What makes a house a home? Not size, of course. I've been in some of the grandest houses in America, and it's readily apparent that no one lives there. Earlier this year, I had dinner in a mud hut in Ethiopia, where we sat on chairs next to the hostess's bed --- a home that had more warmth than any house I've been in since. Now John Edwards is exploring what makes a house a home in his just-released Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives. There Edwards writes, "This is a book about homes, the values they rest on, the dreams they are filled with, and the people they have shaped. The houses and circumstances are different, but much of what you find inside will be familiar."  Whether you're sitting in an airport right now, waiting to fly to your childhood home for Thanksgiving, or in your own home waiting for the  s to arrive, you know what he's talking about.   We've lived in our townhouse for 21 years. The loose windows make noise in the wind. The fireplace is so shallow it holds only one log. The kitchen window offers a view of the world passing by. It's where friends sit on the kitchen counter drinking wine while dinner is being fixed. I lived there for only 18 years, but it will always be my true home. Even the lamp in the west living room window, which I could see far down the road when driving home late at night, still shines.     While all this talk about childhood memories can be warm and comforting, home is whom you're with, not where you are. As Edwards writes, "Home is family. Home is safety. Home is faith."   Happy homecoming! It can be inferred according to the text that   _  . A) the author's family were very rich B) every happy home is exactly the same C) the author has been living a hard life D) the author and Edwards hold similar ideas
D

Description Tap the Apple Store app on your iPhone or iPod touch, and you can do all things Apple. Buy Apple products and accessories   and read customer reviews. Add free laser engraving and choose signature gift wrap on select products to make your items even more special. Find Apple Retail Stores, reserve select Apple products for pickup at your favorite store, and request help when you are at the store. Schedule Genius Bar and One to One reservations and check in for them when you arrive. The Apple Store app is also the easiest way to buy or reserve your new iPhone -- right from your current iPhone. You can do it in just a few taps, without entering your AT&T account information. Order your new iPhone from the Apple Online Store and it's shipped to you free and ready to use. Or reserve your new iPhone, pick it up at an Apple Retail Store, and we'll set it up for you in minutes. Apple Online Store Features - Explore new and featured products from Apple. - Buy a new iPhone and other Apple products, accessories, and software. - Add free personal engraving to any new iPad or iPod. - Choose signature gift wrapping for any iPad or iPod, select Mac notebooks, and select Apple software and accessories. - Read customer reviews and get answers to product questions. Apple Retail Store Features - Reserve iPhone and other select products for pick up. - Request help, check in for reservations, and receive meet-up alerts when you are at a store (iOS 4 required). - Make Genius Bar and One to One reservations. - Sign up for workshops and events. What's New in Version 1.1 - Add engraving and gift wrapping to select purchases from the Apple Online Store. - Reserve products for pickup at an Apple Retail Store. - Check in for reservations and request help within stores (iOS 4 required). - Add Apple Retail Store reservations directly to iCal. Please note: With Location Services on and the Apple Store app open, Apple will use your location to identify nearby Apple Retail Stores and to offer additional services when you are in a... The text is intended to   _  . A) recommend a new product of Apple B) inform the readers of Apple Store C) describe the function of Apple Store D) offer additional services to the customers of Apple Store
B

Folk medicine keeps the body healthy by using medicines taken from surrounding plants and herbs . Since materialsfor making a medicine to cure a sickness can be found everywhere, one can practise folk medicine in any place of the world. The use of folk medicine goes all the way back to the time of the earliest man when both man and animal used plants and herbs to keep healthy. It is usually seen that an animal eat snakeroot after being bitten by a poisonous snake. Because animals seem to have this natural ability for knowing which plants and herbs will cure what sickness, man probably learned how to care for himself by animal watching. Man also learned other things from animals. He observed that wild animals, when sick, kept quiet and rest, getting well with the help of the medicine in plants and pure air. He saw that an animal with a fever could often be found resting in a cool place, eating nothing, and often drinking water until the fever was gone. Some believe that folk medicine deals with a lot of old wives' tales which have something to do with the medical treatment of the body. Stories are told about the powers of a certain vegetable material, which when hung around the neck, brings the wearer good health during the cold winter months. Such a story is simply a fairy tale. It should be separated from the discussion of folk medicine. This passage is mainly about   _  . A) animals' natural power to cure diseases B) how the earliest man kept healthy C) a discussion of folk medicine D) what man has learned from animals

C