Around the world, summer vacation means long days, sunshine, swimming, sleeping and most importantly, no school.
Hundreds of years ago, students took the summer off to help their parents in the fields. Today, however, summers are full of fun-no work. A summer vacation means so many opportunities for kids: extra classes, sports, hobbies or catching up on studies.
If you're lucky, during the weeks away from school, you can volunteer, travel or go to a camp. It's time to do a part-time job to learn a new skill. You may hang out with friends all day. Some kids just kick off their shoes and jump into rivers and swimming pools.
If you're not so lucky, summer vacation may mean summer school-a long, hot summer inside the classroom.
Whatever your plans are, make this summer a good one. Take on a project! Learn something! Help someone! Make this summer one to remember.
An old man lived in a nice house with a large garden. He took care of his flowers all the time, watering and fertilizing them.
One day a young man went by the garden. He looked at the beautiful flowers, imagining how happy he could be if he lived in such a beautiful place. Then, suddenly he found the old gardener was 1. He was very surprised about this and asked, “You can't see these flowers. Why are you busy taking care of them every day?”
The old man smiled and said, “I can tell you four 2. First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. Second, 3 I can't see these flowers, I can touch them. Third, I can 4 the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that's 5.”
“Me? But you don't know me,” said the young man.
“Yeah, it's true that I don't know you. But I know that flowers are angels(天使) that everybody 6. We enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us.”
The blind man's work opened our eyes and 7 our hearts, which also made his life 8. It was just like Beethoven, who became deaf in his later life and wrote many great musical works. Beethoven himself couldn't 9 his wonderful music, but his music has 10 millions of people to face their difficulties bravely. Isn't it one kind of happiness?
My mother is the person I admire most. She is in her t. She has a round face with big eyes and long black hair.
My mother is kind and helpful. She is always r to help others. She never r to help others whenever she is n. She often gives some money to the people in need. And whenever she sees sick animals，she takes them home and c for them.
Since 2004，my mother has d blood over twenty times and her blood has s lots of people's lives. A few days ago，she learned about body donation. T our surprise，she planned to donate her body for medical r after she dies.
My mother is really a person f of love. I love her very much.
Do you have the experience of taking music lessons against your wishes? Perhaps you have complained about it because you thought it took you much playtime. But now you'd better thank your parents for their time and money spent on your musical training. A recent study suggests music lessons can make children have better memories than their peers （同龄人）.
The Canadian study showed that after one year of musical training, children did better on a memory test than those who didn't take music lessons.
The researchers made the children aged between 4and 6into two groups﹣one group of children took music lessons outside school, and the other didn't take any musical training. In one year, they took four tests in different times. The results showed brain （大脑）development changes at least every four months.
The children taking music lessons not only did better in musical listening but also made faster progress in other ways, such as reading, writing, Maths and IQ.
People say music is the good medicine for a broken heart. Now it seems music can also help us to improve our memories. We are sure to find more and more in the wonderful world of music.
I don't like talking openly about my feelings. That's probably why I am writing this, because it seems an easier way of telling you how thankful I am to you.
When I first got ill two years ago and had to be taken to hospital, you were the first person I called to tell, maybe because I knew Mum wasn't going to answer her phone, but probably because you are the first person I call in an emergency.
As one illness turned into another and I was stuck in hospital for weeks, feeling sorry for myself, you were still at my beside trying to talk to me to cheer me up. The illness hit my kidney(肾) and we then realized that I was going to need a transport sooner or later. You put yourself forward to be tested as soon as possible and it turned out you were a perfect match.
Then last year, in March, we both went down for the operation. I woke a few hours afterwards and felt better. It wasn't until the following day that we got to see each other again. We hugged silently and asked one another how we were. But I never said the words I should have—thank you. To this day, I still haven't said those words to you for my kidney.
In the month after the operation, when we were both at home recovering, I made you lunch, went for walks with you. It's my way of saying that I care for you a great deal and that I am truly thankful for what you did for me.
I want you to know that my silence towards you and the times you tried to talk to me and got nothing weren't because of you. Maybe one day when you will read this, I hope you know that in my own silent way, I am for ever thankful.
My family went to a restaurant for dinner one night. When we were walking to the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother c towards us. They asked if we had any m. My mom asked where they were l . The girl said there were six of them staying in an o black car. My mom gave them a few dollars. Then she sent me inside the restaurant w my dad and my three sisters. H, my mom didn't come. Later, I found out that she had gone h and put all the food in our cupboard into a few bags. Then she brought that food over to the car and gave the bags to the poor f. I wasn't there when that part happened, yet I can ithe joy on their faces. After painting this picture in my mind, I understood w my mom had done what she did that night. I will never forget this lesson in kindness from my mom.
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