1 . Hi friends! My name’s Sandra and I live in Hilltown. It is in the south of England: It isn’t a very big town. About 9,000 people live here.

There are about thirty shops in Hilltown and there are three supermarkets. You can buy everything in the town that you need. There are two banks and a post office in Main Street. There is a police station and a library, too.

You can find a big market where you can buy fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and drinks. I like going to the market with my mum.

There are three churches in the town centre and there is a park, too. Children can play in the park because there is a playground. You can find some restaurants in our town, and there are five cafes. My favorite cafe is Icecave; it’s in Park Street and the ice cream is fantastic here!

There are three elementary schools and two high schools in Hilltown. My school is in Mill Street. We have got a very nice building. There is a sports centre next to our school. Every Wednesday afternoon we play volleyball.

If you want to see a film, you can go to the cinema in our town, but unfortunately there aren’t any theaters here.

I like living in Hilltown because it’s a calm and clean place. And people are friendly.

2 . Eco-friendly Lifestyle in Denmark

Denmark is one of the greenest countries in the world. People there are trying their best to make their country more beautiful.

People in Denmark take recycling seriously. Newspapers are printed on recycled paper.

Stores collect a deposit every time you buy a bottled drink. When you return the empty bottle, you get your deposit back. The bottle will be cleaned and reused. To reduce food waste, there is a food waste supermarket where people can buy the nearly-expired food at a low price. Even old clothes and shoes can be recycled. There are some organizations for recycling clothes. They collect old clothes from all over the country. Some of the clothes are sold in charity shops, some are given to the poor, and others are sent to factories for recycling.

Cycling has always been a Danish tradition. The government encourages the use of bicycles instead of cars. There are good bicycle paths with road signs and traffic lights all over the country. In the capital city Copenhagen, there are over 2, 000 bicycles that can be borrowed for free in public squares and train stations. Don’t be surprised if you find fewer cars on road because cars are heavily taxed in Denmark.

Denmark is starting to use energy from the sun, wind and water. For example, Denmark has been a wind energy leader for a long time. Nearly 42 percent of Denmark’s electricity is produced by wind power. These new types of energy cost very little and will never run out. Moreover, they produce little pollution.

Denmark has set a good example for other countries. Remember that everyone can do something to make a difference.

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When you hear of Tang dynasty, you may think of Li Bai, one of the most popular poets in history. This summer, his life story came out on big screens in China in a new cartoon movie, Chang An. The movie mainly tells the life stories of Li Bai and his close friend Gao Shi. From the movie, people find it easier to better understand Tang dynasty. Surprisingly, forty-eight famous Tang poems appears in the movie.

We read Tang poems from an early age, but we knew little about the footprints of poets. Here comes a documentary (纪录片) from CCTV, called Follow the Poems to Travel. It gives you a way to know more — which places the poets visited and how they felt along the way. It took three years to make the documentary. The reporters interviewed 64 people who are interested in history and surveyed 58 places they visited. They finally chose the stories of five poets.

In the book Chang’an Ke, the writer Bei Mingyu tells the history with the life stories of the most famous Tang poets. When you read this book, you will find that those young people in Tang Dynasty were just like many of us today. They came to the city of dreams, showing their talents and hoping for a great success. Wang Wei was one of the talented ones. There were two worlds in his life. One is in Chang’an. When he worked, Wang was really somebody. The other is the world where Wang enjoyed the nature as a common man.

How to be green

By Wang Lingling

How green are you? Answer these questions and find out.

·Do you walk or ride a bike to school?

·Do you buy new clothes just because they are modern?

·Do you turn off the lights when you leave the room?

·Do you take your own bag when shopping and not ask for a plastic bag?

·Do you buy drinks in bottles? And what do you do with the bottles when they are empty?

·Do you divide the waste into things to recycle and things to throw away?

We all need a healthy environment, but we produce waste every day, and it is harmful to our environment. Repeat these three words daily: reduce, reuse and recycle.

Reduce means “use less” . Do not waste things. It saves money and causes less pollution. Do not order more food than you can finish. Turn off the lights when you do not need them. Before you buy something new, think whether it is really necessary because maybe the old one is just as good!

Reuse means “use again”. Use things for as long as possible. Look after them so that they will last. Repair them if possible. Do not throw them away and buy new ones. Do not use paper cups or paper bags. It is better to use china cups and cloth bags because they can be used many times. Recycle Recycle means “change things into something else to be reused” Although it takes energy to change things into something else, it is better than throwing things away or burning them. We throw tons of rubbish away each year, and we have to make a change. Divide your rubbish into plastic, glass, paper and rubber. Develop a recycling policy for the whole community. Buy products such as recycled paper to help save trees.

We cannot hope for rapid change, but let’s take these simple steps today so that we will save the world for our grandsons and granddaughters tomorrow.

7 . Paper is one of the most important products ever invented by man. The invention of paper meant that more people could be educated because more books could be printed. Paper played an important role in the spread of knowledge.

Paper was first made in China about 2, 000 years ago. In Egypt and West, paper was not very commonly used before 1400s. Paper was not made in southern Europe until about 1100s. After that, the forestry (林业) countries such as Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United States became the most important countries in paper-making. Today Finland makes the best paper in the world. And it has the biggest paper industry in the world.

When we think of the paper, we think of newspaper, books, letters, envelops and writing paper. Paper plays an important role in our life.

Paper is also very good for keeping you warm. Houses can be insulated (隔离) with paper. You perhaps see homeless men sleep on a large number of newspapers. They are insulating themselves from the cold. In Finland, in winter it is sometimes 40 degrees below zero. The farmers wear paper boots (靴子) in the snow. Nothing could be warmer than that.

8 . Many teachers suggest learning English by using mnemonics (助记术). Mnemonics are methods to help remember information.

The loci (轨迹) method

This method is very useful for remembering lists of words. First, you need to form a path (路线). Next, looking at the words, you will create a picture that isn’t easy to forget for each word. Then, imagine walking down your path and put the pictures at certain places. Finally, put away the words and move along the path in your mind again.

The connection method

To remember a word, it is helpful to connect it with a picture. For example, if you are trying to remember the meaning of the word “tremendous”, you might connect it with trees and men. Say the word “tremendous”, and you hear “tree” and “men”. This connection of meaning, sound and picture can help you remember new words quickly.

The grouping method

Try to remember the following words: pencil, notebook, book, newspaper, pen, paper. Try dividing them into smaller groups (things you write with; things you write on; things you read). And you’ll probably find that you are able to remember more words.

What these three methods have in common is the idea of active learning. We’ve looked at just a few mnemonics. In the end, it really depends on your own learning style and how you keep information. Why not find the one that works best for you?

10 . It is important to learn how to protect our environment. Here is a 5R rule for us.

Reduce: If you want to reduce the waste, you should use things wisely. A large number of trees are cut down to make paper. If everyone uses paper wastefully, soon we would not have any trees left. So it is necessary to reduce the waste.

Reuse: You should always think of reusing the able things before throwing them away. For example, we should buy reusable forks and knives instead of ones we throw away. Bring cups to the coffee shop and cloth bags to the store. Give your clothes you do not use or the ones which are too small to the poor. In a family, you may pass on such clothes to younger brothers or sisters.

Recycle: Recycling uses less energy and fewer resources (资源). Bottles, cans (罐子) and paper cups can be easily recycled. They can be remade into the same thing or new things.

Recover: When you buy a box of apples, there may be a few rotten (腐烂的) ones, you have two choices: one is to throw the whole apple away, or you could cut off the rotten parts and eat the good parts. In this way, you are recovering the eatable parts of food.

Repair: If one of the legs of your table is broken, you can repair it. If you want to change for better ones, it is better for you to sell the old things or give them to other people who can use them after repairing them.

Learn the rules to protect our environment. Let’s try our best to make the earth cleaner and more beautiful.