When my brother and I were children, we spent a few weeks each summer in the countryside with our uncle. He was a geologist and loved to go on long walks to find stones to add to his collection at the university. More often than not, we followed him.
One day, we left early, and this time, our uncle gave us two backpacks. “ You can help me carry the samples(样本),” he explained.
Surely, why not? The whole day, we walked around the countryside, and every now and then, our uncle put stones in our bags. We were a bit surprised that sometimes he also took some stones out from our bags, but thought he had just found better samples.
We reached the house in the late afternoon. The backpacks were so heavy that we were really tired out when we put them on the ground. Yet our uncle's backpack was half-empty.
“Why did you give us so many stones?” we asked.
“I didn't. You did,” he said, waiting for a while before continuing. “ You did not know it, but I made you go through a little attitude(态度) test today.”
What do you mean an‘attitude test'?” we wanted to know.
“It is something someone once did to me. You see, I listened to every word you said. And whenever you complained(抱怨) about anyone or anything, I added a stone to your bags. And whenever you talked about something in an attitude of positive thinking, I took out a stone. And now look at your backpacks.”
We did. They were full.
“I hope you remember this little attitude test. You see, your negative thoughts are like stones. You carry them in your mind just like those stones and start paying attention to what you say and how you say things.”
This little lesson was one of the most important lessons I ever had. And I remember my uncle with great love for teaching us one of the most important lessons in life – the power of attitude.
Everyone knows it is very easy to cook instant noodles by putting them into the boiling water and add in those MSG(味精) packets(小包), together with other food like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered whether this is the correct way of cooking them?
In order to make the noodles joined together nicely side by side it needs some form of wax coating (石蜡涂层) in order to show an attractive instant noodles in front of us.
However, researches have shown that the layer (层) of wax coating on the noodles is quite harmful to our body and we should not eat it too frequently. We should have a break of 2-3 days before we start to eat another packet of instant noodles as our body needs about 3 days to clear that layer of wax coating away from our body system. Do you know the danger of having too much wax coating stored in our stomach? It will lead to CANCER if it is stored in our body system for a long period of time.
There are 2 key points to take note while preparing instant noodles:
1) Wash the instant noodles with warm water first, stir(搅和) it and pour away the water containing the wax coating.
2) Repeat Step 1 and try to stir the noodles again to wash away the wax coating on the noodles before cooking it in a new pot of water.If you have eaten other types of noodles, you will notice that the store seller will wash the noodles in warm water first to keep the noodles from sticking together and for the case of instant noodles, the wax coating on the noodles is keeping the noodles from sticking together. It is very important to wash away the wax coating while preparing a meal as we don't want our body to be in danger.
Hope this article will let more people have self-awareness of the hidden danger of instant noodles and thus eat safely and stay healthy.
Smiles and tears are part of life. But do you find enough time for 1 ? I'm not asking if you experience lots of good times. Of course, we should laugh during the happy times. But do you 2 laugh during the difficult times.
Erma Bombeck is famous for her funny books. But she wrote 3 about a more serious subject –cancer in children. The book is titled, I WANT TO GROW HAIR,ＩWANT TO GROW UP. Erma talks with many children who 4cancer and learns important lessons from them. She learns, 5, that cancer survivors know how they should smile at life, though they are receiving chemotherapy（化疗）.
She tells about the experience of 6Jessica. Jessica's leg was 7at the knee because of cancer. She was learning to 8 a prosthesis(假肢). Jessica told about playing soccer. She hit the ball hard with her foot. The ball flew off in one direction while her man-made leg flew 9 way. Then the brave girl 10 on the floor, laughing happily.
11 the saying goes, “There's a time to cry and a time to laugh.” Do you find 12 time to laugh? You can laugh if you find reasons to laugh during the difficult times. Only survivors know 13. If you laugh even when you're in trouble, you will 14. Remember to laugh and the whole world will laugh with you. Cry and you cry 15!
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I'm here today to share a good lesson with you. It is a true story about an overseas student (live) in Germany. After (year) hard work, this student graduated with amazing achievements. Everyone thought he was going to get a good job easily and have a bright future. But to his disappointment, he was not even given the chance for an interview! The third time he was (refuse), he couldn't help (telephone) the company to ask they didn't want him. The answer was simple. “ We don't offer jobs to (honest) people in Germany.” What was wrong, you might wonder? The truth is, shortly after he arrived in Germany, this clever student found that it was easy to skip buying subway tickets. So in order (save) money, he often went without a ticket. As a result, he (catch) without a ticket in the subway twice
From this story, we learn that we may get short-term benefits in some ways, but the truth will come out or later and the cost is high. remember: honesty is the best rule. That's all for my speech. Thank you!
These days, I feel my school life is very boring. Every day I do the same things—taking lessons, doing exercises and taking exams. Every day I take the same way—classroom, playground and dining hall. Every day the teachers say the same thing to us: Study hard and try to enter a better high school. . . I want to make my school life easier and more colorful. What should I do? |
假如你是Jim，请你给Tom回个帖子。根据中文大意和英文提示，写出意思连贯，符合逻辑，不少于80词的短文。请不要写出你真实的校名和姓名。内容要求：
①针对Tom的困惑，先谈谈你的看法；
②结合自己的学习生活实践为他提几条合理的建议；
③ 最后送上你的祝愿。
Hi Tom,
How are you? I saw the problem in your weibo. I can understand your feelings very well.……
Love,
Jim
