One afternoon, an old man took his cellphone to a repair (维修) shop. He1 up to the technician (技术员) and said, "I have only had this phone for a few2 and it already does not receive calls. If you can't repair it, I would like to buy a new one. "
3checking the phone, the technician came back with good news. "Your phone4fine, Sir. I tested it several times. It sends and receives calls perfectly. You have nothing to worry about. Is there5else I can help you with?"
6and confused (困惑的) , the old man began to cry. With tears in his eyes, he
7replied, "Are you sure? Then why aren't my8calling me? It's already been a few months since I got this phone."
The technician was speechless. The old man looked9and asked, "Do you call your parents?"10, the technician didn't know11to say.
After listening to the old man, the technician began to feel guilty (愧疚的). With 12working hours and the responsibilities (责任) of raising a family, he did not call his parents as13as he should. He got tears in his eyes as he14his parents.
"Well, then, you can help me with one thing," said the old man. "Call your parents! Please, don't get so busy that they think you15them." Then, he walked out of the store with his head hanging.
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Billy, Chris and Alice are talking about their ideas about a good friend.
Billy: I think a good friend should be honest (诚实的) . That's more important than any other things and is where a good friendship starts. If a friend isn't honest, he may lose his friends' trust (信任) .
Chris: I think a good friend has to be generous. Here "generous" doesn't mean (意味着) he has to give his friends his lunch money or his clothes. It means he should share his ideas and feelings with his friends. In fact his friends can know him better in this way.
Alice: In my opinion, a good friend should understand his friends. When there's something wrong between him and his friends, he must put himself in his friends' place and think more for his friends.
Shen Junbo, a high school boy from Lianhua community, Haidian district in Beijing was praised（被称赞） by many netizens for posting poems at a nucleic acid test site (核酸检测点).
On May 4th, Shen was queuing with his mother, waiting for the second round of nucleic acid test when he noticed that the volunteers had to ask people to keep social distance (距离) time after time because the lines on the ground were unclear.
He came up with the idea of printing out poems and pasting them on the ground, so that people could read the poems as well as keep a certain distance from each other without getting bored.
Shen carefully picked out some excellent poems people might love after getting back home and printed them out spending the lucky money he received during the Spring Festival. It was past 11 pm when he finally finished pasting all the poems on the ground that night.
Residents (居民) were all surprised by what Shen had done. Netizens thought Shen was such a creative boy. "I'm sure people will notice these poems whether they're playing with their cellphones or not," one netizen told the newspaper.
In December 2021, people in Shenzhen found that water ran more slowly from their taps. The government (政府) said the city was facing its most serious water shortage (短缺) ever. Compared with northern areas, southern areas have more rain and are close to more rivers and lakes. So why are they still "thirsty"?
In big cities like Shenzhen, populations (人口) are growing fast. As a result, people and factories need more and more water. Each person in Shenzhen has less than 200 cubic meters of water each year. It's 1/12 of the country's average.
Climate change is making the water problem worse. For example, most cities in Guangdong depend on (依赖于) the Dongjiang River as their main source (来源) of water. In 2021, the river was reported to be drying up. Because of climate change, there's also less snow in the mountains of Tibet. The snow has long been the source of water for many areas in China. Those mountains might provide less water in the future.
There are other reasons for water shortages. For example, water pollution makes it harder to get clean drinking water. Factories and farms don't use water efficiently (有效地). Some cities have enough rainfall, but don't have big lakes or reservoirs to store water. The water just goes into the sea.
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A. Get your things in order B. Plan your time well C. Study anywhere or everywhere D. Speak out and ask more E. Do more than you are asked F. Make yourself busy |
"If I don't understand what my teacher is explaining in science, I ask him to say it again," says Anna Lee, "also asking more helps a lot."
"When a teacher asks us to do a lot of homework," says Dave Roman, "I will draw up a timetable and plan to do it little, so it isn't so tiring."
One student put a vocabulary list on the wall of the bathroom. He learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time to remember biology terms while practising running
In high school, Mike played football, painted and was in the band. "I was so busy that I couldn't waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything in order," he says.
Christi is an excellent student at the university. If her maths teacher asks her to do five problems, she does ten. If the history teacher asks her to read five pages, she reads ten." Part of learning is practising," she says, "and the more you practise, the more you learn."
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I live in a neighborhood. There is a post office between my house and a clothes store. I often go to the clothes store with my mom on . But my favorite place is the library. It is very quiet and I enjoy there. When I read books, time quickly. You can get to the library easily. Just go down North Road and turn left. It is from the park.
Would you like to shop online rather than (而不是) go to the stores? Do you always go to bed and get up (late) every day?
A study was made to find out lazy British people are. About 2,000 people (take) part in this study. The results are (surprise).
More than half of the people are so lazy that they'd wait for the lift (电梯) a long time rather than walk to the second floor. About seventeen percent (百分之......) said if their remote control (遥控器) was broken, they would go on (watch) the same TV show rather than get up. More than thirty percent said they would not run (catch) a bus. So it's no wonder that seventeen percent of (child) in the UK are fat before they start school.
Dr. Sarah Dauncey said people need to get healthier for (them) and their families. How can we keep healthy? We should get into good habit first.
