Every summer, a great many students travel to other countries, looking for work and adventure. Most of the _______ are in seasonal work, mainly connected with tourism and agriculture. The pay is usually poor, but most students work abroad for the excitement of travel. You can pick grapes in France, look after kids in American summer camps, and, of course, there are _______ jobs in hotels and restaurants.

But it is not easy to find work. “_______ you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,” says Anthea Eills, an adviser on vacation work for the students. “If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris, the owner will expect you to speak _______. British students only have a language advantage for jobs in the USA and Australia.”

Not everyone enjoys the _________. Sarah James and her friend were employed (雇佣) to help forty American children in Europe. The two young teachers with the children had never been _________.  One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill during the journey and was sent home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the noise they made; and Sarah herself _______ on her only free evening of the entire trip. “We did have the _______ chance in our life to go abroad and visit a lot of new places,” she says, “but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was _______ and it really was a 24-hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”

“The trouble is, students __________ to have an easy time at it,” Anthea Ellis points out. “In fact, they have to work hard, with few employment rights. As soon as the holiday season finishes, they’ll lose the jobs.”

Our environment needs help. With the participation of more than 50 organizations, Environment Awareness Week is the biggest public education event which is aimed at the environmental protection. Don’t miss it! Come and know more about:

The Threats to Earth (Hall 1) — What is global warming? How serious is pollution? Learn about different environmental problems from our university students. Protect our environment!

The Search for Renewable Energy (Hall 2) — Can we get electricity from wind, solar energy, waves, rivers and underground heat? Get the answer from Solar Ace, Teflon, TouchWind resources and other participants.

The Quest for Freshwater (Hall 3) — Is the shortage of freshwater worsening? What are Singapore’s solutions for treating waste water? Hear from Flow Technologies, HydroMax Solutions and other participants.

The 3Rs to Save Earth (Hall 4) — How can we REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE to cut down household wastes? Find out from the Global Gaia Network, Green Earth Foundation and other participants.

For more information, please call Mr. Philip Koh at 6553 1188, send an email to Mrs. Daisy Soh at Daisy-soh@ief.org or visit the event’s website at http://www.ief.org/eaw.

On March 23, a single goal led China to beat South Korea 1-0 in the 2018 World Cup qualifying match(预选赛）in Changsha, Hunan province. It is only China’s second victory over South Korea in the past 32 games these years.

So who scored the winning goal? It was Chinese striker Yu Dabao, 28, who plays for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super League.

He was born to a soccer-mad father in Qingdao, Shandong province. As a kid, Yu also fell in love with the game. When he was young, his father took him to training on the back of his motorcycle, no matter how bad the weather was. He made such fast progress that he was accepted into the Qingdao youth team aged just 11 years old.

FIFA called Yu “China’s lucky star”, since he’s saved his team many times in important games. Modest Yu said: “As a player, you need to work hard and get prepared so that you can live up to expectations when the chance comes.”

And he has indeed. In 2014, without any commercial sponsorship (商业赞助), he joined Benfica in Portugal on a three-year deal, making him the first Chinese player to do so. “I improved my skills and also learn how to read a game,” he told FIFA.

And he’s not only devoted to soccer, but to languages, too. He found time to learn between matches as he thought it was important to communicate with his coaches and teammates. Now the talented Chinese player can also speak English and Portuguese.

The way we spend our time can be divided into three groups, or “jars”. These would be the necessary tasks jar, the voluntary tasks jar and the happiness jar.

Every day, we spend time filling the necessary tasks jar. We fill this jar with useful things, like earning money, housework, buying food and paying bills. We then fill another jar with voluntary tasks. These are things that we do for others, but we may not enjoy them. This jar gets filled with tasks like taking children to activities, cooking family meals, and doing laundry. Those jars are very important. If we don’t fill them each day, our households won’t run properly.

However, we often forget to fill the third jar – the happiness jar. This is the jar that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your happiness jar sometimes empty at the end of the day? We all have days like that. Between doing all the necessary and voluntary tasks, time flies by on some days, and before we know it, it is time for bed.

That is why each day we have to make an effort to fill our happiness jar. Most days, I fill mine by going to ballroom dance class with my husband and daughter. Between the music, the dancing and the friendship among the students, I always leave classes happier than when I entered.

Music is another way that I fill my happiness jar. This week, I had the pleasure of taking part in an orchestra (管弦乐队) practice at my church. Our church isn’t large, but we are blessed with a lot of musical talent. A small group of us met to practice Christmas music for a church service. It was a time of fun, fellowship and music-making. At the end of the evening, my happiness jar was filled to overflowing.

This week, consider how your time is being spent. Are you doing enough activities that bring joy to your life? Or are the necessary and voluntary tasks eating up all your time? Try to find ways to achieve a balance between how you are filling your three jars. At the end of the day, hopefully we’ve done all we can to make sure that our happiness jar is filled.

Many young Chinese people make their effort to get a good night's sleep which could be harming their health, according to the results of a major survey published to mark World Sleep Day.

The Chinese Sleep Research Society surveyed nearly 60,000 people aged 10 to 45, and found that 91 percent of them reported “not having enough sleep” or “still being tired after sleep”. Only about 5.6 percent of respondents said they felt energetic after sleep. About three quarters of respondents said they experienced difficulty falling asleep, and 13 percent said they really struggled to fall asleep. Only about 11 percent said they could sleep through the night without waking up.

Many respondents said that work pressure has a main influence on their sleep quality, and could lead to bad sleep. The survey showed 60 percent of the respondents would choose to work instead of sleep.

In general, people with good education background were cared to be more self-disciplined(自律的) about getting enough sleep, but only 5 percent of respondents had a routine(常规的) daily schedule.

Sleep problems have little direct connection with income(收入), working conditions or social status, according to the survey. “The part of people with bad sleep is almost the same in different social layers,” the report stated.

Surveyors said that stress, worries, and low spirits were the main causes in bad sleep, it would get worse because of by the obsession(着魔) with electronic products that could cause blue light effects breaking sleep. Some 93 percent said they would play with smartphones before sleep, watching TV series or shopping online.

Surveyors believed that the random life schedules would lead young Chinese people to have low work efficiency, low appetite, but higher cancer risk.

FUN WITH COOKIE

Paul: “I have been working for this company for ten years, however they chose the new guy for promotion(升职) over me.”

Julia: “Well, that’s just the way the cookie breaks into pieces.”

This is an informal expression that means bad things happen in life and there is nothing you can really do to prevent it. It’s not worth getting sad; you should just try and accept it calmly.

Of course in the UK we would generally use the word “biscuit” instead of cookie when talking about those hard baked, sweet, flat cakes which are so popularly eaten with a cup of tea. Cookie is originally a Dutch term meaning little cake and has spread to the United States because of immigration(移民) from Holland.

Also in the US we can find “fortune cookies” which are usually served with Chinese food. However they are almost unknown in mainland China and were invented in California by Asian immigrants. They are crisp cookies with pieces of paper inside, on which are written clever sayings, prophecies(预言) or words of wisdom.

A cookie in computing is a collection of information which is used by websites to know users who have visited the site before. They are stored on your computer when you use the Internet, and also you will find the websites you used easily.

A cookie can also be a person. A tough cookie is unemotional(冷漠的) and a hard businessman while a smart cookie is sharp, clever and not easily fooled.

Biscuit and cookie is just one example of the difference between British and American words.

Many of us don’t pay much attention to the importance of eye care. It is said that if you take care of your body, then you can surely be h    66    . That is why our eyes should be given a lot of care. Natural eye care should be put in a number one place.

There are several c    67     leading to poor eyesight like lack of food, genes(基因) and aging(老化). Televisions, computers and reading are also the causes of having poor eyesight. I    68     you happen to work in front of the computer, it is best to take a break every once in a while. Something dirty in your eyes can cause redness and will make you feel u    69    . If this happens, the best way is to clean your eyes by using cold water. You must also try your best to protect your eyes from harmful things. For example, sunglasses are not j    70     for fashion; they can serve as a great way to protect your eyesight from UV rays.

E    71     healthy foods will do good to your eyesight. Remember that vitamins A, C and E are good for eyes. T    72     should be taken every day. And you should do eye exercises because exercise protects your eyesight, too. If a person exercises regularly and eats the r    73     kind of food, his eyes will stay in good condition for a long time.

All a    74     are natural ways of eye care that help us keep healthy eyes. Being happy all the time can be of h    75     to a person’s eyesight, too. In a word, eye care is very important, no matter how old a person is.

76. 假如你是Simon, 你在学校的告示栏中看到了某国际环保组织招募志愿者的海报，想要参加。请针对招募海报的条件写一封英文申请信，写出想要加入该组织的理由，以及能够为该组织从事哪些工作。

注意：

1. 文中不得出现你的真实姓名和学校名称；

2. 语言通顺，意义连贯，条件清楚，书写规范；

3. 词数80字左右，申请信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

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