【推荐1】Today is Sunday, and there will be a concert（音乐会）at Honghe Concert Hall at 7:00 p.m. Mr. Smith arrives there early, and he is reading the “Notice to the Audience（听众须知）”.

Notice to the Audience

Dress neatly（整洁地）and don’t wear slippers（拖鞋）into the concert hall.

Don’t take food or drink into the hall.

Don’t take children under 1.2m in height into the concert hall.

Keep off（关闭）all mobile phones during the concert.

Don’t take photos during the concert. Don’t smoke in the concert hall.

【推荐1】Everyone knows how to play rock-paper-scissors (石头剪子布), right? Rock defeats scissors, Scissors cut paper. Paper covers rock. So, which one do you like to throw first?

A. Rock

B. Scissors

C. Paper

You have your own goals and always work hard for them. You are honest and straightforward (坦率的). It is always easy for you to get on well with others.

You are clever. You always think a lot before you do something. Your words can be sharp (尖刻的) sometimes. Other people sometimes think you are unkind.

You are friendly and passive (被动的). It may also show that you are sad. Or you don’t feel safe. You are a humble (谦虚的) boy or girl.

This quiz is just for fun. Don’t take it seriously.

【推荐2】Have you met someone who kept talking and talking, and you couldn’t get them to stop? You don’t want to be impolite by telling them to shut up, but you really want to get out of the conversation. Here are some ways to help you.

Use body language, While it may feel impolite, you could turn away, leave your headphones on, and avoid looking at his or her eyes, which will show that you don’t want to talk. This may save you from directly telling someone to stop talking later on.

Keep working on whatever activity you are doing. Get up and move around, be active and find little things to do instead of listening.

Interrupt (打断) them as soon as you can. Saying things like “I’d like to add something” or “If I could interrupt you for just a minute” will often let someone know that they are talking too much.

Lead the conversation. This is especially helpful when dealing with someone you often talk to. Let them know that you heard what they said and guide the conversation in a different direction.

Mention that you don’t have a lot of time to talk. Expressions like “I would love to chat (聊天) but I have to go for a movie right now” and “Today’s not a great day to talk. I have a lot of tasks” will make you easily end the conversation.

Remember it is a skill to back out of a conversation without saying “You are boring. Shut up.”

【推荐3】Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

This is an old English saying (谚语). It means that we should go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich and clever.

Is this true? Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children of your age need ten hours’ sleep every night. If you go to bed late, you can’t have enough sleep. Then you can’t think carefully and your homework will be wrong. You will not be wise and you may not become wealthy!

Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We should sleep at night when it is dark. The dark helps us sleep well. When the daylight comes, we should get up. This is the time for exercise. If the body is not used, it will become weak. Exercise keeps it strong.

Exercise helps the blood to move around inside the body. Blood takes nutrition to all parts of our bodies. The brains (大脑) in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and take exercise, we can think better!

Our bodies also need air to breathe (呼吸). Without air we will die. Get up early in the morning and we can have plenty of clean, fresh air. That will keep us healthy and happy.