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①Everyone has his hobby. My hobby is drawing pictures. Many people around us have hobbies too. Some hobbies are just like ours. But some people have very strange(奇怪的) hobbies.
②A friend of mine collects (收集) water in different places. Everywhere he goes, he stops and finds the water. If he is interested in it, he takes it home with bottles and puts it to his collection. His mom says that he has to stop soon because his room is getting full of water.
③My best friend collects cups. But not just any cups. They have to have something to do with tigers. They can have a picture of a tiger or can look like a tiger.
④I learned about a strange hobby when I was in the UK last year. When I was on a train, I saw a man reading a book. I looked at the name and found that I knew the book. So I said, "That is a good book. I really enjoy reading it." He said, "Yes. But I'm reading it for a very special reason. You can see that it has a green cover(封面). My hobby is collecting books with green covers."
⑤I had a good talk with him. He told me that he had more than one hundred books, all with green covers. He said that it was very difficult to find books with green covers. Green was not a color that people like to use on book covers. He spends a lot of time in bookstores. His dream is to have one wall in his house with green book son it
Strange, you might say. But they are all their hobbies. What's your hobby?
Finnish(芬兰的) schools are the best in Europe, some might say in the world. Only three countries - China, Singapore, and the Republic of Korea--can compete (竞争) with Finland in study. So, why is it so good?
Surprisingly, Finnish children spend less time in school than the children in many other countries. They don't start school until the age of seven. Their school days are short, and their vacations are long. Studying in Finland is relaxing. Classrooms often look like living rooms. Students don't wear uniforms or formal (正式的) ones and they call teachers by their first names. What's more, they have only 30 minutes of homework each night.
Many people believe the key is that the teachers are so good. It's a popular, well-paid job, and teachers are usually kind and not strict. Different from those in other countries, they also have their way of teaching. Rather than having separate subjects like history and geography, students learn everything together. There are seven things that Finnish students must learn in school:
·how to think clearly;
·how to understand and join in Finnish culture:
·how to use language and numbers;how to use technology;
·how to take care of themselves;
·how to be successful at work;
·how to be a good person for the future of Finland.
After finishing high school, Finnish students can also get into university (大学) for free This is very different from the United States, where the cost is around $30,000!
When people think of house cats, some words come out:"cute," "slow," "lovely" and so on. Do you know that humans (人类) have kept cats as pets for over 9,000 years?
Without any facts, we can only guess at how humans and cats were together at first. Most people believe that cats were one of the last animals to be tamed (被驯化) and kept as pets in early Middle East. They were tamed after other animals like cows, dogs, pigs, and sheep because cats couldn't make delicious milk or help humans carry any things.
There are some things that cats can do well in, like getting mice, one of their favorite foods, and some other vermin that destroys (毁坏) the plants and is bad for humans. Some scientists said that this might be how cats and humans became friends. When early humans began farming for food, their food stores were a great place for hungry mice. Wild(野外的) cats weren't going to let them run away, so they followed the mice into human villages. As time went on, cats could live with humans well. Finally, the wild cat of 9,000 years ago became the house cat of today.
Unlike dogs, cats could leave their human owners and go back to the wild at any time. They don't lose their natural abilities(能力): their perfect seeing at night and hearing, their sense of smell and so on. House cats can also get their own food. Some people may even wake up to see little "gifts" from their cat, like dead birds or mice.
This kind of thing doesn't make us angry too much, because there are now more than 600 million cats living in homes around the world.
①See things at night. ②Help carry things. ③Get something to eat. ④Hear the sound well.
Do you want to read fast and well? Just follow these easy tips.
Everyday reading is a good way to help you read fast. Find the best time of day for you to read. Read when you don't feel tired. If you read every day, you will be a great reader.
If you feel great, it is easy to read. Make sure you sit in a good chair and there is light around you. The place is important. Try to get somewhere relaxing for you to read.
Think about what you want to get from the reading before reading. For example, do you just want to know the main idea? Or you need to get more things?
Maybe today you don't like to read in English, but if you read more, you may find you really like it. Enjoy the time of reading and you may find more and more enjoyment.
Good readers can read a lot of books. They may read things like newspapers, magazines or others. You can write down the things you want to read every day and the time for them.
A. Enjoy your reading. D. Get a good place to read.
B. Try your best to read a lot. E. Read when you feel happy.
C. Know what you want to get. F. Find time to read every day.
American boy Rain Price is a student. His dad waved(挥手) him off to school from the bus stop outside his house for half a year. That doesn't sound special, but this was not a/an 1 goodbye because each day Rain's dad said goodbye wearing the costume(戏服)!
It all started on 13-year-old Rain's first day at middle school. Like many 2 Rochelle and Dale, Rain's mum and dad, sent him to school 3 a big wave. The next morning when Rain got onto the 4 outside his house, he could hear his school friends 5 something. He turned around and to his surprise, his dad dressed up as a football player. Rain felt embarrassed(尴尬的).
For the next 180 school 6 , Dale waved goodbye to his son dressed in a 7 costume. One day he was a king waving his sword, the next a 8 with a violin, the following a superman. Dale even got other family to 9 him. Rain's younger 10 played Batman and he thought Rain would like it. Each day Rochelle took a photo of 11 and put it on the blog to let more people know. That made the family became very 12 . So Rain 13 saw the funny side and thought his dad was cool, not embarrassing.
14 all good things must come to an end. On the last day of school, Dale dressed up as a teacher and stood next to a sign reading "It's been fun waving at the bus. Have a great summer". He has 15 plans to wave Rain off to school next year. He wants to get a little more sleep each morning.
Hello everyone! Let me tell you my favorite day. I like Friday best.
One reason I like Friday is that I have my favorite (subject) on that day: P.E. and chemistry. Chemistry is great. We (do) some experiments in the science class last week and our teacher, Mr. King, is so funny. In P.E. class, we (usual) play basketball. This is my favorite sport. And I'm very good it. Our team often gets good results.If it is (rain),we can also go to the gym.
We also have French on Friday. After that we have ICT (信息通信技术). It's interesting (do)something about basketball on the computer. After school I play outside with friends and then I play football at the sports center with (they). At night we sometimes go to my best (friend) house for a party. He has a great house. We can watch a DVD and play guitar together. We can relax on Friday evening there's no class at school on Saturdays.