The summer holiday is coming. Here are some messages about volunteers (志愿者) wanted.
Blue Sky We need five for the city sports meeting next month. The main job is to prepare everything for the ball games. They must know ball games very well. The daily time is9:00 a.m. —5:00 p.m. We'll offer free lunch and red uniforms to the volunteers. | Green Forest We want six college students. They will teach the village students art, music and computer from July to August and each time is two hours. They must be good at one of the subjects. They'll have free lunch and dinner in the local family. |
Small Red Book The old people's home needs twelve volunteers to perform (表演) programs. So you must do well in singing, dancing or acting. We'll provide yellow uniforms for you. You need to work three hours each time on Wednesday and Friday. | Yellow Hat We want eight guides for two weeks and each time is about two and a half hours. Our history museum needs volunteers to introduce Chinese history to foreigners. So you must be good at Chinese history and English. You'll get free red uniforms and hats. |
Once upon a time, there lived a teacher in a small town. He often taught his students in special ways. His students said they respected him deeply, because they had a wonderful teacher. Once he sent four of his students to go to a small farm to see apple trees in different seasons. The first student went in winter, the second in spring. The third in summer. And the fourth in autumn
After the four students came back a year later, the teacher called them together. They pictured their feelings to the teacher. The first student said that there were no leaves on the trees. It made him very unhappy. It was boring. The second student said his eyes were full of light green. It made him feel hopeful. He wanted to do something new when he saw that. The third one disagreed, "What are you talking about? How pretty the trees were! The sweet smell of the beautiful flowers spread here and there." The last one shook his head .He said, "I didn't see the beautiful flowers, but I saw a lot of big apples on the trees."
The teacher smiled and told his students none of them were wrong. They each just saw one season. He continued, "The trees are not the same in different seasons. You can't judge a tree by only one season. Don't let the regret of one season destroy( 破坏) the beauty of the rest." What a good lesson the teacher taught them!
Everything has different sides in our life. Don't hurry to make a conclusion before seeing the whole of it.
If music makes you smart and exercise helps you to think, surely exercising to music can turn you into a person who is better at learning and understanding.
A team of scientists from Ohio State University did experiments on 33 volunteers. They found that persons who exercised while listening to Italian musician Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons did much better in language ability tests than those without music.
The volunteers said they felt better after exercising with or without the music. But their improvement on the test doubled after listening to the music during exercise. "Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system (神经系统) and have a direct result on learning ability," said the psychologist ( 心 理 学 家 ) Charles Emery. Scientists have found that music can be good for health and education. It helps relieve stress, sadness and nervousness, encourages relaxation or sleep, wakes up the body and improves memory and thoughts.
Psychologists have been using Mozart's music, especially his violin pieces, to help children with speech problems. Mozart is chosen because his music is not over-exciting. The study shows students who often exercise to Mozart's music go on to score higher marks in tests. With important exams drawing near, your parents will not probably allow you to listen to music. But perhaps now you have good reasons to argue with them.
We all know there is a problem with plastic (塑料) pollution. Five million plastic bags are used every year. One million plastic drinking bottles are bought every minute. What if we could use plastic waste to build roads? This is exactly what Toby McCartney has done.
In 2019, McCartney's UK-based company, MacRebur, built the world's first plastic road in Elgin town, Scotland. The plastic waste was made into grains (细粒) and then mixed with biturnen (沥青). The road looks just like any other road. But it has improved strength and is more stretchy (有弹性的) thanks to the plastic.
"Our technology can not only help solve the problem of plastic waste but also produce roads that deal better with changes in the weather," McCartney told the BBC．
McCartney's idea came from a trip to India. "I saw people in India would put plastic waste into stove and burn it. The plastic would melt down (熔化) and form a seal in the hole," said McCartney. "I knew that there must be some similarities between the plastic and biturnen, which both come from oil. That's how I started to think about mixing them," he said.
After lots of testing, McCartney found the perfect idea. Then the first road was built successfully. Now his company has built many plastic roads around the world, from Australia to Europe. A one-kilometer length of road uses about 684,000 plastic bottles or 1.8 million plastic bags. The road itself can be recycled in the end. The materials can be reused to build new roads.
"We're just a small part of ending the plastic problems, but it's nice to be part of it," McCartney said. "I just don't want my daughters to live in a world where there are more plastics in our oceans than fish."
Nowadays, many people have realized the importance of leadership (领导) skills.
Poor leaders may cause many problems. But good leaders do better in solving problems than poor ones. Without good leaders, problems can't be solved.What's more, good leaders are good at cooperating with others. Usually, they are good listeners as well. But being good leaders isn't easy. So let me give you some suggestions to help you become a good leader
Maybe nobody teaches you how to be a good leader, but you can learn it on your own. Read books about great leaders from home and abroad. By reading, you can learn a lot from their experiences and find out their secrets of success. Then you will be more confident of being a good leader
Learn from students' leaders in your school. There is no doubt that those leaders who are popular with the students in your school must have their advantages over others Take an active part in the activities organized by the excellent leaders and learn from them at once. Then you will know the answer.
Find the students that have the same interests as you have and start a club. Activities should be organized regularly in the club. When the members in your club have trouble in solving problems, you should communicate with them and find out the causes of the problems. Maybe what you have learned can be helpful. After the problems are solved, you can share pleasure with them. As time passes by, you will get more trust like those popular leaders. Sooner or later, you will be a good leader
Get started before it's too late! As long as you keep trying, you will develop your leadership skills.
A．Learn from books.
B．Be more strict with yourself.
C．Practice what you have learned.
D．It's not necessary for you to take notes.
E．So good leaders are very important.
F．In short, being a good leader needs courage and practice.
G．Don't you want to know why they are so successful?
The Silk Road is a historically important international trade route(路线) between China and the Mediterranean(地中海). It started1 the Western Han Dynasty and has been a2 between the East and the West for over 2,000 years.
The route started from Chang'an (now Xi'an) and3 in an Eastern European country.
lt was about 6,500 kilometers4 and crossed one-fourth of the planet.
The Silk Road got its name5 Chinese silk used to be carried along this route. Silk，jade(玉), ceramics(陶瓷制品)and iron went West to Rome. And from the West came glass，gems(宝石) and food6 carrots and sesame(芝麻).
The Silk Road was very important to both China and the7 of the world. Lt was more than an ancient international trade route.8 about art, science and literature，as well as crafts(工艺) and technologies was9 , thanks to the Silk Road. In this way，languages and cultures developed fast and influenced each other.
Today，along the Silk Road there're many places of10 ，such as the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an and Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.
The Great Wall is one of(famous)places of interest in the world. Nearly everyone has heard the saying about it ."You're not a heroyou can't reach the Great Wall." However, one "hero"(name)Li was punished(serious) in accordance with(根据)a new rule.
March 24, 2020, the Badaling Great Wall reopened public after two months of being closed due to the COVID-19.On this day, the tourist, Li,(catch)because of defacing(损伤……外貌)the wall with a key He was detained(拘留)for five days and fined 200 yuan for damaging the cultural relic(文化遗产)on purpose. China Daily reported that the government(stop)him from visiting the Great Wall again. According to the rule, there are seven kinds of improper behaviors that can put(visit)on a blacklist. Defacing the wall is one of(they).
English is spoken as the first language by most people in the USA, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada. However, English is spoken all over the world nowadays. It is the main language in over 60 countries including India, Singapore and many of the Caribbean and Pacific islands. In these places, English is often the second language.
English is also an international language in many other countries, like China and Japan. People in these countries use it for business, and travelers to these countries use English when they want to communicate. Other people may learn English because they enjoy reading books in English, listening to British or American music or watching American films.
English has changed a lot over the years and still goes on changing. It is no longer right to talk about British English or American English if the speakers come or don't come from those countries. People in Japan and Korea, for example may use the American spelling but may not sound like Americans.
English will probably be the most widely used language in the world by the end of the21st century. This language no longer belongs to British, American or Australian speakers
It belongs to anyone in the world. Therefore, as a middle school student today, think about how you can use this language .After you leave school, you will almost certainly need it.
