Curiosity (好奇心) is part of human nature. Children are famous for wanting answers to lots of questions. People keep reading or watching because they want to find out what happens. Curiosity also provides many advantages.

Learning is the easiest if you have a true interest in something new. Curiosity can develop that interest when you have a question. Many of the greatest inventions were made by curious people. People always wanted to know how things worked.   (A) Thanks to their curiosity, people now know far more about the world.

Curiosity helps students study well at school. If you develop the curiosity of learning, classes will become more fun. Even if you’re no longer a student, curiosity will make you do better in your work.

What do you do if you’re not already curious?

Firstly, improve your curiosity. Curiosity is a skill that can be improved. If you act like you’re curious, you’ll quickly start to actually feel curious. Often, the more you learn about a topic (主题), the more interesting it becomes. Then, enjoy different opinions. When you learn about a topic, get information from as many sources (来源) as possible. Read different books, watch or listen to speeches and ask questions. Don’t always get your information from the same source. Finally, ask a lot of questions. Everyone knows something that you don’t. Find out what that is, and ask about it. So you need to search for a wide choice of points even for one question.

In the classroom or out of it, developing curiosity is sure to be helpful. (B)不断提升你的好奇心，你就会变得越来越好。

Learning is the easiest if you are ________ in something new. The more you learn about a topic, the more interesting it becomes. If you’re not already curious, you can use the writer’s ________ ways. They are sure to be helpful.

All students want to look good. Looking good can make other people like you and make you happy. It can also help you make more friends. So it is important to look good.

Many teachers say Jacob is a good boy who always looks good. Well, we should learn from him. Let’s listen to what Jacob says.

“A smile (微笑) tells that you are a happy boy. But if your teeth are not clean, people will not like you. So I brush my teeth twice a day.

Dirty hair is bad like dirty teeth. No one likes dirty hair. Wash it and visit a barber’s (理发店) often. It is not a good idea to wear too long hair. Teachers don’t like it, right?

The body is also important. Boys often want to look strong like the men on TV. In fact (事实), few people can be like them. But you can look healthy! Exercise and healthy food can help you. Don’t eat too much meat, and exercise for more than 3 hours every week.

Be yourself. Don’t just learn from stars or your friends.

Tea is an important part of Chinese tradition. Tea has a very close relationship to Chinese culture.

It is said that Chinese tea was discovered by King Shen Nong. People say that he lived 5000 years ago. One summer day, while he was visiting a faraway part of his country, he felt very thirsty. The servants began to make water hot enough to turn into gas for him to drink. Dried leaves from a near plant fell into the water. The king drank some, and found it could make him feel less tired. Also as a scientist, Shen Nong was interested in the new drink.

Drinking tea has many advantages. It makes people feel less tired and clears heat inside the human body. As you add a cup of tea to your daily life, please check the following helpful advice.

●Drink it hot. Tea oxidizes(氧化) quickly, so it is suggested that you drink it hot.

●The best time to drink tea is between meals. It may not make you have a strong wish to eat when your stomach is empty, or cause stomachache when your stomach is full.

●Do not drink with medicine. It may change the medical result. You can drink tea two hours after you take medicine.

●Green tea is the best choice for office workers. Why? Because green tea helps stop the bad result of the computer.

●Do not drink too much strong tea. If you make the tea too strong, it will probably be harmful to your stomach and make you feel sick.

Many people like to travel by plane because it is fast. But I don’t like it because the airport is too far from my house. 3. It takes me about 50 minutes to get there by taxi. I like to travel by train. I think it’s easy for me to take the train because the train station is not far from my house. When you are late for the train, you can take another train. You can walk around in the train. You can see many interesting things on the way. It’s really interesting. 4. I also like cars because we don’t need to go to the bus station or the train station. And we can take many things with us in the car. My father often drives his car to travel with us on the weekend. But now there are too many cares on the road.

【推荐2】Everywhere in the world there are different ways of behaving. When we meet someone, everything we say and do expresses our cultural background. So if you want to get on with someone from another culture, it helps to understand something about these differences.

Even how we stand depends on our culture. English people talk to each other at an average“ (平均的) distance of 130 cm, while Italians chat at an average distance of 80 cm. So Italians can think that English people are unfriendly because they stand too far away! And English people can think that Italians are too close.

Touching is also cultural. The Frenchmen touch much more than Americans do. A French couple may touch 100 times in half an hour while an American couple may only touch twice! And French teenagers touch each other much more than American teens.

Canada

If you are invited for a meal, you should arrive on time-not early or late.

Indonesia

Never point to anything with your foot.

France

When eating out, keep both hands on or above the table.

Bikes are very popular in China. In the country, you can see bikes almost everywhere. When you walk on the road, you can find a lot of people riding bikes to schools, shops and any other place. So many people call China “the kingdom of bikes”. In China, many families have one or two bikes.

Compared with cars, bikes have many advantages. First, bikes often don’t need much money. Some Chinese can’t buy cars, but they can buy bikes. They can also use OFO bikes (共享单车) with only one yuan every hour. An app on the phone helps them to do that. Second, bikes are small to park anywhere. But cars need a bigger place. What’s more, they can’t ride bikes too fast. So it’s usually not dangerous to ride.

However, bikes also bring some problems. Some riders don’t follow the traffic rules and some don’t think about others’ safety. So they ride too fast during rush hours (高峰期). There may be traffic jams because there are too many bikes on the road.

【推荐1】Children love the Spring Festival because they can get gift money. But how do the children spend the gift money? Let’s see.

In my family, I can decide how to use my gift money myself. I got 3,600 yuan last year. I used the money to buy some books and school things. The money was also useful for my after-class activities.

During Spring Festival, I got over 2,000 yuan. I can decide how to spend the money. I chose to put all of it in the bank. I hope to use it if I have a chance to study in other countries in the future. I know studying in other countries is expensive.

The money I got last year was over 1,000 yuan. It was really hard for my parents to make money and they also gave gift money to my cousins, so I gave most of my gift money to my parents. Of course, I still had some money for myself. I bought something I needed and some gifts for my parents on their birthdays.

I can use part of my gift money. This year, my parents helped me to save 1,800 yuan in the bank and left 1,000 yuan for me. I spent 465 yuan on 8 books and I also bought Taylor Swift’s new vinyl record (黑胶唱片) of Midnights in October for 337 yuan because she is one of my favorite singers.

It’s very easy to waste money-even small buying like school things and snacks quickly add up. This not only makes it harder to save up for the things you really want, but also means you might run out of money. 1 Working out what you need can surely help you.

What do you need?

People often mistake things that they need for things that they want. For example, you need a pair of shoes, but that doesn’t mean you need to buy a pair in the latest fashions (时尚).

What do you want?

Wants are things that would be nice to have, but that you can live without. 2 As a child you might want a new bike, but when you get a bit older you’re more likely to want a phone, new clothes, or even a car.

Mindful spending

It’s important to try “mindful spending”. This means thinking carefully about whether you really need something right now, or whether it would be better to wait or save the money instead.

3 This helps you get into a good habit of spending. You will make it much easier to manage your money when you’re grown up.