【推荐1】Suppose a man has a car accident. He is hurt badly and is unconscious (失去知觉的),that is, he can’t think, speak, or hear. His family takes him to the hospital. The doctors tell the family that his brain is dead. A machine can make him breathe (呼吸).

Now the patient’s family must answer some difficult questions. Should they think he is dead? Should they ask the doctors to use the machine to make him breathe? Usually, machines can make an unconscious person breathe for several years. However, if his brain is dead, he will never think, speak, or hear again. Then, should his family ask the doctors not to use the machine and let him die?

Someone who is unconscious can’t say he wants to die. Can his family say this for him? Some people think this is a good idea, but others don’t think so.

Many people are hurt when machines keep a person alive. The unconscious person doesn't know this. Machine only makes the family and friends hurt longer.

When people catch a cold, have a fever or a headache, they usually go to the doctor or buy some medicine. But many people also use home remedies (民间疗法) to cure common illnesses.

Lots of people ______hot chicken soup when they have a cold. They find it clears the head and the nose. Some people rub oil (擦油) on the chest (胸部) for a cold. Here are some simple home remedies:

Today(今天) is Monday and I am busy on Monday. At eight I have math. It is not fun. The teacher says it is useful, but I think it is very difficult. Then at nine I have history. At ten I have science. It is difficult but interesting. After that, I have P.E. at 11:00. It is easy and fun. Lunch time is from 12:00 to 13:00, and after that we have Chinese. It is my favorite subject. Our Chinese teacher Mrs. Wang is great fun. My classes finish at 1:50, but after that I have an art lesson for two hours at 14:00 p.m. It is really relaxing!

How about you? When are your classes? What is your favorite subject?

Your friend,

Li Hua

【推荐3】We live in a world full of many different kinds of people. (A)我们想要和别人和睦相处。We also want to be liked by others, The following ways will make others like you.

Do This and You’ll Be Welcome Anywhere

Become really interested in other people. A show of interest must be true. It must bring good results to the person showing the interest, but also to the person receiving the attention. It is a two-way street—both of you get an advantage.

A Simple Way to Make a Good First Impression(印象)

Smile as often as possible. Your smile is a sign of (B) ______(kind). When someone feels stressed from his or her teachers or parents, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds, your smile can help him or her realize that all is (B)_______(hope)---that there is still joy in the world.

If You Don’t Do This, You Are Getting into Trouble

Remember a person’s name. A person’s name is the sweetest and the most important sound in any language. We should realize the magic in a name. The name makes the person different from others; it makes him or her special among all others. If you remember a person’s name, the relationship between both of you will become much closer.

An Easy Way to Become a Good Talker

Be a careful listener first. Ask questions that other persons will like to answer.

(C)Encourage them to talk about themselves and their achievements. What you need to do is just to listen, because people are much more interested in themselves.

My two little daughters and I usually go out and help others on Thankful Thursday.

Last Thursday we were going to buy lunch for the beggars(乞丐) in the street. Then we went to the nearest McDonald’s.

I ordered 15 lunches from it and drove my car to hand them out. We gave the lunches to the beggars. They were excited. We were happy to see that. Then we noticed a small, old woman, asking for pocket money. We gave her our last lunch bag. Before we got into the car, she started to speak to us, “No one has ever done anything like this for me before,” she said with a smile. “Well, I’m glad that we were the first,” I answered. “So when will you eat your lunch,” I asked. She just looked at me with her big, tired brown eyes and said, “Oh, dear, I’m not going to eat this lunch. You see, I have a little daughter. I usually can’t buy her favorite food, but today she will be so happy!”

I don’t know if the kids noticed the tears in my eyes. I have asked many times whether our actions of kindness were too small to change anything. Yet at that moment, I realized the truth of words: “We can do small things with great love.”

Long time ago, there was a man living in a village. He believed that he could read the future in the stars and called himself the Astrologer（占星家）. He spent a lot of his time at night looking at the sky.

One evening he was walking along the open road outside the village. His eyes were, as usual, fixed on the stars. He thought he saw in them that the end of the world was about to happen. Right at that moment, he felt himself falling. Finally, he fell into a hole full of water.

He tried his best to climb out but failed, so he began to shout. His cries for help soon brought the villagers out of their homes. One after another, they came to help him. While pulling the man out of the hole, one of them said, “You try to read the future in the stars, and yet you fail to see what is at your feet! You should care more about things around you, and let the future look after itself.”