【推荐1】How can you clean up your bedroom? You can follow the advice below.

【推荐3】Pedro is 12 years old. He is a good student and he usually gets good grades (分数), but he now can’t go to school. There are many schools in his city but all the schools are closed now. There is a pandemic (流行病) in the world and children can’t go to school.

Pedro studies at home on the computer. Every morning Pedro sits in front of his computer from nine to twelve o’clock and watches and listens to his lessons. His teachers teach the lessons on the Internet. He can talk to his teachers and the other students in his “class”. In the afternoon, Pedro often does his homework. He also reads Chinese, history or English books. He always e-mails his homework to his teachers when he finishes it.

All the children are at home now. Pedro misses his friends and his teachers but he knows that he has to stay at home. He hopes the pandemic can disappear soon, so he can go back to school and play with his friends.

【推荐1】When you are next in Hawaii, be sure to stay at the Garden Hotel. Whether you come on business or on holiday, you will find everything as comfortable and as convenient as you would expect in a first-class international hotel.

Every bedroom has its own private bathroom, telephone, wall-to-wall carpeting and colorful, modern materials and furniture in the local style.

In the Mitsui Restaurant, you can choose your meals from as wide a variety of dishes, both Eastern and European, as you will find anywhere in the country. In the Beach Bar, you can drink with your family and friends in air-conditioned comfort, to the music of internationally known musicians. Or you can take your drink out into the beautiful garden that gives the hotel its name, or to the tables that surround the swimming pool. Throughout the hotel, you will find the service is both friendly and efficient.

The Garden Hotel is right on the beach, only five minutes from Hawaii’s modern shopping center. Here you will find all that money can buy, at prices you can afford.

【推荐2】I'm Fang Ming. On holidays my parents often take me to the zoo in our city because I like animals. I have a lot of toy animals in my room. In the zoo I can see tigers, elephants,monkeys,pandas,bears, giraffes and many other animals. Some animals are very friendly, but some are not. Tigers, bears and lions are very dangerous. That is why they have to stay in cages. But I don't think it's good for animals to stay in cages. They should be free. The animals in cages can't be happy.

Tigers usually live in forests and mountains. They can run very fast. They catch and eat small animals like rabbits and deer,but now they live in small rooms. They have nothing to do every day. So they walk in the cages,and they want to get out. When they are tired,they sleep. I feel sorry for them.

【推荐3】COVID-19 hit all over the world last year. It seemed that most people who were infected with COVID-19 had the common flu. Some people suffered from a fever or a cough.

Here is some advice to help you protect yourself.

Wash your hands. You need to wash your hands with soap and hot water before you eat. Try to avoid touching public objects and parts in public areas.

Wear a mask. Some doctors say that masks can stop the COVID-19 as much as 80%, but if you don’t wash your hands often, it’s no use wearing a mask. And it’s necessary to wear the mask in the groups of people.

Try to avoid visiting crowded public areas, such as public bathrooms, supermarket, KTV and so on.

Do sports often. Exercises will help you make your body strong enough to resist the virus.

【推荐1】A cold is a common illness. It often starts with a sore throat. And you usually have a headache, too. It’s not serious, but you can feel very bad.

What should you do when you have a cold? You should have a good rest first. It’s good to drink a lot of water, too. You can see a doctor and take some medicine. Maybe you can also try some traditional Chinese medicine that is now very popular around.

What should you do to prevent (预防) a cold? One important way is to exercise more often. Running, swimming or even walking can help a lot. Try to exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. It’s also important to go to bed early. Studies show that the cold or flu virus (病毒) can live on your hands for a long time. So you should often wash your hands with soap. Finally, it’s important to have a balanced diet (平衡饮食).

If you can do these, you will hardly ever catch a cold again.

【推荐2】Do you believe in green living? Read the following blog (博客) and replies about a fun, easy and creative way to make your lifestyle greener.

	Posted by Gina at 8:32 a.m. on 29 Oct. 2021 New uses for old clothing Nowadays, we’re more wasteful than ever-buying using and throwing things away without thinking the costs. We need to start living more responsibly—but how? One answer is to upcycle (再生利用). If you are like me you might already make soil for gardening from food waste and use empty paper boxes as storage place. Did you know you can apply (应用) the same way to old clothing? You just need imagination! I started upcycle clothing. Making new things out of old clothes is the best way to mix my talent and my interest. Do you upcycle? If so, what new things have you made? If not, why not give it a try?
	Terry B   Posted at 9:08 a.m. on 29th Oct. 2021 Why don’t you give your old clothes to people in need? I even gave away the most expensive things. I don’t wear any more. So I can help the environment while giving something useful to people in need.
	Gina   Posted at 9:28 a.m. on 29 Oct. 2021 Good points! I’m talking about only the oldest clothing in your room — the clothes that are too old to be worn by others. The same idea goes for food waste at restaurants and supermarkets. Before upcycling food that can still be eaten, for example, using it to make soil, we should give it to those in need.
	Betty99     Posted at 10:18 a.m. on 29th Oct. 2021 I have made shopping bags out of T-shirts and dog toys out of socks Upcycling clothing is a fun hobby, but the most important thing is that it makes me feel like I’m living less wastefully.

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【推荐3】He’s an old cobbler(修鞋匠）with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me: “I don’t have time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street. He’ll fix them for you right away.”

But I’d had my eye on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman(手艺人). “No,” I replied, “the other fellow can’t do it well.”

“The other fellow was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys ‘while-U-wait’-without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap(鞋带)you might as well just throw away the pair.

My man saw I wouldn’t give in, and he smiled. He wiped his hands on his blue apron(围裙）， looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back in a week.”

I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

“See what I can do?” he said with pride. “Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work.” When I got back out into the street, the world seemed brand-mew to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-know-where and, above all, his pride in his craft.

These are times when nothing is important but he bottom line, when you can do things any old way as long as it “pays”, when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing, consumption (消费）rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.