When you speak, write a letter, or make a telephone, your words carry a message. People communicate with words.     1     A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears（眼泪）in your eyes tell others that you are sad.     2     the teacher knows you want to say something or ask questions. You shake your head and people know you are saying “No”. You nod and people know you are saying “Yes”.

    3     For example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the door tells you where to go in or out. Have you ever thought that there are a lot of other signs around you and that you receive messages from them all the time? People can communicate in many other ways. An artist can use his drawings to tell about the beautiful mountains, the blue seas and many other things. A writer writes books to tell you about all the wonderful things in the world and also about people and their ideas.     4     They can help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thinking about.

【推荐2】Have you ever shown your photos on your favorite social media?     1     If yes, do you know what you have posted on the social media can cause problems you could not expect?

Many teenagers think they know everything about social media, and that bad things could never happen to them. However, studies show that each year more than three million young people in the world get into trouble because of their online activities.

So do remember these if you really want to share something online.

    2     Not everyone will like what you write online. Think before you post anything. You never know who sees your texts, pictures or videos. Before clicking “post”, you should ask yourself, “How will I feel if my family or teachers see this?” and “How might this post be bad for me in five or ten years from now?”

    3     Imagine someone is unfriendly in real life. The same is true of online communication.     4     If you feel angry or frustrated while you’re writing a message, wait a bit. Read it again later and then send it.

Protect and respect! Never share your passwords with anyone.     5     Don’t say bad things about people. If you get messages like that or see them online, talk to your parents or your teachers.

【推荐3】A person has two ears but only one mouth. That means we should listen, not just speak. The word “listen” has the same letters as the word “silent”.     1     Then why is it important to be a good listener?

Listening is really helpful.

When someone is sad or angry, he wants to express his poor feelings. At this moment, we need to listen silently first until he gets calm.     2     Maybe it is a good way to help him out.

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For example, we may think our parents are always talking too much. But in fact, they do so because they are worried about our health, study and so on.     4     A silent listening is often more powerful than words.

Listening is polite behavior.

Sometimes, we just want others to listen to us but forget to listen to others. In fact, that’s impolite. In order to show our respect for others, we had better listen to them first. Then we can express our ideas.

    5     Every head is a world. So we should learn to listen with our ears, eyes and hearts as much as we can, and try to make ourselves good listeners from now on.

【推荐2】Everybody enjoys acts of kindness. But can you explain why? Some people think kindness is something out of love and care, while others believe it is just a tool that we use to become more popular. But research shows that being kind can be good for an area of the brain called Striatum. Research also shows that kindness improves people’s mood (情绪). But why and how does it happen? Here are a number of different ways.

Being kind can make someone smile. If you see yourself smile in a public place, people around may be smiling, too. This is specially true for your close friends and family. A kind act makes someone who is sad feel better. It can also make ourselves feel good.

Secondly, being kind develops a good start with others. Kind acts like buying someone a present make friendships stronger. Research has shown that spending money on others may help you get a stronger feeling of happiness than spending it on yourself.

Thirdly, being kind also lifts everyone’s mind. In another recent research, even children in their first year of secondary school know how being kind makes them feel happy. If one person is kind, he or she makes others in the group kind. Imagine that you make cakes for the office and it makes others do it each month. Then you’re getting a lot more cakes.

Finally, being kind may improve your mood. Many researches have also shown that if you’re in a good mood, you can act much more kindly. This makes it a wonderful two-way relationship, doesn’t it? So the story doesn’t end here.

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May 19—the date when Xu Xiake began writing his travel notes—became China a Tourism Day in 2011. Xu was a famous geographer and traveller of the Ming Dynasty. This year, the theme of China Tourism Day is “Experience Chinese Culture and Enjoy a Beautiful Journey”. The ancient city of Pingyao, Shanxi, is the main venue (举办地) for the activities of China Tourism Day this year.

However, people’s travel habits have changed a lot because of COVID-19. In order to stay away from the illness, most people have accepted that they should not get together, not travel far, and should pay more attention to health. Travelling through new technical ways like VR (虚拟现实) has become a new way to see the world.

74.8 percent would choose to travel online according to the latest research. As many as 59.7 percent of people said that they had a good experience of online travel. 84.1 percent of people said it made their travel experience richer, and some of them added that online travel made them know the exhibits (展览品) better when they visited museums.

Travelling online has become popular since the outbreak (爆发) of COVID-19. “Through technical ways, online travel has been a new way of tourism industry (旅游产业) and virtual (虚拟的) technology has provided more possible ways of showing the content of tourism,” said Li Baiwen, a professor at the School of Tourism of Beijing Union University.

【推荐2】You know you have to read “between the lines,” to get the information.     1     You shouldn’t mark a book which isn’t yours. People who lend you books expect you to keep them clean. If you think it is useful to mark books, you will have to buy them.

There are two ways in which one can own a book. One is to pay for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture （家具）. But full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself.     2    

There are three kinds of book owners.     3     The second has most of the books that are as clean as those on the day they were bought. The third has a few dog-eared （翻折的）books, which are marked from front to back.

Why is marking a book necessary?     4     And reading is thinking. The marked book is usually the thought-through book. Writing helps you remember the thoughts you had a lot, or the thoughts the writer expressed.

    5     The book you read for pleasure can be read in a state （状态）of relation, and nothing is lost. But for a great book, rich in ideas, you can’t let your eyes move across the lines. You should come up with an understanding of what you have read.