1 . Many young people have trouble communicating with their parents. However, there are some very useful tips to help solve this problem.

First, make a list of the things you and your parents disagree about most. With each of these things, try to find an answer acceptable to both you and your parents. It is no good for you to require everything to go your way. You have to be ready to change a little if you want them to change.

Second, talk to your parents when it is convenient for them. Remember that your parents may have to work long hours and this can make them tired, so be patient with them.

Third, listen to what your parents have to say. How can you expect them to listen to you if you are not ready to listen to them? In addition, your parents were once young like you, so they understand your situation better than you expect.

Finally, if you do not get a satisfactory result, try not to get too angry. Talk with your parents and find out their reasons, Part of growing up is learning to live with these kinds of disagreements, and learning to understand another person’s way of looking at things.

With a little hard work, you can learn to communicate better with your parents.

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2 . School Gardens Could Help Children Try More Vegetables

It’s not always enjoyable for children to eat vegetables. But what if a garden is built in the school? New research suggests that a gardening program in schools can increase children’s vegetable intake (摄入量) .

How the Study Was Carried Out

The study was carried out in eight schools. Each school was in the gardening program for one school year. Every child in grades 3-5 received a total of eighteen 60-minute lessons across the school year. In the program, each school built a garden, where children learned to grow their own fresh produce, like fruit and vegetables.

The Benefits Children Could Get

The study found that vegetable intake of the children who grew their own produce increased greatly across the year. Related studies show that increased vegetable intake can improve health and cut the risk of chronic diseases (慢性疾病) . Not only are there benefits to health, increasing the variety of vegetables children are exposed (接触) to may also make mealtimes much easier. “Children who are often exposed to a variety of vegetables are more likely to try new foods,” explains Dr. Kerry Jones. For children, growing their own food is a powerful tool to increase their intake of the food.

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Any opportunity to expose children to more vegetables is meaningful. “If children are learning about vegetables at school, it’s important to encourage this interest” says Jones. Parents can listen to their children about what they have learned and read the handouts they bring home from school. Parents and children can also read books together. Younger: children can enjoy reading stories about vegetables with parents who offer useful message. Older children may enjoy searching through cookbooks with parents to find new dinner ideas to cook vegetables in a tasty way. Besides, a small planter box in a sunny part at home can encourage children to understand more about where their food comes from.

Teaching children to grow their own produce is a great way to increase their preference for the produce. If children are taught to enjoy vegetables early in life, they will probably continue eating vegetables in the long term.

3 . Parents helped us in all sides when we were very young. As we grow older, we may help them. Families can succeed in reaching goals when all family members help one another.

What makes real family members? Whoever we are, our family members are the most important in our lives. Family members support each other in many ways besides money or helping around the house. On the one hand, we can share our hopes, dreams or problems when we communicate with them. On the other hand, we can get a strong feeling of satisfaction and confidence with their help.

How to build good family relationships needs a lot of efforts. Firstly, everyone in the family needs to get along well with each other and shouldn’t have conflicts. Secondly, family members should share thoughts and feelings while eating meals, traveling or working together. Thirdly, we should talk with each other about our worries and then solve them together because family members can encourage one another to set goals and achieve dreams. Finally, we are supposed to spend time listening to family members. Listening shows we care about them as much as they care about us.

In a word, family members can make us full of energy and powerful all the time.

4 . Have we ever thought what we read for, information or skills? How do we feel when we read, excited or upset? We read word by word aloud and think about them. Is that enough? I think reading is more than pronouncing or thinking about words.

The Reader, a very popular program, is staged in the form of reading. It’s a national reading program, Dong Qing works as both a hostess and a producer. The Reader hopes to tell us what the world is and it takes us to see the beautiful world by reading. The show has invited some influential guests who have rich experiences and touching stories.

“Reading touches people’s hearts” is the slogan (口号) of The Reader. What it wants to present isn’t reading skills but real feelings. They are what touches the audience most.

The Reader is of great importance to the audience and Chinese culture. It also tells us if we keep our mind on what we are reading, we’ll know what reading really is and we’ll become better readers.

5 . The generation gap (代沟)

The difference between parents and children in tastes, values and the way they deal with problems is called generation gap. It is a common situation all (A)__________ the world.

① They want to wear cool clothes, have cool hairstyles and talk in a cool way. This drives their parents mad (B) because they have no idea what their children are thinking about. They may even feel embarrassed when they go out with their children, because they think their children’s life is a mess.

However, (C)__________ parents don’t try to understand their children, young people may feel awful and begin to hate their family. ②

To solve the problems of generation gap, parents and children should sit down and talk about it. (D)当他们长大时, children gradually become mature (成熟的). ③And then they will come to understand their parents, and they may feel ashamed of their strange behavior.

6 . We humans are only born with one pair of eyes, so it’s our job to take care of them for our whole lives. The good news is that if we do a few simple things every day, we can maintain(保持) our eyesight and reduce the risk of hurting our eyes.

① Almost all doctors agree that we can improve and maintain good eyesight by eating more fresh vegetables and fruit. It is especially important for us to eat vegetables like carrots and sweet potatoes.② Besides, we need to protect our eyes (A)      we spend a long time in bright sunlight. The best way to do this is by wearing sunglasses that have 100% UV(紫外线) protection. What’s more, it is necessary to protect our eyes when we work with dangerous chemicals. (B)       this reason, we should always wear special glasses in chemistry labs at work or at school. Finally, we should not spend too much time in front of the computer or television screen. That is why doctors advise if we have to use a computer for a long time, (C) we should take a short break every fifteen or thirty minutes.

③If we can do these simple things, we can protect our eyes and reduce the chances of losing our eyes. As the popular English expression goes, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.” When people say this, they mean that (D)失去一只眼睛是一件非常糟糕的事情.

7 . Everybody knows how important it is for students to get a good night’s sleep every night. Most experts agree that teenagers need to get 8 hours of sleep a night. However, I know that most of you get much less sleep than that.

I read an interesting article in a teachers’ magazine recently. They did a study of 848 students in Wales. Worryingly, the results showed that teenagers are facing a new problem. They may go to bed and get up at appropriate times but a growing number are waking up in the middle of the night not to use the bathroom or have a snack but because of a new phenomenon(现象)：fear of missing out!

According to the article, schoolchildren are suffering because of a growing trend(趋势) to wake up during the night to check social media. Afraid of missing a comment or chance to take part in a chat, teenagers are waking at all times of the night, going online. All this when they should be sound asleep.

The study shows that students who use social media during the night are more likely to suffer from sadness and anxiety. Experts are worried about this growing trend and the report shows some worrying statistics (数据) that I’d like to share with you.

23% of 12 to 15-year-olds wake up nearly every night to use social media. Another 15% wake up at night once a week for the same reason. One in three students are tired all the time.

So I’d like to ask you to be responsible when it comes to social media. Be brave! Switch off your mobile phones at night. The world won’t end and your social media will be waiting to greet you in the morning! I give you my word that you won’t have missed anything important.

9 . How to communicate with your parents

Many young people have trouble communicating with their parents. There are some very useful tips to help solve this problem.

First, make a list (A) ________ the things you and your parents disagree about most. With each of these things, try to find an answer acceptable to both you and your parents. It is no good for you to require everything to go your way. You have to be ready to change a (B) little if you want them to change.

Second, talk to your parents when it is convenient for them. Remember that your parents may have to work long hours and this can make them tired, so be patient with (C) ________.

Third, listen to what your parents have to say. How can you expect them to listen to you if you are not ready to listen to them? (D) In addition, your parents were once young like you, so they understand your situation better than you expect.

(E) Finally, if you do not get a satisfactory result, try not to get too angry. Talk with your parents and find out their reasons. Part of growing up is learning to live with these kinds of disagreements, and learning to understand another person’s way of looking at things. With a little had work, (F) 你可以学习与你的父母更好地沟通。

10 . Environmentalists（环保人士）are getting more worried about the effects of fast fashion on the environment. Fast fashion is the production of clothes in a large number at a low cost. They are put in shops and online stores quickly to create a high demand. Producers make 100 billion kinds of clothes every year. This is expected to grow by 60 percent by 2030.

The fast fashion business model is having a negative effect on the environment. Many of the clothes end up in dustbins and are not recycled. Another negative effect on the environment is caused by the chemicals used to make the clothes. These cause health problems to people working in clothes factories. It is reported that children make many of these clothes.

The way people are buying clothes is adding to the problem of clothing waste. Many years ago, people went to stores and tried clothes on. People took more time and thought more carefully before they bought clothes. They also wore them longer. Today, people order cheap clothes on the Internet and if they don’t like them, they send them back. Some people say this is a throwaway society. The German media company Deutsche Well wrote, “Every year in Europe, four million tons of clothing ends up in dustbins. Less than oneper cent of this is recycled.”

It seems the fashion industry is not so sustainable（可持续的）.