【推荐1】Hurricanes are too frightening for kids, so learning about how to prepare is quite important. The following are some hurricane preparedness tips for helping protect your children from sufferings during and after disasters.

    1     Explain to your children what could happen in the event of a hurricane, using simple, age-appropriate words. Make an emergency plan for the whole family with an evacuation plan and meeting location.

Practice evacuation.     2     Be sure to run through different plans — at home, at school and at other places you often visit. When planning your evacuation route, remember that bridges may be washed away and low-lying areas may be flooded. 

If not evacuated, stay indoors. If you aren’t advised to evacuate, or are unable to do so safely, stay indoors away from windows, skylights and doors. Continue to pay attention to weather reports and don’t go outside until the storm has passed.     3    It is important to have your routines and keep them. Children experience comfort from habits and routines, like a story before bedtime or a family meal each evening.     4    

Watch your children for changes in behavior, sleeping patterns, or eating habits. Children may be afraid or anxious for a while after the hurricane.     5    However, if they continue, you should seek professional help.

【推荐3】It's reported that 150,000 bikes are stolen in the United Kingdom alone    1    However,you can take some steps to prevent your bike being stolen.

Spend money on good locks. No lock is totally thiefproof - but the more you spend, the better it will be. Spend about 20% of the value of your bike on locks. There are many different types.    2    

Always lock your bike-even if you are only leaving it for a minute. Leave it in as public a place as possible. Lock it where you can see it-or where lots of other people can. If you're just having a break, lock it up nearby to where you are sitting down. Make sure it is tied to an immovable object.    3    If you're locking it to a post, make sure the post is at least 4m high, so thieves can't lift it off the top

    4    This will help you get it back. You can register the unique frame number of your bike. The police also recommend you take a photo of your bike and record its details, like the model, colour, and the frame number.

Most importantly, make sure to tag（加标签） your bike in different places. If stolen, the thief will probably remove the tags he easily sees.    5    

【推荐2】People in the United States honour their parents with two special days: Mother's Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father's Day, on the third Sunday in June.    1    . They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. They give love and care. These two days offer an opportunity to think about the changing roles of mothers and fathers.    2    More fathers must help with childcare.

These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On Mother's Day people wear carnations—red ones or white ones.    3    A white one shows that the mother is dead. Many people attend religious services to honour parents. It is also a day when people whose parents are dead visit the cemetery(公墓). On these days families get together at home, as well as in restaurants. They often have outdoor barbecues for Father's Day. These are days of fun and good feelings and memories.

    4    Children make them in school. Many people make their own presents. These are valued more than the ones bought in stores.    5    However, it is the thought that counts. Greeting card stores, florists, candy makers, bakeries, telephone companies, other stores do lots of business during these holidays.

【推荐3】It may seem as if Mother's Day was invented by a company named Hallmark,   but   people have been taking time on the calendar to give a shout-out to Mom for a long time. The Greeks and Romans had mother goddess festivals — although their celebrations didn't involve the menfolk taking their underappreciated mothers out to dinner. A more recent tradition was   Mothering Sunday, which developed in the British Isles during the 16th century. On the fourth Sunday in April, young men and women who were living and working apart from their families were advised to return to their mothers’ houses.

Mother's Day as it is observed in the United States started in the 1850s with Ann Jarvis, a West Virginia woman who held “Mothers' Work Days” to promote health and hygiene(卫生 ) at home and in the workplace. During the Civil War, Jarvis organized women to improve sanitary conditions for soldiers on both sides, and after the war she became a peacemaker, furthering the cause by bringing together mothers of Union and Confederate                    soldiers and promoting a Mother's Day holiday.

Jarvis's work inspired another 19th-century woman, Julia Ward Howe. In 1870 Howe published her “Mother's Day Proclamation”, which envisioned(设想) the day not as appreciation of mothers by their children but as an opportunity for women to exercise their collective power for peace. Howe started holding annual Mother's Day celebrations in Boston, her hometown, but after about a decade she stopped footing the bill and the tradition faded away.

It was Jarvis's daughter Anna who succeeded in getting Mother’s Day recognized as a national holiday. After her mother died, in May 1905, Anna started holding yearly ceremony on   the anniversary and conducting a tireless PR campaign to have the day made a holiday. In 1908   she succeeded in enlisting the support of John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia department store magnate and advertising pioneer, and by 1912 West Virginia and a few other states had adopted Mother's Day. Two years later, President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution   declaring   the second Sunday in May a national holiday.

It wasn't long, though, before whatever ideals the day was supposed to celebrate were buried under an amount of greeting cards and candy. By the 1920s Anna Jarvis was campaigning against the holiday she had been instrumental in creating. “I wanted it to be a day of emotionalism, not profit,” she said.