Holidays with friends can be great fun and a good way of getting to know each other better.    1    一个好的旅行计划将会帮助你玩得很愉快. Also it will help you to save money if you start planning earlier.

Choose a place to visit. Going abroad will cost more but be a more exciting experience. Don’t go abroad if this is the first time you organize(组织)the holidays.    2     Going to a different place in your own country can also be fun and will be cheaper.

Collect your friends. Work out how many people you will be able to plan the trip for.    3    邀请能和你友好相处的人。

Meet up. Everyone will have their own idea of what the trip to be like, you should have a meeting.     4    你最好准备一个笔记本写下一些重要的事情。

Book transport(交通). When you decide on your hotel, you will know the dates of your stay and will be able to book transport, such as trains, buses and airplanes. Booking transport earlier can help you save some money.

    5     All in all, no matter where you go, just start planning as early as possible.

If you think i    1     is only for adults, well, you’re wrong — because kids can be just as innovative as adults are, even more sometimes.

Here are four ways to teach your kids to be more creative:

Function follows form.

This is the idea of working backward where you start with a solution first and then work back to the problem. An example of this is the Ruined Product Exercise where you have your kids take any product around the house. Then ask them to make one change to the product where they’re going to make it worse. So they’ve got to take this seemingly ruined product and figure out some way to make it     2     (benefit) to people.

Constraints (限制) are important.

Teach your kids to realize that constraints are a necessary condition for creativity to occur. For instance, ask them to come up with an idea for the car. Then p    3     to take them into the car and tell them that they have to come up with an invention that only applies to people sitting in the backseat. This way, the kids are forced into a smaller, more constrained environment where they’re more likely to come up with a more creative idea than their first one.

Division technique creates opportunities.

The division technique basically involves taking a component, cutting it, then rearranging it somehow. One very good example is time which can be divided and rearranged, not physically but mentally. At first, just divide a(n)     4     (随机的) thing out of their day, move it to a different part of the day, and see if there’s a benefit to it. The lesson here is to get them to realize that moving the schedule around creates opportunities they may not have thought of otherwise.

Getting patents (专利) is possible.

The idea of patents has always a    5     to kids. A patent is a l    6     protection in business or engineering. But kids think they’re difficult to get. So you should get your kids to see that it’s very possible to create something and have it patented. Search the Internet for inventions by kids and you’ll find lots of examples. And this could be something they will get very excited about.

Any time you bring people together, you will have more than one opinion instantly on anything. Living in a community, I’ve heard arguments among groups of people over some of the silliest things. It’s human nature that we want others to agree with our point of view. How we     1     (解决) conflicts within a community is important to the long-term success of the community. I’d like to share three tips.

First, respect others. Be careful to debate the issue itself and not the person. You can make     2     (投诉) about what is wrong but you have to be polite to the person. And remember, as a community we have a single common identity.

Second, have     3     (自制力). Don’t let your emotions control your discussion. Avoid being overly dramatic to “win     4     (票数)”. It’s hard to keep this in mind when discussing something you’re deeply keen on, but you have to.

Lastly, work together to     5     (协商) a solution. Compromise is often the result of debates. Don’t expect to always win everyone over to your point of view.

Skilled learners never stop learning because they have found ways to       1     (有效地) bring it into their everyday life. With a positive mindset and very special approaches to learning, they take control of their learning and push through difficulties     2    . (不管怎样)

★ A skilled learner employs personal learning       3    . (策略)

Everyone learns differently, and oftentimes, the ways we were taught to learn in school are not the most helpful means of   a    4     new knowledge. Skilled learners have a better understanding of his / her learning style and take the time to check the ways they learn best, knowing that this will save them time and effort in the future.

★ A skilled learner asks questions.

Skilled learners question what they learn, how they learn it and why. They know where they are as a learner and what they are     5     (尝试) achieve. They ask important questions such as, “How can I use what I have     6     (掌握)?” or “Why is this important?” These questions help them to dig deeper into a topic and decide how this information can be used.     7     ( 此 外 ), questioning learning methods can help them to find out whether they are doing all they can to learn the information and whether their approaches are suitable or not.

★ Skilled learners     8     (思考) their successes and failures.

In order to improve in any area, you have to     9     (弄懂) what is and isn’t working for you. Only then can you assess (评估) your learning process and move forward. Failing to analyse your successes and failures will leave you stagnant (停滞不前). You must build upon your success and look for your     10     (解决办法) after failure.

Skilled learners don’t consider themselves special for having succeeded, and they surely don’t think of themselves as failures when they reach difficulties. All of these results are moments for     11     (沉思) and improvement and they will find time to     12     (感激) the achievements they’ve made so far.

If you know the news that the flood is coming, don’t hesitate to run away.     1    (你最好尽可能地快跑。)     2    (当洪水爆发时，你必须尽量保持冷静). Try to save yourself     3    (在等待政府的救援时). Try to move at once to higher land and turn off all pieces of electrical equipment. Do stay outside the house surrounded by the flood.     4    (如果你不得不在水里行走，一定要拿根棍子). You mustn’t walk in moving water.     5    (不要触碰任何电子设备) if you are wet or standing in water.