One day a man met Socrates and said, “Do you know what I just heard about your friend?” “1 a minute," Socrates replied. "Before you talk to me about 2 friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment to filter (过滤) what you're going to 3. I call it Three Filter Test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely 4 that what you are about to tell me is true?" "Well, no," the man said. “5 I just heard about it and ..." "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now, let's try the second filter, the filter of 6. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend 7 good?" "No, on the contrary..." "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about my friend, but you're not certain it's true. You may 8 pass the test though, because there's one filter left - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be 9 to me?" "No, not really." "Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is 10 true, nor good, nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"
Teenagers who listen to the same music often have a common look. One hot style in music and fashion is hip-hop. Hip-hop is a type of urban music with a heavy beat. Typical (典型的) hip-hop fashions are loose-fitting street clothes. The style includes baggy (宽松的) pants, sweatshirts, hiking boots, baseball caps (usually worn backward), jackets with sports logos, and expensive athletic shoes. In the hip-hop style, boys and girls often dress the same way.
African-American kids in Detroit and Chicago first made hip-hop fashions trendy (时髦的) more than 20 years ago. They wore baggy street clothes to dance clubs. Then North American and European bands also began wearing like this. Thanks to the popularity of music videos and movies, hip-hop soon became an international fashion.
Teens around the world, from Britain to South Africa to Japan, now wear hip-hop clothing. Seventeen- year- old Melanie Borrow, of Manchester, England, said, "My pride and joy in life are my Levi's jeans." In the United States, teens spend a lot of money on hip-hop fashions. David Bowen, 17, of Evanston, Illinois, has five pairs of hiking boots, each costing around $ 100. David said, "They are popular because a lot of hip-hop performers wear them."
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If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost. If you get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don't try to find your friends. Let them find you. You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help.
Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.
If you don't mind that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches. Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass.
One day a man put ad in most of the newspapers in England. He said that he was a young man with millions of (pound) and great knowledge. He'd like to find a girl to be his wife and the girl must be like the one in the books (write) by Somerset Maugham. Thousands of parents and young girls knew about the ad at once. Parents all went to the (bookshop) to look for Somerset Maugham's books. They (buy) those books for their daughters presents. Girls tried to get those books to read although they weren't interested in (read). They wanted to know what kind of person the rich man wished for. Before long all the books of Maugham were (sell) out and the writer (be) known all over country. Who was the rich man? It was Somerset Maugham who put the ad in the newspapers! The ad saved his books and it made him famous too!
