A: Hello, Lingling. How was your winter holiday?
B: I had a good time in Harbin.
A: How did you get there, by train or by plane?
B: It's much faster than by train.
A: .
B: I went there with my parents.
A: .
B: Yes, I did. My parents took many photos of me when I skied.
A: Can I have a look at them?
B: .
A. By plane.
B. Pretty good.
C. Yes, of course.
D. Thank you very much.
E. Who did you go there with?
F. Did you go skiing with your parents?
Before leaving college, my son began to look for a job. He wanted to work for a famous company. However, the competition was very 1 . It planned to employ (雇佣) only one person, 2 more than fifty people competed for the job. Finally, he was among the 3 people who entered the final interview (面试). To their surprise, the interview was very 4 , during which the boss only talked with them for a while. Then he said, "All of you are excellent. Please go home and wait for the 5 of the interview." Three days later, my son received a message saying that he was not 6 the job. Tears welled up in his eyes when he knew it. But later in the evening, he told me 7 that he had received another message saying that he had been employed.
Later, we knew that the first message was also part of the 8 in the interview. All the three men received the 9 message, but only my son's reply 10 the company. Of the three, one did not reply. The other said "goodbye" and my son said "thank you", so he was offered the job.
Peter's uncle lived in the country. Once Peter went to stay with him for a few weeks. Whenever they went for a walk and they passed somebody, his uncle waved.
Peter was surprised and said, "Uncle George, you know everybody here. Where did you meet them all?"
"I don't know all these people," said his uncle.
"Then why do you wave to them?" asked Peter. "Well, Peter," answered his uncle, "When I wave to someone and he knows me, he is pleased. He continues his journey with a happier heart. But when I wave to someone and he doesn't know me, he is surprised and says to himself, ‘Who's that man? Why did he wave to me?' So he has something to think about during the rest of his journey, and that makes his journey seem shorter. So I make everybody happy."
Are young people interested in news? How do they get news? In order to get the answers, a survey was carried out by the US. The survey covered 6,000 Americans. They were between the ages of 16 and 40.
The ways young people get news
The survey also asked the young people about their favourite types of news. Entertainment (娱乐) and music, at 49%, topped the list. Food and cooking followed closely behind them at 48%. News about the environment and education is also popular among young people.
Alena is an American student. Like other 13-year-olds, she enjoys singing, going to the movies and hanging out with her friends. But unlike other teenagers, she is now studying biological (生物的) sciences at university. She is the youngest black student to be accepted into medical university in the US.
Alena has had a strong interest in STEM—science, technology, engineering and math—from an early age. She is always thirsty for knowledge. When she was in fifth grade, the girl started to attend high school-level course online after school. Taking extra classes, Alena said, was more of a pleasure than a pain. Learning new skills seemed to be a walk in the park for her.
But if you think Alena is just a bookworm (书呆子), you are totally wrong. Besides excellent grades at school, the girl has created the "Brown STEM GIRLS" program, hoping that it can offer girls of colour a chance to receive education in STEM.
As one of Alena's teachers said, what really makes the girl different from the other teenagers is not her brain but her heart. Alena always wants to help and to lift others up. As a medical student, she hopes that she can use her knowledge and skills to help people in need.
Alena hopes to serve as an example to others. She wants to prove (证明) that someone's age should never stand in the way of his or her success. "What is age?" she said. "You're not too young to do anything. You can achieve anything as long as you put your heart and mind into it. You can do it. Don't let anybody tell you no."
Dolphins (海豚) are very beautiful and very nice animals. There are 17 different kinds of dolphins. Small dolphins, like Maui's dolphins, are only 1.2 meters long and 40 kilograms. The biggest dolphin, called an Orca, can be 9.5 meters long and 10 tons. It doesn't matter the size, though. All dolphins can talk. Maybe they cannot talk with words, but they can talk with sounds.
Dolphins like to swim beside each other. They travel in a group. We call a group of fish a "school". They do not study, but they travel together. Dolphins are mammals (哺乳动物), not fish, but they swim together in a school. Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information and they show their feelings. They tell when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say "Welcome" when a dolphin comes back to the school. They talk when they play.
They make few sounds above water. They come up out of the water because they need to breathe (呼吸) air. They make many more sounds under water. People cannot hear these sounds because the sounds are very, very high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them.
Sometimes people catch dolphins for a large aquarium which is a zoo for fish. People can watch the dolphins in a show there. Dolphins do not like to be away from their school. They feel sad and lonely.
There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save a person's life. Dolphins are very smart animals. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this.
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Do you know what tiger-head shoes are? are a kind of traditional Chinese shoes for children. The shoes get the name the head of them is like the head of a tiger. The shoes were very popular in ancient China. They were usually on children's feet on their first birthday. Wearing these shoes was believed to good luck for children. And there is a for children to live a long life too.
The tiger-head shoes are made of cloth. They are light and , making them perfect for children to wear. As time went by, however, children wore such shoes than before. And they almost disappeared about 30 years ago. , there are more and more inheritors (传承人) of tiger-head shoes. They have tried their best to on the handicraft (手艺). What's more, many designers (设计师) have put the tiger-head design into their modern clothing, making them again.
If you ever visit China, be sure to have a look at the tiger-head shoes. I'm sure you will love them.
1. 孝敬父母的原因；
2. 孝敬父母的方式；
3. 你的倡议。
注意：
1. 词数为80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名；
4. 短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇： show filial respect for (孝敬……), raise (vt. 养育), repay (vt. 回报)
Show filial respect for parents
Showing filial respect for parents is a traditional Chinese virtue.
