（in the office on the morning of Mother's Day）
Matt： （on the phone）. . . I love you, Mom. Goodbye!
Tina：Good for you, Matt!
Matt：I always do. I sent my mom some flowers, too.
Tina： And my sister and I are going to take her out for dinner.
Matt：Treating Mom is nice. When I was a kid, we gave my mom breakfast in bed.
Tina：
Matt：By the way. I saw an article about Mother's Day online. Let me find it…here it is!
Tina：
Matt：Well, about 40 countries celebrate Mother's Day. Many people give their mothers gifts.
Tina：That's not a surprise.
Matt：
Tina：That's nice. We should make our mothers feel special more than one day a year!
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A. So did I. B. That's not true. C. What does it say? D. That's a fun idea. E. You called your mother for Mother's Day. F. In some countries, Mother's Day lasts three days instead of one day. |
Have you ever felt lonely?Why?1 can you make new friends?
Students often get together2 small, closed groups. If you are not part of a group, it can be3 for you to be accepted. This is especially true if you can't speak to the group members in their language.
This was the situation Sam4 each day as he went to class. Sam and his family moved to France last month. Before he arrived, he knew there would be many difficulties. But they were even5 than he imagined.
Every lunch hour, after arriving at his new school, Sam sat6 in the dining hall. He looked at all the different groups of students around him. But he had 7 way to let them know that he was a good person. He simply couldn't find the right words to reach them.
Sam knew he had to find a way to change the8 .Somehow. he had to adapt（适应） to this new environment. He did a little research on the Internet and discovered that9 is a worldwide language——it is understood everywhere. One morning, as Sam was10 a group of students, he smiled at them.
A boy in the group smiled back at him. That was a good11 for Sam. Later he12 the boy coming towards him in the hall with a warm smile on his face Sam returned the smile.
Soon the boy asked Sam to join him and his13 of friends for lunch. 14 Sam wasn't able to say much in French, everyone smiled and laughed. Before he knew it, Sam had a group of friends, and they all wanted to help him learn French.
That day he experienced the15 of a smile. Everything went well from then on.
For many people, having a cup of coffee right out of bed is the best way to start a day. But a report from Asap Science says otherwise. It says the worst time for coffee is soon after we get up. When we wake up, our bodies start to make cortisol（皮质醇）. Cortisol helps us to think clearly and be quick to understand and act. The number of cortisol rises after we wake up and climb to the highest in about an hour. So there are two problems when we drink coffee during this time；⑴our bodies will make less cortisol, and ⑵the cortisol will make coffee less useful. And that's why some of us drink more and more coffee. The picture below shows how the cortisol levels rise and fall during the day.
Then, when's the best time to have coffee?Whenthe cortisol levels are going down, the report says. Cortisol levels are usually highest between8 a. m. and 9 a. m. ,between noon and1 p. m, and between 5：30 P. m. and 6：30 p. m. So if you want to have coffee, enjoy it after these times, and this popular drink will help you the most.
●What do you think? |
Mike Jan 16 8：26 pm The best time to drink coffee is when you want to drink coffee. Sarah Jan 16 8：43 pm I usually wake up AFTER I drink coffee! Charlie Jan 16 8：59 pm The worst time to drink coffee is when you're DEAD. Lisa Jan 16 9：18 pm If you need someone to tell you when to drink coffee, well, that's just sad. |
Over the years, the number of whales has dropped rapidly. From 1946 to 1986, about 340, 000 whales were killed. People worry that children in the future can only see whales in pictures. They believe all kinds of whale hunting （捕鲸） should be stopped before it's too late.
Some people are trying to stop whale hunting all over the world. But they fail to notice one fact：Whale hunting was going on for a long time before the number of whales went down and became a problem.
Whale hunting started as early as 1, 500 years ago. This was how tribespeople （部落成员） fed their families. They hunted whales for meat because almost nothing could grow on their land. They also made whale fat into oil and used it to make candles. Over the years, whale hunting became their way of living, and even part of who they are.
Tribe whale hunting is not the thing we should worry about. Over the past forty years, tribespeople only killed 10% of all the whales for living. The other 90% died at the hands of the money—making hunting business. When we try to stop all kinds of whale hunting, we should think what we are asking tribespeople to give up and whether this is the best answer to the problem of whale hunting.
a. Whether we should stop tribespeople whale hunting
b. The problem of whale hunting
c. Whale hunting as a way of life
Traveling to a farm and spending several hours a day getting your hands dirty might sound like an unusual way to spend a vacation. Do you want to have a vacation like that?Ifyes, WWOOF can help you.
WWOOF is an organization that helps travelers go on "volunteering vacations" to farms. Travelers work on the farms for around four to six hours a day to get free rooms and dinners. The work includethings like gardening, cutting wood, feeding animals, or even making cheese.
But you may do more than that through WWOOF. It offers travelers the chance （机会） to learn some skills and the local culture while spending time in nature.
Sue Coppard, the founder （创办人） of the organization, worked in London in 1971. But she wanted to spend more time in the countryside. So, she thought it might be a good idea to stay and work on a farm. One weekend, she visited a farm in Sussex, England, together with 15 friends. In return for their stay, Sue and her friends did many tasks on the farm.
Following Sue's stay on the farm, more people started showing interest in working on farms, and many farmers said that they would like to host workers.
Today, it's possible to have such a vacation in more than 130 countries with the help of WWOOF. You don't need any farming experience——just be ready to learn!
Teenage life——better now, or in the past?
You are complaining （抱怨） to your parents about something. Maybe your computer isn't fast enough to play the latest games, Then you hear, "When I was your age, there weren't any computers or video games. And I didn't get a bike until I was sixteen. And it was second—hand, and it was too big for me. "
It is certainly true that many teenagers have got more things nowadays. A typical family is smaller now. So parents have got more money to spend on each child. And many things are cheaper than they were when our parents were children.
Forty years ago, no one could imagine a world with computers and amazing smart phones. And now these things are necessary. We can't imagine living without them!
However, technology often means we spend more time at home. And often it's just us, with our computer or smart phone. Teenagers don't do enough exercise. And, although young people still get on well with their friends, some people think teenagers today don't have so many social activities as they did in the past.
What do you think?Isteenage life better these days?
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A. Or your friends' bikes are better than yours! B. Does this situation sound familiar （熟悉的）? C. Technology is probably the greatest change in our life. D. As a result, they aren't as healthy as they were in the past. E. So, is it really true that life is better for teenagers now? |
Since the start of 2022, sand painting artist He Sudan has created sand paintings telling stories of the 24 solar terms （节气）. Her works have caught people's eyes from home and abroad.
He, 34, was born into an artistic family in Hunan. She got into Wuhan University of Technology to study animation（动画） when she was
15. In her second year there, she took up sand painting. Back then, sand painting was not a subject, so she learned it by teaching herself. When she was 19, He got into the graduate school of Hainan University to study fine arts. After leaving university, He started traveling around the country putting on sand painting performances.
According to He, sand painting dates back to the Song Dynasty. From the idiom （成语）"Hua Di Jiao Zi", we can learn that sand painting has a long history in China. The idiom tells the story of the mother of Ouyang Xiu. Ouyang Xiuwas a famous poet in the Song Dynasty. When he was young, his mother taught him how to write and paint by using a stick to draw and write on the ground covered in sand.
Now He studies the application （应用） of AI in sand painting. These days, she uses a robot developed by her research team to help her in creating her sand paintings.
He wants to bring more people into the world of sand painting. "I think I've realized my dream of introducing sand painting to the world through my works, but I don't think I've done enough. In the future, I will create more sand paintings to spread traditional Chinese culture, " said He.
Zhou Jiaqiis a 20-year-old food deliveryman （送餐员）. On the evening of January 26, 2023, he saved a man who wanted to jump down from a river bridge in Jiaxing, a city in Zhejiang Province. As a result, he set a goodto others.
However, because of spending some time saving the man and making sure he was, Zhou Jiaqicouldn't finish his orders in time. He was worried that his boss would get angry with him. Luckily, his boss didn't get angry at all after hearing the（true）.
Zhou Jiaqiis from Chongqing. childhood, he has had impaired （有残障的） arms, but he still decided （make）a living on his own. He left his hometown last September and（work） as a deliveryman for almost one year.
He is very kind and always ready to help others. After hearing Zhou Jiaqis story, tens of（ thousand） of people voiced their opinions on the Internet. them, one person wrote, "Life is not easy for anyone, deliverymen. They're often in a hurry to deliver food on electric （电动的） bikes, but some customers may get angry with them if they can't arrive in time. We need to give more（understand） to deliverymen. Maybe they are on their way to save the world!"
FUNLAND Hi!Thissummer holiday we will have different camps for kids. Here are three popular ones. Join us!Makea choice and explain why you choose it.
Come and have fun! |
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Dear Sir or Madam，
Thanks for offering us such wonderful camps.
Looking forward to your early reply!
Yours，
Li Hua
