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Hello, listeners. Welcome to Henton Hospital Radio. Before our music program begins, Pm going to repeat some of our hospital rules.

The hospital can sleep 800 patients. There are 8 beds in each ward (病房). The visiting hours are in the afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 and in the evening from 7:00 to 8:00. But remember only two visitors at a time. Sorry about that, but you can see what would happen if we didn’t have these rules.

The other rules are about our time schedule. We start quite early一you might not be used to that. We wake you up at 6 o’clock, and breakfast is at 8 o’clock, hinch at noon. There’s tea at 3:30 and supper is at 6 o’clock.

You can see the “No Smoking” sign—we don’t allow smoking in the wards. Tm sure you understand why. However, if you do need to smoke, there are some smoking-rooms for you.

You will find the radio switch (开关）on the wall near your bed, with your own headphones, if you want to listen. Ifs our own hospital radio wishing you a quick recovery (康复).

Most of the flowers in nature are red, orange and yellow. If we have seen a black flower, it’s chance in a million.

People have made a survey to colors of more than four thousand kinds of flowers and discovered that only eight of them are black.

As we know, sunlight is formed by seven different colored lights. The wavelength of each light is also different, so the quantity (量）of heat in each light is also different. Flowers, especially their petals (花瓣), are easy to be harmed by high temperature.

Black flowers can take in the light of all the wavelengths that make them dry up because of high temperature, so black flowers can hardly resist (抵抗）sunlight. But red, orange and yellow flowers can protect themselves from sunlight by reflecting (反射) the red light, orange light and yellow light, each of which has a large quantity of heat.

— That’s right.

    Canada is the second largest 1 in the world. It is over 7,000 kilometres from the 2 coast (海岸）to the east. It 3 six time zones. When it is 9 a.m. in Vancouver on the west coast, it is 1:30 p.m. in St John's on the east coast.

    English and French are the two main 4 in Canada. About 60 percent of its people 5 English, and about 25 percent speak French. More than 70 percent of its population 6 in cities near the US border (边境).

    Ottawa is the capital. Every year millions of tourists go there to 7 museums and take part in the cultural 8. Toronto is the largest city of the country with about 2.5 million people. Montreal is the second biggest French-speaking city in the world.

The maple leaf (枫叶）is the 9 symbol of Canada. The Canadian 10 has a red maple leaf on a red and white background.

Once there was a young boy. He had no family except for an old llama. Each day the boy and his llama walked many miles, looking for a home. Each night they curled up (赌缩）and slept. But on one starry (满天星斗的）evening, the old llama died. The boy buried (埋葬）his friend next to a small icy river. Then he sat under a tree and cried. What would he do? He had no family and no home.

The boy cried for a very long time. But there was no one to comfort (安慰）him. There were only the stars in the sky.

Suddenly, the sky filled with bright light. The boy held his breath. He was afraid to move. One bright star fell to the ground. Slowly, the star took the shape of the old llama. She bent her head and drank from the river. She looked at the boy and smiled. As she jumped back into the sky, bits of llama wool fell. As the sun began to rise, the boy picked up the soft, warm wool. It gave out light in his hands like starlight. He carried the wool to the city and sold it. With the money, he bought a house. He bought two young llamas. He never forgot the star llama. And he was never lonely again.

— Yes, of course.