I always hold the view that every act of kindness can eventually change the world as generosity, gratitude and trust.
1 was parking at a hiking road when a man in the car next to mine looked out and started to ask me for help.“No1”I told him, as l was willing to help anyone in 2It turned out that his battery was3and no one would help jump to start his car!
I4him if he had cables（缆绳），which he did, and in less than five5I gave him a jump start and his car6at the drop of a hat. He thanked me and asked "How much do I7you?" and I looked at him in 8 and said "Not a thing!"
He said "You won't believe it 9I've been sitting here for so long and I asked at least three people to10me and no one would do it". That made me really11I was thinking that perhaps because of how he 12his background, or whatever,13 might think he was going to ask them for14or something and just automatically said "no" without even 15that they could help him so16He also told me that one man 17 him "My battery is old so it can't help you".
I was 18that the battery is like the love in our hearts. We get 19 more if we give it away to others! And it doesn't20our hearts to give. I'm happy that I charged his battery and he charged my "battery" with love.I got much more than he offered to me.
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The Botanical Garden started life as Skylands, a large area in the grand manner. It is famous for a 44 -room Tudor Revival granite (公馆) designed by John Russell Pope. Skylands has 96 acres of formal and naturalized gardens and is surrounded by over 1,000 acres of meadows (草坪) and woodlands. Purchased by the State in 1996 and officially named as the New Jersey State Botanical Garden in 1984, the gardens contain approximately 5,000 species and varieties of trees and flowers.
For you, the NJBG is an exciting and beautiful place to visit where you may enjoy each season's best. Members enjoy special events, festivals, lectures, and rewarding educational opportunities for both city and country gardeners.
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For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, lifting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and touching electronic pages on an iPad. A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston will also start the year with new school-issued ipads, each loaded with electronic textbooks and other online resources in place of traditional texts. Apple officials say they know of more than 600 districts that have launched what are called " one-to-one " programs.
At Burlington High in suburban Boston, Principal Patrick Larkin says the $500 ipads is better than textbooks in the long term, though he said the school will still use traditional texts in some courses if suitable electronic programs aren't yet available. Larkin said of textbooks, " but they're pretty much outdated the minute they're printed and certainly by the time they're delivered".
But some experts warn that the districts need to ensure they can support the wireless infrastructure (设施 ), repairs and other costs that accompany a switch to such a tech-heavy approach. Mark Warschauer, an education and informatics(信息学) professor said, "I think people will like it.I really don't know anybody in high school that wouldn't want to get an iPad," he said. "We're always using technology at home, then when you're at school it's textbooks. So it's a good way to put all of that together." Districts are varied in their policies on how they police students' use.
And the nation's textbook publishing industry, accounting for $ 5.5 billion in yearly sales to secondary schools, is taking notice of the trend with its own shift in a competitive race toward developing curriculum specifically for ipads.Jay Dickey, executive director of the Association of American Publishers'schools division, said all of the major textbook publishers are moving toward electronic offerings, but at least in the short term, traditional bound textbooks are here to stay. "I think one of the real key questions that will be answered over the next several years is what sort of things work best in print for students and what sort of things work best digitally."
Nowadays, especially in China, everything seems to favor social intercourse(社交) , such as gatherings of friends, KTV, group travel, dining tighter, playing cards and Mahjong, plus the Chinese-style " street-crossing group." Back home, discussions can still be boisterously carried on within the "circle of friends" of WeChat.
However, these scenes cannot always ease a sense of loneliness. Zhu Ziqing, a well-known professor of Tsinghua University, signed with emotion: "My loneliness increases as scene becomes much busier." One popular song today is also called "A lonely man in crowds." Actually, engaging in social intercourse requires ability, while being alone involves the whole character.
These days, it is not easy to calm down totally and return to one's true self. Willpower, intellect and discipline are required. Einstein said: "It is not your working time but your spare time that determines the possibility of whether you will be successful or not." The "spare time" he referred to could be taken as "spending time by yourself."
Lonely life could be either dull, boring and tasteless or abundant, interesting and colorful, depending on one's quality, ambition and inspiration.
Just as the body constantly requires energy, the mind and soul also demand never stopping inputs. However,information, processed and integrated (融入) into knowledge, thoughts and feelings, instead of bustle (忙碌) seems to be the right condition. Successful careers m all walks of life worldwide have proved that "the soul grows in peace and talent is nurtured in loneliness". In a sense, it may be reasonable to say that " Happiness tends to be shallow while loneliness involves depth".
Man, in fact, needs loneliness more than happy time, and only abundant loneliness can produce quality happiness.
Natalie Doan, 14, has always felt lucky to live in Rockaway, New York. Living just a few blocks from the beach, Natalie can see the ocean and hear the wave from her house. "It's the ocean that makes Rockaway so special," she says.
On October 29, 2012, that ocean turned fierce. That night, Hurricane Sandy attacked the East Coast, and Rockaway was hit especially hard. Fortunately, Natalie's family escaped to Brooklyn shortly before the city's bridge closed.
When they returned to Rockaway the next day, they found their neighborhood in ruins. Many of Natalie's friends had lost their homes and were living far away. All around her, people were suffering, especially the elderly. Natalie's school was so damaged that she had to temporarily attend a school in Brooklyn.
In the following few days, the men and women helping Rockaway recover inspired Natalie. Volunteers came with carloads of donated clothing and toys. Neighbors devoted their spare time to helping others rebuild. Teenagers climbed dozens of flights of stairs to deliver water and food to elderly people trapped in powerless high-rise buildings.
"My mom tells me that I can't control what happens to me," Natalie says. "But I can always choose how I deal with it."
Natalie's choice was to help. She created a website page matching survivors in need with donors who wanted to help. Natalie posted introduction about a boy named Patrick, who lost his baseball card collecting when his house burned down. Within days, Patrick's collection was replaced. In the coming months, her website page helped lots of kids: Christopher, who received a new basketball; Charlie, who got a new keyboard.Natalie also worked with other organizations to bring much-need supplies to Rockaway. Her efforts made her a famous person. Last April, she was invited to the White House and honored as a Hurricane Sandy Champion of Change.
Today, the scars of destruction are still seen in Rockaway, but hope is in the air. The streets are clear, and many homes have been rebuilt. "I can't imagine living anywhere but Rockaway," Natalie declares. "My neighborhood will be back, even stronger than before."
Whether in your life or work, the following things are not the reasons for you to feel embarrassed. It's OK and just move on.
⒈Mistakes while learning
There will be times when you have people above you(a boss) or even next to you(a coworker) that will get really annoyed with you for“ruining" something "important". Even if you make mistakes and get a punishment, persevere and push on. You do not need to be embarrassed for learning from your mistakes.
⒉Food choices
People are different and have different taste buds（味蕾）.Whether it is healthy or not, food is a choice and it is part of life. You do not need to be embarrassed for food you do or do not like. Tell them, "It is a personal choice I have made, and I am committed to it.”
⒊Your past
Allowing positive experiences to define, limit, improve, and outshine（凸显）you may cause you to be caught up in the past and unable to truly live in the present. Whether your history is positive, negative, or somewhere in between, don't hold on to the negative experiences and let it reflect your current behavior，
⒋The clean lines of your car／home／workspace
When everyone gets in the car, you realize your Starbuck bags are still on the floor. So what? Think about it this way: everyone has a "messy" aspect of their life. Maybe their home is completely clean, but the relationship with their spouse（配偶）is messy. Someone's car gets washed once a week, but his/her work life could use some help. We don't apologize to others about our personal limitations. By being outwardly embarrassed, it only brings more attention to the fact!
⒌Putting yourself first
If you find yourself saying no to something or making up lies to get out of it,tell them the truth, and don't apologize. You will feel much better in the long run if you are honest with them and yourself. If you're not up to a voluntary duty, you don't have to be. You can politely refuse the person's request.
Put yourself first.
A. It is simply a personal choice that people make for their own reasons.
B. It is okay to be selfish from time to time.
C. Errors are bound to happen when you have on your training wheels.
D. Each of them waits for your immediate help.
E. Let bygones(过去的事) be bygones.
F. Forgetting history means betrayal.
G. No one on Earth lives a perfectly "clean" life in every aspect.
处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（ 
），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Recently, our class have had a heated discussion concerning that whether the Beijing Zoo should be moved out of the city. Some of my classmates approved of the moving .They say large crowds of tourist to the zoo will result in traffic jams .They also say that once moving, animals will have more space and good living conditions in the suburbs. Therefore, other students against the idea. They say that the zoo has the history of 100 years, and is famous at home or abroad. Moreover, moving may cause the dead of some animals. So, it's a better choice to remain where it is.
The carrier rocket sent a Shenzhou-ll spacecraft（航天器）with astronauts Chen Dong and Jing Haipeng into space. The rocket was fired from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centerthe Gobi desert. After two days in Earth's orbit, the spacecraft(be) to link up with China's space laboratory, called the Tiankong-2,name means“Heavenly Palace 2". The lab (place) into orbit last month.
The astronauts will spend 30 days on the Tiankong-2. They plan to perform (science) and spacecraft-related experiments and test systems for a future space station. Inwords, the Tiankong
2 laboratory will not be part of that space station. Its main goal is to practice the techniques and the(technology) that they will be (use)to build and operate that final space station.
It is predicted that the Chinese space station will be built mostly by machine. China hopes to have the space station (complete) by 2022 and it is expected to operate for at least 10 years.
China also plans to land a probe（探测器）on Mars by 2020. Until now, China has completed a total of five manned space missions. And, in 2003,it (successful)landed a probe on the moon.
内容包括：
1）参加国际游学的好处；
2）可能遇到的问题；
3）你的看法。
注意：1）词数100左右；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3）短文开头已给出，不计入总次数；
4）参考词汇：视野horizon
It is increasingly popular for parents to send their kids to have international study tours recently.
