Cheating can happen in lot of different ways. When people cheat, it's not ________ to other people, like the kids who studied for the test or who were the true ________of a game.

Many people like the action of cheating. It makes difficult things seem easy, like getting all the right answers on the test. But it doesn't solve the problem of not ________the material and it won't help on the next test—________ the person cheats again.

Some people lose ________ for cheaters and think less of them. The cheaters themselves may feel bad because they know they are not ________ getting that good grade. And, if they get caught cheating, they will be in trouble at school, and maybe at home, too.

Some kids cheat because they're busy or ________ and they want to get good grades without spending the time studying. Other kids might feel like they can't pass the test without cheating. Even when there seems to be “good ________” for cheating, cheating isn't a good idea.

If you are sick or worried about something the night before and can't study, it will be better to talk with the teacher about this. And if you don't have enough time to study for a test because of swim practice, you need to talk with your parents about how to ________ swimming and school.

A kid who thinks cheating is the ________ way to pass a test needs to talk with the teacher and his or her parents so that they can find some ways together. Talking about these problems and working them out will feel better than cheating.

He tried it once more and he felt himself going when he turned the fish. The fish righted himself and swam off again slowly.

I'll try it again, the old man promised himself, although he had little strength now and could not see things clearly.

He tried it again and it was the same. So he thought, and he felt himself going before he started; I will try it once again.

He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's pain and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently, his mouth almost touching the boat.

The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon(鱼叉) as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just gathered, into the fish's side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the height of the man's chest. He felt the iron go in and he leaned(倚靠) on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.

Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty. He seemed to hang in the air above the old man. Then he fell into the water with a crash that sent spray over the old man and over all of the boat.

From The Old Man and the Sea

By Ernest Hemingway

Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants(宽松的裤子), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you'll get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain our differences?

It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you wouldn't feel any stranger in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!

Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors(祖先) left us. These differences represent their creativity and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.

But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world, people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.

There is a joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let's take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white. It's not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we're sure you'll enjoy it.

If you know a place really well, you might say that you know it "like the back of your hand". How well do you know the back of your hand, though? New research shows that we don't know as much about our hands as we think we do.

Professor Matthew Longo, at the University of London, tried an experiment. His team of researchers covered the left hands of 100 people. They then asked the people to point to where they thought their fingertips and knuckles(指关节)were. They found this very difficult.

"People think their hand is wider than it actually is," said Longo. Fingers also seem shorter.

"It is connected to our sense of position" explained Longo. This is our ability to tell where different parts of our bodies are, even when we can't see them. "It tells us whether a joint(关节) is straight or not," he said. It also tells us whether we are going up or down in an elevator. All the information comes from our nerves. It's like our brains have maps for the size and shape of our bodies. "This experiment tried to find those maps," said Longo.

These maps make mistakes. "Our brains see areas as larger where the skin feels touch strongly," said Longo. Body parts don't appear as their true size, but appear bigger or smaller depending on how strongly they feel touch. Our lips, for example, have more nerves than our noses, so our "maps" show lips as being bigger than our noses.

The Ghost moved slowly and silently towards him. And as it moved through the air, it scattered gloom.

The Ghost wore a black robe.     33    , its face and its body. The only thing visible was a hand. The Ghost neither spoke nor moved. Scrooge was terrified.

"Are you the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come?" asked Scrooge.

    34    , but it pointed its hand in front of it.

"You are going to show me the future”, Scrooge continued, "Am I right, Ghost?"

    35    . That was the only answer Scrooge received.

"Ghost of the Future," he said, "I am more afraid of you than of all the other ghosts. But because I want to be a better man, I will go with you.     36    . "

It didn't reply. The hand pointed straight in front of them.

"Lead on!" said Scrooge.

The Ghost moved forwards.     37    . And the robe carried him along. The city sprang up around them. There they were, in the heart of it. The Ghost stopped beside some businessmen at the Stock Exchange. His hand was pointing to them, so Scrooge listened to their conversation.

Many people dream of becoming a programmer for a major tech company because they can get high pay. However, it may mean having to accept overtime work. In fact, working overtime has been common for workers in China's Internet companies for many years, but debate about the practice heated up recently online.

These days, many Chinese tech companies follow a "996" work schedule. This means their workers have to start work at 9 a. m. and finish at 9 p. m. six days a week. They seldom get overtime pay for this, Global Times reported.

This schedule has been heavily questioned ever since a computer programmer created a website called "996. ICU". It says that following a "996" schedule is unhealthy and could cause workers to end up in an intensive care unit (ICU). Many other programmers have complained about the schedule "If it's a work-more-pay-more model, I'd be a lot more willing to follow the '996' schedule. But the truth is, not every company is run that way. That's why many people complain," a software developer said.

However, the bosses of some tech companies have defended "996". Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, said it's "a huge blessing" for young workers to do "996". He said, "If you don't do '996' when you're young, when will you? If you don't spend more time than others, how will you get the success you want?"

Many have questioned Ma's thinking. People's Daily pointed out that "valuing hard work does not mean making workers work overtime."

In fact, according to China's Labor Law, people should work no more than eight hours a day or no more than 44 hours a week. It is illegal for companies to use a "996" work schedule.

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