How much do you know about manners（礼仪）? Different countries have 1manners. In 2 Asian countries, it is good manners to take off your 3before you go into a house. 4in European (欧洲)countries, even if they sometimes become very dirty, this is not done. If you are a 5 in a Chinese house, when you have a meal, you usually do not6 the food. You often leave a little to7 that you have had enough. But in England, a visitor always finishes food to show that he has 8it. We must know the customs (风俗) of other 9 ， so that they will not think 10bad-mannered. People all over the world 11that a well-mannered person should be kind and12 to others. If you 13 this, at least you will not go very far wrong. 14 likes a person with good manners, but no one likes a person with bad manners. 15 your manners.
Jim went to school to study history, but when he finished his first year, he didn't pass the exam and the teacher said to him, “You have to leave school.”
When the boy's father heard this news, he was much worried. He came to the school to see the teacher. He found the teacher in the office and asked the teacher to let Jim go on with his studies the next year.
“He is a good boy. He always does well in history,” said Jim's father, “and if you let him pass the exam this time, he will do better next year and pass the exam.”
“No, no, that's impossible!” answered the teacher, “Last month I asked him when Napoleon（拿破仑）died and he didn't know.”
“Please sir, give him another chance.” said Jim's father, “You know we don't have any newspapers in our house, so nobody in our family knew that Mr. Napoleon was ill.”
The Browns have a very nice garden around their house. It has some tall trees and many flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Brown work hard in their garden. Now Mrs. Brown is in the garden getting some flowers. She will put the flowers in the dining room and the sitting room.
Susan is sitting in a chair in the garden. She is reading a book. Susan doesn't go to work today. So she is at home. David is saying goodbye to his mother. He is running through the gate. He is going to school. He will go to school by bus. At school he studies with his friends. He has lunch at school. Mrs. Brown and Susan will have lunch at home. Mr. Brown went to London yesterday. He is in London now and will have his lunch there. This afternoon he will come back by train and he will drive from the station to his house in his own car. Mrs. Brown will be at home. Susan and her friend Tom will go to the town this afternoon, and have tea there.
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Some students have their favorite pop stars or sport stars. They admire them very much. They admire their ability and the way they live their lives. Young people are full of potential ( 潜能) and have lots of questions about their futures: What kind of person will I be? What kind of job can I do? ①Sportsmen and pop stars seem to havealready answered these questions in their own lives. But when you watch these people, you only see a part of their lives, the public part. Their everyday lives might be very d_②______.
Many parents worry that their children will follow the bad side of their idols (偶像). And many young people are often disappointed to discover that their favorite idols ③have feet of clay. But the lucky thing is that they don't have to behave exactly like their idols.
④Celebrities (名人) are fun to watch and admire, but the best idols are often the people you see in your everyday life: your family, your neighbors and your teachers. These are the people who teach you how to be honest and how to get along with others.
that sportsmen and pop stars have already answered these questons in their own lives.
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A: Hi, Xu Hui! I hear that our school will make uniforms for us. Do you like wearing school uniforms?
B: Not really. I don't like wearing the same clothes as . It's boring.
A: What kind of clothes do you like to ?
B: I like to wear clothes of my own . They're comfortable and make me feel good. But uniforms sometimes look ugly on us.
A: But the school uniform can show us good discipline. Do you think so?
B: Yes, I agree. I think we students can design our uniforms by .
A: Sounds interesting! If we can design our own uniforms, we'll be glad to wear.
B: That's right. Let's write a letter to the headmaster and him about our ideas.
A: That's a good idea!
