【推荐1】What is adolescence (青春期)? It starts when you are aged between about ten and thirteen.     1     You may not want to spend as much time with your parents as you used to. You want more freedom to choose who you see and when you see. In the past, your parents made decisions for you. But now you want to decide things for yourself and don’t want to be told what to do all the time.

All these changes are perfectly normal.     2     So what can you do to make life easier and get on well with your parents?

Firstly, your parents will feel much better if you let them know that you still love and value them.     3     They may not say so, but they are probably feeling a sense of loss and may even feel be rejected (拒绝) by you. So try to express your love to them from time to time.

    4     You may feel these rules are unnecessary, but your parents’ main concern is often just to keep you safe. Once you have agreed with the rules, try to stick to them.

Thirdly, try to understand why they might be irritated (生气) by your behaviour. Do your parents get cross if you spend three hours chatting with friends on social media and leave your homework till the last minute?     5    

Finally, it’s all about communication! Keep talking to your parents, tell them about what you did today, let them know where you are going, and ask for advice if you need.

【推荐2】Encouraging music fills the air as students move their arms and dance along to do aerobic exercises(有氧体操). This term, students at one school in Beijing have more fun activities.

“Students have different physical conditions(身体状况) after getting healthy again from COVID-19,” Wang Lifang, a PE teacher at that school, told a newspaper office. “So we start from easier activities such as dancing and fun games to slowly improve students’ physical health.”

The PE teachers created a series of aerobic exercises themselves, which can train many parts of the student’s body. To make sure everyone is safe, the school also uses wearable devices(可穿戴设备) during exercises to test how many times the student’s heart beats in one minute.

“The music is relaxing, and we all enjoy this kind of funny PE class.” said Tu Yahan, a student in Grade Eight.

At Taipingchuan No. 1 Middle School in Jilin, students began to do Taichi instead of running during the morning break. “I like doing Taichi because it won’t make you out of breath. I think it’s good for students who are still coughing these days,” said Liu Jiawei from the school.

But this doesn’t mean that students will not do other usual sports anymore. According to Wang, the PE teachers will keep changing the ways of training according to students’ conditions and slowly go back to normal teaching. “During this special period of time, it’s even more important to let students realize the value of sports and develop healthy exercise habits,” said Wang.

【推荐1】In the past, 398 residents (居民）in the village of Ushkaplun in Xinjiang had difficulty in getting safe drinking water. They had to walk along the mountain road for two hours to the nearest water source. The water was not clean. They used only gauze (纱布）to filter the water. It was not a strange thing for the residents in the village to fall sick after drinking the water.

Now, however, all the villagers can enjoy clean drinking water straight from the tap at home. Taking a shower used to be something of a luxury (奢侈）, but now the villagers can enjoy one every day. The tap water has made their lives much more convenient.

The change happened in 2018. The local government spent almost 9 million yuan building a project to provide water for the village. It took water from a spring (泉) at an altitude of 3,500 meters. There were huge difficulties in building the project because large machines could not enter the area. The workers had to depend on horses to move materials in. Sometimes, they had to carry materials themselves.

This was one of many projects to provide clean drinking water for the residents in the countryside. Before 2020, in southern Xinjiang alone, the residents in 67 villages couldn’t use tap water. To supply them with safe drinking waters the workers had to overcome lots of difficulties. First of all, there was no suitable local water source because the water there wasn’t fit for drinking. After a long period of surveying and researching, they decided to get water from more than 100 kilometers away to meet the needs of the 470.000 residents in Payzawat .

The great project began in May 2019. and on May 20, 2020, the last part of the project was completed. A time of safe drinking water began for the residents in the area. More than 90 percent of the residents in the countryside now use tap water, up from 71 percent in 2015.

【推荐3】①Now, students and teachers have more chances to use technology in schools. But how much technology should be used in the classroom?

②The biggest advantage of technology in the classroom today is that information is readily got. Students can simply type a question and receive a list of websites with useful information. If a teacher wanted to show a short video in a class 20 years ago, the teacher had to keep the part on the video tape first. Videos are much easier to show today, and a teacher can simply find the video on Douyin. In this way, both teachers and students can get large amounts of information quickly.

③Another advantage is the amount of resources(资源) that can help students learn in the classroom. Now, there are apps, videos, games, and online resources that make lessons more interesting and effective. Technology can also help students study the same lesson by different methods.

④With all the advantages that technology brings into the classroom, there are some disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage may be lower quality(质量) of research and student work. Because of so many online resources, it is easier to turn to the Internet for research. Often, it’s difficult for a student to choose the right information. Also, with so much research done through the Internet, a student may not even know how to find useful information in the library. Another one is that technology can stop the learner from real learning. A teacher might try to use technology to make a lesson more interesting, but the technology itself can catch students’ attention rather than the lesson. It can also keep students from acting actively in the classroom.

⑤How much technology should be used in the classroom is under discussion. It is sure that technology is here to stay. The best way may be a balance(平衡) of both technology and traditional learning methods.

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