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NO.1Helen and Jenny are good friends. They had two tickets for a pop concert in Sydney.They were very excited about the concert. They decided w trains to catch, where to eat and where to go shopping in Sydney. Then they got some really e news. A friend of Jennys said he could help them go backstage(后台), and he would ask the pop singers i the girls could come to sayHello .He was sure he c get them the singers autographs. Helen and Jenny could h wait! Then two days before the concert, Helen had a cold. She stayed in bed and took m , but it got worse and worse. On the evening before the concert, she had a fever. Helens mother called Jenny. Helen is too s to go to the concert, she said. You can find someone else to go with. The next day, Helen was feeling unhappy at home. Then she heard someone knocking at the door. A v came. It was her friend Jenny! She came with a big bag of fruit and lots of their favorite CDs. I gave the tickets to Nancy and Tina in the end, and they went to the concert i of us，she said. We ll go to a concert when youre well. It wouldnt be much fun without you. ” NO.2Kate is from Tianjin. She is now in Beijing w her parents. She likes swimming very much. She is a member of the swimming club. She u swims for two hours every day.She often gets t after she has a swim. She thinks she needs a lot of energy. Its i for her to be healthy.She changed her diet because she wanted to be h .She a a lot of sweet snacks between meals before. She liked cakes and she seldom ate f or vegetables. Now she knows that sweet snacks are not good for her, so she doesnt eat them a more.Now, she always eats a banana and some bread for breakfast, and then she often drinks a glass of fruit juice o milk. She eats a healthy lunch every day. Sometimes she has rice with fish and an apple for lunch. For d , she usually eats meat and vegetables.NO.3I wrote my first poem when I was 5 years old. It was (71) f_ Mothers Day. The poem was not my best work, but my mom kept it just like she kept every other piece of writing and artwork I ever made. She (72) a_ kept my baby clothes and a piece of hair from my first haircut. Sometimes I feel like my m om runs a museum of (73) m_ life, and she is the only visitor.But it feels (74) n_ to be loved like that. Who else would care enough to keep all of my terrible drawings and silly poems? Only a (75) m_. (76) O_ Mothers Day when I was little, I used to bring my mom breakfast in bed, (77) m_ her a card, give her kisses and tell her I loved her. Id say to her: “Youre the (78) b_ mom in the whole world!”I dont get to see my mother very much these days. Now I live in China, 11,200 km from my parents home in the US. Im too far away to bring my mom breakfast in bed or give her kisses. (79)B_ when Mothers Day comes, Ill call my mom from China. Over the (80) p_, Ill tell her I love her. No matter how far away I go, shes always in my heart.NO.4Parents sometimes learn much from their children.Many years ago, a my friend David worked day and night, he was still not rich. One day, when he arrived h after work, he found his 3-year-old daughter was decorating a box with some expensive wrapping paper. He thought she was w money and became angry with her. He even p his daughter by beating her. However, the little girl brought the box to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy. Merry Christmas!” He was embarrassed (尴尬) by his overreaction (过激反应), but he became angry a when he found the box was empty.He shouted at her, “Dont you know that when you give someone a present, there should be s inside it?”The little girl looked up at him with t in her eyes and said, “Oh, Daddy. I blew kisses in the box. I filled it with my l . All for you, Daddy.”The father was very surprised. He put his arms around his little girl, and said s to her. Later, David told me that he kept that box by his bed for years. When he was discouraged(情绪低落), he would take out an imaginary (想像的) kiss from the box and r the love of the child.NO.5Some animals use some ways to tell each other whether there is food or something dangerous and so on .Some other animals say things by m sounds.We people have a large number of words that no animal has .They have the meaning of things, ideas or something e . We can tell each other what is in our mind or how we f .By writing words d we can remember things that have happened, or send a m to people far away .No animal has s_ kind of language.No one knows h man learned to make words. Perhaps he b by making sounds like those he heard all a him .As the centuries passed ,man made more and more words. This is what we mean by language.NO.6How many people do you communicate(交流) with in a day? Probably a lot more (56)t_ you did ten years ago. (57)N_ we can :talk” to people in more and more ways, not (58)j_ face-to-face and on the phone, but also through the Internet. It is very important for (59)e_ to try and improve their communications skills, so lets remember the four golden rules of good communication. (60)F_, be as clear as you can. Misunderstandings happen if we dont say correctly (61)w_ we mean. Secondly, we have to work (62)h_ at listening. Pay attention to what the other person is saying. Thirdly, ask (63)o_ people what they think, dont only tell them what you think. Fourthly, give them time to say what they want, and show (64)i_ in what they say.If you (65)f_ these rules, you will be a good communicator.NO.7Mr. Hodge was a chicken farmer. he had h of chickens, and sold eggs and the meat and got a lot of m for them, but he l in a very hot part of the country ,and he found that his hens laid hardly any eggs in the s .so he decided to put air conditionings into his chicken house so that they would lay well all through the y and he could get more eggs and in that w earn more money .the owner of the company which sold the air conditioning came to see h ,and when he saw Mr. Hodges house, he thought that he might be a to persuade him to buy some air conditioning for it ,too.you wife would be much h and more comfortable then he said to Mr. Hodge, but Mr. Hodge was not interested a all .NO.8What can you do to k healthy? Perhaps for children, healthy eating is one of the most important things. Here are some ideas about h to eat healthily.Having breakfastA good breakfast is very important to children. Its necessary to have it in the morning. But some children often go to school w breakfast，just because they want to sleep a little longer. Remember that a good breakfast will help you study better.Having milk“My dream is that all the Chinese children can get half a kilogram of milk a day.” The Chinese Premier (总理) Wen Jiabao said this during his v to a milk farm. Milk is also very important to childrens health. It makes children grow stronger. Its better for you to have a glass of warm milk b going to bed. That will h you have a good sleep.Having healthy foodHaving healthy food is the most important. That means eating lots of different k of food, especially fruits and vegetables. Dont eat too much chocolate o ice cream. Some of you e eating fast food, but in fact it is not good for your health. Try to eat healthy food as much as p .Have healthy eating habits, and you will have a strong body.NO.9 According to the recent survey, only forty percent of children in our school feel happy, Why? Do you know what happiness m ? A lot of money? No homework every day? High marks or a else?In fact, happiness is always around you i you put your heart into it. When you are in t at school, your friends will help you; When you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your h ; When you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you; When you do something w , people around you will help you to collect it; When you do something good t others, you will feel happy, too. All these are happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is a around you. All these c be bought with money. Its a feeling of your heart. When you come across difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge yourself.As the saying goes, lift is a revolving door. When it closes, it also opens. If you t every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person. NO.10Everybody can suffer from stress(压力). No matter w your age is，you can feel stressed out by things that are h in your life. Teenagers，however，have many more opportunities to get stressed than people in any other age group. Being a teenager is hard. You are not a c any more，but you are not an adult，even though you have to deal with some very grownup problems and decisions. Families can be one of the b causes of stress，such a problems with parents arguing at home. or problems with brothers and sisters. Teenagers also have a lot of stress from school，either from their teachers or from their friends. Some teenagers also feel stressed about choosing their education after high school. Getting a place at university can be very difficult and some cannot afford to go to university. The stress about g a job when finishing school is hard for some teenagers. There are so many young people finishing school and not e jobs for them. But dont be afraid. E will go better. Talking to people is one of the best w to deal with stress. It m sound simple, but it is true. A problem shared is a problem halved. NO.11Stop reading for a minute and think about what you see when you look up in the sky on a clear n . You may see many stars. Long long ago, farmers watched some stars to know w to plant their crops. Travelers did so to find their ways in the dark. Today stars are so i to some people.Scientists found out that most stars are very big. In fact some stars are so far away from us that it would take m of light years to get to them even by spaceship.A thing we know today about stars in that some are made up of hot gases. The gases are so hot that they send out light. If you often look up at a star carefully at night, you may find it twinkles(闪烁) s . As you may understand, light from a star must shine t the air before you can see the star. Air is always moving, it makes light from the star m .When the light moves, it makes the star twinkle. Stars also have different c . To our surprise, the cool stars are red and the hottest o are blue white.NO.12Not everyone likes sports. If this sounds like you, dont be sad. We are going to talk about what k_ some kids from liking sports. With a f_ changes, you might find out that there is a sport out there that you could like.Sometimes ,kids feel that they dont like sports because they dont know how to p_ them .Sports can seem difficult because of all the r_ and equipment.People practice how to do their favorite sports well for a long time. They spend many years l_ them. If you want to learn more about a sport, you might ask your mom or dad to help you. They can find some c_ that teach kids new sports. These may be b_ than just joining a team and starting to play games at once.Gym class at school can also be a good way to try new sports .A_ way to learn about a sport is to watch TV or DVDs. You can also read some books about the sports. If you have an older friend or family member whos good at a sport ,you might ask him or her to help you practice .If you dont like being on a team you can do individual sports. An individual sport m_ a kid does the sport on his or her own. Swimming ,skiing ,biking, and running are a_ individual sports.
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