2 . It was a hot summer evening. Kevin and his brother Alan were _________ soccer in the backyard. After a while, they decided to drink some orange juice and watch TV in the house. _________ the TV was off. Alan tried to turn it back on, but _________ happened. They soon realized that there was no electricity（电）. What could they do? Kevin suggested going outside to do some _________ watching. Without streetlights, the stars were bright and _________ to see. Lying on the grass, they saw different kinds of stars _________ they even saw the planet Mars. Kevin and Alan had never realized_________ fantastic the night sky could be.

After watching the stars for an hour, the boys _________ the house. It was very dark except for a few _________ that their parents had lighted. The family spent the night playing cards and telling stories by candlelight. Kevin and Alan had never thought of having such a night __________ electricity like that before. They really enjoyed watching stars.

4 . Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a great discovery about human anger. At age 34, Jean Briggs was allowed to live in an Inuit community where many Inuit families lived a traditional life.

Briggs quickly realized something unusual was going on in these families.“They never got angry with me, and even showing a bit of anger was considered weak and childlike,” Briggs said. For example, once when someone knocked a hot pot of tea across the igloo (冰屋), damaging the ice floor, no one changed their look. “Too bad,” the person just said calmly and went to refill the teapot.

Briggs wrote up her observations (观察记录) in her book, Never in Anger. But she was left with questions: How do Inuit parents teach their children this ability? How do the Inuit turn irritable (易怒的) babies into cool-headed adults?

After reading Briggs' book, in early December I came to the Arctic town of Iqaluit, Canada, which is an Inuit town, in search of parenting wisdom, especially when it comes to teaching children to control their feelings. Right off the plane, I started collecting data (数据).

I sat with the elders in their 80s and 90s. I talked with moms. And I attended a local parenting class. All the moms mentioned one golden rule: Don't shout or yell at small children, for it is a tradition among the Inuit to see yelling at a small child as shameful.

The elders I spoke with said colonization (殖民) over the past century is harming the tradition, so the community is working hard to keep their parenting methods. Goota Jaw, who teaches the parenting class at Nunavut Arctic College, is in the front line of this effort. “Shouting is not how we teach our children,” Jaw said. “It is just teaching them to run away.”

“When we shout at a child, we' re training the child to shout,” said author Laura Markham. “Parents who control their own anger are helping their children learn to do the same.”

How are you doing?

How about your new school life? And I’m looking forward to your reply.

Yours Sincerely，

Li Hua