Last weekend, I read an article online about a 10-year-old boy in Thailand. He didn't want to go to school, 1his mother made him collect waste in the street to make some money. It2me of one of my most unforgettable experiences.
Last summer, I didn't want to go to school anymore because I was 3to my test scores. I found a temporary (临时的) job during my summer vacation. Since I didn't have any work skills, the manager just asked me to4newspapers.
At the5, I took it for granted (理所当然地认为) that it would be a piece of cake. To my6, when I went to people's houses, they started to look me up and down. I could feel that they looked down on (看不起)me. I was7hurt and felt discouraged(泄气的). Then I went to one house where a black dog 8 out suddenly. I was so afraid that I screamed (尖叫),9 no one came to help me. At that time, I10that sending newspapers was a lot more11 than reading a book in the classroom. I thought about12, but I didn't. I tried my best to do the job better. I believed that if we put our heart into what we are doing, nothing is13.
Now, I am sitting in the14and studying harder than ever before. And I am also more confident and15. As long as I don't lose heart and work harder, I will make great progress.
How can you helpyour child to offer more? During term time,1areoften too busy with lessons, tests, exams and activities to have time to2new interests and skills(技能). This is3schoolholidays, especially the long summer holiday, are so important.
Do you know something about the holiday camps in Hong Kong? Thestudents in HongKong4partin an English holiday camp in their holidays in the past. And their5weren't with them6they were very young.
Now they still enjoy taking part in some kinds of holiday camps7their parents. Many parents let theirchildren take part in some kinds of holiday camps in order to8some practical knowledge in their life.And also some knowledge(知识) about9skills, science, reading and writing. Themost important for the children is to learn to10themselves.
Holiday camps in Hong Kong are not so11. Most of the families can afford(负担得起) to send their children there for12study，for making their bodies strong. And the government never charge(收费) for13.
People say that the students in Hong Kong have14knowledge about many things than those inother areas. It15havesomething with the kinds of holiday camps.
We all know that "Practice makes perfect." is a very popular saying both in Chinese and English .It means that if you want to learn1 , you have to practise it many times, and then you may remember2. Also we can say the more you know something, 3you can do it. No matter(无论) 4 we do , those words are very5 to us.
We can take English study6 an example. If we want7some new words by heart, we must learn them and read them again and again 8 we can remember them. Sometimes it will9 a lot of time for us to remember , but once we remember , we can use them freely. If we10 our best , we will do it very well .When you take an English exam and meet some meanings and usages (用法) you don't remember, how will you feel at that time? You must feel11. So English study means that you12practise more and more.
We can look at13 example in learning. When we read the same story for many times, we can remember it14 well that we can tell it to others. At the same time, we can also15some stories from what we have heard. So in our study and life, we should keep the sentence "Practice makes perfect." in our mind . In this way, we can study well and live a better life.
Each year, thousands of Chinese middle school students go to study in foreign countries.
"Chinese children hope to study abroad (到国外) to 1 a wider view (视野) of the world." said a Chinese writer called Chen Yi. Chen told the parents and their children that life in foreign countries can be hard for young people. "They have to meet a 2 shock (冲击) and language problems. "
However, these are not the most difficult things. To most children looking after 3 when studying alone in a foreign country is a big challenge (挑战) .
Zhang Jia began to study in a high school in Australia last October. To his surprise, his teachers there didn't 4students to study. And 5there wasn't homework. "With these education (教育) systems, we have more 6 time and more space for thinking." said Zhang. "But if you don't know how to 7 your time and money, you will not have an easy time."
"Studying abroad at a young age can help students learn foreign language 8 and broaden (拓宽) their minds, but students and parents should know about the challenges, " Chen said.
9 you want to study abroad, try to talk to someone with 10 in foreign countries. Make sure that you are ready for it.
Are you good at English？Many Chinese students find 1 difficult to learn English, not Chinese, because Chinese is their mother language. In fact, Chinese is much more difficult to learn than English.
Still some students in other countries can speak Chinese very 2 .If you don't see them, you may think they are Chinese. What 3 them successful？
"For me, conversation is the most helpful. I try to speak in 4 .If you only listen to what others speak, you will be good at 5 .But if you talk as 6 as possible, you will find you can speak good Chinese, "says Jenny Brown, an English girl. Now she is 7 Chinese at Peking University. She is interested in China and 8 history. She thinks that to learn a language, one must try to know 9 about the country.
Chinese is different from English, 10 we can use the same way in learning it. It is conversation.
In a classroom, Garry Golden is sharing his ideas with some university students. Golden is a futurist(未来学家). Futurists are scientists who study the world today and use that information to make 1 about the future. Some futurists 2 the environment. Golden studies traffic(交通)— the science of 3 to move people from place to place.
Golden says there will be fewer 4 in cities in the future.
"Cars 5 a lot of space," Golden says. "We have to build lots of parking lots(停车场)for 6, but having so many parking lots isn't always helpful. Much of the time the parking lots are empty. "Golden says cities will make new laws to limit(限制)the number of cars in the future.
"Buses have the same problem 7 parking lots," Golden says. Sometimes they are 8 and sometimes they are empty. Golden says in the future people can use phones to send messages when they want to 9 the bus. And buses can change their ways to pick them up.
"Traffic is a big problem for cities today," Golden says. "10 there are so many things we can do to improve it. I believe that in thirty years we will live in a very different world. "
London is such a wonderful city. It is very large. The Thames River runs 1 the city from west to east. So the city has 2 parts: the South and the North. In the North, there are important buildings, shops, big parks and interesting places.
The weather in London is good. In winter it is not very cold and in summer it is not very hot 3 the city is near the sea. People say 4 London is a foggy city and it often rains. It is true.
Last year, when I 5 in London I met one of the 6 fogs in years. You could hardly see your hand in front of your face. Cars and buses moved along with their lights on. When evening fell, the weather 7 even worse. The fog was as thick as milk. 8 the buses and cars stopped. I happened 9 an important meeting on the other side of the town, but it was impossible to find a car. I had to get there 10.
Alice, Harry Potter, Shrek: What do they have in common? All are characters in books, and all have made the big leap(跳跃) from the printed page to the big screen!
Hollywood has 1 that popular children's books can make popular movies. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2 more money than any other film in the year when it hit the big screen. Filmmakers have also worked their magic with other 3 , including Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
Turning a book into a movie is not 4 . Screenwriters(电影剧本作家) have a challenging job. They turn written words and imagined scenes into spoken words and action. 5 , they must make a 400—page story fit into two hours. At other times, the screenwriters make a short story longer 6 adding more to the plots(情节) . That's one reason the film is never exactly the same as the book. "It has to be different, or it won't work, " says Natalie Babbitt, an American author(作家). She 7 Tuck Everlasting. The movie has a love story that's not even in the book!
Some people are unhappy and even angry when the story is 8 . Not Chris Van Allsburg, the author of Jumanji and The Polar Express. The two books were also made into 9 . "A book is often just the starting point," he says. That's good 10 for both filmmakers and readers: Start with the book, and then go to see the movie!
Lao She was one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century. He was not only an excellent novelist, 1a great dramatist(剧作家).
Lao She was born into a poor family in Beijing and his2name was Shu Qingchun. His family was poor after his father died. His mother had a very 3time. Lao She worked his way through college. After graduating he started to work as a 4 in primary and middle schools. He had liked 5 since he was a child. He was famous6his novel Camel Xiangzi and the play Teahouse. Teahouse shows the life of the Chinese people between 1898 and1945. Most people like to read 7.
Like 8 famous intellectuals(知识分子) in China, he experienced lots of bad things in the middle 1960s. 9, he killed himself in a lake in 1966.
He was married to Hu Jieqing and they10 four children, one son and three daughters.
When people think of tigers, they think they are strong and dangerous. But now, the big animal is calling for our1.
There were once eight kinds of 2in the world,3three died out during last century. In the last 70 years, the number of Siberian tigers(东北虎) has gone from as many as 300 to somewhere418 and 22.
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) started a programme recently. It is about to put an end(结束) to tiger poaching(非法狩猎) and5wild tigers. China, together with 12 other countries, has joined in. The aim(目的) is to double (使.....加倍) the number of wild tigers in the next ten years. .
According to research by Chinese officers and the WWF, the Siberian tiger is already6of the world's most ”endangered(濒危的) animals. “ If the government doesn't take any action, it's quite7that there will be no more Siberian tigers in China in 10 to 20 years,” said Zhu Chunquan, director of the WWF's Beijing office. Wild animals such as the red deer, sika deer(梅花鹿) and wild boar(野猪) are the tigers' main food. There isn't enough8for wild tigers because of the hunting of these animals. So the9thing people can do is to save the animals which tigers eat.“ To protect the tigers, we need to call on more people to10eating and hunting wild animals.
