An Announcement |
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What happened |
Peter hurt his rightduring a soccer match and has to stay in hospital for thetwo days. |
Where to go |
The People's Hospital, Floor 9, Bed. |
What to do |
Some of us willPeter. Sign the get-well cardyou leave school. |
Ewan Drum has always liked superheroes. He admires how they help people. At the age of seven, he told his parents, "I want to 1like a superhero and help the homeless." A few months later, Ewan's family planned a day of2. Wearing his red superhero costume, Ewan3helped pass out 70 bag lunches to hungry people in a park in Detroit, Michigan. That's4Super Ewan was born.
Word spread about Ewan' s good deeds(事迹). People donated(捐赠) money and something else, and Ewan handed them out to those in need. When5donated bottles of water, Ewan and his family held a drive to get even more. They6the water to Flint, Michigan, a city that had unsafe drinking water. Another time, a business donated six turkeys for Thanksgiving. 7his parents' help, Ewan used social media(媒体)to ask for more turkeys, plus side dishes. In the end, he says, “we handed out 64 turkey dinners to8all around Detroit.”
Ewan has a motto: Everyone can be a superhero to someone. At an event called the Hero Round Table, Ewan told the listeners, "It's not9to help people. You can keep some socks and snacks in your car to help people in need. Every10thing helps and can make someone feel happy."
My interest in cooking started when I was 11, partly thanks to my mother. She didn't really like cooking and when she did cook, I didn't like her food. Once I was watching something about cooking on TV and I thought I could do this, so I went to the bookstore and looked for the biggest cookbook I could find.
During a year, I had produced most of its recipes(食谱)and was ready for a bigger challenge(挑战). I wanted to create my own dishes and I started cooking for more people than just my family. To my joy, my parents allowed me to build a test kitchen. I did much cooking to test my dishes in it and my skill improved quickly. Later, my mom and I set up a dinner club that organized monthly events inside my home. Now as a teen chef (主厨), I have also cooked in top-class restaurants around the country. I am not doing it for the money, but because I love cooking.
Now I know that when you stop caring whether you'll be famous or do well, your dream will come to you.
Jackie is writing a summary(总结)and feedback about School Day to his teacher.
Summary:
School Day was held successfully on May 6th. Twenty-four student helpers from Grade 8 were divided into four groups of six. Each group had a task to raise money for the disabled.
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
Group 4 |
School postcards (Leader: Natalie) |
Chinese paintings (Leader: Tina) |
Recycling bags made by students (Leader: Leo) |
Homemade snacks by parents (Leader: Nick) |
All of groups performed well on School Day and received praise from the visitors. In short, our School Day went well and we got no poor opinions from the visitors.
Feedback:
Opinions from 100 students have been collected. Most students thought the activities were good. However, some students thought the prices of the school postcards were a little too high.
Satisfaction Feedback(反馈)
Follow-up:
Have a meeting with the headmaster about prizes for excellent student helpers.
Birth order—does it matter? Are you different because you are the first, second, or third child in your family—or maybe the last of nine?
A study found that first-borns have an average(平均的) IQ that is three points higher than people who fall into a different place in the birth order, perhaps because first-borns often help younger brothers and sisters, which improves their own skills. In 2007, an international organization of CEOs found that 43% of CEOs are first-borns 33% are middle children, and 23% are last-borns. First-borns are more likely (可能的)to be doctors and astronauts and get higher pay.
If first-borns are more successful, last-borns are generally more agreeable. They are also more likely to be funny, possibly to get attention from all the bigger people at the dinner table. Mark Twain and Stephen Colbert were both the youngest in large families, and Jim Carrey was the youngest of four. According to a 2007 Time magazine article, “The power of Birth Order." last-borns are more likely to be artists and successful businessmen.
Then there are the middle children: we have not ignored(忽视) them! Many middle children are short of one-on-one time with their parents. They often feel short-changed: the oldest gets more rights, and the youngest is spoiled(宠坏的). Though they may be ignored, middle children are more likely to grow into easygoing adults.
Many factors(因素) make us who we are, but if the research is correct, birth order may be one of the most important factors.
Many Chinese people will wonder what presents to get for their moms on Mother's Day, but not many know Mother's Day is actually a festival from overseas.
Mother's Day originated(起源) in America during the early 20th century. The festival spread to China as early as the 1980s and was widely accepted.
Why did a foreign festival become popular in China? In fact, Chinese traditional culture has always encouraged filial(孝顺的) devotion to parents. There are many stories which show filial respect in ancient China. For example, the story of "Taste Liquid(液体的) Medicine for Mother" tells us the filial virtue(美德) of Emperor Wen of the Western Han dynasty. His mother had been sick for three years. He often stayed up by her bedside and cared for her day and night. He tasted the liquid medicine first before she drank it. Also, mother love is a repeated subject in Chinese ancient poems, like "Song of the Parting Son" by Meng Jiao, a poet of the Tang dynasty. Now this poem is still a must in the school textbooks. Children in China are brought up with the education of filial devotion.
On special days, people often use roses or forget-me-nots to express love. Carnations are considered as the perfect flowers for mothers around the world, but few know that China has its own for mothers—the tiger lily.
Love for mothers can have different ways of expression. What matters most is love, not the festival itself. What mothers truly want is perhaps just a simple expression of love from their children.
We should not use more water than we actually need. If we do, we will not have enough water in the future. It is not a difficult question to answer. If we remove more fresh water than nature replaces, we have taken too much.
Many cities run campaigns(运动) to get people to stop wasting water. They show them ways they can cut back on water use. What's more, they carry out programs that offer money to reduce water use. For example, they give people shower heads and toilets that use less water.
Another threat(威胁) to our water supply is pollution. When our sources of fresh water get polluted, we can no longer use this water. This also endangers(危及) the animals that depend on the water.
We can save lots of water by not letting taps (ke) run while we brush our teeth or by turning off taps right after washing hands. By collecting cold water when were taking warm showers, we can also save water. In this way, we can make full use of water.
A. However, just how much is too much?
B. There are several things we can do to save water.
C. Finally, they make laws to control the use of water.
D. We don't have to let the cold water run until it gets warm.
E. They also increase water bills for people who use too much.
Lonnie Johnson always loved taking things apart(分开). He/'sʌmtaimz/ put them back together. Other times he made new things from different(part). He learned how to use tools from his dad.
At 13, Lonnie put an old engine(发动机) on a homemade go-cart. He loved driving it around. He dreamed of beinginventor. By high school, Lonnie built a remote-control robot from some waste things. This won him first prize at the Alabama State Science Fair. His friends called "The Little Scientist. In college, Lonnie was an excellent student. After that, he (become)an Air Force officer, rocket scientist and business leader.he never stopped inventing. You may have played with his most famous invention—the Super Soaker, a kind of water gun. Lonnie got the idea for this/tɔi/ while working on another invention. When he tested a homemade part in his bathroom, it shot water/ ə' krɔs/ the room.
Today, Dr. Lonnie Johnson has more than 100(use) inventions. However, he still keeps(try) new things.
| Time | July 7 to 9, 2018 |
Activities | Competitions, shows | |
History of Wushu | Thousands of years | |
Benefits(益处)of Wushu | … |
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Dear Henry,
I am glad that you are interested in Wushu. …
Yours,
Li Hua