Situation I
Q: If someone is talking loudly on the bus, is it a nice way to directly ask him to keep it down?
A: No. Try other means. （1） Stare at him until he realizes it and quiets down. （2） Lift your finger in a silence motion （动作） and smile. （3） Put on earphones and ignore him.
Situation II
Q: If I remember my friend's birthday a day later, should I apologize or just wish her a happy birthday like nothing happened?
A: This is the reason why the word belated was invented. "Happy belated birthday!" is short for: "Well, I know I forgot, but then I remembered. Forgive me and happy birthday."
Situation III
Q: Can I lie about seeing a text because I was too busy or lazy to respond （回复） to it?
A: Don't lie. Receiving a text does not mean you need to respond to it. Why waste a perfectly good lie when the truth will serve? "Yes," you can say if ever asked, "I saw it." No explanation is needed as to why you don't respond.
Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river. People settle in these places because they are easy to get to and naturally suited to communications and trade （贸易）. New York City, for example, is near a large harbour at the mouth of the Hudson River. Over 300 years its population grew gradually from 800 people to 8 million. But not all cities develop slowly over a long period of time. Boom towns grow from nothing almost overnight. In 1896, Dawson, Canada, was unmapped wilderness （荒野）. But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the West, with a population of 30,000.
Dawson did not have any of the natural conveniences of cities like London or Paris. People went there for gold. They travelled over snow-covered mountains and sailed hundreds of miles up icy rivers. The path to Dawson was covered with thirty feet of wet snow that could fall without warning. An avalanche （雪崩） once closed the path, killing 63 people. For many who made it to Dawson, however, the rewards were worth the difficult trip. Of the first 20,000 people who dug for gold, 4,000 got rich. About 100 of these stayed rich men for the rest of their lives.
But no matter how rich they were, Dawson was never comfortable. Necessities like food and wood were very expensive. But soon, the gold that Dawson depended on had all been found. The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in settling down, and when they heard there were new gold discoveries in Alaska, they left Dawson City as quickly as they had come. Today, people still come and go — to see where the Canadian gold rush happened. Tourism is now the chief industry of Dawson City — its present population is 762.
Bacteria are a troublesome problem for astronauts. The microorganisms （微生物） from our bodies grow uncontrollably on surfaces （表面） of the International Space Station, so astronauts spend hours cleaning them up each week. How is NASA solving this very tiny big problem? It's turning to a group of high school kids. But not just any kids. It's depending on NASA HUNCH high school class, like the one science teachers Gene Gordon and Donna Himmelberg lead at Fairport High School in Fairport, New York.
HUNCH is designed to connect high school classrooms with NASA engineers. For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution. "We don't give the students any breaks.
They have to do it just like NASA engineers," says Florence Gold, a project manager.
"There are no tests," Gordon says. "There is no graded homework. There almost are no grades, other than ‘Are you working towards your goal?' Basically, it's ‘I've got to produce this product and then, at the end of year, present it to NASA.' Engineers come and really do an in-person review, and…it's not a very nice thing at time. It's a hard business review of your product."
Gordon says the HUNCH program has an influence on college admissions （录取） and practical life skills. "These kids are so absorbed in their studies that I just sit back. I don't teach." And that troublesome bacteria? Gordon says his students are emailing daily with NASA engineers about the problem, readying a workable solution to test in space.
My Life Without Money
At the age of 54, Heidemarie Schwermer, a German woman, gave up her job as a psychotherapist （心理咨询师）, gave away all her money and her flat and threw away her credit cards.
It all began as a one-year experiment. In her home city of Dortmund she set up an
"exchanging circle" where people exchange services without using money, for example, a haircut for a maths class. But when the year ended she continued and has not used money since then.
At first she house-sat for friends who were on holiday. She stayed in their houses in return for watering the plants and looking after their animals. She also "works" as a psychotherapist. "Sometimes they give me something in return, but not always；Heidemarie says. "A lot of people who know me understand what I'm doing and want to help me. When I need a bus ticket, for example, or a new tube of toothpaste, I think, ‘Who can I ask? ' If I want to go to the cinema, I might offer to look after somebody's children for the afternoon.
It is one of the mistakes of our society that most people do something they don't like just to earn money and spend it on things they don't need. Many people judge you according to how much you earn. In my opinion, all jobs are equally important. That's my message."
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A. What can I give them in return? B. So what did I do with all my savings? C. I have never given up my dream although I don't have a job now. D. To prove that this could work she decided to give up using money for a year. E. You may not earn a lot of money, but you may be worth a lot as a person. F. Before I treated very wealthy people, but now I help anyone who needs it. G. Today, apart from a few clothes and a few personal belongings, she doesn't own anything. |
No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own1.
I learned this lesson from a（n）2many years ago. I took the head3job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.
It was a tradition for the school, s old team to play against the4team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn, t even practice to5the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated （打败）. I couldn, t6I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to7that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were8me. I had to change my9about their ability and potential （潜能）.
I started doing anything I could to help them build a little10. Most important,
I began to treat them like11. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their12, we met every day and13passing and kicking the football.
Six months after suffering our14on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to15. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a16for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn't what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest17of my life!
From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can18the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and19them. I helped them to see themselves20, and they built themselves into winners.
Winners are made, but born.
Many facts suggest that children are overweight and the situation is getting（bad）, according to the doctors.
Some people blame （责怪）the fact that we （surround） by shops selling unhealthy, fatty foods low prices. If there were fewer of these, then children would buy probably less take-away food.
There is another argument that blames parents for allowing their children （become） overweight. Actually, good eating（habit） begin early in life, long before children start to visit fast food shops. If （give） fried chicken and chocolate rather than healthy food, children will go for sweet and （salt） foods every time, and this will carry on throughout their lives.
A third reason is children these days take very little exercise. They do not walk to school. When they get home, they sit in front of the television or their computers. Not only is this unhealthy hobby, it also gives them time to eat more unhealthy food. they need is to go outside and play active games or sports.
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I hardly remember my grandmother. She used to holding me on her knees and sing old songs. I was only four when she passes away. She is just a distant memory for me now.
I remember my grandfather very much. He was tall, with broad shoulder and a beard that turned from black toward gray over the years. He had a deep voice, which set himself apart from others in our small town, he was strong and powerful. In a fact, he even scared my classmates away during they came over to play or do homework with me. However, he was the gentlest man I have never known.
