It’s always a happy moment when you get some pocket money (零花钱). But have you ever thought about how to spend your pocket money wisely? Here is some advice.
Make a list
When you get your pocket money, don’t get too excited. We all have a lot of things that we want. But do you really need them? That’s why it is necessary to make a list before you spend money. Start with the thing you want most. You can also write down how much it costs or how important it is in your life. By doing this, you will see if it is really necessary to buy it.
Help others
How about being more selfless and using your pocket money to help others? We all know that there are many people in the world who are in need of our help. Helping others brings out the best in us and brings us great joy. So consider using your pocket money to do something useful and helpful, and feel how you can make a difference.
Save as much as you can
There is an old saying that “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” If you spend all your pocket money right away, you’ll have no money until your next “pay day”. A wallet sometimes might not be the best place to save money because it may make it easier for you to spend your money. Get a piggy bank or ask your parents to start a savings account (账户) for you. Someday when you look back, you’ll get a strong feeling of achievement by saving so much money by yourself!
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Do you want to do volunteer work but don’t know how? Here are some ideas for you.
Helping your old neighborsWhen people get older, it becomes harder to do many things. Old people living alone can also feel lonely. As a volunteer, you can do a lot to help the old in your neighborhood. You can visit and talk to them. And there is also much housework you can help with.
Helping the disabledMany people with disabilities need help. Some of them even can’t live on their own. You can volunteer to read books to the blind or deliver (递送) something for people who can’t get around too well. Helping poor families
Some families don’t have enough money to buy food and clothes for their kids. Some people even have no place to live. To help these people, you can give clothes, food or money to, or raise money for, a charity (慈善机构).
| Whom to help | What to do |
| Old neighbors | ★Visit and talk to them ★Help them with |
| ★ ★Deliver something for people unable to | |
| Poor families | ★Give clothes, food or money to a charity ★ |
【推荐2】One Sunday evening, after dinner, Mr and Mrs Holt were walking by the lake. They saw a big bird under a tree. It can’t fly. It had a broken wing. They went over to have a look at it. It was a nice parrot. It was saying some numbers. They were surprised. They knew birds could say a few words, but they didn’t know birds could say some numbers. They took the parrot home. It said numbers again. They listened carefully. The bird was saying the same numbers! Mrs Holt said, “Is the bird saying a telephone number?” Then she wrote the number down and called the number on the telephone. It was really a right telephone number. The woman was answering the telephone. She said that the bird was hers. She taught the bird to say the number every day. The woman came to Mrs Holt’s house to have the bird back. She thanked Mr and Mrs Holt very much.
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After supper Mr Holt was walking near the lake with his
It is a great thing to help others. First, you can learn new things. Second, it can also make you feel good.
How can you do it? Helping through charities(慈善团体) is a good idea. Charities are organizations(组织) that help others . September 5th is the International Day of Charity.
You can help charities by giving your time, giving money or giving things you own.
·Volunteering
Volunteering is to give time to help others without pay. Some ways of volunteering are:
☆visiting old people to talk to them or help them.
☆walking dogs at an animal shelter(收容所) .
☆cleaning up a park.
☆helping some children. You can teach the children without life skills how to take care of themselves.
·Fund-raising
Fund-raising is to collect or produce money to a charity to help others. Some ways of fund raising are:
☆making cakes or biscuits to sell.
☆doing sponsored(有赞助的) activities . For example, families and friends give you money if you finish a long walk.
·Donating
Donating is to give your things to a charity to help others. Some ways of donating are:
☆giving away old toys and books to poor children to cheer them up.
☆giving your old books to a library. So, what can you do to help others?
1. Why is it a great thing to help others?2. Which day is the International Day of Charity?
3. How can you do to help charities?
4. What is fund-raising?
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Now more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to do housework, because their parents do almost everything for them at home.
Mary is 14 years old. One day, her parents went on a trip, so she was alone at home. At first, she thought she would be happy because her parents were not in. She could do everything that she liked. But when it was six o’clock in the afternoon, she felt hungry. “Oh, it’s time to have dinner. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself. Later she found some meat and vegetables in the fridge (冰箱), but she didn’t know how to cook them. At last, she could only go to a restaurant to eat.
Many teenagers have the same problem as Mary. So I think they should learn some life skills (技能), like cooking, cleaning up their rooms or dressing themselves. They shouldn’t depend too much on their parents.
1. Did Mary eat dinner at home at last?2. Where did Mary’s parents go?
3. What life skills should the teenagers learn?
4. Do you think it’s necessary for teenagers to do some housework? Why or why not?
I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, should stand up, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman whenever anyone entered the room. I saw him last week when I visited them. Lying on the sofa, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in. His mother was angry. “I don’t know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.”
He hasn’t forgotten them. He’s just decided that he’s not going to use them. She said that she would like to throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.
Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress, it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.
“Where did we go wrong?” Her parents are now very sad. Probably nothing is wrong with the parents.
1. This text is most probably written by________.
| A．A specialist in teenager studies |
| B．a headmaster of a middle school |
| C．a parent with teenage children |
| D．a doctor for mental health problems |
| A．the change of the children from good to bad |
| B．the way that parents often blame themselves |
| C．the opinion that a child has of his parents |
| D．the advice that parents want their children to follow |
| A．lazy | B．quiet |
| C．unusual | D．rude |
| A．Parents have no choice but to try to accept it. |
| B．Parents should pay more attention to the change. |
| C．Parents should work more closely with school teachers. |
| D．Parents are a fault for the change in their children. |
Hairstyle is thought to be a personal style choice. However, some Chinese students are required by their schools to have unified (统—的) haircuts, with short hair for male students and shoulder-length hair for female students. Some students don’t like such hairstyles and have broken the rules in school.
Recently, a complaint letter by a middle school student in Fuzhou, Fujian province as well as the response of the local government to the letter has caught public attention and led to a public discussion.
In the letter, the student wrote, “Our school tells us that it’s easy for teenage male students to pay more attention to beautiful female students, so it wants girls to have simple appearances and develop their talents. I highly question whether this kind of requirement really helps students to develop good habits and show good appearances.”
“ Why can’t the school give students a choice to be themselves? Why does the school need to make all the teenage boys pay no attention to girls? Doesn’t the school need more sexual (性别的) education?”
The Fuzhou government wrote back to the student and considered him a good student with his own thoughts, courage and truth-seeking spirit. The school asks students to have unified haircuts and wear uniforms simply because it wants teenagers to pay more attention to their studies. Besides, collectivism (集体主义) is very important for the country’s development. Although the city has required students to have unified haircuts, schools can set different hairstyle standards that allow students to show their personal styles.
A discussion on hairstyle | |
| Students’ opinions | The purpose of the school is the It’s Students’ personal styles are paid little attention to, nor is the sexual education. |
| Local government’s replies | The Fuzhou government The school does this only to make students focus on their studies. Collectivism To |
【推荐1】Recently, Flu (流感) widely spreads from one person to another. This is especially true to people who are weak. If you are weak, you are more likely to catch flu easily. Do you know how you can avoid flu?
Keep in good health
The best treatment to illness is a good health. You can eat everything you want but (A) ________ that your diet is healthy. The healthier you are, the better it is for you to avoid any type of illness around. Most doctors suggest plenty of fresh fruit juice and water in order for one to avoid flu.
Stay away from people with flu
If a member of the family or a friend has flu, stay away from him/her (B) ________ he/she is well. Flu is very communicable (传染的) and you can catch it by going with the person with flu. Wearing a mask and avoiding using things that the person with flu is necessary to keep away from flu.
Exercise
Exercising will make you stronger, which means a stronger immune (免疫的) system too. (C)经常运动，这样你就会保持健康。 It doesn’t matter what kind of exercise it is. What is important is that you are making your body stronger to stop illness from attacking (攻击) you.
Be happy
Happy people are healthy people. (D) Their life is quite free and comfortable, so they can keep away from illness easily. If you are unhappy, which affects your immune system, you will easily get sick.
Avoiding the flu is easy. Just boost (增强) your immune system and it will take care of the rest.
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3. 将文中划线部分(C)译成英语：
4. 将文中划线部分(D)译成汉语：
5. 能将文中划线的词 stop替换的词是：
March 5 is a special day for Chinese people because of the name Lei Feng. Lei Feng was an ordinary young soldier whose only goal was to serve the people. He was born in 1940 and died at the age of 22 because of an unfortunate accident while he was working. In 1963, Chairman Mao Zedong designated（指定）the day as “Learn From Lei Feng Day”.
Most people born in the 1960s or 1970s keep the strong admiration for the spirit of Lei Feng. What about young people today? Do they still believe in Lei Feng and follow his spirit? The following examples may answer the questions.
In 2011, 27-year-old Zhang Liangliang and his friends made a movie where an ordinary guy tries to become a superhero by emulating（模仿）Lei Feng. The movie named Lei Feng Xia has been seen by millions of people online.
“Some people these days are only interested in success, fame and money, which means they’re not really well-grounded（脚踏实地）. They need to go back to a good starting point.” said Wang Wei, a young teacher from Zhuhai.
“We can see great things from what Lei Feng did, even though they were just small things. It’s just like the reflection of the sun in a drop of water. It’s our duty to learn from him.” said Li Huanyue, a student from Wen Yuan Middle School.
And with the development of society, learning from Lei Feng should be more realistic（实际的）and modern than before. In order to do this, Guangdong government announced the new slogan “do each other a favor”. And in Changsha, Hunan, the hometown of Lei Feng, the slogan（标语）was also updated（更新）from “devote yourself to benefit others” to “do my duty”.
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What does taking the train mean to you? Perhaps it is just a way of getting to another place. In fact, the train itself can be part of the fun.
On March 28 China’s first panda-themed tourist train left Chengdu in Sichuan for Zunyi in Guizhou. It soon became a talk of China with its special design (设计) and comfortable service.
There are panda pictures inside and outside. Attendants (乘务员) carry panda toys and passengers can try panda-shaped food and Sichuan snacks. Some people call it “a mobile star hotel” because it has a dance hall, a bathroom and 5G network.
Train travel is a good way to relax. It gives you time and space to read, sleep, chat with friends, or simply do nothing but enjoy the beauty outside. Sheng Yawei, 26, once took the longest railway in the World-Trans-Siberian Railway, running from Moscow to Vladivostok. It takes six days. Sheng said. “The rivers, forests, mountains and countryside along the way made me feel quiet.”
Train travel is also full of surprises. You might meet new people. Sheng met a Russian college student and they became friends. “I also met a cute boy who gave me snacks. I didn’t understand his language, but it made me feel warm.”
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2. Why do some people call the panda-themed train “a mobile star hotel”?
3. How long does it take Sheng Yawei to travel from Moscow to Vladivostok by train?
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【推荐1】Today I will tell you something important during your reading. 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 useful to mark books, you will have to buy them.
There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is to get the book by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself. The best way to make it a part of yourself is by writing in it.
There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the best sellers—unread and untouched. The second has many books. But most of them are as clean as 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? First, it keeps you awake. In the second place, reading is thinking. And thinking can express itself in words, spoken or written. The marked book is usually the thought-through book. Finally, writing helps you remember the thoughts you had, or the thoughts the writer expressed.
If reading is to learn anything more than passing time, it must be active. The book you read for pleasure can be read in a state of relaxation, and nothing is lost. But for a great book, rich in ideas, reading must be active. You can’t let your eyes move across the lines. You should come up with an understanding of what you have read.
Answer the questions according to the passage.1. What shouldn’t you do with a book which isn’t yours?
2. How many ways in which one can own a book?
3. What is the best way to make a book a part of yourself?
4. How many kinds of book owners does the writer talk about?
5. What should you do about what you have read?
【推荐2】The Internet is a great place to meet new people and find information. However, it’s important to pay attention to the information you share and the people you communicate with online. Here is some advice on how to stay safe.
Think before you post
It’s fun to share photos with your friends, but don’t post photos of yourself where strangers can see them. Check your privacy settings. Make sure that only your friends can see your information or photos.
Protect your personal information
We use passwords to enter a lot of websites, and we often need to register (注册) at those sites, using personal information. But be careful! There are people online who want to steal your personal information. So, make sure you don’t share your passwords with anyone. What’s more, choose passwords carefully and change them often.
Think twice before you communicate with strangers
There are a lot of great people communicating on the Internet. However, some people online are not so nice. If you receive e-mails from someone you don’t know, think carefully before you reply. And if someone invites you to meet somewhere, tell your parents about it before you make a decision.
Be careful when you open attachments
Someone you won’t know might send you an e-mail with an attachment (附件) that has a computer virus (病毒). A virus can cause all kinds of trouble. It can stop your computer from working. Or it might make it work very slowly. So never open a file(文件) or message from someone you don’t know! Be safe by hitting “Delete” instead.
So have fun when you use the Internet. But remember to stay safe!
| Some advice on how to stay safe online | |
| Think before you post | Check your privacy settings. Make sure |
| Don’t tell your passwords to others. Choose passwords carefully and | |
| Think twice before you communicate with strangers | Think carefully before you |
| Be careful when you open attachments | Be careful of a computer virus. Delete a file or message from someone you don’t know |
【推荐3】Life is not easy all the time. Sometimes, you may have difficult problems. When you don’t know what to do, why not listen to some music? Music may help you a lot when you are not happy. One day, I didn’t do well in an English test. I didn’t know how to face my parents and teacher. I wanted to do nothing. Then, I turned on the radio and a piece of exciting music came out. It was a piece of pop music. I enjoyed the music very much. After hearing the music, I felt happy again. Suddenly, I felt life was like the music. It should be happy. Everyone may meet difficulties. It’s just part of our life. The most important thing is to overcome(克服) the difficulties.
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3. When you don’t know what to do, why not listen to some music?
When you don’t know what to do, why
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4. What may help us a lot when we are not happy?
5. What kind of music made the writer feel happy again?
6. What may everyone meet?
