"I've got to stop doing this! "You tell 1. You try. You fail. You try again. You fail again. "I give up!" You finally say, "I never2 this habit!"
Bad habits. We all have them, and it is hard for us to give them up. As the saying 3, "Old habits die hard." But they can die. Don't let your bad habits control you. Learn to control them! You will feel much4.
Put it writing. First, you should know the habit you want to change. Then write down your5.For example, "I want to stop oversleeping." Make sure your goal is realistic. And work6only one habit at a time.
Make a plan. Don't think you can quit cold turkey(stop doing something at once). For example, you could decide to eat less sugar each week than you did the week7. Write down your plan. Then put it8you can see it every day.
Make your bad habit hard to do. If your bad habit is oversleeping, put your alarm clock across the room. Then you'll need to get9 to turn it off.
Reward yourself. Set small goals and reward yourself for10 them! For example, buy yourself a new book each week when you meet your TV-avoiding (keeping TV away from)goal.
Replace your habit. Often, the best way to break a habit is to take the place of it with11 one. Do you spend too much money12with your friends? Invite your friends to take a walk instead.
Forgive yourself. Breaking habits is13. If you can't stop your bad habits, don't get angry with yourself. Think about why you gave in. Then try again. Studies show that making14 breaking a habit usually takes three or six weeks. So hang in there. You can break those habits. Where there's a will, there's a 15.
Restaurants in the USA
Steve's Pizza
So many pizza stores in South Beach, but ask a Miami Beach local where to get the best pizza and they'll tell you about Steve's. This is New York–style pizza, handmade with care and good ingredients (佐料). New stores of Steve's are opening elsewhere in Miami, all in non-tourist areas.
Opening hours: 11 a.m.-3 a.m.
Cattleman's Steakhouse
This place is 20 miles east of the city, but local people would probably drive 200 miles to eat here. The food is good, and the scenery is even better. Come early and wander around the grounds of Indian Cliffs Ranch, where you'll see everything from rabbits to buffalo, then catch the sunset either before or after your meal.
Opening hours: 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
Absolute Baking & Café
The screen door is always swinging open at this town hot spot with giant breakfasts. Try the green chili on eggs – it's made from scratch, as are the organic breads. And lunch includes salads, big sandwiches and local grass-fed beef burgers. Don't miss a square of soft, fresh carrot cake.
Opening hours: 7 a.m.-2 p.m.
Walt's Wharf
Everybody's favorite for fresh fish (some drive in from LA), Walt's packs them in on weekends. You can't order your dinner (though they're accepted for lunch), but it's worth the wait for the seafood and steaks in the many-windowed ground floor or upstairs in captain's chairs.
Opening hours: 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Many years ago, most of the young people in Britain would like to choose their career as a doctor or lawyer. But today things become different.
According to a survey by Tesco Mobile, a UK telecom company, the " dream job" of young people is a video blogger or vlogger (视频主播). The survey also shows the Internet and social media are undoubtedly the main cause. The young people who were interviewed said that it was much easier to reach a global audience through the Internet and social media. What they need is just a computer camera. These self-made stars document their daily lives and show them to their fans. Vloggers are the big stars of today. Because they are just the normal people who can interact with their fans more conveniently and closely. They are more and more popular among the young.
However, what people see is only the bright side of being a vlogger. They ignore the fact that only those who are successful gain fame and wealth. There are thousands of vloggers who are still unknown to the world. As we can see, there are the dreams that are destined to remain dreams.
With the help of the Internet and development of technology, generations of today have more chances than older age groups to begin a career. Therefore, it is more important for the young to choose their career widely.
In 1492, Columbus, a well-known Italian voyager, discovered the New World—the Americas. He brought a lot of things to Europe from South America. Rubber was one of them, but people didn't know the use of rubber at that time. In 1770, people found that the rubber could be used as erasers.
Macintosh was a worker in an eraser factory in Scotland. One day he spilled the rubber liquid over his clothes carelessly when making erasers. He was too busy to clean it and went back home wearing the dirty clothes. On the way home, it rained heavily. Having no umbrella, Macintosh had to run quickly. When he got home, he took off the wet clothes. To his surprise, the area of the clothes with rubber wasn't wet. "Why not make a rubber raincoat?" Macintosh thought. The next day he brushed the rubber liquid all over a coat. He wore the "rubber coat" on rainy days and took a walk in the field to test if it could really keep off the rain. Surprisingly, the clothes inside the "rubber coat" weren't wet at all. The rubber raincoat was created in this way by chance.
The rubber raincoats soon appeared on the market. However, they were sticky in summer and hardened in winter. Year after year, people kept on improving the raincoats. Today raincoats are widely used in our daily life.
How do you get to school every day? By bus or car? Song Kexin, a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Xiamen, prefers to go to school on her bike. "It's the quickest and easiest way to get to school," she said. "When there's a traffic jam, I feel the freedom while passing so many car lines."
China was once known as the kingdom of bicycles. But these years, the popularity of bicycles in Europe is rising. Last year, more bicycles were sold than cars in Europe, according to the BBC.
Cycling is a safe, clean and cheap way to get around the city. It makes both traffic jams and pollution less, and is great for our health.
Of course, Rome wasn't built in a day. The popularity of cycling in many European countries is greatly because of bike-friendly policies.
As the traditional "cycling capital" in Northern Europe, Copenhagen's roads keep bicycles and motor cars separated(分离) as much as possible. On these roads, there are pre-green lights for cyclists. These kinds of bicycle traffic lights turn green a few seconds before car traffic lights do. They give the cyclists time to avoid traffic while crossing.
In Amsterdam, people can hire a bike from almost anywhere in the city. You can start from three hours and the average price for a full day is 8 euros (66.8 yuan).
This year, in Ruian, there are also similar policies to hire public bikes. It's only 20 yuan for a full day. Do you see them around the city? It's important to be safe when cycling. If you remember the following ideas, you will be safer.
■Although you may think a helmet(头盔) is not cool, it can protect your head if you fall down. Just choose the one that fits you best.
■Stop at all stop signs and obey red lights just as cars do. It's a good idea to walk your bike across busy crossings by following traffic lights.
■If you are cycling with friends, ride in a line. Don't ride with each other side by side.
■Wearing headphones while biking is not a good idea. You need to hear what's going on around you.
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato said, "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe. Wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and joy to life and to everything."
Children's brains are developing and their brains are like sponges(海绵) that soak up anything that's going. That means children are much more ready to hear new things than adults. In other words, the more types of music children hear, the more types of music they will like as adults.
New research shows that offering an interesting environment with music is good for children's health growth and development. Children can learn, understand and think in a logical way if they study music at an early age.
Music improves the ear—and we know that children who have studied music can learn foreign language more easily and pronounce them far better.
Some children are too shy to take part in activities with others. However, they usually feel relaxed when they join in a music activity.
Whether they are listening to music, singing along with a song, playing an instrument or dancing to music, they seem totally absorbed in music.
Let children enjoy the wonderful feelings music brings and make music a pleasant part of their lives!
A. Playing music with others gives children a wonderful feeling of belonging to the group.
B. It is believed that music is especially important to children.
C. Music has a good influence on children's intelligence.
D. Scientists say that music helps children with language learning.
E. Children seem to experience much pleasure in music.
China is the home of tea, which has about 5,000 years of history. People in China drink tea (每日). Of the three major drinks— tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is (喝) by the largest number of people in the world. Tea from China, along with silk and porcelain(瓷器), (开始) to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export since then. It's said that the tea (贸易) from China to Western countries took place in the 1900s.
The word for tea in different languages came from the Chinese character "cha". The English word "tea" sounds similar to the pronunciation of it in Xiamen, Fujian Province. The Russians(把……叫做) it "chai", which sounds like "cha ye" as it is pronounced in northern China. The Japanese character for tea is written exactly the same as it is in Chinese, though it's pronounced a little(不同地).
Tea leaves are(生产) mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild climate and rich soil there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu'er and Tieguanyin are all famous kinds of tea.
Over the past (世纪), Chinese people have developed(他们) special tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea drinking and so on. Tea is also a popular topic which is often(提到) in dances, songs, poems and novels.
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Every child has his own dream. Every child hopes to be an adult., is it really like what they imagine? As a boy lives in modern times and in a modern city, I feel greater pressure on me with the (city) development. Although we seldom worry about money, we still have some other problems, such as (compete) among classmates and expectation form parents. These experiences are very (help) to our future. But in fact, they really give me a lot of pressure. I still clearly remember the (happy) of my childhood. (luck), we had to face the fact with time passing by. We began to see this invisible pressure come upon us. We get up before sunrise and come back after sunset. We work and study like an adult, even (hard).we do is in order to get an excellent mark. Growing up is very boring, but we should try to find happinessgrowing up. I think friendship among our friends, the support from our parents and the encouragement from our teachers can help us. Why not enjoy the pleasure of growing up and its delicious taste?
