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The BBC recently reported a great rise in British English in the US. Words like “cheers”, meaning “thank you”, and “mate”, meaning “friend”, are becoming popular. No one knows h1. this has happened, although the success of British films like Harry Potter may have something to do with it.

British English and American English are a little different. The two are the same in grammar but different in the way they pronounce and spell some words. Americans pronounce words like car, better and sweater with an /er/ at the e2.. The British way of spelling “color” is “colour” and they write “favorite” a 3. “favourite”.

English is the most spoken language in the world because of the British Empire. Its colonies（殖民地） o4. covered 25% of the planet. In some parts of the US, people really like the British accent（口音）. The British actor Hugh Grant, with his British accent was very s5. in Hollywood. His accent is very popular, and Americans often think British accents s6. very elegant（ 优 雅 的 ）. Maybe this has something to do with the Queen.

Don’t w7. about the difference between British and American English. When you have exams, it is fine to use the English that you learned from your textbooks. The differences are not so important.

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Have you ever noticed the black and white bars on a book?　 Do you know what they are used for?　

They are barcodes(条形码) used in most products. If you go to a supermarket, you can see almost every product with a barcode on it. Barcodes contain i1.about the product, such as name and production date. It’s an easy and convenient way to know about the products. Just scan(扫描) the bars with a barcode reader and everything is c2..

The first use of a barcode in a supermarket checkout system was on a pack of American Wrigley Company chewing gum(口香糖) in 1974. Beyond supermarkets, barcodes are needed e3.: for renting cars, for luggage checks on a plane, for parcels you send; life would be rather difficult without barcodes. Most of our things would get lost in the post.

Barcodes c4. as well. Barcodes in the past were 1-D, but now there are 2-D barcodes, such as QR code. Since 2009, QR has been used on Chinese train tickets. People can e5. stadiums, cinemas and theaters by holding certain types of barcodes.

If you find these barcode things b6., a barcode building might be more up your street. In St Petersburg, Russia, there is a building designed like a barcode. It looks strange, but it’s a7. a shopping mall. There are games too. Barcode Monsters is a mobile phone game. You have to scan barcodes and find the monsters!

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Now students’ English handwriting gets worse and worse. That makes their teachers feel w1.. Is your English handwriting beautiful? If not, here are four steps that really work!

◆Use paper with lines

Using paper with lines can keep you writing straight instead of up or down when you write English words or sentences. Those lines on the paper can help you to write words in the r2. size. Be sure to fill the lined space completely. And make sure those capital letters (大写字母) are written properly.

◆Slow down

If your writing is hard to read, try slowing down a little. For some kids, going slower makes the handwriting clear. If you write too fast, it’s hard for you to stop where you should, and even w3., you may make more mistakes.

◆Hold your pencil right

When you hold your pencil in a correct way, writing is much easier. Some kids press down really hard when they write. That makes the handwriting not nice. Try to relax yourself and don’t hold the pencil so hard. Let your writing appear nice and clean. If you do so, people will guess you are a student with a good h4..

◆Draw more pictures

Drawing can improve your handwriting. You need to use the skills to c5. your pencil better when you are drawing pictures. Even though you have no chance to draw at school, you can practice by y6. at home.

Handwriting is very important. Imagine you are a world-famous movie star or a well-known sports player, what do you do when your f7. run up to you? Give them your autographs (亲笔签名), of course!

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Anxiety is the appropriate emotion when the personal terror – of a volcano, an arrow, a stab(刺伤) in the back and other disasters, all directed against one’s self – d1..

The kind of world that produces anxiety is actually a world of relative s2., a world in which no one feels that he himself is facing sudden death. The anxiety exists as an uneasy state of mind, in which one has a feeling that something unspecified(不具体的) and indeterminable may go wrong. If the world seems to be going well, this produces anxiety – for good times may end. If the world is going badly – it may get w3.. Anxiety tends to be without f4.; the anxious person doesn’t know whether to blame himself or other people. He isn’t sure whether it is the current year of the administration or a change in climate or the atom bomb that is to blame for this undefined sense of unease.

It is clear that we have developed a society which depends on having the right amount of anxiety to make it work. W5. we agree that too much anxiety is harmful to mental health, we have come to rely on anxiety to push us into seeing a doctor about a symptom which may indicate cancer, into checking up on that old life insurance policy which may have out-of-date terms in it, into having a conference with our child’s teacher even though his report card looks all right.

People who are anxious enough keep their car insurance up, have the brakes checked, don’t take a drink when they have to drive. People who are too anxious either r6. to go into cars – and so complicate the ordinary course of life – or drive so tensely and carefully that they help avoid accidents. People who aren’t anxious enough take their c7., which increases the terrible accidents of the roads.

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Karl’s Blog

Saturday 12th April

Well, today was another disaster! I was really, really late for work—again!

First, I slept late （as usual!） so I didn’t have time for b1.. Why is it difficult to get up in the morning during the week? I put on my suit and r2. to the bus stop. There was a lot of rain last night and the road was wet. Well, I ran very fast and I fell over – it’s OK, I wasn’t hurt – but my suit got wet! So then I ran home to c3..

Later, I went back to the bus stop and the bus came – but it was full of people and there was no space for me. Then I had a fantastic idea – get a taxi! It took me all the way to my office – FANTASTIC! Then the driver asked me for 10 pounds, but I didn’t have any money. Why didn’t I take any money with me? I haven’t done that b4.! No problem, I said to the driver, I’ve got a cash card. So the taxi driver took me to the cash machine at the bank near my office. Well, I put the card in the machine but it didn’t come out. It was terrible! F5., I went into the bank and they opened the machine and gave me my card （and some money）.

Of course, w6. I got to the office, my boss was there. I was TWO HOURS late for work – she was really angry with me!

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Celine Dion has spent hours rehearsing a popular folksong to help China bring in a new year with a landmark gala performance.

The global star, w1.a little help from her friends, has mastered the intricacies of Jasmine Flower, or Mo Li Hua. Dion will perform with Song at the 2013 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which will be held on Saturday. It's the first time an international star has been invited to the e2..　 The singer will also sing her signature tune, My Heart Will Go On, from the blockbuster film, Titanic.

The CCTV Spring Festival Gala has been held every year since 1983 and is broadcast live to the world on the Lunar New Year's Eve.A billion people are expected to tune in for what has become a well-established t3..

However, the tradition is facing challenges as younger viewers are increasingly l4. interest in the show. During the past few years, some of China's most popular entertainers, such as veteran comedian Zhao Benshan, have withdrawn from the show, and audiences have already c5.registered their disappointment.

The people r6. for Dion's gala appearance are veteran music producer Song Ke and renowned songwriter Gao Xiaosong.

"It's very interesting. Everybody c7.about the gala, but they still watch it, and then they talk about how bad it was. We believe this year will be different, and we believe more international stars will come to China," said Gao.

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An arctic fox walked 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada. Yes, that’s　 p1..

At first, the scientists　 w2. whether it was a mistake.

Just 21 days after leaving the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, an arctic fox had arrived in Greenland. And in less than three months, it made it to Canada. The fox averaged (平均) nearly 30 miles a day t3. it walked almost 100 miles some days.

"When it started h4., we thought ‘is this really true?' "said Arnaud Tarroux, one of the scientists who tracked (追踪)the female fox. Was there "an error (错误) in the data?"

The data was real, the scientists decided as the fox kept going. The foxes 'travels last year, recorded in a recent paper, surprised Tarroux, even though the animal is known for its a5.to live in extremely cold areas.

Scientists already knew that some of the foxes, native to Arctic areas all around the Northern Hemisphere(北半球), made long j6.. But the fox these scientists followed got more attention for just how fast it travelled more than 2,700 miles.

"We didn't really know how the fox would do that and how long it would take for it to do this kind of trip," Tarroux said.

The scientists think the fox may have taken off because there was not enough food for it, but they're not sure. The tracker (追踪器) stopped working in February, so the scientists no l7. know the place where the fox is.

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Captain King and his crew landed on an unexplored planet and entered a huge cave. King and his navigator argued about staying or l1., but they stayed. Animals like huge kangaroos and a one-eyed m2. entered the cave. Gork saw King and his crew and roared with anger. Gork said that it was their custom to kill a3., so King and his crew would all die the next day. Gork caught them in a trap and took away their guns with a magnet. King asked Gork if they c4. be friends as they came in peace.

Gork joked that they would soon be in pieces. When Peters felt afraid, King told Peter to t5. him, for he had got a plan. “Nobody” is part of the plan.

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If you have lost 12 times in a row (连续地), will you just give up? Dale Carnegie, a pioneer in public speaking and self-development, 1.k________ trying. And he became famous by showing people how to be successful.

Carnegie was born in 1888 to a poor farming family in the central United States. The boy didn’t take a 2.t_________ until he was 12 years old. In his teens, he had to get up at 3 a.m. every day to milk the cows in his family.

When Carnegie first entered the college, he felt hopeless because of his clothes and ordinary looks. His mother encouraged him: “Why not try to be 3.b__________ in other things instead of just dress and good looks?”

Carnegie tried to be more active in college. He4. j_________ the debate team. But one after another, he lost 12 meets. The young man was very disappointed in himself. He said later that he thought of killing himself after so many failures.

But soon Carnegie was seen practicing public speaking on the riverside. His hard work paid off (得到好的结果) at last. In 1906, Carnegie won a famous speech contest and became5.w______ known.

The young man made his own words come true:” Believe that you will succeed, and you will.”

In order to6. s_________ his success, Carnegie opened schools and wrote books. His best-sellers include “How to Win Friends and Influence(影响) People” and “How to Stop Worrying and Star Living”. More than 50 million copies of his books have been printed in 38 languages. They are still helping people on the7. r_________ to success.

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What is life? It is like a game in which you are playing with f1. balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends and spirit and you keep all of them in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four balls, family, health, friends and spirit, are made of g2.. If you drop one of these, they will break. They will never be the same. You must understand that and try to have balance in your life. How?

Don’t look on your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different and each of us is s3..

Don’t let other people set goals for you. Only you know what is best for yourself.

Don’t give up when you still have something to give. N4. is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Don’t be afraid of difficulties. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible. The quickest way to r5. love is to give it; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Don’t run t6. life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.

Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless. It’s a treasure (珍宝) you can always carry easily.

Don’t use time or words carelessly. You can’t get them back. Yesterday is h7., tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift: that’s why we call it “the p8.”. Life is not a competition, but a trip, step by step.

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