Environmental pollution has become a serious problem. Would you like to do something for the earth but you don't know 1 ? These days technology is making it much 2 for people to protect the environment. For Bryan in California, 3 only needs a phone and a trip to the beach to make a difference.
4 20-year-old student enjoys diving. He also wants to keep the seas clean. Last June, he finally turned his hobby into an eco-friendly mission(环保任务).
One day, while Bryan 5 with his phone, a new app called Rubbish caught his eye. The app calls on people around the world to pick up rubbish in their communities. Lots of local clean-up activities 6 before helping solve the pollution problem. Users only need to connect their phones 7 the app and start cleaning. That encouraged Bryan 8 his summer diving for rubbish. The app helped Bryan record what kind of rubbish he was finding and where he was finding it. It also told him 9 he had been to the place before. With the app, Bryan finds joy in helping clean up the seas. In fact, Bryan has so much fun collecting underwater rubbish that his footprint(足迹) 10 about 20,000 square meters of San Diego's seas so far!
Your English teacher has introduced a play to your class. Read the play.
Characters: Benny, student, 14 years old
Peter, student, 15 years old
Susie, student, 14 years old
Grace, student, 14 years old
Time: One Sunday afternoon in autumn
Place: Sunny Park
(The four teenagers have just finished the picnic. They are tidying up.)
Benny: Wow! That was a great picnic. I'm so full that I can hardly move.
Grace: That's no excuse for not tidying up, Benny. Come over here and help me pack up the leftover food. Peter, can you put out the fire, please? And clean up the place.
Peter: (Speaking unhappily to himself) How can I always get the dirty and difficult jobs? It's not fair.
(Peter throws a bit of water on the fire. Then he picks up the ashes (灰烬) with an old newspaper and wants to throw them into the long grass.)
Susie: (Sounding surprised) What are you doing, Peter? That's d...
Peter: Whoops... the paper has caught fire.
Susie: And the grass... Benny, Grace, help! Help!
(Benny and Grace come over quickly. They help put out the fire completely.)
Peter: Oh, no. What have I done?
Grace: You know that we should do everything carefully, don't you?
Peter: (With his head in his hands) Yes. What have I done? What have I done?
Everyone knows that China is changing and developing very quickly at the moment. Many young people from home and abroad thought about the changes. The following are some comments which young people made on a website message board.
Carmon, Toronto | I'm a Chinese student. I'm very proud of China and I'd love to make a real contribution to the development of my country. When I finish my training in Canada, I will go back to China and start a business, so I can give something back to the country. |
Zhou Li, Guangxi | I'm a Chinese student in America. My hometown used to be very poor. But it has changed now. Most people in my hometown have a good standard of living and some can now afford cars. I'm very pleased with these changes and very proud of them. |
Jackson, Oxford | I spent two years in Beijing as a student in the late 1990s and I recently went back there on holiday. I couldn't believe the changes which had taken place in such a short time and the qualities(品质) I admire in Chinese people are their wish to succeed, their family values and their sense of responsibility. I think these qualities will be very important if China is to continue developing. |
Susan, Hong Kong | I hope that China will become a successful and prosperous(繁荣的) country. There is still a long way to go. There are many challenges and difficulties ahead, but I am sure we can overcome them if we work together. |
Holidays are very popular with students. They expect to relax and do something they like. However, what do holidays really mean to them? Usually, teachers will give them some homework and parents will ask them to read books, but also because they don't plan their time well. Instead of relaxing and enjoying their break, they often stay up late to finish their homework. And they find it the most painful experience.
The following charts show some of their findings. Chart I shows different bedtimes of students during holidays. Many junior high school students go to bed late during holidays. They may forget that enough sleep is important for their health and better performance in learning. Chart II shows that more than 80% of the students read during their holidays, and 60% take extra lessons. Reading and learning remain an important part of holiday life, while doing housework and sports are not.
During holidays, teachers should give homework which students are able to do and interested in. On one hand, teachers need to make sure students practise the key skills and knowledge when they are out of school. While on the other hand
Parents should help their children make good plans for their holidays. Give reasonable advice and encourage them to read widely and take part in different activities. Finding a balance between having fun and improving themselves is the key to enjoying a good holiday.
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?" When it comes to friendship, the Scottish folk song Auld LangSyne would always ring in your ears. But actually, with time passing by, many people have grown apart from their former friends. According to The Guardian, a survey found that 40 percent of Britons aged 16 and over had lost touch with some of their friends.
Friendship researcher William Rawlins divides friendships into three types: active, dormant, and commemorative (纪念的). The friendship is active if you regularly contact (联系) some people, if you feel you can call on them for emotional support, and if you pretty much know what's going on in their lives. A dormant friend is someone who you have history with but who you haven't spoken to for a while. But if you were in the same town as them, you'd get in touch with them, and it wouldn't be strange. A commemorative friend is someone who was important to you at an earlier time in your life, but you don't really expect to see or hear from them now.
Good friendships are often two people helping each other become better. That's why we need friendship. In the movie Green Book, the two main characters who are totally different finally find respect for each other's talents and face the difficulties together. In doing so, they develop a friendship that would change both their lives. Besides, happiness will be doubled while sadness will be halved when shared with our friends. With a lasting friendship, we are more likely to be happy and healthy both mentally and physically.
When Aristotle was asked " What is a friend?", he replied, "One soul dwelling in two bodies." It takes time and energy to carefully maintain (维持) a friendship. Do you want to drink with old friends again and sing Auld LangSyne together?
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Xian Xinghai is a very famous musician in China. He has written many great pieces of music. In his short life, he wrote nearly 300 songs and an opera.
Xian was born in Panyu, Guangzhou in 1905.Because his father died before he was born, Xian had to move from place to place with his mother. He began learning to play the violin when he was 20 years old. At first, his violin was so cheap and in a poor quality that he could not play it well. His friends laughed at him. However, Xian did not stop practicing and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he became the first Chinese student who studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he left, Xian became the school's best student and won several prizes for his talents.
The next year, be got back to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan'an to teach music at a college. Although there were no pianos in Yan'an at that time, Xian still wrote some of his most important music there, including The Yellow River Chorus, his most famous work.
In May 1940, Xian Xinghai went to the Soviet Union (苏联) to write music for movies. Life there was so hard that he got very sick. Later he died of a lung illness on October 30, 1945, aged only 40.
Xian Xinghai is such a great man and his music will live on in people's hearts forever.
According to some old Chinese stories, there once was ancient emperor named Shennong. At that time, people could not tell the difference between medicinal(药用的) and poisonous(有毒的) plants. When they got sick, there was no medicine to treat their illnesses. Many sick people could only wait for .
To save his people, Shennong to find and test out different plants. He and his followers out on a journey in search of medicinally effective plants.
Once, they saw a large forest on a high cliff(悬崖) from a distance. there must be many different kinds of plants, they couldn't find a way to the cliff. , they saw some monkeys climbing along the vines and trees hanging down from the cliff. Shennong was inspired by the scene. He asked his followers to cut down the tree trunks and vines. Together they built a scaffold(脚手架). With its help, they climbed to the cliff and collected many plants.
Each time the team found a new type of plant , Shennong would taste it . Some plants made him sleepy. Some caused him to suffer pains in his stomach. Some made him tremble(颤抖)all over. searching and testing over a long period of time, he and his followers managed to discover hundreds of medicinal plants.
One day, Shennong tested a poisonous plant by mistake, and passed away later. People covered him with thousands of flowers. From then on, Shennong was " the Emperor of Medicine".
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