We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting them and putting them into our 1. It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know 2 and when to eat.
Fruit should be eaten on an empty stomach. If you eat fruit like that, it will go straight 3 the stomach into the Intestines（肠道）. It will be good to your health and provide you with plenty of 4 for life activities. Fruit is the most important 5.
But when you eat two pieces of bread and then some fruit, it is 6 from doing so. Do you know the reason?
You have probably heard people saying –every time I eat watermelon I burp（打嗝）, when I eat a banana I feel like 7 to the toilet. When the fruit 8 with other food, it produces gas（气体）. That's why you will feel uncomfortable. Actually, we will not 9 if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach.
Eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. When you 10 want to drink fruit juice, drink only 11 fruit juice, NOT from the bottles or cans. Don't drink juice that has been 12 up. Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients（营养成分）at all. You only get the 13.
If you have mastered the 14 way of eating fruits, you have the 15 of beauty, health, energy, happiness and a long life. Dark circles under the eyes will not appear.
Last year, I went to Beijing Qizhi Special Education School for community service（社区服务）.Before we took the bus, my friend asked me a question, "Why are you here?" I did not know how to answer the question.
The school was not far from my school, but it looked like it was in a different world. A group of children were waiting for us. A boy walked toward me. He held my hands and pulled me to the ground. I kissed the earth and tasted nature.
I could not understand what he was doing at first, then I was very angry. Though I was very angry, I controlled my anger.
A teacher stopped this awkward（尴尬的）silence when she shouted at the boy. "What are you doing right here, right now?" she said. "You will never see your mom again if you keep doing this. Now, say sorry!" "Sorry," he cried fearfully and nervously. I said nothing, but I realized something about this child. After lunch I asked the teacher for information about the child's parents.
She said that the child was very different from other students because of an illness. His family could not afford to treat him. He needed the kindness of his family, but they had abandoned him. So he depended on the support from the teachers and community service workers like us.
I suddenly realized I could answer the question my friend asked me at the beginning of the day.
Community service workers help others and make everyone feel better. There are so many people in the world that need help. Playing with lonely children may not make a big difference. But it can light a corner in the children's hearts, making them know they are loved by people.
Beauty sleep is a real thing, researches have shown that people who have enough sleep look more attractive(有魅力的) to others.
A few bad nights is enough to make a person look "especially" more ugly, their sleep experiments show.
The researchers asked 25 university students to join in their sleep experiment. They were asked to get a good night's sleep for two nights.
A week later, they were asked to sleep for only four hours every night for two nights in a row.
The researchers took make-up free(素颜) photos of the volunteers after both the good and the bad sleep.
Next, they asked 122 strangers to have a look at the photos and judge(评价) them on attractiveness, health, and sleepiness, as well as asking them: "How much would you like to make friends with this person in the picture?"
The strangers were good at judging if the person they were looking at was tired, and, if they were sleepy, their attractiveness score was low.
The strangers also said they wouldn't want to socialize with the tired students. The researchers say this is natural for people. An unhealthy-looking face makes people run away. In other words, people don't want to hang around with people who might be ill.
Dr. Brewer, an expert at the University of Liverpool said "Judgement of attractiveness is often unconscious(无意识的), hut we all do it, and we are able to judge on even something small like whether someone looks tired or unhealthy. This study is a good reminder of how important sleep is to us."
The idea that red means stop and green means has influenced our lives in more ways than just traffic signals(信号). We have been taught from a young age that the color red means danger and green means it's okay to move forward. But why were those colors chosen for traffic lights in the first place? For something we have to look at every day, why couldn't they have been prettier colors?
Well, it's import to know that before traffic lights for cars, there were traffic signals for trains. At first, railway companies used red to mean stop, white to mean go, and green to mean warn. As you could imagine, trains ran into a few problems with white meaning go. For example, one train mistook a bright star for a white light and something unexpected happened. Because of that, railway companies finally moved green meaning go and used yellow to mean warn. And it's been that way ever since.
Red has always been a color that mean danger, long before cars were even around. This most likely started because it's the color with the longest wavelength(波长) so it can be seen somewhere farther than other colors.
But, believe it or not, yellow was once used to mean stop. Back in the 1900s, some stop signs were yellow because it was too hard to see a red sign in a poorly lit area. Finally, highly reflective materials(高反射材料) were developed and red stop signs were born. Since yellow can be seen well at all times of the day, school zones, some traffic signs, and school buses continue to be printed yellow.
So next time you are impatiently waiting at a traffic light, don't get so mad at them, they've certainly come a long way.
What's sleepwalking(梦游)？Sleepwalking usually happens in the first few hours of sleep. Not all sleepwalkers walk when they are sleeping. Some just sit up or stand on the bed. Some even get up and walk around for a few minutes or half an hour. Some do things as if they were awake, but in fact they are not!
Sleepwalkers' eyes are open and they usually go back to beds by themselves. But they won't remember it the next morning.
About 15% of kids sleepwalk. Sleepwalking sometimes happens when a person is ill or worried, or doesn't get enough sleep. If sleepwalking happens often, you should see a doctor. If it doesn't, you don't need to worry. Here are some ways to help stop sleepwalking:
Listen to some music and relax before going to bed.
Go to bed at a regular time every night. keep your bedroom quiet and dark when you try sleeping.
Don't drink a lot of water in the evening and be sure to go to the bathroom before going to bed.
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Climbing a mountain is hard work.But one step after another finally brings a person to the （顶点）.Along the way, he can stop and look around.And the （更高的） he climbs, the more wonderful his view(视野) is.If he keeps （攀登）, he will have a new world before him.He will have a new （方式）of thinking everything.
Now learning a foreign language is something (像)climbing a mountain.This new language can give you a new view of life.And it is more than a look at the surface of things.It can open the way into people's minds and hearts, into a culture very （不同） from the one of your own.This will make you （更富有） even in things that money can't buy.Even though you never set foot on a ship or a plane, you can be an armchair (步行)through books.
Like the mountain climber who stops now and then to （欣赏） the scenery around him, everyone who is interested in reading will find （快乐）in books as he fights on to learn more and more of that new language.
"After walking through the mirror, many strange things happened to Alice. One day, she ( meet) a unicorn（独角兽.'What-is-this? 'the unicorn asked its friend. ‘That is a child, ' ( reply)the friend. 'Ah,' said the unicorn, I always thought they were fabulous monsters（传说中的怪兽）! Is it alive?'Aice then said, "Do you know,' I always thought unicorns,were fabulous monsters ? I never saw one alive before!'"
Fifty years before Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) wrote (he) stories about Alice, many people still believed in the myth (神话) of unicorns. But in the early nineteenth century, a French (science) named Baron Cuvier showed that unicorns were only a (product) of imagination.
For hundreds of years before that, things were very different. Everybod (believe) that unicorns were real,but very few people saw them. Julius Caesar, who built the Roman Empire, ever said that the animal had the head of a deer, the ( foot) of an elephant and a one-meter-long horn on its forehead. Marco Polo, who thought he saw a unicorn in India, agreed that it had elephants' feet and a horn, said it had a pig's head. He was almost certainly describing a rhinoceros（犀牛）！ By the sixteenth century，when books about animals were (become)very popular, everyone agreed that the unicorn looked like a white horse with a horn.
The summer solstice( 夏至), around June 21, is the longest day of the year in the northern half of the world. On that day, the sun is the highest in the sky, so the earth gets the most hours of light. People in many countries celebrate that day in a holiday called Midsummer.
Different countries celebrate Midsummer in different ways. In towns in Sweden, people put up a Midsummer Pole（仲夏柱） made of wood covered with flowers. They dance and sing around it. Afterwards , they eat fish, new potatoes and strawberries. That night, young people pick seven different flowers and put them under their pillows（枕头） when they sleep to dream
about the person they will marry.
In Finland, people go out to the country and build huge fires to celebrate Midsummer. In the past, people believed that the fires drove away bad luck. Now, they' re a reason to get together with friends for a big party all night. Because Finland is so far north, the sky is light most of the night on Midsummer. Many Finnish people start their summer vacations on that day.
In some parts of Spain, people have big parties and enjoy fireworks（烟花） on the beaches at night to celebrate Midsummer. Some people believe that plant medicines work the best if they are made on Midsummer, so women go out to collect the plants that night. Some people put the plants in water and then wash their faeces with the water for good health . And of course there are special foods: fish, potatoes and corn bread.
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On Midsummer, the earth gets the most hours of light. Midsummer is celebrated around in the northern half of the world. |
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Celebrations in different countries |
Sweden |
Dancing and singing around a(n) . Eating fish, new potatoes and Sweden strawberries; Putting under the pillow at night (It' s for young people) |
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Finland |
Getting together with friends around for a big party; Starting summer vacation |
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Having big parties and enjoying fireworks on the beaches at night; Collecting certain plants at night to make ; Eating fish, potatoes and corn Bread. |
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A list of books for English skills and for fu
Basic English Writing
Secrets of English Words
A Guide to English Listening
20 Topics for English Speaking
Treasure Island
Robinson Crusoe
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Time for Kids (a magazine)
注意：⑴必须从书单中选择2本书刊，并阐述理由。
⑵文中不得出现与你身份相关的信息。
⑶词数：80~100。短文首句仅供选择使用，不计入总词数。
短文首句：
To improve our English, the school has given a list of books for us to read this summer.
