Henry was going through a very hard time, His wife passed away one month ago. He thought his life became meaningless. Henry sat in his house 1 and did nothing.
One day, Henry's neighbor, Lisa, saw him from her yard. She wanted to 2 Henry. Then she had an idea. "Hello, Henry! Just look at this fence between our houses. It is broken. You are a strong man. Can you 3 this fence?" Lisa asked.
After hearing Lisa's words, Henry was a little 4 . He didn't want to help her. He thought he was the one who needed help. So he thought Lisa was kind of rude, However, he 5 Lisa because Lisa was too old to do the job herself. Henry worked on the fence for days. When he finished, Lisa thanked him, Henry gave her a 6. It was his first time to laugh after his wife passed away.
"What a wonderful job! Could you please paint it for me?" Lisa said to him. Henry couldn't believe it! But because he respected her, He picked up the 7 and did it in the hot sun. As his neighbors passed by and saw Henry, they all praised Henry for what he was doing. Henry felt 8He felt his life was not meaningless any more.
In fact, Lisa wanted Henry to know that staying9 could help him forget his sorrow(悲痛)Henry understood Lisa's 10 at last. He helped her, but she truly saved him. Sometimes, helping others is kind of helping ourselves.
After climbing the stone steps of a tea garden, Fang Dongyu, 68, spends most of his time picking fresh tea leaves with other villagers as the harvest season of spring tea has started, "We can earn over 10,000 yuan a month during the harvest season, which we couldn't imagine before," said Fang from Wugongling village of Shexian county, East China's Anhui province. However, the mountainous Wugongling was once a poor village because of the terrible traffic and bad farmming conditions.
In the 1960s, to fight against hunger, villagers here spent about 13 years creating a tea garden on the poor mountains by hand with over 700 million pieces of stones. Men and women, old and young. we worked together, From early morning to late night, we were working hard with the dream of improving our lives," said Fang, who started helping build the tea garden at the age of 13. Although decades have passed and people who struggled (奋)for the tea garden have grown old, the spirit of struggle has been followed and shows stronger power nowadays. With the help of the government, organic white tea (有机白茶) has been brought to the tea garden and it has become a big attraction since 2021. E-business and short-video platforms allow the villagers to achieve their dreams in this remote place.
"We will further develop the village by combining tourism with agriculture, protect our culture and carry forward the spirit of struggle," said Fang Jincai, Party secretary of Wugongling village.
We have more spare time after the "double reduction" policy (双减政策). My children and I enjoy the reading time, it's amazing to read the books which I have read before. Rereading is like staying with an old friend. Sometimes, you two are so similar.
The beauty of rereading depends on the idea that our connection with the book is based on our own experience. It's true, the older I get, the more I feel time has wings. But with reading, it's all about the present time. Because reading is a kind of communication between author and reader. Each has to try the best.
There are two books I reread during my spare time. The first, which I read these days, is Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Published in 1964, it's about his memory of 1920s Paris. The words are rousing. I can get energy when I am down. The other is The Unwinding which was on the list of 10 best books of the 22nd Shenzhen Reading Month. The reason why I like it is that its changeable plot helps me think deeply.
As for my children, they have more time to read. They often give an unexpected ending for a story. This makes us laugh or feel sorry for the characters. After a book, there must be a drama in my home. It's the sweet family time.
Thanks to the valuable rercading time, it helps us grow and better understand what company(陪伴) is. I believe that the more we read, the better we will be.
If you have a dog, you probably feel a strong bond (纽#) with it, A recent study found that this bond may not only be important to kids, but also be important to dogs.
Researchers at Oregon State University studied the relationship between kids and dogs. To do the study, they recruited (招募) 30 young people aged 8 to 17, who have dogs to do an experiment. The kids were asked to bring their dogs to an empty room, In the room, a kid was asked to walk around the huge space, sometimes stopping or changing the direction. "And the dog was left to do whatever the dog wanted to do. " says Monique Udell. one of the study's authors.
But most of the time, the dog didn't do any of those things. Instead, it stayed close to its owner and moved similarly to its owner. The dogs did this far more often than you would expect them to do it by chance.
What does this mean? Udell explains that this is a dog's way of building a relationship with a human, "Dogs always stay close to kids, even though adults are usually the ones who feed and care for them. The kid may play a sibling (兄弟姐妹) role in the life of the dog," Udell says. "Thiss hows that the relationship between kids and dogs is of great importance to the dogs. "
So far, Udell's team's study has just focused on dogs. Udell wonders if the animal-human bond is important to other kinds of pets as well. Rescarchers say that more studies will be done.
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A. Consider hand-making a gift. B. Remember the person's preferences. C. Go to the mall with them and see what they look at. D. Doing this can show that you really care about them. E Sometimes, a meaningful message or letter can be more helpful. F. However, it's more important to think about the meaning of the gift. |
Giving gifts is a great way to show your friends that you care, but sometimes it can be difficultto find the perfect present. Don't worry! Here are useful tips.
Think about things that they like or talk about. Try to remember anything they've mentioned in the past weeks, or anything they've had their eye on.
Give them something they actually want.
Sometimes. we always want to give the perfect gift to our friends, We seldom think whether or not it is something truly useful and meaningful to them, 28. For example, your friend really likes cats, but it dos not mean that they'll actually want a series of cat decorations which may be useless for them.
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If you're giving a gift to a close friend, think of a gift that stands for your relationship. While doing something simple like a friendship card or necklace by yourself may mean a lot between you two.
Write a letter to show your best wishes.
. Prepare your letter with a gift and you'll make an impression on your friend. Remember, don't make it too long! If you make your letter too long, it may start to give a feeling of dishonesty.
A. Musees is a fashion show on clothes in France. This year, Musees will perform its works which is desiened by Spanish designer.
B. Several museums in Switzerland are putting on landscape paintings. The painter, Pict Mondrian will give a speech online.
C. The famous American artist Faith Ringgold will give the first book show in her hometown of New York. Many books are about the changes of the country.
D. The show is about the oldest description of the cosmos (宇宙). It was discovered in Germany and will be on in the UK for the first time.
E. Football fans can see a gold bird in Katar if they focus on Doha for this year's World Cup. It is one of more than 40 new public works in Katar.
F, Documenta Fifteen will be on in Kassel, Germany. It promises to be about art performances in our modem society.
Yang Hongwei was born into a kite-making family in Weifang, Shandong province. When she was young, she often saw kites 3 bright colors and different shapes in her grandfather's workshop.
Yang learned to make kites from her grandfather. After practising the skill for 10 years, she started her own shop in 1992. Yang finds that many places around the world share the habit of flying kites, and the culture behind the kites is(value).
On Yang's kites, people can see some pictures(tell) Chinese stories. For example, she once made a kite showing a phoenix (凤凰) that (paint) with pictures of 50 famous women from Chinese history. Each woman is different from one another. It was big success. They show the characters of our Chinese people. She(develop) the way of painting Chinese New Year on kites since two years ago.
(create) the characters, Yang spent lots of time reading history books and talkingabout the stories with experts.
Yang enjoys travelling to different countries to tell people stories of Chinese kites. She also shares the traditional ways they use to make the kites.
Now, Weifang is known as one of the (large) kite-producing areas in our country. Yang thinks that it is very important for (we) to spread our heritage (遗产) around the world and on to the next generation.
要点：
1）劳动教育的目的：树立劳动光荣的观念、培养良好的劳动习惯等；
2）具体活动：学习传统手工制作、学做家务等；
3）你对学校开展的劳动教育课的看法。《至少给出两点)
要求：
1）80 词左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数内；
2）文中不得出现真实的姓名和学校；
3）包含所有要点，可适当增加细节，使行文连贯；
4）条理清楚，语句通顺，标点正确，书面整洁。
参考词汇：劳动教育 the labor education 劳动课the labor lesson/course 手工课 the manual training lesson/course
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