Have you ever eaten a dandelion (蒲公英)? Me neither. Have you ever blown it to make a wish? Me, too.
"Time to pick dandelions, Athena," Mum opened the car door and I entered with a 1. My hometown is in Greece (希腊), where dandelions are 2on the menu. But I didn't eat dandelions. Why did I have to3them with my family every spring?
Then I said 4 to my new friend Brigid, whose family had recently moved in our neighborhood in New York. I was 5Brigid didn't ask where we were going. Nobody in America ate dandelions. I always worried that 6 would notice us picking dandelions.
We 7into a wild field. Hundreds of lively yellow flowers appeared everywhere. Then we stopped our car. Dad went over to cut dandelions and put them in his bag. But I just hid in the book. " 8do we cat dandelions?" I asked. "The best food in the world." Dad answered, shaking a handful of greens. 9we were ready to leave, we had enough dandelions. On the way home, Mum and Dad talked about hosting a dinner party for the new neighbors to try our 10Greek food.
The night of the party, Brigid arrived with her parents. Mum served 11different Greek foods. Our guests ate everything. Finally came the dandelions. "Wait!" I said to Brigid. But it was too 12. "You ate the dandelions!" I told her. We both 13, and she ate another bite. "14, "she said.
Mum was smiling at us. After dinner. Brigid and I went to the backyard and lay on the grass. The stars reminded me of dandelions in the soft field. I closed my eyes and made a 15: to be as open-minded as my family and my new friend.
Have you noticed the waste bins (垃圾桶) in different colors on the street? Do you often put all the waste in the same bin? It's reported by Changchun Daily that people must do waste sorting (分类) in most places in Changchun at the end of 2019. Waste sorting is a wonderful way to make good use of energy and protect the environment. But do you know how to sort the waste?
Usually, people should sort their waste into four groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Different kinds of waste should go into different bins. Wet waste means the things you don't want but pigs can eat, mostly coming from your kitchen. Things that can be used again, such as paper, metal and glass, are recyclable waste. Harmful waste might be dangerous or cause serious pollution, like medicine and batteries (电池). And any waste that's not wet, recyclable or harmful will go into the dry waste bin.
Different countries are trying different methods to sort the waste. A university in England has invented a smart bin. When people drop their waste into the bin. It can tell what kind of waste it is and sort it correctly. The bin can also compress the waste to make it smaller in size and take up less space. In South Korea, people have to separate their food waste from other kinds of waste and pay for it. The more food waste they throw away, the more they pay. Japan has the strictest rules for waste sorting in the world. For example, plastic bottles and their caps should go into different bins.
①Summer camp can be one of the most unforgettable experiences in a child's life. It helps children prepare for bigger, brighter lives down the road. Besides, many important life skills are learned at camp. Here are the reasons kids should go to camp.
②To try new things. Camp pushes children out of their comfort zone and encourages them to new activities and experiences that they may not be familiar with. By attending various types of activities, children have a greater chance of finding something that they are good at.
③To develop social skills. Camp teaches children to communicate, to work together as part of a team and to be a leader. Leadership is developed by asking campers to fulfill responsibilities that may not be expected of them elsewhere, while sharing information and attention helps improve teamwork and the desire to work with others.
④To face challenges and learn the value of hard work. Because they feel safe at camp, youngsters are comfortable taking healthy risks, setting personal goals and realizing their dreams. At camp, children learn the importance of working hard to achieve what they want and to never give up, all in a low-stress setting.
⑤To build character. Camp provides children with the important values of a strong, moral person by teaching them about ethics, honesty, caring, respect and responsibility. Parents often report that after camp, their children are more kind, understand the importance of giving.
⑥To develop independence. At camp, children learn to make their own decisions. Campers can risk finding out what works and what doesn't, while discovering something new about themselves. The camp environment provides help for children to quickly reduce their need for constant parental dependency.
⑦The main goal of any well-run camp program is making sure children have the time of their lives. Providing creativity, adventure, smiles and old good times, summer camp is a much needed break from the school year.
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Mark Zuckerberg, who starts the social network Facebook, often wears jeans and a T-shirt to work, including to important business meetings. Not everyone agrees with him. Some people say he doesn't look serious this way.
Harvard Business School researcher, Francesca Gino, has a different idea. While most people seem to think that dressing differently from those around you generally has a bad influence, she believes it can actually have a positive (积极的) effect. And she's done experiments to support her idea. When her researchers, wearing sportswear, visited the expensive shops in Italy, they were usually viewed as wealthier and more important people than those who were well-dressed in designer clothes.
Do people always view less formal (正式的) clothing more positively? Researchers in France took their research out into the street, to the general public. The video they made shows an actor dressed in a well-cut suit and shiny shoes. While walking along the road, he begins to cough badly, stops to catch his breath and falls down. Before he even calls for help, people rush to help him. In another video, the actor appears at the same crowded place and repeats the actions in exactly the same way. But this time, no one comes to help. What's the difference? He's wearing untidy clothes and looks like a homeless person. In a situation like this, the clothes you're wearing could mean the difference between life and death.
It seems that our clothing doesn't only change the way others view us, but also the way we see ourselves. In an experiment testing students' ability to pay attention to details (细节), the group wearing white lab coats did the best. Why? Researchers told them that they were wearing the doctors' coats. The experiment didn't show whether such influences would last long. More experiments are needed in the future before we decide to make the doctors' coats a must of fashion.
Zoos and research centers (保护) animals. Scientists do a lot of research to help (熊猫) give birth to more babies. Very few are (出生) outside zoos. Many people are (担忧) about their situation. (幸运地), government are developing plans to (挽救) them because they are a (象征) of China. They are setting up many (自然) parks to protect their food or (生活) places. What's more, more and more people now know animals are our (朋友).
Lucy was 11-year-old girl. She went to her grandfather's house with her family in summer holiday. She couldn't forget that day forever. the morning of July 3, she (play) hide-and-seek (捉迷藏) with her two brothers. She wanted (be) in the closet but she found a very different world in it. The new world was in winter and very cold. She met a faun (半人半羊的神话人物) and he even (ask) her to drink some tea at his house.
Lucy stayed there for a long time and ran . She woke up (醒来) the next morning and was so worried about her family. They could think she was (lose). She said goodbye to the faun and went back to her grandfather's house. Lucy was very (surprise). Her brothers didn't even find she was missing. it was still July 3 and still the same time in the morning. How could it be? Was it true or was it just a dream? Lucy (she) couldn't tell.
Have you ever seen the film "Titanic"? "Titanic" was one of the largest and finest ships in 1912.It hit an iceberg (冰山) on its first sailing (航行) from England to America and sank very soon, leaving a love story to the people. Do you know what an iceberg is?
The earth is round, like a ball. The top of the earth is the North Pole. The bottom of the earth is the South Pole. At the top and the bottom of the earth, there is a lot of ice. It is very cold there. Sometimes there is no sunshine for many months. There is ice everywhere all the time. Large pieces of ice fall into the sea. They don't go to the bottom of the sea. They float (漂浮) near the top of the water. We call these large pieces of ice "iceberg". Some icebergs are bigger than a tall building. Icebergs are dangerous for ships. Sometimes a ship hits an iceberg. Then the ship sinks.
You can make a small iceberg. Put a piece of ice in a glass of water. Look at it. The ice does not sink.
