I can't remember when I started collecting litter. But it was when I got tired of 1litter nearby that I realized no one else was going to pick it up.
I live near a forest in Ohio, America. I can walk there in three minutes. I 2 to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was3much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided to clean up the forest, and I wanted to4happy when I went there again. I made my first trip to clean the forest that afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. I started to pick up litter, ten minutes 5 my bag was full! There were cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers in it.
From then on, I6to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I often stay there for three hours. It makes me feel7to do something for the environment. After each trip, I look through all the litter that I've collected. If8of it is recyclable, I'll keep it. I can't understand why people drop litter. But I will keep on picking it up9they stop dropping it. I know I am only doing a small bit10the earth, but I still think it is important.
One day a man went home and said to his wife, "I've bought something nice for you." "Thank you!" said his wife. "What have you bought for me?" "I've bought a gold ring. Here it is." He took it out for his wife to see. Then he dropped it to the ground. He began to look for it on the ground, but it was too dark in the house and he could not see anything. Then he went out and began to look for it in the street. Just then a friend came along. "What's the matter with you?" asked his friend. "I am looking for my ring. I lost it in my house." "You lost your ring in your house, but you are looking for it in the street. How foolish it is!" "But it is dark in my house. I shall never find it there. But in the street, it is much brighter, I can see everything."
Want to know what we can do to help make our city a better place to live in? Why not take part in "Clean & Green weekend"? Join us, and you can make new friends and help protect the environment at the same time.
Park Life
Do you like hanging out in the park with your friends? If so, why not take the chance to come with us and tidy up the park as you go? To add some fun, there is a gift for the person who collects the most rubbish! Meet us at the south entrance to Taohe Park at 9 a. m. next Saturday if you want to join in.
The Air You Breathe
A great way to make the air we breathe cleaner is by planting lots of trees! It is a fact that trees slowly filter(过滤) a lot of pollutants（污染物质） from the air. So come and help us plant some new ones in Fenhe Park at 2 p. m. next Sunday.
War on Graffiti(涂鸦)
Some people think graffiti is cool. Well, it is not! The best way to stop buildings from becoming totally covered in ugly graffiti is to get rid of it as soon as possible. And that is exactly what we are going to do. We are repainting the school walls from 1 p. m. on Saturday. You don't have to bring any tools, just remember to wear some old clothes!
The Internet has become part of teenagers' life. A new report shows that 38 percent of 3 375 students use the Internet often.
Most of the students get useful information for their studies, but some are not using it in a good way. Many students are playing online games too much. Some even visit some unhealthy websites. A teacher from Beijing Yinghua Middle School, Hong Ying warns that something bad can happen if young people spend too much time on the Internet. She said that one of her students used to be good at school. But when he started visiting unhealthy websites, he hurt a girl by cheating online. At last the police caught him and sent him into the prison.
In order to help young people use the Internet safely, some schools in Shanghai find a good way. The schools provide a textbook for the students. The book uses real examples to teach students about good ways of using the Internet. Teachers and parents all think the book is good.
Hong said that the book will help students keep away from the bad behaviors of using computer. The book will teach students how to be a good person in the online world.
My name is Sam. I joined a club called "passing help" last month. Now let me tell you why I joined it.
One evening this May, on my way home my old car broken down. It was 25 miles from my home.
I wanted to get a ride, but there was no car. It was also hard to take a taxi . I decided to take a bus home. I went to a bus stop nearby.
After a while, a bus came, but it did not go to my town. The bus driver was a young woman.
She was kind and she told me which bus I should take. I waited there for about thirty minutes, but no bus came. At last a car came to me and a woman came out of the car. She was just the bus driver.
"When I reached the bus station, I got to know that the bus to your town couldn't come, so I returned here. I just can't leave you here," she said, "Get in my car and I will take you back to your home." "It is a long way."I said. "Come on, sir," she said, "Let's go."
On the way she told me a story. A few days ago, there wasn't gas in her car. An old man drove her up to a gas station and then back to her car.
When we got to my home, I wanted to give her some money to thank her, but she didn't accept. "I only want to help others and do something nice for somebody. Pass it along." She said.
Do you want to be successful in everything you do? If so, then how? Here is an example.
There was a farmer who grew corn all his life. Each year he took his corn to the market. Then each time his corn was chosen as the best and won the first prize.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something surprising about how he grew it. The farmer offered his seed corn to his neighbors. "How can you share your best seed corn with your neighbors?" the reporter asked. "You know they are taking part in the competition with you each year."
"Why, sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the corn and moves it quickly from field to field. If my neighbors grow bad corn, cross-pollination will influence the quality of my corn, so if I want to grow good corn, I must remind my neighbors to grow good corn."
The farmer knows much about the connection of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn improves.
As a great man says, "We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give." We can't live without food, clothes, and many other things. However, a meaningful life is not decided by how much we can get, but by how much we can give others. So those who choose to live well must help others to live well and those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness in their life.
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A: Hi, Mike! You're reading the novel again.
B: Yes, John. I've never been tired of it.
A:
B: Three times. Every time I read it, I can learn something new.
A: Really?
B: Charles Dickens. I think he is a great English writer.
A: He is also my favorite foreign writer. Please let me have a look at it.
B: OK, here you are! ... What do you think of this novel?
A: I haven't seen such a novel for long. Where did you buy it?
B: In the Xinhua Bookshop.
A: I don't know where it is.
B: No, only 10 minutes' walk from here, next to the People's Cinema.
A: Oh, I see. I'm going there to get one, too. Thank you!
B: You're welcome!
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A. I have already finished reading it. B. Who wrote it? C. How many times have you read it? D. So do I. E. Have you finished it yet? F. Is it far from here? G. It's exciting. |
On very cold winter days, a group of Japanese children traveled a long way and arrived at a small island where nobody lived. After setting up a camp, they caught fish in the sea, and walked on the snow to find firewood, wild fruit and fresh water. Then they made a fire to do some cooking. They were not homeless children or modern Robinson. They were all pupils from a primary school and campers of special "hardship camp".
Every year primary and middle schools in Japan organize such camps to train the children's spirit of bearing hardships. Such places like thick forests and far-off mountains are often chosen as camp places.
The Japanese education circles usually think it necessary to give children chances of suffering hardships. Children in Japan now may hardly find times of hardships, because of the rapid growth of national economy and improvement in people's living conditions. The experts think that such hardship camps can help children learn to live and develop in the struggle against nature.
It's said that such hardship camps are warmly accepted by both Japanese school children and their parents.
My sister Alli and I have been trying to get people to stop cigarette butts(烟蒂) for seven years.
One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground. They made the ground. They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make people stop it. We called it "No Butts About It"!
At first, we drew pictures with "The Earth Is Not Your Ashtray(烟灰缸)" written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown—in parks, by beaches, and along roads.
We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts does to the environment. Most smokers don't think that dropping butts harms the earth. But it does! All rubbish does.
Later, we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money buy ashtrays to give smokers.
We wanted smokers to the ashtrays with them so they didn't have to drop butts.
Many people have started to join our group since it. Today there are 45 other "No Butts About It" groups in America. And there are even in England, Australia and India!
Many newspapers have written about my sister and I over the last seven years. And we have won many prizes for our good work. But we are not interested in prizes. We just want to make the earth a and cleaner place for animals, plants and people.
