: As can be searched on the internet,there are five types of olive oil,which are extra virgin olive oil,virgin olive oil,pureolive oil,olive pomace oil, lite oil.Olive oil is very well tolerated by the stomach. In fact, olive oil's protective function has a beneficial effect on ulcers and gastritis.Studies have shown that olive oil offers protection against heart disease by controlling LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels while raising HDL (the "good" cholesterol) levels.


Question four :What are organic foods?Describe the pros and cons organic foods.

Answer: Organic food is known to contain 50% more nutrients, minerals and vitamins than produce that has been intensively farmed.It always mean that the fruits and vegetables grow in natural way without using any artificial fertilisers or pesticides. so what I want to say is that it is good for us to eat organic food.Personally speaking,nevertheless,it is the high price that make it impossible for us to eat the organic food every meal,or,maybe what makes it expensive for us to buy is that the difficulties of choosing a suitable environment and planting the food in no way of using artificial fertilisers or pesticides.


Question three :Is brown sugar better than white sugar? In what way?
Answer :It all depends.The number of calories in brown sugar is more than that in white sugar,While the percentage of calcium, phosphorous, iron, potassium, and sodium in brown sugar is very high compared to the percentage in white sugar.


Question two :If you eat vegetable and cheese together, it is very good for your teeth. But what kind of cheese do you need?
Answer :Yes.The calcium, protein, and phosphorus in cheese may act to protect tooth enamel

Tuesday, March 16, 2010



Question one : List down ten types of .Should you store yogurt on the shelves or in the doors of your fridge? Why?
Answer: Natural yogurt, Fruit yogurt(including orange yogurt,strawberry yogurt, mango yogurt, gooseberry yogurt, grape yogurt and so on) whipped yogurt, coagulated yogurt. It is better to store yogurt on the shelves than in the door of the fridge.