Do you help your parents with housework at home? Can you cook for your family?

To stress (强调) the importance of hard-working spirit education among students, the Chinese government recently calls for students to respect labor work. Students should learn basic life     1     and develop good working habits through such education.

The government has been trying to stress the importance of hard-working spirit education. But this has been overlooked (忽视) in recent years. Many teens do not value the importance of working hard and are not interested    2     doing so.

According to a study of nearly 3000 students that was done in March, only 22% of primary and middle school students help with everyday housework at home. Schools and families play an    3     role in teaching students about the value of working hard.

Primary and middle schools should    4     students with hard-working spirit classes every week. School can also hold activities to give students real-world work experience. For example, schools can teach children    5     to plant trees on Tree-planting day.

At the same time, as children’s first teachers,    6     should also encourage children to know how to do housework at home. Students should master one    7     two life skills every year. These skills can include cooking,     8     their own clothes and tidying their rooms.

Do you enjoy visiting a museum? Did you ever make a plan before a visit? Every museum must have something that attracts you. And there are many possible ways to enjoy yourself in a museum.

Decide what museum you will visit. There are so many different kinds of museums and you first need to find     1     that you like. It’s easy for you to choose your favorite and start an enjoyable visit!

Do some research o    2    . Every museum now has a website which allows you to look through the information about it. On the website, you may look for such things as:

1. The exhibits (展品) — See what is     3     show at the museum at all times, and what special exhibitions are held for a short time.

2. Activities — See     4     there are talks, tours or special activities on the day when you visit. Many museums hold some activities that meet the interests of all age groups.

3. Cost, food and storage — It’s important to know how much the visit will     5    . You have to decide whether or not you can eat there. You might also need to find out about transportation needs as well as storage for costs, bags etc.

Plan breaks into your visit. When you walk around, standing here and studying exhibits there you may become very tired. So it is important to take breaks. A break is a good c    6     for you to think of what you have seen and what else you might want to do in the museum.

Take a friend or two.     7     museums is always a lot more fun when you are with someone    8    . You can talk over what you’re seeing. A friend also brings another way of thinking when you talk about the exhibits.

Six months ago, 19-year-old Xie Lei said goodbye to her family and friends and     1     a plane for London. It was the first time that she had left China. “I was very     2     but also quite     3    . I didn’t know what to expect,”Xie Lei     4    .

Xie Lei is studying for a business     5     at a university in China and has come to our university on a year-long     6     programme.“I     7     the exchange programme because I wanted to learn about     8     business and improve my English. My     9     is to set up a business in China after     10    ,”she explained.

Everywhere    1     looked, there was nothing but ruins. Nearly everything in the city was    2    . About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes, and all of its hospitals were gone.     3     covered the ground like red autumn leaves, but no wind could blow them away. Most bridges had fallen or were not safe to cross. The railway tracks were now useless pieces of metal. Tens of thousands of cows, hundreds of thousands of pigs, and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now    4     the wells instead of water. People were in    5    .

This four-day walking tour will take you on amazing    1     through the Andes Mountains on the way to the city of Machu Picchu. After reaching your     2    , you will have a day to     3     and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to     4       sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the perfect    5     of the stones.

We have all kinds of festivals. Ancient people held festivals to     1     the end of winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn. Today’s festivals have many     2     : some are     3    , some seasonal and some for special people or events.

Some festivals are in memory of the dead or to satisfy the     4    . On the important feast day in Mexico, besides     5     food, flowers and gifts to the dead, people eat food in the shape of skull and cakes with “bones” on them

People hold festivals as an honor to famous people, like the Dragon Boat Festival which honors the famous     6     , Qu Yuan.

Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are held in many countries. In European countries, some people might win     7     for their farm produce in competitions. On Mid-Autumn festivals in China and some Asian countries, people     8     the moon and have moon cakes.

Chinese New Year is one of the most     9     and important festivals. People look forward to eating dumplings, giving lucky money in red paper and playing dragon dances.

To sum up, festivals let us enjoy life, be proud of our     10     and forget our work for a little while.