【推荐3】One Sunday afternoon, Mr. Green and his daughter, Mary, are in a big store. Mr. Green likes Mary, and wants to buy a new sweater for her. Mary doesn’t like the new sweater. She likes something to eat. So her father buys some apples for her, too. Mary also wants to buy some picture books and colored pencils. There are many things and many people in the store. They are men and women, old and young. They all want to buy something there. The people in the store are very friendly.

If you go to a fast food restaurant, you will probably see a lot of teenagers（青少年）. Today, many teenagers are fat, and some of this is because of their bad eating habits. Most teenagers love food with a lot of fat, oil, salt and sugar. People often call this kind of food “junk food”. But bad eating habits are worse than fast food. We find many teenagers have bad eating habits. Some don’t have breakfast before they go to school. During the day, some don’t have a right meal for lunch. In a recent study at one school, scientists find that more than two-thirds of the students don’t have a healthy diet. They don’t like vegetables, and many of them don’t like to eat fruits. They like to eat food with a lot of salt, sugar, or fat（脂肪）better.

Parents today also worry about their children’s diet. Some doctors give the following advice:

★ Teenagers shouldn’t eat too much junk food.

★ Teenagers shouldn’t eat food with too much salt. Salt can cause high blood pressure（高血压）in the future.

★ Teenagers should eat food with less fat, oil and sugar.

★ Teenagers need to eat some fruits and vegetables every day. There are a lot of vitamins and little fat in fruits and vegetables.

★ Teenagers need to drink more milk. Milk will help their bones grow.

★ Teenagers need to eat breakfast every day. This is good for their body and mind.

Round eyes, a round head, round ears and a round body! What is this little animal? He looks like a little bear. But he is not a bear. He’s a koala. Soft gray fur(毛) covers his little fat body. His eyes look like buttons(纽扣). He has small feet and big ears.

Where do koalas live? In Australia. The people of Australia take care of the koalas. They build places for them to live in. Here the little animals are safe. No one can kill them for their beautiful fur. There are many koalas in Australia. The people of Australia love them very much.

When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he is no bigger than your little toe(脚趾).

The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby stays in this warm pocket. There he stays for six months.

When the little koala leaves the pocket, he has lots of fur. And he is about as big as your shoe. He climbs to his mother’s back. And she teaches him to find food.

【推荐1】Sometimes we throw apple remains into forests, hoping small animals around may find them. But what if they are never noticed? People believe they would rot (腐烂) one day, so it doesn't matter. Is that true?

Sure they will. But it won't happen overnight.

Marjorie Woodruff, who works in the Grand Canyon, set up a small experiment. She put a banana peel, orange peels in a box, wide enough to allow small animals to go in and out. After six months, the orange peels had dried out, the banana had turned black. Nothing had been eaten or had rotted.

She buried the same things in sand and soil and six months later everything could still be seen.

In fact, it takes two months for apple remains to rot and an orange peel can take up to one year.

“Do we eat orange peels? We do not. So why would a squirrel eat?” Woodruff writes in High Country News. “The animals do just fine on nuts and berries. They do not need us. ”

There’s another point to think about.

When animals start to get food from people, they may stop looking for their own food in nature. This is dangerous because it may weaken their hunting ability.

Food waste also attracts animals to areas where there are a lot of people, says the Leave No Trace organization. This may put their life in danger as they may get used to looking for food alongside busy roads. Many of them are too small to be noticed by drivers.

When you're throwing fruit remains, you may be fined (罚款). Fines are different. Some states might only fine people $100, but a few states fine people more than $6,000 for the first time.

Have you ever regretted（后悔）what you did in the past? As we get older, we look back and wish that we had made better choices. What can we do to avoid（避免）future regrets?

Make better plans

If you begin to do something, you need to make a plan before doing it. You’ll also know what you should do and what you shouldn’t do. If changes happen, you can have more time to deal with them.

Live a more active life

More outdoor activities can help you keep fit. You also need to be kind. “Thank you” can bring a smile to someone’s face. Learn to say “sorry”. It’s good for you to use these polite words.

Find the right friend

A friend may make your life and he or she can break your life as well. So you need to think carefully when you choose a friend. Good friends will always make your ideas better.

When you have problems, go to others for help. That little help may get you good results.

Face failure(失败) bravely

Everybody fails. We should not be afraid of failure because failure is not the end of the road. We must take failure as a chance(机会) to learn and improve (提高) ourselves.

【推荐2】How Can You Become a Successful Learner?

Everyone is born with the ability to learn. But whether or not you can do this well depends on your learning habits. Research shows that successful learners have some good habits in common.

Creating an interest in what they learn

Studies show that if you are interested in something, your brain is more active and it is also easier for you to pay attention to it for a long time. Good learners often connect what they need to learn with something interesting. For example, if they need to learn English and they like music or sports, they can listen to English songs or watch sports programs in English. This way they will not get bored.

Practicing and learning from mistakes

Good learners think about what they are good at and what they need to practice more. Remember, “Use it or lose it”! Even if you learn something well, you will forget it unless you use it. “Practice makes perfect”. Good learns will keep practicing what they have learned, and they are not afraid of to make mistakes. Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invent the telephone overnight. He succeeded by trying many times and learning from his mistakes.

Developing their study skills

It is not enough to just study hard. Good learners know the best way they can study. For example, they may take notes by writing down key words or by drawing mind maps. They also look for ways to review what they have learned. They may do this by reading their notes every day or by explaining the information to another student.

Asking questions

Good learners often ask questions during or after class. They even ask each other and try to find out the answers. Knowledge comes from questioning.

Learning is a lifelong journey because every day brings something new. Everything that you learn becomes a part of you and changes you, so learn wisely and learn well.

People drink tea. There are many kinds of tea, such as black tea, green tea, white tea and yellow tea. People drink a lot of tea in China. Some people drink it because they think it makes them healthy. Many people drink it because it tastes very good and delicious.

People drink a lot of tea in England. Every afternoon, people drink tea. It’s “tea time”, English people like to drink their tea with milk in it.

Many people drink black tea in the US. In the South, people like to drink sweet tea. Sweet tea is cold black tea with sugar in it.

Most tea comes from China. Some tea comes from India of Sri Lanka Kenya, Japan and Indonesia also grow tea.