My favorite place in the world was Mrs. Wade's bookstore. Mrs. Wade knew everything about words and I loved 1, too.
Mrs. Wade usually gave me new books to read. She even told me stories about the 2. For this reason, I decided to be a writer when I grew up, I'd always 3 I was a famous writer and read to Mrs. Wade. She listened with her 4 closed. Sometimes she would open her eyes and say, "Words are a very powerful gift, Destiny. "
I wasn't sure what she meant, 5I felt it very important!
Then one day Mrs. Wade told me that she might have to close the store.
"Close? But 6?" I cried.
"There just aren't enough customers, "she said,
No! I couldn't believe it! I felt terribly 7. I told Mama about the store.
"I know what the store means to you, "Mama said. "Maybe we can do 8 to help. "
Days later, we held a huge block party. At the party, I helped Mrs. Wade 9boxes of books, almost forgetting to feel sad. Almost!
10an idea came to me! I ran home, took out a notebook and started to write. The moment I wrote down everything I loved 11 Mrs. Wade's store, I ran back.
"I have a present for you, Mrs, Wade. "I 12 the notebook to her.
She opened it and saw "Mrs. Wade's Bookstore, by Destiny Crawford". Her eyes lit up!
"Why don't you 13 it to me?" Mrs. Wade asked.
I was reading every word. Mrs. Wade was listening with her eyes closed. She was so 14. When I finished, she gave me a big, long hug.
"Words are a powerful gift, " she said again.
That time 15came to understand exactly what she meant.
Mrs. Wade and I don't know if the store will close, but we will keep reading and writing all words we can!
What problems do the teenagers may have? Here is a survey（调查） showing their main problems.
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Problems |
Causes |
Advice |
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Feeling stressed(压力) |
Too much homework; Don't have enough time for their hobbies. |
Make a plan for study and hobbies. Find time to relax as possible as you can. |
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Getting short-sighted (近视的) |
Too much homework; Bad reading and writing habits. |
Do homework or reading in a correct way. |
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Fighting（打架）with each other |
Don't know how to get on well with classmates. |
Make more friends and understand each other. Share your problems with them. |
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Feeling tired of study |
Computer games' bad influence. |
Don't often play computer games. Play them just for a short time when you are tired. |
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Getting fat |
Have more pocket money to buy something to eat; do not like doing exercise. |
Use your pocket money to do something meaningful. Spend some time doing exercise every day. |
What do you usually do in your free time? Play sports? Watch TV? How about reading books? You must know the Chinese saying: "Read thousands of books; travel thousands of miles" . Books are important in our life. Reading books is good for us. It can help us know and understand the world better. It can help us get a lot of knowledge. It brings us a new and different world that we have never been before. Almost all the great men like reading, like Chairman Mao and Madame Curie.
In a word, books are treasure and we must love them. But before you read, remember to choose a good one. Ask your parents or teachers about what books to read. Be sure you are interested in them. There are many different kinds of books. I like biography because I can learn something from the characters.
What about you? Young friends. Please love books and read them. They are very helpful to you.
At weekends and on holidays, when many Chinese teenagers learn things like painting and the piano, kids in the USA are playing sports.
According to Time for Kids, more US teenagers have joined sports clubs in recent years. Many families spend a lot of money on their children's sports.
Alex Stearns is an eighth-grader at a high school. The 16-year-old boy has been playing baseball since he was five. He plays it every other day. He told TEENS that his family spends over $1, 200 on his equipment(设备) and $300 on training each year.
Tristan Silveira, 16, from California, also plays baseball. He pays around $50 for every lesson he takes. "My mum drives me to every practice, every game, " he said.
Playing sports can bring many benefits. Teenagers can take part in competitions. The top players in these competitions usually get full athletic scholarships for college. Brigid Selfors, 17, a runner at Mercy High School, has received a full scholarship to Tulane University. Selfors runs three seasons a year. She has won the State Open and other competitions for many times.
However, there are negative(负面的) things about playing sports. Studies show that early learning in one sport increases the risk of injury and depression(抑郁). Poor families can't afford to pay the costs, reported Time for Kids.
It was last January, when I'd just finished a charity （慈善） and was on the train back home， that I put down my phone and started writing thank﹣you notes to people who had helped，
When I got off the train, I felt amazingly good. The next day, I wrote more thank﹣yous and the same feeling of happiness hit me again. I suddenly had the idea: Why not keep on doing this for every day of the year?
To keep on task, I decided to pick out a different theme for each month. January was charity. February would be neighbors, I decided. And I thought of a number of names right away: the owner of our local bookstore, who let me and my little son in before the store opened and offered to play his favorite songs;our babysitter, who dropped off a bag of old board games for our kids to play； …
While writing the notes, I realized how often I had spent my time on the phone moving from app to app, appreciating （欣赏） other people's lives. Writing thank﹣you notes allowed me the time to do something different, paying more attention to my own life．
In the following months, I wrote to my friends, doctors, teachers and parenting role models. In July, my"food" month, I wrote to Julie, who used to cook at my favorite restaurant. It went like this：
Dear Julie，
I've been finding myself missing you lately. Thank you for hosting me and cooking beautiful and thoughtful food. Jake and I will never forget when you sent out biscuits shaped into the number VI for our sixth anniversary（周年纪念日）. We talk about it every year．
Thank you． We miss you．
Love，
Gina
I was happy to receive a note back from her. Julie replied, "I don't think I've ever received such a touching letter before, I' m going through a hard time right now, and this helps. "
On December 31, I wrote my last card－－ to Jake, my husband，and our two kids．And I took a picture of us, so I could remember the feeling welling up inside me. Gratitude．
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Do you like to travel? Which transportation do you like (最好的), by car, by train, by ship or by plane? The (最快的) way of travelling is by plane. With a plane, we can travel in one day to (地方) which it (花费) a month or more to get to a hundred years ago. Travelling by train is (更慢的) than by plane but we can see beautiful scenery during the travel. (现代的) trains have (舒适的) seats and dining cars. They make (甚至) the longest journey pleasant. Some people like travelling by ship. There are large luxury liners or river boats. They are not as fast as trains or planes, but travelling by ship is an (令人愉快的) way to spend a holiday. Many people like to travel by car because they can make （他们的）own timetable. They can travel hundreds of miles a day, just as they wish.
What is the best way to learn a language? We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were (child). If we could learn a (two) language in the same way, it would not seem so difficult to learn it well. Think of a small child does. It listens to what people say and(try) to imitate what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ask it. It is using the language, (talk) in it and thinking in it all time. If people could always use the language they could learn it (quick). We learn our own language through hearing people speak it, not by(see) what they write. We imitate what we hear. In school, though you learn to read and write as as to listen and speak, it is much better to learn all the new words by the ear. You can read them, speak them and write them later.
Willoughby Middle School is in the state of Ohio, the US. It has 780 students from grades six to eight.
Now, we are looking for librarians to work in our library next term. This is not a full-time job. You only need to come four days a week, five hours a day at most(最多). And you can get about twenty dollars an hour.
There is something needed for being a good librarian. First, you must be good at computers. Second, you must be friendly to those in need. Third, you must have good work habits. Other things may not be so important. But still, we'd be very happy to have you if you like reading, write well and have some work experience.
Are you interested in the job? The deadline(截止日期) is November 30, 2021. Don't miss it. If you want to know more, visit our website www. weschools. org.
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Librarians wanted! Workplace Willoughby Middle School in the state of Ohio, the US Working time Four days a week, hours a day at most. About dollars an hour. You must ● be good at computers ● be to others ● have good work habits You'd better ● be interested in reading ● be good at ● have some work experience The deadline is 30, 2021 For more information www. weschools. org. |
1）杭州是浙江省的省会城市，历史悠久位于中国东南沿海、浙江省北部，人口约9, 000, 000
2）杭州是一座美丽的城市，一年四季都有游客去观光旅游。以其美丽的西湖（the West Lake）而闻名。
3）节假日人们喜爱在西湖上荡浆，到公园游玩，度过愉快的时光。
4）杭州发生了巨大的变化，景色更美了，楼房更高了，人们过上了更好的生活。
