【推荐1】In real life, most people seem confident（自信的）. But when they can’t have things they want, they are upset and lose themselves. Do you want to learn how to be yourself? Here are some suggestions（建议）.

    1     Appreciate（欣赏）what you have done. Everyone has different talents which can help to make the world become a better one. Remember you don’t need to satisfy（使满意）everyone. No matter what others think of you, just be yourself.

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Always make friends with people who are willing to make you feel better about yourself. Good friends neither（既不）talk about how great they are nor（也不）praise（表扬）you a lot. They enjoy being with you, not because you are like them, but because you are yourself.

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Taking an active part in your team activities can make you feel good in the team. If you join in your team activities actively, you’ll feel that you are important in your team and it can improve you as much as possible.

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The values（价值）of your family are to give you what you really need. Maybe they can’t help when you have small problems. But you can learn how to depend on（依靠）yourself. When you meet big problems, your family will always be with you.

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Holding on to your dream can make you braver and stronger. On the way of achieving your dream, you’ll know who you are and what you want. Even though you can’t achieve（实现）it, you’ll find you are better and you can still live a normal life.

In a word, you are the only. Accept （接受）yourself and be yourself. Being unsuccessful doesn’t mean you’re not good enough. You just need a long way to go.

In real life, when most people can’t have things they want, they are upset and lose themselves. Do you want to     6     how to be yourself? Here are some suggestions.

First, no matter what others think of you, just be yourself. Second, always make     7     with people who are willing to make you feel better about yourself. Third, join in your team activities actively, you’ll feel that you are     8     in your team and it can improve you as much as possible. Fourth, when you meet big problems, your family will always be     9     you. And     10    , holding on to your dream can make you braver and stronger.

All in all, you are the only. Accept yourself and be yourself. You need a long way to go.

【推荐2】Mrs. Whitson taught us science. On the first day，she gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus，an animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. She passed around a skull（头骨）as she talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz.

When she returned my paper，I was shocked. There was a big red X through each of my answers. I had failed. There had to be some mistakes！（A）我确切地记下了老师说的。Then I realized that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened？

Very simple，Mrs. Whitson explained. She had made up all the stuff about the cattywampus. There had never been any such animals. The information in our notes was，therefore，incorrect.

Needless to say，we were（B）outraged. What kind of test was this？And what kind of teacher？We should have figured it out，Mrs. Whitson said. After all，at every moment she was passing around the cattywampus skull（in truth，a cat's）.Hadn't she been telling us that there was no such an animal？She had described its amazing night vision，the color of its fur and any number of other facts she couldn't have known. She had given the animal a ridiculous（荒谬的）name，and we still believed her words were right.

（C）The zeroes on our papers would be recorded in her grade book，she said. And they were.

Mrs. Whitson said she hoped we would learn something from this experience. She told us not to let our minds go to sleep，and to speak up if we ever thought she or the textbook was wrong.

【推荐1】    1     It is a big part of most people’s lives. There are social apps and sites like WeChat and Sina Weibo, as well as video apps like Douyin and Kuaishou. How do you behave when you use these apps? Recently researchers at the University of Sussex, UK, studied media (媒体) users from 10 to 15 years old. They found there are four personality types (类型).

    2     They don’t have enough knowledge to keep themselves safe online. Their personal information can be made public and cause problems for them. To avoid this, you should check your personal settings on social media. “Friends only” is a good choice. Don’t share your personal information.

    3     They are active social media users, but they find it much more difficult to deal with the life in the real world. Most of them are boys who like playing computer games and making music and videos. They often post creative works online, using unreal names. In fact, they should avoid spending too much time on the Internet.

    4     They like sharing as well, but they are much more visible (看得见的) than Geeks. They might become well-known for their singing or dancing. But many of them, especially teenagers, share almost every side of their lives in order to own more fans. Being a teenage Internet celebrity can sometimes cause problems in the real world.

    5     Most teenagers probably fall into the type, or people who are neither too active nor visible. This group prefers WeChat over Sina Weibo, as WeChat has private groups. They can’t express themselves well, but at least they make sure to protect their privacy (隐私).

【推荐3】If you dream of becoming a spaceman after you grow up, get started now! A spaceman needs a strong body and mind. See here what spacemen are able to do. They have many abilities that may make you amazed.

Spacemen are able to live upside down. They do this not just during sleep. They also do this when eating and going to the toilet. Before they fly into space, they have lots of practice. Each upside-down training lasts for 20 days.

Spacemen aren’t only drivers, but repairers and scientists. They have to know every part of the spaceship and how it works. If something goes wrong, they must know how to make it work again. Also, they do scientific experiments in space.

Spacemen know how to live in the wild. They take a knife, a gun and some dye (染料) with them into space. If they land in forests, the knife and the gun can protect them from wild animals. If they fall into the sea, the dye colours the water around yellow. This can help people find them easily on the sea.

Spacemen can’t get dizzy (眩晕的). A spaceship is not a plane. When it goes up, the extra gravity force can break people’s bones. Spacemen must have strong bodies for this. They can’t get a headache or be sick. With many things to take care of, they’ve got no time for sickness.

【推荐1】As you know, homework is a big part of going to school. By doing homework, students can remember what they have learnt more easily. Moreover, they can use it more correctly. However, homework, sometimes, is much and hard. Luckily, here are some suggestions for you to make homework easy.

Plan the homework. Most middle school students have two or three hours of homework a night. If it is a day with heavy homework, you may need to spend even more time. It is a good idea to come up with some kind of homework schedule(进度表),especially if you are going to do sports or other activities after school.

Watch where you work. A bedroom, study or any room where you can get away from noise is good for you to do your homework. Don’t study on your comfortable bed if you want to do homework well, or you might fall asleep there.

Take a break. Most people’s attention (注意力) doesn’t last very long, so take some breaks while doing your homework. Sitting for too long but not having a rest will make you less productive (多产的) than if you stop to take a break regularly. Taking a 15-minute break every hour is a good way for most people to refresh themselves.

Get help when you need it. Sometimes even though you are listening carefully in class, some subjects seem too hard. The first person to ask for help is your teacher. He or she may be able to work with you before or after school and explain (解释) things more clearly. Your classmates may also be able to give you a hand. However, this might not give you the results you want. Lots of people understand something well but are not able to explain it.

The Silk Road is the name of different roads that long ago connected Europe, Africa and Asia. People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists believe people began to travel the Silk Road about 3000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world.The Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometres. It spread from Rome to China, which is from the West to the Far East.

Traders travelling along the Silk Road carried silk, of course. They also carried and traded spices (香料), cloth, valuable stones and gold.

Along and around these ancient path（小路）, have come many fascinating and mysterious stories__

It is said that Roman soldiers (士兵) travelled through central Asia. They started to live somewhere near the ancient Chinese village of Liqian. Some of these Romans married local Chinese women and the story of blue-eyed villages of China was started.

During its busiest period, the Silk Road allowed people from many different cultures and countries to meet each other and mix. The Silk Road allowed the sharing of valuable goods and new ideas. These included people and trading goods from the Mediterranean, Persian, Magyar, Armenian, Bactrian, Indian and Chinese areas. All these peoples travelled the Silk Road, and they shared goods, stories, languages, and cultures.

In modern times, the old Silk Road routes (路线) are still used, but now they are crossed by trains instead of camels and horses. There is even a Silk Route Museum in Jiuquan in China. It has over 35,000 objects from all along the Silk Road. In this way, China protects the history of many countries and peoples.

【推荐3】①We do want help our family, friends and classmates when they’re having a hard time. But how can we help them out in right ways?

②Rachel Miller is a writer and she mentions some ways about (A) that in her book How to Be There for Yourself and Your People.

③Keep your focus on your friend. When a friend comes to you, it’s a good idea to help them forget their terrible experience. But if you want to tell them a similar experience, it’s not always welcome.

④If you do feel that your experience might be helpful to hear, Miller’s advice is to let your friend know that you went through something similar, but allow them to decide if they want to hear about it at the moment.

⑤Ask how you can best help your friend. You may not know what kind of help your friend wants. Just ask! Miller advises to try these questions: “What’s the best way I can help you right now?”, “Do you need someone to talk to?”, “Would you like my help?”, or “How are you feeling about the hard experience you’re going through?”

⑥ (B) _________ People may shy away from saying “I’m sorry” to the people in trouble, because you cannot feel the same way as them. But Miller says a real, honest “I’m sorry” can help to make your friend feel heard and accepted. “Sometimes there isn’t a perfect way to make people feel better,” she says. “But what you need to do is to say ‘You’re not alone. I’m with you. I’m so sorry it’s happening to you.’ ”

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