South African Safari 8:00 p. m. Start and end in Johannesburg 7:30 p. m. Saturday | Trek in Canada We leave the airport at 10:00 p. m. Start and end in Toronto Dinner: 6:30 p. m. Party: Friday evening |
Surfing in Spanish seas Flight leaves at 5:30 a. m. Start and end in Barcelona Dinner is at 6:00 p. m. every day. There is a party every Saturday at the hotel. |
There was a very mean man named Mr. Black who lived on the sixth floor of an apartment building. He was so impolite to his neighbors that no one even knew his first name was Adam. He never said hello to anyone, and he left his rubbish out in the hallway. He always complained (抱怨) about all his neighbors and the noise they made. He even got upset when the couple who lived next door to him, Catherine and David, had a baby. Instead of saying congratulations, he loudly complained about how the baby would surely cry all night.
One day when he was leaving his apartment, Mr. Black saw that his rubbish was gone. In its place, he found a note from David. "Good morning, Mr. Black. I saw your rubbish here, and since I was on my way out, I picked it up for you. I wanted to save you a trip. Have a nice day, David." However, Mr. Black decided to ignore this act of kindness. He began thinking about the terrible traffic he would surely have to deal with on his way to work.
But as time went on, Mr. Black started to feel a little silly. No matter how impolite he was, the couple always smiled at him and politely said hello. It became harder and harder for him not to simply say hello back.
After a few weeks, Mr. Black was always happy to see the couple in the hall. They even started calling him Adam. Later on, they invited Mr. Black into their apartment for a cup of coffee. Mr. Black was very glad that they treated him nicely. He was so upset about it that he had been impolite to everyone he knew. He realized that he should try to do the same with the people he met.
It can be really embarrassed if someone sees you talking to yourself. But don't feel bad about it! Talking to yourself actually has a lot of advantages.
You probably know that thinking is good for the brain. It helps us do things like making plans and managing our feelings. Talking to yourself loud is like showing this quiet inner (内在的) speech. It can help us do better in different areas like school, sports and work.
Talking to yourself, especially in the third person, can help us manage bad feelings. "Talking to yourself in the third person is like giving yourself advice," said Jason Moser, a professor (教授) from Michigan State University, US. Moser uses himself in an example. He does not like flying, but he has to fly often for his work. So when he is feeling nervous or afraid during a flight (航班), he talks to himself. "Well, you know, Jason knows air travel is very safe. And Jason has been on thousands of flights." This can help us to see things from a different aspect (角度), especially when we're feeling sad or angry.
When encouragement comes from oneself, it adds to self-confidence. A study invited 72 tennis players to take part in some matches. Researchers (调查者) put the players into two groups: one group that said nothing while playing, and the other that talked to themselves while playing. They found that the self-talkers showed more confidence and played better than those in the silent group.
Self-talk also helps to improve memory. Researchers tested four different ways to memorize things: reading silently, reading aloud, listening to someone else read and listening to a recording of oneself reading. Those who read out loud recalled the information the best, researchers said in their study. It's because the information will probably become a long-term memory if it is said out loud.
On April 18 each year, people all over the world celebrate the International Day for Monuments and Sites (国际古迹遗址日). In China, young people are realizing the importance of their history and culture. Many are doing their best to protect Chinese cultural sites and try to promote (推广) them.
Finding new artifacts (文物)
Xu Danyang, a 29-year-old archaeologist (考古学家), found an amazing bronze statue (青铜像) at the Sanxingdui site in Sichuan. In 2021, he dug out this statue. In the beginning, his team thought it was a bird. But as they continued the digging, they had a surprise. It turned out (结果是) to be a statue of a man, about 16cm high. It shows a man kneeling with his head turned, and it surprises everyone who sees it.
Making maps for protection
Wu Yunjie who was born in the 1990s found a new way — by making a special map to show the best cultural sites in China. Wu is now famous on the Internet. He marked almost 10,000 places like old temples, towers, bridges and houses. Each site with colorful marks showed how special and important they are. As a kid, Wu loved going to a temple in his hometown in Ezhou, Hubei. However, it was pulled down years ago. He was sad and decided to record all the cultural sites in China.
He started to travel across the country. He visits places in person and adds them to his map, making sure we all remember them. Now, Wu asks for help from people online to make his map better and better. And he hopes to share this amazing map with everyone who respects (尊重)history and culture soon.
Making explanations (解释) fun
Zhang Bin is a 31-year-old tour guide at Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi. He works to answer visitors' questions about the famous Terracotta Warriors and shares all of his knowledge about them. Zhang often uses the traditional Chinese performance art of xiangsheng to explain them. He is doing something meaningful for the site.
① He marks sites on his map. ② He visits places in person.
③ He asks for help online. ④ He answers visitors' questions.
How to Develop Good Study Habits
Most teenagers need to learn how to develop good study habits. Learning effective (有效的) study methods can make you feel less stressed about school and improve grades. Here are some useful methods.
☆ Make a plan ahead of time. First, create a calendar. Use a large wall calendar and write all of your tasks and activities on it. Next, create a weekly planner (规划簿). You should make sure to include time to work on each task a few days before it's due. Then, create a daily list. This to-do list helps you to know what you should do a day and see how much progress you're making.
☆ Consider study environment. Maybe you work better alone. Or, maybe you like to work in a group. No matter what place you choose, when it's homework time, that's the environment you should study in.
☆ It can be very distracting (使分心) to have to look for a pencil or a ruler in the middle of studying. Find a place where they can keep all your homework materials so you're ready to go.
☆ Keep a worry notepad (便笺). If you are easily distracted by your own thoughts, a worry notepad is a good tool for you. Instead of trying to deal with all the distracting things, you can write them down on the notepad.
Good study habits don't always come easily. It takes time to develop.
A. Have all materials on hand.
B. What good study habits do you have?
C. Make a study plan for each week.
D. Do you study better at school or at home?
E. When you finish your homework, then you can deal with the things.
A. dangerous B. dress C. look after D. in surprise E. safe F. appeared |
Somewhere deep in the rainforests and mountains of Colombia there's a very special woman. You may never see her, but she's there all the same. She wears a made of leaves. She's got no shoes on her feet and she has a ring of wild flowers on her head. Her name is Mother Mountain. Her job is to nature and the environment, and to make sure that no one harms it. The animals of the rainforests and mountains love her. She's their friend, and they know that they're with her.
One day a man came into the forest. He saw a bear. As he was getting ready to catch it with a net (网), Mother Mountain suddenly from nowhere and caught the net in her strong hands. The man turned and looked at her .
A. important B. made a soft noise C. beautiful D. meat E. fell to the ground F. fruit |
"Why have you come into the forest?" she asked. "To get for my children to eat," the man said. "You can't kill any animals," Mother Mountain said. Slowly her green eyes turned red and she said, "The environment is for you and me! Get to sleep now. Then wake up and see!"
The man in a deep sleep. The bear touched Mother Mountain and . It seemed to be saying "Thank you, Mother Mountain."
The men slept for several hours. Then he woke up from his deep sleep and looked round. He didn't see Mother Mountain. She wasn't there. He only saw how the forest and its animals were. He walked home and promised never to hurt an animal again.
Hi Alice,
How are you? I want to tell you about my trip to the city space museum two days ago. I have never been there before, so I was (excite)! I was taking care of my little sister and she was bored so I said, "We are going on an (usual) experience!"
When we arrived, we started to explore (探索). The space museum is very large and full of interesting and exciting objects (touch). The first room you enter looks like deep space. There is information about different planets with a quiz (知识竞赛) at the end. The (win) has a chance to invent a name for a planet—that's exciting, isn't it? The (two) room looks like the inside of a spaceship. You can touch an astronaut's spacesuit (宇航服). It looks really heavy! I don't know how an astronaut can wear it. It looks a little old. I don't know when it (make), either. And you can see where the astronauts prepare their food. Did you know they use a knife, fork and spoon to eat? I didn't. I thought it was all in bags.
We were looking at the oven from the spaceship when my sister (tell) me she was hungry. So we went to have a snack. They were preparing a pizza (比萨饼) in the restaurant and the smell of food always makes me hungry so we had a piece of pizza! It was delicious. While we (eat) a pizza, they were baking (烘焙) biscuits, so we ate some. Don't worry! We have bought some you—you will love them! They look like rockets and taste like honey!
After lunch, we explored more of the museum stayed for the rest of the day. They were turning off the lights when we left!
Have you ever been to a museum? See you soon!
Helen
After a game like football, the players might get an X-ray in the hospital if they hurt their legs or arms. A dentist can use X-rays to look at teeth. And airport workers use an X-ray machine to check objects before a plane leaves. Nowadays, X-ray technology is widely used in medicine and other fields.
X-rays were first discovered by a German scientist, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 –1923). He found them quite by accident in 1895. One day, he discovered that an unknown kind of radiation (放射线) could hardly pass through hard objects like bones (骨头). Later, Röntgen took a photo of his wife's hand. It clearly showed her ring and her bones. That was the first X-ray photo in the world.
Why is there an "X" in the word X-ray? It's because Röntgen couldn't explain exactly how it worked. He just knew that X-rays were new and useful for science. In fact, X-rays soon became an important tool in medicine. With the help of X-rays, doctors could see inside the human body for the first time without surgery (外科手术).
Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize (诺贝尔奖) in physics in 1901 for his discovery. When he was asked what he was thinking at the moment of discovery, he replied, "I didn't think, I investigated (研究)." Röntgen gave away his Nobel Prize money to his university. And he never took out any patents (专利权) on X-rays, to make sure that the world could freely make use of his discovery.
M = Meimei T =Tourist
(Meimei meets a foreign tourist in a wheelchair (轮椅) outside a hotel in Beijing. )
M: It's sunny and warm, isn't it?
T: Yes, it is. I hope tomorrow will be fine, too.
M: Are you new here?
T: That's right I've always dreamed of visiting China. I've been to Shanghai before I came here.
M: Oh! It's a little far from Shanghai to Beijing. ?
T: I came here by plane.
M: How do you manage in your wheelchair?
T: I seldom have any difficulties in China. Many people offer to help me. Many places have special facilities (设施) for welcoming disabled people.
M: Do you think Shanghai is a great city?
T:. Shanghai is an international city. I like it very much.
M: So do I. You said that you hoped it would be fine tomorrow. Where are you going to visit?
T: I'm going out to Tian'anmen Square and a Beijing Hutong.
M: Sounds good. What are you going to do there?
T:.
M: Great. As far as I know, you shouldn't have any problems.
T: I hope so. Thank you!
M: It's a pleasure. I need to catch the bus. ?
T: A quarter past seven
M: Oh dear! I must go. Have a good day!
Hi Li Ping, You mentioned your dream job in your last letter. I'm really interested in it. Why did you choose it? What/Who influenced you to make the decision? Tell me your experience, please. I look forward to hearing from you soon! Eric |
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Dear Eric, Thanks for your e-mail. …… Li Ping |