【推荐1】Beggars are often seen sitting by the side of a street with heads bowed as people pass by. Some ask people passing by for a small amount of money and some just sit and wait to be given money.

To solve the problem, a plan has been suggested. Ten blue money boxes will be placed in busy places such as the market and the railway station. It aims to encourage people not to give money directly to beggars but instead to give generously to local homeless people.

Supporters of this plan think it will be a useful way to solve the beggars’ alcohol and drug problems (酗酒和吸毒). But the police are against the plan arguing that beggars who do not receive cash may turn to criminality to feed their addictions. The homeless charity “Crisis” said the success of any plan will depend on its style. They think that imaginative and active plans can help create local understanding and sympathy instead of hardness. Most of the beggars dislike the plan because they think they will not get enough money from the boxes for their showers, food and clothes.

. Begging is a big social problem both in developing and developed countries. Government must play a big role in solving this problem. Training beggars to work and helping them to find fit jobs is one option. This is especially true for developing countries where many low-skill jobs exist.

The general community should also be educated to see beggars not as dirty, and dangerous, but as people who need understanding and help.

【推荐2】You have lots of things you’d like to do. But sometimes it’s hard to get to the finish line-just like your goal. How can you break your bad habits and develop good ones?     1     Here are a few opinions we often get from kids, followed by ideas that might help.

●I can’t get away from screens.

    2     If you usually spend time lying on the sofa and watching TV programs or a video when you’re bored, go somewhere else instead. Take a book to your room or your violin to the backyard. Or ask if you can help cook in the kitchen.

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Start with “showing up.” Then take one small step or do one tiny task, followed by another and another. For example, how do I practice the piano? First sit at it. Then play one note at a time. Starting with a very simple step often helps. Why? It’s easy, quick, and gets you in action.     4    

●I have no time.

Take a look at the choices you make about how you spend time. Do those choices show what’s important to you? Can you spare 10 minutes a day to work on a goal? Let’s suppose you want to be a singer.     5     Talk with a parent about why your goal counts. Discuss whether you can let go of something less important to free up time to achieve it.

The relationship between a parent and a child is among the most important in a person’s life. Do you know how to develop a good parent and child relationship?

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Teach, work on projects, and play on a level that your child is familiar（熟悉的））with. This makes you seem more kind. If you have a baby, get on the floor and build a city out of blocks. If you have older teens, play video games with them.

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Eat meals most of nights of the week, and have everyone share their best and worst moment of the day. Go to sporting events, movies, or community activities together. Make family time a special part of your daily life.

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Parents are busy, but you also want to make sure your children know that you care about what they have to say. Even if your children are talking over about the same thing at school, try to give them your full attention. When you actively listen, you show their importance to you.

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Many parents just make decisions instead of letting their kids play a role. In fact, the feeling the teens get when their parents want their opinion is valuable. As they become teenagers and adults, it can give them a sense of autonomy（自主权）to express their opinions.

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As your children become older, it’s okay to relax the parent hat a little and let them get a good look of the person under the hat. Showing your kids your human side can actually become lessons. Use personal, age-proper stories to share with them. For example, if you, too, had an incident with being bullied（欺负）in your school days, share that with your child and explain how you got through it.

【推荐1】How much sleep is enough?

To stay in good health, some expert in the US say, adults should get seven to eight hours of sleep. Teenager need nine to ten hours. And pre-school children need more than 10 hours of sleep a night.

Experts say the quality(质量) of our sleep becomes poor as we grow older. This happens because the brain unit that controls sleep begins to weaken slowly as we age.

Experts say the change starts in our 30s. By the time we reach our 50s, a person may have lost 50 percent of their ability to have a restful sleep.

These people have trouble failing and staying asleep through the night. From middle age on, these problems only get worse, and they can have a bad effect on their health.

Signs that show you may not be getting enough sleep:

You’re always hungry or you’ve got unwanted weight. If you are in short of sleep, certain chemicals in your body will not work well and tell your brain in time that you have eaten enough.

You have trouble making decisions. Not having enough sleep may make your brain work slower in problem solving.

You have trouble remembering things. Sleep helps prepare the brain for new memories.

Your feeling changes unreasonably. People who don’t sleep well may feel unable to control their feelings.

You are having trouble seeing. If there is a shortage of sleep, you may not be able to see thing as clearly as usual.

How to improve your sleep? Here are a few things people can do to get better sleep.

Health experts say that exercise and avoiding work on computers make people go to sleep more easily. A cool room is also a good choice for sleeping well.

【推荐2】AII living things on the Earth need water to live. Yet humans are facing serious water problems. According to the United Nations, today over 663 million people live without a safe water supply close to home.

To remind people of the importance of water, the UN first set up World Water Day in 1993. It is on March 22 each year. From March 22 to 28 is also the China Water Week. The first year’s theme is “Waste water”. It tried to call on people to reuse waste water instead of wasting it.

In Australia people make good use of waste water. Most Australians have a grass lawn around their home instead of washing the car in the street. Many of them wash it on the lawn to keep the grass longer so that it covers the ground and reduce evaporation(蒸发).

Rainwater may seem useless to you. But you can also reuse it. People in Germany collect rainwater to wash their toilets. Most houses in the country that are built in the last few years have rainwater collection devices (设备). Rainwater is collected from the root, and then linked to the toilet. But if you don’t have the device just put a bucket(桶) under your roof when it rains.

Water makes up 71 percent of the. Earth’s surface. But we can only use a very small part of it. Only about 3 percent of the world’s. water is fresh water. It’s in lakes, rivers and underground.

Over 80 percent of the waste water in the world goes back into the nature. It has not been cleaned and pollutes the rivers and lakes. Unsafe water makes around 842 ,000 people die each year.

By 2030, about half of the world’s population could be facing water problem. By 2050, as many as seven billion people across the world could not have enough water supplies. The world’s population might be 9. 3 billion by then.

【推荐3】This September, you may have noticed a few new textbooks at school. New Chinese language textbooks appeared on the desks of first-year primary and junior high school students across the country.

Written by the Ministry of Education, the New textbooks will replace older version (版本) used before. The new version focus more on ancient Chinese literature, according to Xinhua.The change is part of the efforts from the Ministry of Education to improve students’ knowledge of traditional Chinese culture. Textbooks for three-year junior high schools have more traditional Chinese articles, 132 in total. They make up 51.7 percent of all the texts.

The articles were chosen from classic proses (散文)，essays (论文)，historical records and poems dating back to the Han, Tang and Song dynasties. There are also more than 30 articles about revolutionary history for junior high school students, such as Chairman Mao Zedong’s well-known piece Serve the People. The new textbooks are well received. Although the topics are serious, the texts are presented with lively illustrations which make them easy to understand.

“They are very lovely and favored by both teachers and students,” Du Bai, a Chinese teacher at No.2 Fruit Lake Primary School in Hubei, told Xinhua. Li Jie, a professor of Chinese language and literature at China University of Communication, couldn’t agree more with the change. “Learning some ancient literature will help junior high school students enjoy the beauty of traditional Chinese culture and prepare them to gain further knowledge of the field”, he told China Daily.