You’re going to a ________ party. You must be excited about it. ________ a minute! Do you know what kind of gifts you can take to your foreign friends? Here is some ________.

In some foreign countries, some gifts ________ kites, chopsticks (筷子), or an erhu may be people’s favorites.

Use beautiful paper to wrap (包装) the gifts. Remember ________ white, black or brown paper. These colors may make them unhappy. It’s ________ for the wrapping paper to have more colors on it.

For Japanese, gifts like pens or tea ________ nice. They don’t like big gifts.

For Frenchmen, gifts like candy, wine or books are great.

British people and Americans like flowers, wine and chocolate, and you can relax and take it easy at ________ parties.

In Arab countries, it’s not polite (礼貌的) to give a gift to someone when you meet him or her for the ________ time. Isn’t that interesting? You can give a gift when you meet the second time or later. If you know this habit, you can know ________ to give gifts more politely.

Do you have any friends? What do you think of friendship? Here are some opinions from Ann, Pedro, Crystal and Roy.

Ann comes from Japan. She thinks a true friend won’t leave her alone when she is in trouble. Pedro is from Canada. He thinks that friendship means giving. If you want others to care about you, you must care about them first. Crystal was born in China. She has the same opinion as Pedro. The real meaning of friendship is giving others something instead of thinking about taking anything back. What about Roy from Japan? He doesn’t care about the looks of his friends. In his opinion, a sincere（真诚的） heart is more important than looks. If you are in the same country as Roy, you can write e-mails to him.

Do you want to know what our life will be like in the future? Let’s have a look. You may get a surprise. You will go to the kitchen when you are hungry. You will give orders to the kitchen robot. The robot will cook the food for you in a few minutes. Then it will bring it to you.

In the kitchen you will find a special food machine. The food machine will tell you what your body needs. It will help you eat healthily. The food machine will be connected with (连接) the kitchen robot. The robot can get messages from the food machine. After having a meal, you can go to your home office. You will work at home and you don’t need to go out to work any more.

You will have a special information screen. You can get any information on the screen. When you receive a message from a friend in America, your information screen will be turned on automatically (自动地). Your friend’s face appears on the screen. Then you can talk to your friend easily.

I’m Lily. I was a shy girl. But this term, I decided to do some different things. This term, we had a new subject to learn—physics (物理). When our teacher asked if anyone would like to be the physics monitor (科代表), I put up my hand and made it. But it was not as easy as I thought.

At the beginning, I found that many students didn’t hand in their homework, so I was a little worried. I shouted at them, but it made them angry. Then I found that it was my mistake in fact. I should talk to my classmates in a kind way.

After that, I changed (改变) how I spoke. “Excuse me. Could you please finish your homework in time?” I said.

Later, I was surprised that many of them understood me a lot better and finished their homework more quickly.

I found the best way to be the physics monitor was to talk with my classmates in a friendly way. Now, I am getting better and better with my classmates. This job makes me feel like I’m growing up like a little tree day by day.

It’s important for children to learn to solve problems. Here are some examples of situations (情况) and ways that can help you.

Situation 1: Your child is bullied (被欺负).

If you tell your child that some kids are bad and that he should ignore (忽视) them, he may think he shouldn’t come to you for help. If you call those kids’ parents, your child may keep things from you because he thinks you’ll act too much.

How to help: Help your child think of ways to protect himself. Tell his teacher because the teacher knows what to do with the situation. This way, your child can stand up for himself, and knows that you’ll stand up if the bullying goes on.

Situation 2: _______

You can’t always keep your child happy. So what should you do when he is sad? If you tell him that that’s just how everything goes and that not everyone is going to like him, he may still feel sad and think his feelings aren’t important.

How to help: Tell your child you know this is difficult for him. Then talk about different kinds of friendship. Ask him what kind of friendship he has with the birthday child. Are they close or are they just school friends? This way, your child will learn that there are different kinds of friends.