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Don’t let the cold weather keep you lazy. Have some indoor activities for the winter.
Playing a dance game can be a great way to get e1. if the cold weather is keeping you inside. Hula-hoop(呼啦圈),or jumping ropes is f2. and easy for you to try indoors. We don’t r3. believe that doing housework is ever a good idea — but it can be a good way to get some indoor exercise. Cleaning up your room or helping your mum clean the house m4. not be interesting, but could help you make some pocket money and get you in shape(保持好身材). Yoga is a great indoor activity for lowering(减少) stress. It’s a5. easy and cheap, so you can do it just about anywhere in your house.
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In the past few decades, a large number of new electronic devices have appeared: MP3 players, camcorders, e-book readers, and so on. Will the future bring new gadgets (小玩意)? Perhaps, but many experts believed that the number of gadgets will actually d 1. as people do more and more things with just one device: the smart phone.
This c 2. has already happened in Tokyo. There, mobile phones are making travelling much easier and f 3.. Imagine you are waiting at a Tokyo bus stop. If you use the camera on your smart phone to take a photo of a special icon (图标) on the bus stop, the timetable appears on your s 4. . When the bus arrives, you use the same phone to pay for your ride.
At airports, it’s even more useful. You don’t need a t 5. or a boarding pass - with just your phone, you can be on your plane only 15 minutes after arriving at the airport. And at hotels, the phone allows you to pay for the room w 6. using a credit card or money. It even opens your hotel room door!
The phone a 7. helps you find the way when you’re on foot. If you hold it in your hand, it tells you which way to go. This is especially useful in Tokyo, where it’s so easy to get lost!
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Recently the unmanned aircraft which are called drones (无人驾驶飞机) have come into use for a number of business purposes.
Basically, a drone is a flying robot. The aircraft (飞行器) may be remotely controlled or can fly a 1.________ through flight programs in their systems. The little planes used to be very costly. In the past, they were mostly used in the military (军事). But as they have d 2.________in price more people have begun to use them. Rescue workers and fanners are among the new users.
A company in France is using drones to help farmers examine their crops and limit the amount of fertilizer (肥料) they use. The fast development of computer technology, image sensing devices (图像感应设备), satellite navigation (卫星导航) and cell phones has led to lower-priced drones. Researchers and developers have learned how to build smaller and less-costly drones.
Moviemakers are using drones to film from the sky. Historians (历史学家) use them when they explore a 3.________. buildings. Rescue workers use them to look for people. And now farmers are using them to m4.________their crops.
Romain Faroux is a French businessman who starts companies. His father was a farmer. He believed drones could help fanners. He helped create a company that developed a small drone that could be controlled by people on the g5.________ . They called it “Agridrone (农业无人机).” It uses a special “optical sensor (光学感应器)” to examine crops.
The technology used is similar to that used by smartphones except it has wings. A computer program directs the drone to fly over the crops. The sensor on the drone records four different-colored “bands” of sunlight (太阳光带) that are reflected off (反射) the crops.
Jean-Baptiste Bruggeman is a farmer. He says the drone flies over his crops at different time of the season. He says this provides a lot of information about his crops. The drone pictures show him the exact amount of fertilizer the crops need. It also shows exactly where the fertilizer is needed.
Romain Faroux says farmers use information g 6.________ by the Agridrone to place fertilizer only in areas where it was needed. This saves money and reduces pollution. Before they used the drones, farmers would put the same amount of fertilizer everywhere. Drones also save time because farmers can examine u 7.________ to three hectares (公顷) in about a minute.
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Many travelers feel nervous about going to a new and unfamiliar place. By planning carefully, and being careful enough during your trip, you can relax and enjoy yourself.
While you prepare for your journey, make sure that you travel with proper m 1. insurance, in order that if you are sick or injured during your travels, you will be able to get treatment (治疗). Also, be sure to get an international driver’s licence (驾照) if you expect to drive yourself while you are travelling a 2. . Make sure your paperwork is all in order. You don’t want to get to your destination and find that you have the wrong visa (签证).
Buy a guidebook and read about the local culture of the country you will be visiting. Also, try to learn a few b 3. words and phrases of the local language to enable you to communicate a bit. Don’t just expect that everyone will speak your language, or that they will understand English.
Remember that a tourist will attract a lot of attention from people. While most of the local people you meet will be friendly and welcoming, there are always difficulties or even d 4. for travelers. Theft is the most common one. Leave expensive cameras and valuable jewelry at home. If you prefer to stay in cheap hotels while traveling, make sure you l 5. the door of your room from inside. If you must travel with a lot of paper money or other valuable things, you should ask your hotel about a safe for s 6. them in. And just as in your home country, do not expect everyone you meet to be honest.
If you have trouble in communicating, look for students and young people who might speak a foreign language. And finally, remember to smile. It’s the friendliest and kindest f 7. of communication, and is sure to be understood in any part of the world.
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More play and less work makes for more talented(有才能的) children. Some officials suggested that school hours for children aged 7 to 12 should be reduced, and that they should be e 1. to spend at least an hour a day on team sports.
All work and no play makes children depressed. Becky, an 8-year-old girl, used to be happy when she finished classes every day, but now, life has become unhappy. To make sure she has enough time for the lessons, she has to study until 11 at night to finish her homework.
Some ideas are offered for helping cultivate(培养) kids’ talents. The ideas i 2. cutting down classroom hours, introducing more team sports for children, getting parents to stop putting too much pressure on children and some other suggestions. It is believed that all these can help train young people to be confident.
“I used to go to the park with my parents on weekends before because I like playing tennis with my dad and I can play well,” a boy said, “But now, I h 3. have time to do that any more.”
“I would like to try other things, such as drawing,” Nara said. She was interested in drawing, but her parents thought it was not a bright way for her.
Children now spend more time doing homework than playing, and we all know it’s quite n 4. for them to have plenty of sleep. A lot of homework and heavy school bags are driving more young children away from a joyful childhood.
Parents believe that b 5. well in school is a sure way to make their children have a bright future. The study showed that about 80 percent of parents said they expected their children to get a university degree or some form of higher education. About 15 percent of students in primary school and 40 percent in middle school said they thought their parents were not s 6. with their marks.
“Parents must always be willing to talk to their children and make them happy,” an educator advised, “Encourage him or her to be confident when he or she faces d 7. . Parents should know what their children like and what they want.”
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Beatlemania is a very strong feeling for the group, the Beatles. The Beatles were four young musicians from Liverpool, England. Their n 1. were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. These four men n 2. took music lessons. They taught themselves to play music.
In 1957, John c 3. a group called the Quarrymen. At that time, he was only 16 years old.
Then he met Paul. They began to write songs and sing together. Soon, George joined them.
The group played in England, and then in Germany. In 1962, Ringo joined them. Then John, Paul, George and Ringo were the Beatles.
The Beatles made their f 4. hit song in 1962. The song was “Love Me Do.” In 1963, their song “Please Please Me” was a bigger hit. In all, they had twenty-nine hit songs. By 1963, the Beatles were very p 5. in England, and Beatlemania started. They had many fans. At converts, their fans screamed very very loudly. The Beatles could not hear themselves sing.
The next year, the Beatles went to the United States. the Americans love them, too. People everywhere c6. their clothes and their hair. This rock-and roll group was welcomed by people all over the world.
The Beatles broke up in 1970. They wanted to play new music. All of the Beatles and interesting, new things. .John wrote music with his wife. Paul started a new group with his wife.
George and Ringo made their own r 7. and gave converts. Sadly, John was shot dead in New York in 1980. He was forty years old. George became sick and died in 2001.
We still hear Beatles songs on the radio today. Their music and songs will live in our hearts for ever.
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Grades are important, but they are not the only measure.
I have come to understand that exam grades are not the only purpose of schools, and grades a1. are not enough.
Studies show that some of the high-flying students have troubled lives, finding it difficult to get good jobs or become great parents or partners. A2. graduation, students come to realize what they have learned at school has not really prepared them for the next step.
Increasingly, teachers are getting to know the idea of "learning from our failures. "If you've never failed at anything, you've certainly never t3. anything new. Exam grades are important and we encourage all students to aim high and to do well. But they don't m4. success.
I once asked my students to consider the chef Gordon Ramsay, and how he became so successful. They were surprised to find that he didn't have a good performance at school and he
didn’t s5. become a great chef. In an interview, he explained that he worked long hours for very little money, learning everything he could, He took chances even if they seemed i6.He made mistakes but he cheered himself up and moved forward. His success didn't come from grades, it came from his character: courage, effort and confidence.
We should develop social skills through the whole school as an important p7. of learning.
This is why there is a focus on performance, sport and other activities. These life skills will work hand-in-hand with knowledge to enable students to do well in their future life.
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Anger (生气) is a kind of feeling. Many things can make you angry. When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, when your friend b __1__ your favorite thing and then breaks it, you may get really angry.
Usually, your body will tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe much f__2__, your face turns red and you may want to break something or hit someone, but sometimes, you hide your anger. For example, you may hide it in your h__3___ . The problem is that if you do this, you may get a headache or your stomach may hurt.
In fact, it's not good to hide your anger, and it's normal for you to get angry sometimes. But anger must be let out in the right way, without hurting o_ 4 _or yourself. Let me give you some advice.
When you get angry, you can talk about it with other people. It's helpful to talk about your anger with other people, such as p___5____, teachers, good friends etc. When you talk about anger, those b___6___feelings can start to go away. On the other hand, when you start to feel angry, you can do some other things: count from 1 to 100; go for a bike ride; think about good things, etc.
Don't let your anger c 7you. Remember that how you act when you are anger can make everything better or worse.
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Early on Saturday morning. Many of the world are still in bed, enjoying another hours or two of sleep. But a few of Americans are up and r1.to go. They plan to be the first to arrive at the yard-sales. What are these yard-sale shoppers looking for? Secondhand things, of course. Yard-sale shoppers aren’t the only people who like used goods. From Australia to the USA, westerners love to buy other people’s things. E2. the rich people look for an antique (古玩) among used goods. Some people buy used goods to save money, others do that to c3. antiques.
How old is old?
For those in Asia. 5, 000-year-old antiques sit in museums. Western antiques are not so old. But American goods even more than twenty years old have value. An ice-cream maker from the 1920s could be $50.S4. from World War I could sell for $4,000 or more.
Some people own old things because they want to make money from them. They go to classes and read books to learn which goods will have more value or are liked by collectors. Others simply buy old things they think interesting. Those who do not want to make money from the old goods say, “Don't buy it u5. it's useful.”
Where to find them?
Secondhand goods can be found in a variety of places. Saturday morning yard sales are the r6. places for those who start to take up the hobby. The flea(跳蚤)market is another place. You won't find fleas, but you may find a wide variety of old things.
Shopping at a flea market for the first time is not easy. You have to look t7. things patiently and carefully to find something you really want.
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Every town in the United States has a post office. Some are very small, and you may also find them in the corner of a shop. O1. are larger buildings. They are open five days a week and on Saturday mornings. From Monday through Friday they are usually open five days a week and on Saturday mornings. From Monday to Friday they are usually open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
If you know how much the postage is for your letter, you can buy stamps a2.any window. In some post offices you can buy stamps from machines. Stamps are sold at many different prices, from one cent to many dollars. If you are not s3.how much postage is for your letter, you may ask the man or the woman in the post office for help. He or she will give you the stamps you n4.. If you are sending your letter far away, you should use airmail envelopes. Remember that postage will be more expensive for a letter that you want to send to foreign countries.
At a post office you can also buy postcards. A postcard is c5. than a letter. Usually the price of postage for a postcard is about half that of a letter. The postcard you buy at a post office do not have pictures. However, they are also not to be sent outside the countries. Letters are an easy and cheap way to keep in touch with people in many different countries.