【推荐3】Bicycling is good for your health. It is good for the economy（经济）: it can save money. It is good for the environment. Six good reasons to bicycle:

●It is good exercise. A fit body is a healthy body.

●Children learn better after a walk or bike ride to school.

●A car costs about $8, 000 a year. Bicycles cost about $350.

●It is less expensive to build bike paths（小路）than roads for cars.

●Bikes take less space to park.

●Bicycling makes less pollution than driving cars. You can ride your bike to many places:

a. Work

b. School

c. Shopping

d. Meetings

e. Parks and beaches

You can ride alone or with others. Get some exercise. Have some fun. Ride your bike.

【推荐2】As the saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” And one Massachusetts community certainly takes that to heart.

In the summer of 2016, Glenda and Raphael Savitz moved into their new home in Newton and had their daughter Samantha soon. Unluckily, Samantha was born deaf. But that didn’t stop Samantha growing into an outgoing girl. When she was out, she tried to communicate with her neighbors. But they couldn’t understand her because they didn’t know sign language (手势语). It made them a little upset.

Instead of giving up, the neighbors decided to learn sign language together. They found a sign language teacher and took classes in Lucia’s living room. Lucia has lived in Newton for over 20 years. She believes in the power (影响) of community. “Samantha is creating a reason for us to get together,” she says.

It was not easy for the neighbors to learn sign language, but they enjoyed the process (过程). Before long, they could communicate with the little girl freely. Both Samantha and her parents were very happy. “We are seeing changes in Samantha. We’re just so thankful that we live here and we are surrounded (被围绕) by these wonderful people,” Samantha’s mother says. “I can’t think of a better place for my daughter.”

And they’re not the only ones who say they’re thankful. “Samantha is doing something for us,” say some neighbors. “She has made our community closer.”

【推荐3】One day, a master asked his two students Jack and Nick to meet him at the start of a road in a forest.

When they arrived, the master said, “You both have to start here and reach the end point of this road. It doesn’t matter how long it will take.” Then the two started. Just after a while, they found the road was divided into two. Jack decided to follow the smooth one, while Nick followed the other one which was full of obstacles (障碍物).

Jack completed the test soon. It took Nick a long while to reach the end point. When Nick finished, Jack said proudly. “How clever I was! I avoided (避开) all the obstacles of the other road.” The master smiled and told them to join him the next day. This time, they met near a ravine (山谷).The master said, “You need to jump to the other side of the ravine.”

When Jack noticed the width of the ravine, he didn’t have the courage to jump because he had never done that before. Nick, however, remembered his last test and how he had jumped over wide gaps (豁口). Without any difficulty, he made it.

Then, the master said to Jack, “Life is full of challenges. In yesterday’s test, choosing the difficult path could have helped you prepare for this one. When you choose the easier path, you complete that test easily but you will not be able to pass more difficult ones.”