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Unlike many of my classmates, my idol(偶像) is not a film star or a famous writer. Neither is he a world leader, nor an important person from. My idol is my dad.
Most people believe that a man should go out and work. However, when I was a baby, I was very ill and needed attention all the time. Since my mother and father both worked, and my grandparents lived very, this was a big problem. My dad knew how much my mum loved her job, so he stopped working to stay at home and look after me.
Many men in thiswould want their wives to stay with the child, but my dad always thinks about others before himself. My dad took a job and worked at night. He chose the job so that he would only be out of the house when I was sleeping.
Ever since then, my dad has helped andme in everything I do. The most important thing he taught me was never to . I remember when I was learning to ride a bike. My dad would run behind me for hours. He held the back of the bicycle so that I would not fall. I felt so because I knew he was near. I did not when he stopped holding me. Soon, I was riding by myself.
My family is not rich, and we do not own a big house or an expensive car. My dad is my idol because he has shown me that the most important things in life are family and love.
Daniel Olin was 11 years old when his parents moved to Canada. He liked his new school and made friends there, but then things at home started to change. His mum and dad began to argue and the arguments got worse and worse until one day, Daniel's mum left. With his father working long hours, Daniel felt very lonely and very unhappy. He wanted to escape, to run away. And that's what he did.
Very early one terribly cold morning when the snow was deep on the ground, he packed a bag with some clothes, some chocolate and a map of Canada and set off to a forest. He ran and ran until he could hardly breathe. His feet were heavy with the snow but he still walked on through deep snow, not even watching where he was going.
Then, disaster struck. A rock hidden by the deep snow caught his feet and Daniel fell to the ground. He had broken the bone. He was very cold and was starting to feel tired, but he knew that if he fell asleep in the snow, he would certainly die from the cold.
A tree shook ahead. From within the branches(树枝), a pair of yellow eyes watched Daniel. The puma had been following him. A puma is a large wild cat with claws that could tear Daniel into pieces. But instead of moving in for the kill, the puma walked up to Daniel and lay across his chest, arms and legs. Daniel was too frightened to move, but soon the warmth of the animal reached Daniel and he began to feel better. From time to time, the puma pressed his muzzle (口鼻) against Daniel and rocked his head gently. Clearly, the puma knew that Daniel must not fall asleep. This animal should have been a real danger to Daniel and yet the boy began to feel safe.
They remained like that for several hours until Daniel and the puma heard voices. The rescue (援救) team had found them.
For many people, having your own business sounds like the perfect job. You can do work that you love. You can set your own timetable, and wear jeans to work. You never have to1 a boss, and you make all decisions yourself. You can even raise your salary any time you want.
But the reality is different. "Having your own business can be 2 ," says David Paik. After working for an advertising agency for six years, he started a website design business at home. His income in the first two months was $0.3 , he got a big project creating a website for a magazine. Then he had a new problem: his timetable. "I was working twelve hours a day, seven days a week, because I didn't have employees to help me." Today, Paik Web Design is successful, but David says, "I really wasn't prepared to be a business owner. I didn't 4 the difficulty."
With no boss, it's easy to take too much time off —and get too little work done. With no workmates, you might feel bored or5 . You have to pay for your own holidays. If you make a bad business decision, you could lose all the money. For all of these reasons, more than half of all new businesses fail within one year.
Another problem is balancing work with personal life. As a business owner, you can't just stop at 5 p.m. and forget about your work until tomorrow. "Even when I'm watching TV in the evening, I'm always thinking about my 6 and projects," says David Paik.
Still, hundreds of people around the world start business every day, and most enjoy the experience. "There are lots of advantages to having your own business," says Denise Williams, the owner of a women's clothing store. "You can decide exactly how to do your work, how much money you want to make, and who will work for you."
Listening to music can be fun, but it can also cause many problems. When I was a young girl, I used to listen to pop music while doing homework. The only problem was that I listened to it very 1 . At that time, I lived with my parents. They hated hearing my loud music particularly at night. It was unpleasant to them. I had to use headphones (耳机) in order not to 2 when I wanted to enjoy some music. I always listened to the music two or three levels too high. This brought more damage to my eardrums (耳膜) than listening to music in a(n) 3 space.
After damaging my eardrums, I felt like (感到好似) I was always asking people to repeat themselves. And 4 I had to do that a lot. I could no longer clearly hear what they were saying. This became a big headache to me. At university I had to sit in the front of the classroom so I could hear the lecture. This meant that 5 I was not on time for class and had to sit in the back, I couldn't not hear the teacher at all. The result was that I didn't get good grades.
After completing university, I began doing sales job for a living. Because I couldn't hear clearly, my customers often 6 that I wasn't paying attention when they were talking. That wasn't good for business. Finally I decided to get a hearing aid (助听器). Normally hearing aids are for 7 people, but for me loud music caused me to have one about thirty years too soon.
It may be possible to enjoy a higher standard (标准) of living if you have a small family. There are clear advantages to having a small family. H, there can also be serious disadvantages if it is a small family. The parents have big responsibilities (责任) of raising children by themselves if they have no help from other family m. Today, it is quite common for both parents to work full time in order to pay for the basic cost of living of family. When the parents come home, they are often very tfrom a hard day at work. Still, they have to take care of the children, cook, clean, wash clothes, shop, etc.
When there is only one parent, of course the responsibilities of looking after the children are much hfor him or her. They have to work out all the things by themselves. They just hope that everything goes right every day. More and more, people in small families have been trying to create their own extended families (大家庭) to meet their needs. They often try to develop a net-work of friends and neighbors to be part of their self-created extended family. For example, small families may celebrate holidays tand, if there are children, they may share responsibilities of child raising. Your child might go to a neighbor's hor apartment after school on certain days, and then you would do something in eto help your neighbor out. Many of these arrangements are very successful and helpful for those families.
Nowadays more and more people are crazy about travelling. Why do people travel? "To see more of the world," many people would say. But travelling abroad now means much more than that for the growing number of Chinese tourists. Of course it o us good opportunities to meet people from other countries, learn about their culture and customs.
According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), more than 1 billion people travelled to a country in 2012. In 2012, Chinese, people travelled abroad 30 percent more than in 2011. The prosperity ( 繁荣 ) of the tourism industry can also bring both our country and foreign countries in economy of great benefits. Chinese people usually join large tourist groups and visit several countries in one trip.
"A Chinese person is not going to the Mediterranean (地中海地区) just to visit one place ... These are the travelers of the future," said the UNWTO.
Chinese people don't just travel for s ，either.
The China International Travel Service Company said that all their tour trips sold out a month before Christmas Day. Stores offered discounts during that time. So shopping in Europe and the United States is popular aChinese travelers.
In December, China is going through a very cold winter. So many people like go to some countries in Southeast Asia because the weather there is quite p.
"I want to enjoy the sunshine and beaches there, rather than the cold Beijing," said Hong Qian, who took a holiday to Malaysia. He spent ten days there with his family.
His wife was very interested in Penang, an island city in Malaysia.
The improvement of living standards means more Chinese can travel abroad. But many of them don't have a s of public manners. A report by Living Social website in March 2012 even listed Chinese as the world's sworst tourists, after Americans.
If you want to change that bad name, remember to avoid the following: littering, spitting, snatching (抢夺) bus seats, line jumping, taking off shoes in public, talking l and smoking in non-smoking areas. Besides, we should learn some necessary manners of foreign countries.
One of my earliest and most unforgettable experiences was the day my father took me to see my first football match. I was nine years old and crazy about football. All my friends at school had been to see their favourite teams but I had never been to a live (现场的) game.
"You're not old enough," my father said when I asked him to take me. But all my friends had gone. In the playground we talked about our favourite players and discussed how well we thought they would do on Saturday. I knew everything about them, but I had never actually seen them play.
Then one cold and bright winter morning my father told me to get dressed in warm clothes and hat and to get ready to go out later in the morning. "Where are we going, Dad?" I asked. "You'll see", is all he replied.
We drove in the car for hours, it seemed. I did not know where we were going and I finally fell asleep in the car. The next thing I knew my father was shaking me awake and telling me to get out. I found myself outside a tall round building and from behind wall I could hear a huge noise.
We walked around the corner and I saw the largest number of people I had ever seen, all pushing their way through huge iron gates into the building—a football stadium.
"Here we are," said Dad cheerfully.
"Where are we, Dad?" I asked. "This is the home of the Chester City football team," Dad answered. "I first came here when I was a young boy to see this team. I thought you would like to see them too."
The next two hours passed like a dream. I watched the players kick and shoot the ball, and I shouted and cheered along with the other people near me. When one of the Chester players kicked a goal, we all cheered. That was the only score of the game. Our team had won.
I was so excited that on Monday morning at school I couldn't stop telling everyone what had happened. It was an unforgettable experience. And even today I am still the fan of Chester City Football Club!
