From the first day I arrived in Kunming, I had my understanding of China (change). Far from being narrow-minded and hostile to (foreign), people came up to talk to me the first time I went out on the street. It happened to be all in Chinese, so I didn't understand much, it did cause me to rethink my assumptions.
As my Chinese improved, this continued throughout my stay, from my landlord introducing me to people who could help us learn Chinese to (get) to know the couple who ran a noodle restaurant nearby.
If you're interested in other people, their culture, and their language, they'll be(friend) to you. China isn't exception.
Don't judge a country by its media coverage, (especial) some Western media, which have much prejudice.
I saw a very different kind of China with my own eyes. Kunming, I lived for most of my stay, wasn't much polluted. I had frank conversations with Chinese people about almost everything.
Still China (develop), but the economic growth means that most people (see) their living standards improve rapidly in the last 20 years. People I spoke with were generally optimistic about the future.
For those who love travel, particularly rail travel, China in 1987 was a can't﹣miss kind of place. In1987, China was still operating steam trains on some rail routes,made people from many countries amazed. Bruce Connolly, a photographer from Scotland,（be） one of them.
Connolly first came to China in 1987,（start） his continuous travelling throughout China. Since then, he（travel） to most parts of China except Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Wherever he went, his camera remained by his side. During his journeys in China, Connolly found China very different from he saw in photographs, which showed Chinese people very religious in the way they dressed and behaved., what he saw was that people were（friend）, welcoming and wore bright clothes. In the early years of his journey, most Chinese people were fascinated with foreigners visiting China, but now that has changed in cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, foreigners are no longer（curious）.
Another dramatic change that Connolly has felt in China is . widespread use of new technology. China has become one of the most tech﹣savvy（懂技术的）societies. People now do everything with（they） smartphones, and use of cash is almost disappearing.
Have you complainedyour family, your boss, or even your life? Maybe everyone has, but after reading this story, you may change your view and treat the world with another attitude.
An ass (驴), (belong) to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work, could not bear the life any longer. So he made a request to God, to be released from his present service and provided withmaster. After warning himhe would regret doing it, God made him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, the ass found that he had(heavy) loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, and asked for another change again. God, telling him that it would belast time that he could satisfy his request, made him sold to a tanner (皮革工). The ass found that he(fall) into worse hands. Knowing his new master's occupation, he said, “It would have been better for me either to have been starved by the first ownerto have been overworked by the second. But now I have already been bought by my present owner,will peel off my skin even after I am dead, and make me useful.”
We can see that people with dissatisfaction in a place are not(like) to find happiness in another.
Digging through kids' school bags, looking up all the assignments, sitting beside them going through each item, and finally (have) all the homework checked with a name signed is a(day)routine for most Chinese parents, as required by teachers. A demanding task especially after a long day's work at office, isn't it?（lucky）, some parents in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, have been liberated. A local primary school has recently announced that parents will no longer have to sign their names on their kids' homework, as students should be responsibletheir own assignments.
Making mistakes isessential part of the process of understanding. Who cares how much you(score) in your homework after you have settled down in life and found your directions? The ability to realize one's mistakes and learn from them is what matters,is also the main purpose of education. Why not give students a chance(find) out and correct their mistakes themselves?
It is by no（mean）parents' duty to go through the kids' assignments.parents are supposed to do is to create a friendly studying environment for kids, and teach them to be an independent learner. After all, independent learning is much more important than high scores.
Roofs and windows of buildings aren't the only surfaces that can be used to produce solar power. In China,（construct）has begun of the country's first solar highway, in which solar panels are placed underneath transparent concrete.
The solar highway is a 2 km stretch（一段）of road（lie）on the Jinan City Expressway, and it's divided into three layers. The see-through concrete protects a set of solar panels of two（size）. Beneath the solar panels（be）a layer that separates them from the damp ground.
The road（it）has already been completed, and now it's only a matter of connecting the grid（输电网）,is expected to be finished by the end of the year alongside the completion of the Jinan Expressway's south section.
This isn't the first solar road China has worked on. Earlier this year, the Qilu Transportation Development Group, also handling the Jinan Expressway solar road,（build）a 160-meter- long solar road incity of Jinan. It has the ability of heating up to keep the highway clearsnow and ice* and is able to（wireless） charge electric vehicles. The new solar highway is expected to one day be equipped with the same features.
