Clean-Up Day | |
March 22, 2020, on the fourth Sunday of March | |
9: 00 a.m.～11: 30 a.m. | |
Meet in Sunshine Park | |
Come with your family and neighbors. First let's pick up the rubbish in Sunshine Park next to our neighborhood. Remember to wear comfortable clothes and take your gloves. We will give you rubbish bags. Free lunch for volunteers is in the restaurant near the park. At 1:30 p.m., come back to our neighborhood to continue. | |
2:30 p.m.～5:00 p.m. | |
Meet in our neighborhood | |
We will prepare cleaning tools for you. After that, we'll have afternoon tea from 3:30 to 4:30. Cheese cakes and hot coffee are waiting for you. Let's enjoy our Clean-Up Day！ |
There was a terrible earthquake in my country. Many people were killed and many houses fell down. After the earthquake, the newspapers reported many stories about families who were in trouble. One Sunday, when I was reading a newspaper, a special picture touched me. It gave the clothing sizes of each family member. I thought this would be a good chance to teach my children to help those who were less lucky. I said to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and three-year-old daughter Meghan, "We have so much, and these poor people now have nothing. We'll share what we have with them."
I filled a box with some food and old clothes. While I was doing this, I encouraged the boys to donate some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched quietly as the boys took out their old toys and put them in the box. Then she walked away. A few minutes later, she came back with Ava, her favorite doll. She put it on top of the other toys "Oh, dear," I said. "You don't have to give Ava. You love Ava so much." Meghan said, "Ava makes me happy, Mom. Maybe she'll make another little girl happy, too."
I was surprised. Meghan taught me a lesson. It's easy to give something that we don't want anymore, but hard to give what we love.
Mr. Guo is a teacher from Xi'an. He asked his students to hand in their homework through a QR code(二维码). "We spent an hour or two in class learning how to generate (产生) the codes, and in the end everything gets easier" said Gao. "When students finish the homework, they keep it on WeChat. Then, each student makes his own QR code and gives it to me. So I can check their work everywhere using my computer or telephone."
The QR codes can be sent to Mr. Guo by email, QQ and WeChat. When Guo scans(扫描)his students' QR codes, their homework appears on his phone. He finds that their homework becomes more creative, with many pictures, music and even videos.
Guo's students like the new way and think it is interesting. "We are living in the information age. Many students like to work with computers, which makes learning more fun," said Tingting, a student of Guo's.
"The paper is not easy to keep, but the code is easy to keep and share," Guo said. "It is worth trying to use new technology in education. Education itself is a kind of creation. I don't want my students to fall behind the times."
However, some parents are worried. They are afraid that their children will spend too much time on computers and less time communicating with teachers. But in fact, it's unnecessary. Students still need to look up information in books and write it down when they do their homework. They only use the code when they hand in their homework, which doesn't take them too much time. Also for teachers, it allows them to check the Students' work at any time. And it's also an easy way to share homework with other students.
My problem started after I went to a boarding school. I was only 14, and at first I missed my family a lot. I often called them and cried on the phone. But after two weeks, I found I enjoyed being with my classmates at school.
I had many friends who were boys. I thought of them as my best friends – but only friends. I never guessed my friendships with boys would become a problem.
Then, three months later, my friends told me that some teachers and girls said I was hanging out with boys all day long in order to get attention from them. Seven months after that, the head teacher Mr. Wang asked the class to choose some students to join the Student Union. I thought I could win for I was doing well in school. I'd already won prizes for the best math and English exams. A week later, the list came out and it didn't include me. I was sad.
Mr. Wang came to me and said, "Don't be sad. I know you're excellent! Maybe. You're a little distant from the girls in our class. They don't know much about you, so some of them didn't choose you. It doesn't matter. Do your best to get along well with everyone and I think you'll make it next time."
Imagine a life without arms or legs! You can't hold anyone in your arms. You can't walk anywhere with your feet. How would you last a day like that? Would you 1 at yourself in the mirror like Nick Vujicic, the 29-year-old Australian?
Nick was born without limbs(四肢), so life was not 2 for him. At school many students played jokes on him 3 he looked different from everyone else. No one wanted to be his friends, so he always felt 4 .
However, he faced that bravely. He 5 to type and write with two toes (脚趾) at the age of six, and he could even surf and play golf. In college, he achieved great success and was among the 6 students in the studies. And he decided to do something special later in his life—to encourage others to work hard for their dreams.
Now Nick is one of the most popular 7 in the world. He travels to many countries and gives speeches about his stories 8 difficulties. "Living life fully is about looking at what you have, not what you don't have," he said. His 9 has encouraged millions of people.
"I tell people to keep on going up when they 10 and to always love themselves," he said. "If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life is done."
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A. It's impolite if you don't bow. B. But a funny thing happened. C. I wouldn't mind that! D. Oh, I see. E. So I just stood there with my hand out, he bowed. |
Katie: How was the welcome party for foreign students last night?
John: Great! I made some new friends.
Katie: What?
John: I met a Japanese boy called Sato, and as soon as I held out my hand, he bowed.
Katie: That's how people in Japan are expected to greet each other.
John: I didn't know that.
Katie: I remember when I first met Marie last year, I did the same thing. I held out my hand and to my surprise, she kissed me on both sides of my face!
John:
Katie: Very funny.
Katie: Later I found out French people are supposed to kiss when they see each other.
John:
One day a farmer went out for a walk his little son. The farmer wore a pair of wrong shoes. One had thick shoe (厚鞋底)the other didn't. Hebegin) to walk and then his(foot) hurt. When he was just out of the house, he turned to his son and said, "Why is one of my legs(long) than the other today?"
The son looked at his father's legs (careful) as he was walking and then laughed, "Oh, no, Daddy. Your legs are all right. You are wearing the wrong shoes." The farmer was very happy to hear that and said to himself, " a clever son!" Then he asked (he) son to go back and got the other pair of shoes for him. The farmer had only two pairs of shoes.
When the son ran back to the house, he (find) that the other pair was also a wrong pair. He had to return to his father with nothing in his hands and said, "It's no use (change) them, Daddy! The shoes at home are not a pair, either!"
写作要点：
1. 打游戏浪费时间, 伤害眼睛, 不利于学习；
2. 理解尊重父母, 向父母道歉, 与他们沟通；
3. 不打游戏, 努力学习, 帮父母做家务。
写作要求：
1.必须包括以上所有要点, 并可适当发挥；
2.词数80左右 (开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数)。
Dear Frank,
I've received your letter and I know you argued with your parents.
……
Please be happy and everything will be better.
Yours,
Zhang Wei
