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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book

This book based on Greg Hefley's own "diary" lets kids express themselves in an exciting way. In the book, kids will be asked: What was the best dream you have ever had? The worst thing you have ever eaten? The best secret you have ever heard? This book is unique and special because it has blank pages for readers to write their own stories and keep their own diaries.

Author: Jeff Kinney

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Chinese Children's Favorite Stories

This volume of beloved Chinese stories contains a delightful selection from the store of Chinese legend. Discover many delightful animal characters as well as Chang'e and Guan Yin. Retold for an international audience, the stories with beautiful pictures will give children aged six to ten in other countries a chance to learn about both the tradition and culture of China.

Author: Mingmei Yip

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The Way Science Works

The perfect introduction to show how science explains the world around us!

Eye-opening experiments and extraordinary photography bring science to life. It explains everyday facts to the theories behind the technology in today's fast-moving world. Full of facts about famous scientists, technology news and more.

Author: Robin Kerrod

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I was born with bad eyesight. At high school I couldn't read the blackboard. By the time I got to the university of Bath to study Chemistry it had got to the point where I couldn't really see images at all, only the difference between light and dark. And a few years later, once I was in the first year of my PhD， I was almost completely blind.

But climbing is my great passion (激情). I started climbing when I was young. My dad taught me everything about climbing. When I was 11, I led my first climbing route outside. People are usually amazed when they discover that not only do I climb, but I also lead climbs.

At university I joined the Mountaineering Club and was able to climb much more frequently. We had regular trips to indoor walls and weekends away outdoors. I developed a great circle of climbing friends and went on several trips to Europe. After these I started Alpine climbing and ice climbing, too.

When my sight dropped to a level where I could no longer read, I thought I might have to give up leading. But I never thought I would stop climbing. I just learnt to adapt with the support of my friends.

People often ask me, "Why rock climbing? It doesn't seem like a good activity for a blind person."

But when I think about the danger, crossing the road is far more dangerous, and also, it's something where I'm not in control.

It's quite possible that I wouldn't be such a good climber if I weren't blind. If I didn't have these challenges, it wouldn't focus me. That determination is built through my disability (残疾).

When I reach the top of a climb, I don't get to appreciate the view, but the feeling of achievement is extremely good.

Climbing is a way to prove my way of thinking in life - which is that I'm not disabled, I'm blind and able.

Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old, and could not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried about his mental ability.

Beethoven's music teacher said about him, "As a composer (作曲家) he is hopeless." What if this young boy had believed it?

When Thomas Edison was a young boy, his teachers said he was so stupid that he could never learn anything. He once said, "I remember I used to never be able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of my class …My father thought I was stupid, and I almost decided that I was a stupid person." What if young Thomas had believed what they said about him?

When the sculptor Auguste Rodin was young, he had difficulty learning to read and write. Today, we may say he had a learning disability. His father said of him, "I have an idiot (白痴) for a son." His uncle agreed. " He's uneducable ， " he said. What if Rodin had doubted his ability?

Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor because he was thought to have no "good ideas". Enrico Caruso was told by one music teacher, "You can't sing. You have no voice at all." And an editor told Louisa May Alcott that she was unable to write anything that would have popular attention.

What if these people had listened and become discouraged? Where would our world be without the music of Beethoven, the art of Rodin or the ideas of Albert Einstein and Walt Disney? As Oscar Levant once said, "It's not what you are but what you don't become that hurts."

You have great potential (潜能). When you believe in all you can be, rather than all you cannot become, you will find your place on earth.

Plenty of children ask their parents for a pet. And now it might be harder for parents to refuse their requests, as a new study shows that young adults who care for an animal have stronger social relationships. American scientists also found that looking after a pet might also help teenagers develop better social skills.

Animals can have positive effects on children, but little is known about the benefits that caring for animals every day can bring to young people. "The young teenagers in the study who cared for pets felt more connected to other people," said Dr. Megan Mueller, a professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, Massachusetts.

Dr. Mueller surveyed more than 500 young people aged between 18 and 26 about their attitudes towards animals. Their responses were used to measure their positive youth development characteristics (特征) such as caring, confidence and connection, as well as feelings of depression. The study found that young adults who cared for animals helped their friends or family more and showed stronger leadership qualities than those who did not look after a pet. The more actively they took part in the pet's care, the higher they scored on their sociable deeds.

"We can't draw causal links with this study, but it is a good starting point to better understand the role of animals in our lives, especially when we are young," said Dr. Mueller. To further develop the research, scientists need to look at how specific features of human experiences are connected with animal experiences, as well as how these relationships develop over time, and look at a larger number of people.

It seems that there is never enough time in the day. But, since we all get the same 24 hours, why is it that some people achieve much more than others?.

Keep a to-do list.

You should have a reminder system to tell you when you need to do what.Carry a pen and paper wherever you go and write down the things you need to do, including dates and deadlines.

Set goals.

Set yourself exact goals, and make sure that they are realistic. To do this, you first need to examine your present situation and assess (判断) which goals are important to you. Have a secondary route to your goals in case you have to change your plans.

Break down tasks.

Break goals down into different parts so that you can complete them one step at a time. .Try to complete one task before you go on to the next.

Organize your time.

. A good way to do this is record everything you do for a week in detail and then examine your record to see how you use or waste your time.

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Keep your work space tidy so that you can work better -it's hard to work if things you need to find are buried under a pile of paper! Work according to the schedule so that you can meet deadlines in good time --don't leave everything until the last minute.

A. Make a detailed plan.

B. Develop a regular work order.

C. The answer lies in good time management.

D. The best time to do something is usually NOW

E. Don't try to remember everything in your head.

F. Find out areas of your life where you are wasting time and try to reduce them.

G. Write these steps down, and try to be as detailed as you can when you do this.

Lifeart is a student-run organization founded by one of my best friends at my school in Boston, US. It gathers its members together to make artwork to sell for one 1 : funding (资助) cancer research.

Since the students at our school can only 2 us so much, we took our artwork to the 3 of Boston one spring day to try and sell it to the 4.

We set up near the entrance of an underground station, thinking that people might be more likely to 5 our artwork if they were going home. It was quite 6 to control the situation at first. It was 7 that day, so our canvases (帆布) kept on falling over, and the price tags kept on blowing away. All of us were quite 8 as well and were afraid to ask people if they would consider buying our artwork.

Finally, one of the brave girls, Luna, talked to our first9 . Although he did not buy anything, it gave a little bit of 10 in the rest of us. Then I tried to talk to a Korean woman passing by. I felt a little 11when she said that she didn't have time, but my courage had grown with this short conversation with a 12 .

At the end of the day, we sold a respectable amount of artwork. It might not have been as much as we 13 , but we agreed as a group that the 14 of gaining and exercising our courage made up for the 15 .

In China, Single's Day has become a shopping day. It is more like a shopping spree狂欢) where many Chinese people wait in front of their computers 00:01 and then buy anything they can. It is a bit like the Black Friday in the US, a shopping festival which (celebrate) around the world nowadays.

Black Friday is on the (four) Friday of November, is the day after Thanksgiving Day. Every year, after eating Thanksgiving dinner, many American people start to line up outside the shopping malls, hoping to be first customer to be able to buy the products. Some even set up a tent and spend the whole night (wait).

Black Friday started in the 1980s and now it (become) a part of the American culture. Though many(shop) also sell their products online, a lot of people still like to stand in line and wait the whole night. The great discounts(折扣) encourage them to wait. Many products can be bought at the (low) price, which saves them a lot of money.

It can be a great joy for the whole family (rush) into the malls and buy a lot of things.

One morning, Mr. Wolf told his wife he would catch some toads (癞蛤蟆) for her to eat. (hear) these annoying words, Mrs. Wolf grabbed a pan to beat him. Not wanting to (scold) by his wife, Mr. Wolf decided to invent something to help him catch goats. He got (inspire) when he saw a spring (弹簧) and invented a pair of spring shoes. With the magic shoes, Mr. Wolf (jump) onto the sky above the sheep village where the goats were practicing spears (标枪). Seeing Mr. Wolf, the goats immediately threw their spears at him with a (frighten) look on their faces. Hearing a loud noise, Red Wolf opened the door and found her husband (trap) to the wall with many spears in his body. As a determined inventor, Mr. Wolf didn't lose heart. He improved his invention and made a new pair of spring shoes, hoping(catch) the goats.

In order to defeat Big Big Wolf, Slow Goat   (lose) in thought. Suddenly, a good idea occurred to him.  After a few days' experiment, a magic insole (鞋垫)was invented, (make) Mr. Wolf badly injured as he hit his house heavily. And he had to have his house (repair) in the following week.