In students' daily talks, celebrities (名人) are usually a hot topic, including their dress, behavior, families and other personal things. Then, is it a celebrity's job to be a good role model? Please read the following students' debate:
Is it a celebrity's job to be a good role model?
Pros (正方)
| It's a celebrity's job to be a good role model because people usually look up to stars. If a celebrity drinks and smokes, his fans will follow him because they look up to the celebrity so much. If a celebrity's lifestyle is inappropriate for kids, then their parents should be more careful about what they let their kids see. |
| I think everyone should try to be a good role model, even if you are not a celebrity! You can still be a role model to your sisters and brothers, a younger neighbor, or anyone. But I think celebrities should be very good, because they are role models for so many people! |
Cons (反方)
| A celebrity doesn't have to try to be a good role model. They are famous because they worked hard at what they love for a living. They should, however, try to make good choices for themselves, not their fans. Lots of stars have to post apology (道歉) letters after being caught doing bad things. It's good, but if the only reason they do is to win back their fans, it's not good. |
| Although it is a wonderful thing to be a good role model, that's not what the celebrities must do. They are famous because they love what they do and are good at it. Being a role model is never in the job. If the celebrity knows they are affecting the young people, they should try hard to set a good example. |
The spring season brings warm weather, flowers and other changes for people to enjoy. For some restaurant cooks, the most exciting spring arrival is ramps.
Ramps are a wild plant in the eastern mountains of North America. They are one of the first plants that grow in the spring. Usually between April and May. They are recognized (识别) by their red stem (茎), and two long and wide green leaves. They are also famous for their strong taste, similar to onions (洋葱).
Ramps are not as well-known as other vegetables, but they have a long history in the United States. In the Appalachian Mountains, ramps have been an important food for a long time. During spring it is common for small towns in the Appalachian area to hold large ramp dinners for the community.
However, over the last 30 years, ramps popularity has grown quickly. They are now a highly-desired vegetable for many nice restaurants in cities like New York and Washington D. C.
One reason the plant is popular is that it grows in the wild. It is difficult to grow them on farms. Most restaurants get them from foragers, who collect ramps by searching forests for some small pieces of land where they grow. Ramps have a short season. Within a few weeks of full growth, the plant is done for the year. This short life is some reason for their popularity.
And that popularity could lead to their disappearance from Earth. In 1995, the local government in Quebec, Canada stopped people selling the plant to businesses in order to protect the plant against being over-dug.
The season is short, but it has not ended yet. If you are in the right place, You still have time to try a taste of ramps yourself.
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A 12-year-old girl from Virginia, US, never thought that a simple message she put online could bring her big problems. She posted the words, "Killing. Meet me in the library Tuesday", with three emojis (表情符号) of a gun, a knife and a bomb (炸弹) on Instagram, a social media (社交媒体). She was told that she broke the law because of threatening (威胁) her school.
This problem is not far away from us. Not long ago, Ni Hanxiang, a Chinese student at a university in the US, was sent back to China after expressing on social media that he would kill his teachers if he failed to pass his exams.
In China, posting threatening words online is also against the law. In 2013, Wu Hongfei, a singer, got into trouble for saying on weibo that she wanted to blow up a building.
"Threatening happens not only face to face but also through the Internet, social media and the telephone," said Mr. Cao, a lawyer from Chongqing. "Although the law of China protects people's right of free speech, it doesn't include words that threaten others' lives and national safety."
"Some people may not mean to threaten. They may just be trying to say "I'm strong", said Fred Pratt, a lawyer from the US.
The girl's mother said her daughter was a good kid who had never been in trouble before. Ni Hanxiang also said he didn't realize that what he put online was so serious.
"But not knowing the law doesn't mean the law will treat you any differently if you break it," says David Allen Green, a lawyer from the UK. So, do you think we'd better spend a minute or two thinking about the words or emojis we use on social media before we press "send"?
Have you ever tried to hide your emotions (情感) from someone during a conversation? .
Scientists from the Ohio State University have found that people are able to tell other people's emotions according to changes in the color of their faces.
Scientists studied pictures of people's facial expressions.. For example, happiness makes our faces red around the cheeks and a little blue around the chin. Disgust (厌恶) creates not only a blue-yellow color around the lips, but also a red-green color around the nose and forehead.
"We believe these color patterns are the result of small changes in blood flow triggered (触发) by the central nervous (神经) system. "Lead researcher Alex Martinez said.. Does the color alone or also facial expressions help people tell other's emotions?
To figure this out, scientists added color patterns to pictures of faces that showed no facial expressions. They were able to tell the emotions 75 percent of the time without any difficulty.
This is why there are some Chinese sayings that connect emotions to the color of one's face. For example, when two people are heatedly arguing over something, we say they are red in the face. When a person is very angry, we'll say he or she is blue in the face.
A. Then, volunteers were asked to tell what emotions the faces were showing
B. They found that every facial expression is connected to a certain color
C. But this raises a question
D. It's not always easy, because the color on your face may tell the truth
E. It is shown that human emotions are influenced by colors on the face
There are purple clothes, purple handbags, purple bicycles, purple furniture, and even purple computers! So purple is one of the most popular colors today. But in the past, purple was a very expensive and unusual color. Let's take a look at the rich1of the color purple.
Some scientists believe that the first plants to appear on Earth over 500 million years ago2looked purple, not green plants. Today are green because they use chlorophyll (叶绿素) to produce energy. 3these early plants probably used something called retinal, which is a dark purple color.
During the time of the Roman Empire (27 BC-476AD), it was very difficult to make purple dye (染料). The dye came from sea snails (海螺). But 10,000 dead sea snails 4you just one gram of purple dye... as well as a very bad smell! This5purple dye was called Tyrian purple, and it was the preferred 6of emperors.
In 16th-century England, purple was7for the king's family members. Queen Elizabeth I's clothes were purple, but ordinary people were not allowed to8the clothes in this color.
In 1856, William Perkin, an 18-year-old science student noticed something strange while doing an experiment.
The chemicals (化学药品) he used to clean his instruments mixed with the chemicals he used in his experiment and produced a bright purple color. This9led Perkin to start a company using this chemical mixture to make purple dye. The dye was much10than sea-snail dye. Thanks to Perkin, now anyone can afford to wear purple clothes.
Drawing might help you think
When you're sitting in class, have you ever drawn pictures in the margins of your notebooks? If so, your teacher might have told you (stop). Many people think of doodling (涂) as a distraction (精神涣散) from more important things. But it might be just the opposite.
One study shows that doodling may help you remember things you hear. In 2009, researchers asked two groups of people to listen to a phone message. One group (encourage) to doodle, but the other was not. Neither group knew that it would be asked to remember information from the message. But the group that doodled remembered 29 percent more.
Other people (suggest) other uses for drawing. Jesse Prinz, a professor who studies doodling, says it can help you think creatively. (walk) away from a problem to draw might actually help you solve it. When you come back, you (have) a fresh perspective and figure out an answer more quickly.
Two years ago, an author named Sunni Brown (write) a book on doodling. She argues that doodling is a tool that can help people think. She admits that people see doodling as doing nothing, but she wants to change that. In fact, she runs a business that helps companies improve organization and planning doodling. Brown (believe) doodling is helpful because it incorporates (整合) many ways of learning. You learn in four ways: seeing, hearing, reading or writing, and through movement. The more ways you use, the(well) you learn. And when you doodle while you (listen) to a lecture, you use all four.
You might think that being good at (draw) is important for doodling. But if the point of doodling you think, then it doesn't matter what the picture looks like. Even if you're not an artist, doodling can help you. So next time you need help focusing, pick up a pen and doodle away!
Once there was a woman. She had a faithful (忠实的) dog. The dog was so faithful that she could leave her baby withthe dog when she went out. And after she returned, she would always find herbaby safe.
One day, the woman left the baby with the dog and went shopping.Whenshe returned home, she found something unusual happened in her house. Therewere bloodstains(血迹) all over the bedroom. Thewoman then thought of her baby. She cried and started looking for him. Then shesaw her faithful dog. It was licking (舔) its mouth at that time.It looked like the dog just finished a delicious meal. The woman was angry andthought that it killed her baby. (A) thinking too much, she killed thedog.
But when she went on looking for her child, she saw somethingelse. Close to the bed, there was her baby and she found her baby sleepingpeacefully there. And under the bed, there was a dead jackal (豺狼). The woman now understood what happened. The dog tried toprotect her baby from the jackal, but just now she killed the dog.
注意：
1）续写故事的词数为100词左右;
2）展开合理想象，适当发挥，以使行文连贯;
3）可根据需要自主选用以下参考词汇：
regret后悔, regretful 后悔的, alive活着的, tears眼泪，brave勇敢的, grave坟墓, bury埋, avoid 避免
