Notes
pigeon　ハト;
dropping 糞;
falconer タカ匠;

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A famous travel magazine picked JR Kanazawa as one of the world’s most beautiful train stations. It has a wooden gate shaped like Japanese drums and a glass and steel dome. Like many other stations, however, it had a problem with pigeons. The gray birds left white droppings everywhere. Now a falconer comes twice a week with a hawk. It flies around and scares away the pigeons. International visitors enjoy taking pictures of the hawk, and they stop to ask the falconer what he is doing. I’m sure his English is getting better! (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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I live in Rio de Janeiro, the city of the 2016 Olympic Games. Before the Games started, not so many Brazilians seemed interested in them. However, as the Brazilian athletes gave great performances and got more medals than anybody expected, people became excited. The climax was the men’s football match final between Brazil and Germany. Finally, Brazil revenged their defeat to Germany at the World Cup. After Neymar’s winning kick, I could hear the sound of firecrackers and car horns everywhere. I think the Olympic Games ended successfully with this victory. (written by a reader, edited by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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