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Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved all kinds of small animals, such as spiders, insects and butterflies and so on.
One day while walking through the woods, the nice old man found a cocoon（茧） of a butterfly. He took it home.
A few days later, a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to make its body out of that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared it could go no farther.
Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then got out of the cocoon easily.
But it had a swollen（肿胀的） body and small shriveled（枯萎的） wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge to be able to support the body, which would contract（收缩） in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.
What the warm-hearted man in his kindness did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Nature's way of forcing fluid（体液） from the body of the butterfly into its wings, so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any difficulties, it would be bad for us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly.
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参考词汇：sights，relax，open up，waste，safe，tiring
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学生赞成 |
家长反对 |
你的观点 |
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欣赏风景；放松心情；拓宽视野。 |
浪费时间；担心安全；旅途劳累。 |
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This afternoon we had a discussion about whether the students should go out to have a school trip in Grade Nine or not. The students have different opinions from their parents. …
My parents run a small store in San Francisco. They always keep a big box by the entrance where people can donate (捐赠) something to our local food bank.
"For some reason, our food- donation box just isn't filling up recently," said my dad.
"Maybe it's time to think of a way to remind people about the food bank," said my mom.
"What about a talent show?" my dad suggested.
"OK, ▲ " said my mom.
So while my parents posted information online, we kids made some signs. My friend Mareya came over to help out.
"I'd like to do an act in the show, but I don't know what to do," I told Mareya.
"Well, since the food-bank thing is about sharing," said Mareya, "why not write a song about that?"
"Writing a song is not a problem," I said. "But it's hard for me to sing it alone!"
She said," What if we sang it together?"
Since Mareya has the world's prettiest voice and also happens to play the guitar, I agreed.
Mareya and I practiced and practiced, and I was feeling pretty good about our act. But on the morning of the performance, Mareya called that she had a stomachache and was not in any shape to perform.
"There's no way I'm going on without you," I told her.
"You've worked so hard," she said. "You'll be great!"
But great is the last word anyone would choose to describe my performance! Without Mareya's guitar and voice to guide me, my song was completely in a mess. And I even forgot half the words.
Remember the sick, heart-racing, hot-faced feeling I was talking about? Well, that's what I was experiencing- more than I ever had before.
Once I was off the steps, my mom gave me a big hug.
"I want to disappear! I've never been so embarrassed(尴尬的) in my life," I said.
Ollie smiled," I think you are really brave."
Indi added, "I now know that you truly can survive(幸存) a lot more embarrassment than you think."
We all remember the things we are interested in, and always forget the ones that bore us. This explains the reason why schoolboys remember football results easily but struggle(挣扎) with dates from their history lessons! Develop an active interest in what you want to remember.
Repeating things in chunks is the best way to remember things for a short time. For example, remember a phone number for a few seconds. Grouping numbers may help you to remember them. The following numbers would be impossible for most of us to remember: 1492178919318483.
To remember long lists, try inventing a story which includes all the things you want to remember. In experiments, people were asked to remember up to 120 words using this way. When they were tested later, they could remember about 90% of them.
Physical exercise is important for your memory, because it increases your heart rate(心率) and sends more oxygen(氧气) to your brain, and that makes your memory work better. Exercise also lowers stress. As we know, too much pressure is very bad for the memory.
A. Invent a story. B. Take physical exercise. C. Take an interest. D. Repeat things in chunks(块). |
—I agree with you.
—Yes. But I saw one leave with a bike, and _______ playing basketball alone.
Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail(快递) is a fast way to send your letters, there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business—future mail.
"The letter should be sent next Mother's Day and not a day earlier!" Lin Xiaofan, a college student in Shanghai, tells one of the companies offering the service.
Lin Xiaofan wrote the letter to her mother nearly a year earlier to express her love to her mother for next Mother's Day.
"Offering this service makes people slow down and lets them understand the meaning of 'time' in another way," said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a "future mail" company. Zheng thinks "future mail" letters help remind us of care, friendship and love.
While "future mail" is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive.
Zheng said customers are glad to sign a contract(签订合同) to make sure that they can be compensated if their letters are lost or damaged.
Most of the customers are college students and young white-collar(白领) workers. Psychologists (心理学家) said that young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service. Most people put their hopes and wishes in the letter so that they can experience the connection(联系) between the past and the present when they receive the letter.
he before she could say a word?
—Yes. And the temperature stays ____________zero all the time.
A: Hi, Mike! I didn't see you at Tina's party last night.
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A: What happened?
B: When I went out of my house and closed the door, I found I had left the present for Tina in my room.
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B: The money in my pocket was not enough to buy another one.
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B: I had to wait till my parents came back. When they got home, it was already 7: 00 p. m. So I had to give up attending the party.
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A. I had a bad experience. B. Did you get in your house at last? C. Then what did you do? D. What a pity! E. And my keys had been left in it，too. F. How did you get there? G. Why not buy her another present? |
Fifteen years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One day I went to pick up a passenger at 2:40 a. m. When I arrived there, I walked to the door and knocked. "Just a minute," answered a weak, elderly voice.
After a while, the door opened. A small woman stood before me. She was more than eighty years old. By her side was a big bag.
When we got into the taxi, she gave me an address, and then asked, "Could you drive through downtown?"
"It's not the shortest way," I answered quickly.
"Oh, I'm in no hurry," she said. "I'm on my way to a hospice (临终安养院) . I don't have any family left. The doctor says I don't have much time left."
I quietly reached over and shut off the meter (计程表) .
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived, and the place where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she'd ask me to slow down in front of a special building and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
"How much do I owe you?" she asked.
"Nothing," I said.
"You have to make a living," she answered.
"Oh, there are other passengers," I answered.
Almost without thinking, I gave her a hug (拥抱) . She held me and said, "You gave an old woman a moment of joy."
