1 . Monthly subscription （订阅） educational boxes for students can be a great way to develop an interest in a particular subject. If you want to learn something at home while having fun, you can have educational boxes delivered monthly straight to your house.

Spangler Boxes

The Spangler boxes feature a range of hands-on scientific experiments designed by Steve Spangler, a former TY host of a popular science education program on News for Kids. Projects focus on STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math. Examples of projects include exploring lava（岩浆）science, the sound waves, and physical laws.

Finders Seekers Boxes

After receiving a Finders Seekers box, you’ll explore characters of a new city and culture every month while solving puzzles. Think of Finders Seekers as an escape room challenge that takes place in your living room. Clues and online research tools are available to help in case you get stuck solving the mystery. Each puzzle takes approximately two to four hours to complete.

Creation Boxes

Creation teaches students electronics, digital tips and high-level problem-solving. Each box teaches a lesson and is progressively more challenging. A sampling of the projects includes a mood lamp, an electronic memory game, and a distance detector using an ultrasonic sensor（超声传感器）.

Kiwi Doodle Boxes

Kiwi Doodle Boxes are among the most popular boxes on the market. They feature a variety of themes customized to students aged from 8 to 18. Doodle focuses on art and design with projects such as a felt succulent（肉质植物）garden, a faux（人造的）leather sample set, and handmade soap. Doodle projects introduce students to new crafting materials and techniques and al craft supplies are included in the box.

The demand for Chinese as a foreign language is growing fast, both in English-speaking countries like USA     1     in other countries like France. The number of the students studying Chinese     2     (increase) in recent years.

There     3     (be) a number of reasons for the interest. As China develops economically, opportunities for     4     (do) business increase dramatically. If you know your partner’s language, your chances of success increase. But there is also a renewed interest in the culture and traditions of China. In fact, the Chinese culture for over 5,000 years is     5     source of curiosity and fascination for people in other parts of the world.

A third reason is     6     learning Chinese is simply a challenge. With     7     (it)characters and complicated tone system,most speakers of other languages think Chinese must be incredibly difficult. But is it     8     (real) so? As one American student says, “One of the     9     (big) problems about learning Chinese is often fear-sometimes     10     (cause) by the teachers. I’ve studied quite a few languages, and none of them are as easy for me as Chinese.

3 . In 2007, 22-year-old Ramesh’s peanut farm lost money. As was often the case in most of India, Ramesh was _______ pesticides (杀虫剂) and fertilizers across his 2.4 hectares in the Anantapur district of southern India. In this desert-like area, which gets less than 600 millimeters of rainfall most years, farming is a(n) _______.

“I lost a lot of money growing peanuts through chemical farming _______,” says Ramesh, who is interested in agriculture. The chemicals are _______ in many parts of southern India. The farmers depend too much on pesticides. The chemicals are _______ but the production is low. Then in 2017, he _______ the chemicals. “Ever since I _______ sustainable agricultural practices like natural farming, the production has been _______ and the cost has gone down,” he says.

One natural farming method calls for _______ all chemical fertilizers and pesticides with organic matter to boost soil nutrient levels. Ramesh also expanded his crops, ________ peanuts and some tomatoes. Then he added eggplants and other crops.

With the ________ of the non-profit organization Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre, which works with farmers who want to try ________ farming, Ramesh increased his ________ enough to buy more land, expanding his field. Like thousands of other farmers practicing natural farming across India, Ramesh has ________ to enrich his dead soil while his new trees help keep carbon out of the atmosphere, thus playing an important role in reducing India’s carbon footprint. Recent study has shown that the carbon absorption ________ of natural farming is as much as 34 percent higher than standard forms of agriculture.

7 . If you thought teenage bullying was about someone’s bag being thrown on the science block roof or malicious (恶意的) exchanges on Snapchat, then you need to meet Natasha Devon, a leading mental health educator in British schools. She says that an increasing number of girls are asking for help with hidden forms of bullying, often within friendship groups.

In the latest government study of 10, 000 pupils, boys aged 15 and 16 were less likely to be bullied than a decade ago but girls have reported a rise in issues such as name-calling, social exclusion and cyberbullying.

Girl-on-girl bullying doesn’t only happen in girls’ schools, stresses Devon: “I see girls’ toxic friendships in all the schools I visit — mixed, girls’, state and private.”

Typically, being in a toxic friendship can wear on a girl’s self-esteem. She will follow the other’s advice on diet and dressing and appears to be forgoing her own ambitions to please her friend. Her friend undermines (暗中打击) her with seemingly supportive but subtly abusive comments, leaving her to think she’s the one with the problem. This, explains Devon, is typical“ gaslighting ”

Another behaviour, says Devon, is “topping”; when a girl shares something difficult that’s happening to her, and the friend responds with, “Oh, everyone goes through that”, essentially trying to belittle them.

So what can parents do to support their daughters? “Telling your child what to do very rarely works after the age of 11,”Devon says, “But it will sink in and, given time, they may act on it. Advise them to talk to their friends in a neutral space, preferably a day after an incident.”

“When confronting their friends, they should confine(限制) it to their experience — I feel like this— rather than making accusations —You did this. They also need to be prepared to step away from the friend or group, perhaps for a few months or perhaps forever,”Devon adds.

Have you ever photographed a juicy steak when you eat in restaurants? You may either want to share what you eat with your friends     1     just post part of your daily life on the Internet. However, such action may be disturbing to other diners. In the last few years, more and more people    2     (begin) to consider "foodstagramming" as very bad-mannered.

In many restaurants, diners complain of     3     (blind) by flashes, snapped without their permission. Even    4    (chef) and restaurant owners get angry at food photography.

    5     Michelin-starred chef said: " It's hard to build a     6    (memory) evening when flashes are flying every six minutes. ”

There is no definite result in the debate on    7     it is OK to take photographs of your food in restaurants. Some restaurants in New York City have started banning customers     8    taking photos of their food. Related policies vary from restaurant to restaurant,    9     (range)from restrictions on using a flash to complete bans. However, some other restaurants are offering food photography courses to guide its customers to    10     (well) take food pictures than ever without annoying other diners.