I have a good friend who has a very nice name—Gina. She comes from . She is agirl. She has big eyes. Her long hair is very . She moved to China with her parents two years ago. We didn't know each other until last year. From then on, we became good friends.
At weekends, we often get together to join the club. She plays the piano very well. What's more, she often helps me with English and I teach her Chinese. We will be good friends forever.
Tea is the most popular drink in the world besides plain water. There are thousands of 1 types of tea available. All tea comes from the Camellia Sinensis bush—also 2 as the Tea Plant. The leaves and buds of this plant are picked several times a year, usually by hand. After picking, the tea is processed into black tea, oolong tea, green tea or 3 tea.
Black tea was invented in China in the Ming Dynasty as a way to 4 tea fresh when it was being transported long distances. As tea has to travel a long distance to reach places such as Britain, Canada and Australia, it is not 5 that Westerners drink mostly black tea. However, the majority of the world drinks green tea.
Herbal tea is prepared in the same way as regular tea but is not really tea. This is 6 it contains herbs, fruits, spices, etc. but no leaves from the Tea Plant. To truly be tea, the leaves must come from this plant. All tea naturally 7 caffeine, which comes from the tea leaves. Antioxidants are the properties found in some foods that reduce your risk of 8cancer and heart disease. All regular tea has a lot of antioxidants.
Decafieinated tea is regular tea (usually green or black) that has been processed to remove the caffeine. In recent years, organic tea has become 9, too. This is tea that comes from plants that have been grown without the use of any chemicals. People believe that it tastes better and is healthier, but sometimes it costs more than non-organic tea. This is because the size of the crops is often 10.
Parents always want the best for their kids. But everyone has their own way of parenting (养育). Here are some popular parenting styles. Which one do you like best?
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Tiger parents (虎爸虎妈) They are strict with their children. They want them to get the best grades in their class. They love their kids in their hearts. |
Dolphin parents (海豚式父母) They just want their kids to be happy and healthy. They make sure their kids get enough sleep and exercise. |
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Helicopter parents (直升机式父母) They worry too much about their children and "fly" over them like helicopters. Many people think these parents should give their children more freedom (自由). |
Lawnmower parents (割草机式父母) Like a lawnmower that cuts grass, they get rid of (去除) all difficulties for their children. Their kids never learn to work out problems on their own. |
One day Jim was unhappy. His mother was making cakes in the kitchen. She asked him if everything was OK. Jim said, "Nothing is OK, Mom. Today in our science lesson, Mrs. Green said that the whole world was getting dirtier and that many animals and plants were dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way home, but there is nothing I can do to make a difference."
"Let me tell you a story," the mother said. "One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish on the beach, the waves (波浪) brought them there and it was too far for them to make their way back by themselves. The man felt very sorry for the starfish. He went on walking and was surprised to see a boy in front of him that was throwing the starfish back into the sea. 'How silly you are! My boy,' the man said, 'there are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?' The boy didn't stop but kept throwing. 'Though I can't help them all, I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one,' said the boy."
"Thinking for a while, the man began to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, 'Sometimes a big lesson in our life comes from a small person.'"
On a Friday night in New York, a poor young man called Jack stood near the subway station, playing his violin. He wanted to make some money. The music was so great that many people stopped and put some money into the hat.
The next day, Jack came again. He put the hat on the ground, and then he took out a large piece of paper and put it under the hat. Then he began playing the violin. Many people came, looking at the paper. It said, "Last night, a gentleman put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to get it back."
People all wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a man rushed through the crowd to the young man and said. "I'm Bill Black. I am so happy that you've come back here!"
Then Bill explained the whole story: He happened to hear Jack's wonderful music on his way home the last night. He took out ﹩10 and put it in the hat on the ground. However, his ring was also thrown in. But he didn't know about it until he got home. He thought he wouldn't be able to have his expensive ring back. But to his great happiness, he got it again.
Jack was a student at an art school in France. He planned to fly back to France that morning. However, when he saw the ring in his hat, he decided to stay and tried to find the owner. He said, "Although I don't have much money, I live happily, but if I lose honesty, I will never be happy."
Has anyone ever told you that eating carrots will help you see in the dark? This is just one of many incorrect beliefs you may have heard. Below, TEENS has picked out scientific explanations for three mistakes that people make about their eyes. Let's take a look.
Can eating carrots improve your eyesight?
Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which helps the eyes to turn light into information for your brain. This allows people to see in darker places. However, eating more carrots won't help you see better. A certain minimum amount will help, but a large number of carrots will not give you superhuman vision.
If your parents have bad eyesight, will you have bad eyesight, too?
Myopia (近视) can be passed from parents to children. A study by the American Optometric Association found that if both parents are myopic, there's a 33 to 60 percent chance that their child will be. For children who have one parent with myopia, the chance is 23 to 40 percent, and it's down to 6 to 15 percent for kids with non-myopic parents. So if your eyesight is bad, your children might still have good vision.
Do color blind people see the world in black and white?
Color blindness doesn't usually mean that people see the world like an old movie. They usually can't tell certain colors apart, especially green and red. Another commonly confused pair of colors is yellow and blue. Our eyes have cone cells (视锥细胞) that sense different wavelengths of light. If these cells don't work properly, color blindness occurs. There are different levels of color blindness. Some people are only color blind in low light. However, in the most serious form of color blindness, everything is shades of gray.
"Cool" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit . As the world has changed, the word has had manymeanings. "Cool" can be used to express feelings of interest almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will （say）, "It's cool." You may think, "He's so cool," when you see your favorite football player. We all maximize the meaning of "cool". You can use instead of many words such as "new" or "surprising". Here's an interesting story we can use to the way the word is used a teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall they had visited. On student's paper was just the one sentence, "It's cool." Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and （feel）.
But the story also shows a scarcity of words. Without "cool", some people have no （word） to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility. Can you think of many words that make your life as colorful as the word "cool"?
