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Food in China and western countries is different. China is a country 1 a long history. They may spend half of their time 2 food. Chinese people choose food very carefully. They only use fresh materials 3 food. For example, they only cat fresh fish. Chinese have a lot of 4 for cooking. They can cook a chicken in over ten ways. That's why Chinese food is so popular around the world. Western countries, 5 England or America, don't have fresh food because they buy their food from supermarkets. Western people do not have skills（技能）for cooking, mostly they only boil（油炸）, steam（蒸）and bake（烤）the food. 6 , western people are very good at making desserts and chocolate. These foods are very sweet and can make you 7 fat quickly.
In China, the person who invited other people for meal pay for the meal, but it's not 8 in western countries. In western countries, people will think you invite them but don't need to pay for them, and maybe they 9 happy if you pay for them.
10 in eating is that Chinese people use chopsticks and western people use knives and forks.
Chinese people only have three meals during a day but western people may have more. They usually have afternoon tea when they would have fruit, cakes or biscuits with cheese.
Hello! My name is Bob. I'm an English boy. But now I'm in China with my parents Jack and Helen, and my sister Sally.
In China, November 11th is a special day. Many people buy a lot of things on Taobao. This year, my mother buys some things for us. They are a quilt, four jackets, two cups and a pen. The quilt is blue. It's for me. The yellow jacket is for Sally. The black jacket is for my father and the green jacket is for me. My mother buys herself a red jacket. She likes red very much. The white cup is for Sally and the other cup is for my father. It's blue. The pen is black. It's for Sally.
My mother likes shopping on Taobao. She says it's convenient because she doesn't need to go out. What do you think of it? Tell me about your ideas.
Everyone loves going on holiday to foreign countries. Here is something you can do to make sure you enjoy your holiday.
Get ready for it
Did you take your passport? Every year, thousands of people can't take their planes because they leave their passports at home, they arrive at the airport too late or even go to the wrong airport.
Search for some information
How much do you know about the place you are going to visit? Learning some traditions of a country will help you know the people well. Learning a few words of another language can also help you make new friends.
Help the local people
You can help local people a lot by staying in local hotels and eating in local restaurants. This means your money will go to local people, but not a large foreign company.
Always remember your holiday
You always want to remember your holiday. Write down something about your holiday to remember all the good time you had and also the new friends you made on holiday. Do you want to send them pictures or presents? Remember to do it!
What do you do to relax? Do you watch TV? Do you read a book? Or do you listen to music? How many of you play a musical instrument（乐器）? How many of us go to concerts? How important is music in our lives? What kind of music do we like?
The survey（调查）above shows the musical habits of a few of our readers. Interestingly, fourteen people out of the twenty questioned actually play a musical instrument, and only six people don't. Out of these, ten people practice（练习）their musical instrument between 0-3 hours a week and the other four between three and six hours a week.
The best instrument to play is the guitar. Eight people say it is their favorite instrument to play. Another four people like playing the piano and two like playing the violin. Two people, however, don't like playing the violin or the piano as they think they are too difficult.
Pop concerts are always popular, but in this survey only eight people say they like going to concerts, six to pop concerts and two to jazz concerts.
A higher number, eighteen, say they like listening to music as they find it relaxing. Only two people don't like listening to music at all. These results（结果）seem to suggest that we are more actively musical than we think.
Elizabeth is an 8-year-old girl from UK. She has a big dream-flying to space（太空）.
In July 2020, Elizabeth saw on the news that NASA（美国宇航局）sent Perseverance Rover to Mars. After that, she became very interested in space science. She started to learn all about it. And she started an online channel（在线频道）to share a lot of interesting things about space science. She even made a rocket（火箭）at home. ▲ .
Some scientists at NASA watched her videos. Elizabeth didn't send her rocket into space, but her love for space science touched（感动）the scientists. The scientists decided to take one thing of the little girl to the moon. At last, they took a sticker（贴 纸）with the name of her online channel "AstroLiz's Lab".
"I'm so happy. My parents and friends are all happy for me, too. I hope I can ride a rocket to the moon to find my sticker one day," Elizabeth said.
I really love this job because I enjoy working with small children. I also think my work is very important. But there was a time when I thought I would never have a job like this.
I wasn't the best student because I didn't do much schoolwork. Just before I left school, I started thinking what I might do and found that there's not much I could do. I thought I wasn't that kind of person to have a job.
I then found myself a job, looking after two little girls for a family. It wasn't difficult at first. But problems began when I agreed to live in, so that my boss could go out to work in the evenings. I got very tired because I had too many late nights and early mornings with the children.
One Sunday, I was in the park with the children, and met Mary who used to go to school with me. I told her about my job. She said that I should get a qualification（资格证书）if I wanted to work with children. And it would help me learn more skills to look after children better without feeling too tired. Her idea made sense, I decided to take part-time lessons. In that way, I had to leave the family. But all the lessons I took helped me look after children better and helped me get a job at a kindergarten.
Now I have a job as a professional（专业的）teacher at a kindergarten. I should be thankful to Mary. I would never have a job if it wasn't for her.
A: Hi, Laura! Long time no see. How is it going these days?
B: Not bad. I like my new school life in China.
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B: I usually go to school at half past seven in the morning.
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B: It's only one kilometer.
A: Are there any school rules?
B: Yes, there are. And I think these school rules are very important.
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B: I often play with my good friend, Emma on weekends.
A: Oh, I know her. By the way,
B: Elephants. They are smart and never forget.
A: Me, too. See you then.
B: See you.
A. She is better at science than me. B. Well, what do you usually do on weekends? C. What's your favorite animal? D. How far is it from your home to school? E. So I often walk to school. F. Do you have a good friend at school? G. What time do you usually go to school? |
Spring Festival is coming. It's on February 5th this year. It's the time to give gifts to your family and friends. But there are some taboos（禁忌）on gift giving. What are those in China?
Chinese people don't always give a clock to someone. A clock sounds like "zhong" in Chinese. So giving someone a clock is like saying "your time is up". People will think it's not lucky, especially for old people.
Buying pears and shoes is also not a good gift. Pears sound like "li" and shoes sound like "xie" in Chinese. They are not good gifts for friends or parents, because they mean something bad in Chinese.
What is a good gift then? Money can be the answer! A "red envelope"（红包）with money is the best gift in China. People give red envelops to show their love. People have "lucky" number of money in the red envelopes. The number six and eight are always the lucky numbers in China. So we must avoid giving the wrong gifts for others.
Confidence（自信）is very important in life. It can help you to have a healthy attitude（态度）. A study shows that the people who are more confident are much happier. It can bring you more chances to succeed（成功）. When you are not confident, you can't do well in what you want to do. But how to be more confident? Here are some about it.
Speak aloud.
Iif you speak in a low voice, other people can not hear you. Try to speak loud enough so that people can you clearly. The high voice can help you become more confident.
Encourage yourself. （自我鼓励）
Write down the things you did in the day to see how many things you did . Did you finish your homework? Did you tell a joke to make everybody laugh? Give yourself the praise for the good things you .
Get rid of fear. （消除恐惧）
Fear comes along failure（失败）. But it's easy to overcome（克服）if you know that failure is part of your life. Don't hide your head just because you said stupid last time. Try to start again and believe you can do it better.
