You may probably meet most of the powerful graduation speakers here who are well-known people in their fields. I think the schools couldn't have picked better speakers than them, because they set good examples, deeply inspiring us in our daily life.
1） Steve Jobs, Stanford University：
"The best way I know is to avoid the trap (困境) of thinking that you have something to lose. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions affect your own voice..."
2） Oprah Winfrey, Stanford University：
"I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school... And the secret I've learned to get ahead is being open to the lessons from the great universe of all. Don't react against a bad situation. And the solution（解决办法）will come from the challenge. So don't give up easily, acting with responsibility...”
3）Bono, University of Pennsylvania：
"For four years you've been buying, trading, and selling everything you've got in this marketplace of ideas. Your pockets are full, even if your parents' are empty, and now you've got to figure out what to spend it on..." The world is waiting for you to shape it..."
4） Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin：
"Now it's time for you to move on to what's next and get what you want. But you must not let anything prevent you from taking those first steps. Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, or sometimes you'll miss the right opportunity. Recognize that there will be failures and obstacles (障碍). But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others."
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband's name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
Like all big cities, Paris has a traffic problem: lots of cars, lots of traffic jams (阻塞)and lots of pollution from exhaust fumes (废气).So the city began a scheme (计划)to improve the situation.
Under the Velib scheme ("Velib" comes from velo liberte, or" bicycle freedom" ) people can take a bicycle, use it for as long as they want, and then leave it at the same or another bicycle station. The first half-hour on the bike is free, but if you do not return it after 30 minutes, you have to pay. it's only €1 a day or €29 a year! The bicycles are heavy (25 kg) , and they are all grey and have baskets. There are about 20,000 of them in the city, and around 1,450 bicycle stations. So there are a lot more Velib stations than the 298 subway stations!
Paris is not the first city to have a scheme like this. But not everybody thinks it is a great idea. One Parisian said, "These bicycles are only for short journeys. If people want to travel across the city, they won't use a bicycle - they'll still use their cars."
A city spokesman said, "The bicycle scheme will not settle all our traffic problems, of course. But it might help reduce air pollution. Traffic, together with factory fumes, is a big problem. There are not any simple answers to traffic problems and pollution in cities. But unless we do something now, there will be more traffic jams and temperatures will continue to rise, so the problems in our environment will get worse. The bikes might help people to lead a healthier life, too."
Many people believe that language belongs to human beings. However, cats have developed a language not for each other, but for the human beings who have them as pets.
When communicating with each other, cats "talk" with a system of signals. Their tails, rather than any kind of "speech", act as an important way to express themselves. They also touch each other to express their feelings. With other cats, they will use their voice only to express pain. Unbelievably, all of that changes when a human walks into the room. Cats use many different kinds of vocal (声音的) expressions when they communicate with a person. Since these vocal expressions are not used to communicate with other cats, it seems that cats have developed this "language" to communicate with their human owners.
This fact is shown more clearly when researchers are watching rooms that have only one cat and those with several cats. And when there is only one cat in the room, it is usually very vocal, since the only creature around with whom the cat can communicate is its owner. Cats with other cats, though, are much quieter. If they want to have a conversation, they only need go to other cats and communicate in their natural way.
Since cats have learned to meow (喵喵叫) for the only purpose of communicating with human owners, their owners should take the time to learn what their different meows mean. If an owner knows, to name just a few examples, which meow means the cat is hungry, which means the cat .wants to be petted, and which means the cat wants to have a little "conversation", the relationship between cats and owners will be closer.
The jobs of the future have not yet been invented. By helping them develop classic skills that will serve them well no matter what the future holds.
1 Curiosity
Your children need to be deeply curious. Ask kids, "What ingredients (配料) can we add to make these pancakes even better next time?" and then try them out. Did those ingredients make the pancakes better? What could we try next time?
2 Creativity
True creativity is the ability to take something existing and create something new from it. There are a dozen different things you can do with them. Experimenting with materials to create something new can go a long way in helping them develop their creativity.
3 Interpersonal Skills
Understanding how others feel can be a challenge for kids. We know what's going on inside our own head, but what about others? Being able to read people helps kids from misreading a situation and jumping to false conclusions. "Why do you think she's crying?" "Can you tell how that man is feeling by looking at his face? If someone were to do that to you, how would you feel?"
4 Self-expression
There are many ways to express thoughts and ideas — music, acting, drawing, building, photography. You may find that your child is attracted by one more than another.
A. Encourage kids to cook with you.
B. And we can't forget science education.
C. We can give kids chances to think about materials in new ways.
D. So how can we help our kids prepare for jobs that don't yet exist?
E. Gardening is another great activity for helping kids develop this skill.
F. We can do this in real life or ask questions about characters in stories.
G. Being able to communicate ideas in a meaningful way is a valuable skill.
The True Story of Treasure Island
It was always thought that the adventure (冒险) novel Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. 1, recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.
Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived 2 for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a 3. With him were his American wife Fanny and his son 4.
Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a 5 over the hills. They had been 6 this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days 7. To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some 8.
One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island, Robert 9 that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of 10. “What's that?" he asked. "That's the11 treasure," said the boy. Robert suddenly12something of an adventure story in the boy's13. While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the14a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate (海盗)？
Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the15 of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to 16 such a man in a story. 17, Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was 18.
So, thanks to a 19 September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest 20 stories in the English language.
The earth is the only planet that scientists are certain has life. What does the earth have that the other planets don't? For one thing, the earth has just the right temperature. As third planet from the sun, the earth seems to be just the right distance away.The planets that are closer to the sun are (unusual) hot and their surfaces are baking in the sun. The farthest planets are cold balls.
When the earth developed, it (cover) by many gases. The gases caused the earth to be hot. But something (amaze) happened. The temperature was just right for thick clouds to form. It rained very hard a very long time. This gave the earth its oceans. Water made it possible for plants (grow). Then the plants created oxygen in the atmosphere which is the gas that humans and (animal) breathe. .
Mars is the only planet in the solar system seems to be something like the earth. It is smaller than the earth and it is quite a bit cooler. But it is not too cold for humans. The most unexpected sight on Mars is dried-up river beds. Mars was once much (wet), as some scientists believe, than today. Does this mean there could have been living things on Mars? Scientists are not sure, but there (be) no sign so far.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Today is Sunday. In a morning, I had a dry breakfast. We have no water drink because the water supply had been cut off. The water which came back in the evening. I did math then. I didn't stop after noon. After have lunch, I had a break. Then he went to my Sunday English Class. After a tired class for more than two hours, I got home. Some work had been done, but some hadn't. I must review all my subject, which include Chinese, English, politics and history and so on. That's terribly, especially when there was no water.
1）保持健康的重要性；
2）保持健康 
方法。
注意：
1）词数100词左右；题目已写好，不计入总词数；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
How to keep healthy?
