John and Mary had two lovely children. Once they were asked to go on a business trip. So they found a babysitter to take care1the children.
A week later, as they drove into their hometown, they noticed smoke and went to see2. A house was on fire! Mary said, "Well, the house isn't3. Let's go."
But John kept driving4, "The house belongs to Fred." "It has nothing to do with us, let's go." said Mary.
But John drove up. A woman5 in the street, "My children! Help! Help!" John asked her6him where her children were. "In7bathroom," cried the woman.
8Mary didn't agree, John hurried for the bathroom9was full of smoke and heat. He soon found two children. As he left he could hear some other sound like crying. He10sent the two children to a safe place. But he11two more children were still inside. Mary shouted," Don't go back! That house12down in any second!"
John went back by13his way down into the room. It seemed a century had passed before he found both the children14the return way. As he walked up the endless steps, the thought went through his mind that there was15strangely familiar about the little bodies, and at last when they came out, he found that he had just saved his own children!
The babysitter had left them at this house while she did some shopping.
A: Laura, how are you today?
B: Not very well. I've had a bad day.
A: 1?
B: I got up late this morning. 2. So I had to wait for another bus.
A: Oh, bad luck! 3?
B: Yes. I was 30 minutes late. And what was worse, when I got to school, I found no one in the classroom!
A: Where did they go?
B: 4. Our teacher told us about the match, I forgot.
A: 5?
B: Yes, but when I found them, they were going back to the classroom!
For most people, the word "fashion" means "clothes". But people may ask the question, "What clothes are in fashion?" And they use the adjective "fashionable" in the same way:
"She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable colour."
But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.
Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspaper, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours. Newfashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.
Amy is a biologist working at a marine （海洋的） park. These kinds of parks provide fun and education for tens of thousands of people each year.
Amy takes care of many animals in the park, but she also does important research. As she observes the animals that she looks after, she learns more about their needs and behavior. This information helps the animals in the park, but it can also be used to protect other members of the species（物种） in the wild.
It's hard work to look after these animals. Their needs often change according to different hours of the day. So Amy must depend on her science knowledge and good number sense to help her make the right decisions all day long.
Even though dolphins spend much of their time underwater, they are mammals. This means that they must come to the surface to take in air. Dolphins give birth to their young. They're not hatched from eggs. Just like all other mammals, mother dolphins must nurse, or feed milk to their babies.
Amy and her team know this first﹣hand. One of their dolphins recently gave birth. A baby dolphin is not small, either. It was almost 1 meter long the day it was born. A big dolphin usually eats about 4% of its body weight in food every day. Amy knows that a mother dolphin that is nursing needs twice the food. So when the baby dolphin was born, Amy immediately doubled the mother's food every day.
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what 'keeping up with the Joneses' is about, It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants. Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich life--style of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series (系列) of short stories, He called it 'Keeping up with the Joneses' because 'Jones' is a very common name in the United States.' Keeping up with the Joneses' came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand's series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are 'Jonses' in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
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Our cities are crowded. Now cities are of cars. Something will have to be done to change it .What will the cars of tomorrow be like?
Little cars may some day take the of today's big cars. If everyone drives little cars the future, there will be less pollution in the air. We can breathe clean and fresh air. There will also be more space for parking
in cities, and the streets will be less crowded. The space for a usual car that we use today is enough for little cars. The little cars will cost much less to own and be safer to drive. What is more, these little cars can go about 65 kilometers per hour.
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Rose is one of the funniest girls in her class. She like a boy, and she is good at performing. So she to play Harry Potter by her classmates last week. She said happily, " I'm sure that I am able to do the job well because I the book many times already."
Dick, one of Rose's best classmates, is also an actor in the play. He likes to perform the play with Rose. He said, "We are confident that we well in our school art festival next week."
Everyone in the school is looking forward to their performance.
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A. They see the best in you, and that helps you see the best in yourself. B. That way you will be pleased with the progress that you are making. C. The key is to take control by making choices and developing habits that make you happier. D. You can control how happy you are, since giving always makes you feel happier. E. If you can't control tomorrow, don't worry about tomorrow. F. If you aim for perfection all the time, you will never be satisfied or happy. G. Your relationship with your parents doesn't have to be perfect before you can be happy. |
Do you want to be happier? Well, you can do something about it. Some psychologists（心理学家）believe that 10% of your happiness is due to life conditions and 40% is the result of your own choices. Your own choices include how you manage your time at school, your relationships, your friends, your activities and your health. So you have a lot of control over how happy you feel. Here are some tips on how to do that.
Surround yourself with positive（积极的）people. Spend time with positive people and your ideas will become active. On the other hand, good friends will encourage, support, and lift you up when you're down. That's also true for the people that we work with.
Don't try to be perfect. Remember that nothing can ever be perfect. Instead think about what you already have. Think about what you've already done. Think of where you are today as a step towards tomorrow. Don't try to be perfect, just try to do things well-with excellence.
Focus on now. Don't think about all the things that can go wrong, like failing at school or your friend leaving you. Thinking like this only results in worry and stress, which is a waste of time and energy. Just worry about making today great, because the best way to be happy is just to enjoy each day.
Compare yourself to yourself, not to other people. There will always be someone smarter, or richer, or better looking or more successful than you. There will always be someone with a bigger house and a bigger boat than you. Someone will always have more. Rather, look at what you have got and who you are, accept and value that. Work toward being a better one than you were last month or last year. And you will feel a lot happier with, and about yourself.
