Starting high school is a great experience for any teenager. Whether you are coming from a middle school (Grades Six through Eight) or a junior high school(Grades Seven through Nine), there are many things about high school that are different from your old school environment.
You will face being in a new school, making new friends in an unfamiliar class and getting to know new teachers. These new teachers will usually have higher academic (学术的) level than your middle and juniorhigh school teachers. In return, they expect you to work hard and develop your skills, On top of all this, peer pressure to drink and smoke often increases in high school.
Although there is a lot of pressure, it is nothing you cannot deal with. If you are feeling pressure to do something that you feel is wrong, talk to a friend, parent or counselor to find a solution.
If you are not succeeding academically, find someone to help you. If you feel lonely, try to join a school club or group to make new friends.
With time, you will come to be thankful for everything about your experience. On the point of starting your high school, are you ready?
A. You will experience many changes.
B. They want to help you get into college.
C. High school may seem discouraging at first.
D. You can make friends at Senior high school easily.
E. They are there to help you get into this great new time in your life.
F. High school is difficult for those who are not prepared well at first.
G. Besides, the pressure could also come from grades, loneliness and so on.
Jeffrey Hall, a teacher of Communications from the University of Kansas (KU), has used his research to define the exact amount of time necessary to make friends with someone. He's also found how long it will take to deepen a relationship. His new study found that it takes around 50 hours of time together to go from being someone's acquaintance to casual friend. It takes about 90 hours to go from being casual friends to friends, and more than 200 hours before considering someone a close friend or best friend.
But it isn't spending just any kind of time together that deepens a friendship—hours spent working together, for example, don't count as much as hours spent getting to know someone by hanging out, joking around, playing video games, and doing more playful activities. The study explains that these kinds of activities help us to form a deeper connection with someone. "We have to put that time in," Hall said. "You can't make friends without any effort."
The results of the study come from analysis of 355 responses to an online survey from adults who said they had moved in the last six months and were looking for new friends in their new environment. Survey participants were asked about new relationships as well as hours spent together and activities they did. They were then asked to rate their resulting relationships according to one of four stages: acquaintance, casual friend, friend and close friend.
The main conclusion that Hall came to is that making close friends takes serious effort. So if you want to have some best friends, you have to know that spending time with someone is the most important thing.
Dr. King believes everyone suffers from stress, who is an expert stress. Teachers, doctors and factory workers all suffer from stress. ， some jobs may be stressful than others, like policemen. Dr. King thinks there are different reasons can cause stress. For example, shy people can find (society) situations very stressful, like (go) to parties. Dr. King also suggests that students (exercise) often (reduce) their pressure. And he ends his talk by (advise) people to seek professional help if they cannot function (proper).
