【推荐1】Work is helpful to health. Scientists find that the hard-working people live longer than those who have no jobs. Studies show that the jobless are in poorer health than job-holders. The women who have jobs are healthier than housewives.

Why is work good for health? It is because work keeps people busy away from feeling lonely. Researches show that people feel unhappy and worried when they have nothing to do. The happiest people are those who are busy. Many high achievers who love their jobs feel they are the happiest when they are working hard. They work as a bridge between their dream and reality, so they have energy everyday. By work, people get to know each other. By taking part in all kinds of activities, they find friendship and warmth. This is helpful to health. The loss(丧失)of work means the loss of everything. It makes people down and it will cause more illnesses.

Besides, work makes one feel hopeful and proud. When a writer finishes his writing or a doctor successfully operates on a patient or a teacher sees his students grow, they are very happy.

From the above, we can come to a conclusion: the more you work, the happier and healthier you will be.

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【推荐2】Do you think you can have only one job in your lifetime? This is not true, but lots of people think so. For example, when people decide what to learn in college, they think the decisions they make now will decide their jobs for the rest of their lives. However, here are many examples in which people achieved their dreams after changing their jobs later in life.

Former President of the US, Ronald Reagan, began as an actor when he was a young man. Later, he decided to do political (政治的) work. The love for it finally led him to become President of the United States.

The famous artist in the 19th century, Vincent Van Gogh, was not a painter at the beginning. He once worked as an art salesman and later he became a preacher (牧师). It was only 10 years before he died that he decided to become an artist.

J. K. Rowling, the writer of the famous novel Harry Potter, was a school teacher before she began writing books. In fact, she was out of work before the first book Harry Potter came out.

Now we know jobs can be changeable. The important thing is to find what you are really good at or what you really want to do. Once you find what you love, it’s all a matter of how hard you try.

【推荐3】Day With a Chinese Tea Farmer

The day begins early for Mínzhe. It is only 5 o’clock in the morning, and he has already started working.

Minzhe owns a large tea plantation（种植园）in his hometown in Guilin, Guangxi. It covers an area of more than 350 square（平方）meters. The tea farmer walks through the plants slowly. He carefully presses a leaf between his thumb（拇指）and index finger（食指）and gently picks it.

A tea plant can only be picked once it is about three years old. At each picking, only young leaves can be picked. And the tea plants are usually of different heights. Therefore, tea farmers can rarely（罕有地）rely（依赖）on machines. Anyone can see that planting tea requires great patience and lots of hard work.

Minzhe knows the quality of tea depends not only on the tea plants. The picking and processing play an important part, too. As an experienced tea farmer, he knows which leaves are to be picked and when to pick these leaves.

April is usually the busiest month for Minzhe. It is the best time for harvesting（收获）top-quality green teas. Minzhe has to pick about 90,000 pieces of young leaves to produce one pound of green tea.

Shortly after picking the leaves, Minzhe begins processing them. The leaves are dried, rolled（卷成球状）and then shaped. A heavy smell of the cut leaves fills the air in the workshop.

For Minzhe, a full day’s work produces about 50 pounds of leaves to be made into delicious tea. It brings great pride to him. A day in the life of Minzhe involves（包含）lots of hard work. However, for good tea, it is always worth it.

【推荐2】If music makes you smarter and exercise helps you to think, surely exercising to music can turn you into an intelligent person.

A team of scientists from Ohio State University did experiments on 33 volunteers who were getting better from heart disease following operation. They found that people who exercised while listening to Italian musician Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” did much better on language ability tests than without music. It is also used in medical fields for patients who have bad head hurts because of its moderate tempo (舒缓的节奏).

“Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system and these changes may improve the learning ability of people with heart disease,” said the psychologist Charles Emery, who led the study. “And listening to music is thought to enhance understanding. We just wanted to put the two results together,” he added.

The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and physically after working out with or without the music. But their improvement on the test doubled after listening to music during exercise. Scientists have proved that music can be good for health, education and well-being. It helps reduce stress and sadness, encourages relaxation or sleep, wakes up the body and improves memory and thoughts.

Scientists have been studying the results of music on understanding since the early 1950s. A study showed that students who listened to Mozart 's violin pieces and exercised went on to get higher marks in an intelligence test. With important exams drawing near, your parents will not probably allow you to listen to music. But perhaps now you have good reasons to argue with them.

【推荐3】Everyone has different music tastes. Many researchers believe that music has a calming effect and it is good for the people who enjoy it. Here are some kinds of music and their effects on the body.

Classical music has been found to reduce stress (even for people who are not too interested in it) and improve certain kinds of intelligence. Listening to classical music also has a very calming effect on heart rate and can be helpful for people with heart disease.

Indian classical music therapy (疗法) is often used for insomnia (失眠). A study found that listening to Indian classical music can improve the quality of sleep of patients who experience depression (精神忧郁).

Hip hop music has a different effect on a lot of teenagers. On the one hand, this kind of music can cause bad feelings, and on the other hand, it is such energetic music that makes you want to get up and dance.

If you don’t like listening to rock music, then listening to it can make you feel angry and increase your heart rate and blood pressure. However, if you enjoy listening to this kind of music, it can help you to reduce stress without affecting your heart rate or blood pressure.

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【推荐1】Mr and Mrs Smith live in a small house in the city center. Now they want to buy a big one. They searched for information of houses online. Here’s the information they got.

HOUSES FOR SALE
Sweet Home Three-year-old house	Dream Home One-year-old house
Rooms: Four bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, two bathrooms and a big kitchen. There is a large garden in front of the house. Price: ＄350 ,000 Position:5 km form the city center, and two blocks (街区) from the bus station and the supermarket.	Rooms: Three bedrooms, a living room, two bathrooms and a kitchen. Price: ＄270 ,000 Position: 10 km from the city center, one block from the bus station, and two blocks from the supermarket.
More information: Roger Jones/ (123) 456﹣7890/ rsmith@ email.com

Mrs Smith likes growing flowers, so she likes Sweet Home. However, Mr. Smith thinks the house is too big for them to clean. For him, Dream Home is better. It takes him a shorter time to go to the bust station. It’s really hard for them to decide.