A young man went to apply for a job in a big company. The director noticed that the youth's scores were excellent all the way.
The director asked, "Was it your father who paid for your school fees?" The youth answered, "My father passed away when I was 1. It was my mother who paid for my school fees."
The director continues, "May I ask your 2your mother's job is?" The youth answered, "My mother 3as a clothes cleaner."
The director asked the youth to show4hands. The youth showed a pair of hands 5were smooth and perfect.
The director asked, "Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?" The youth answered, "Never, my mother always wanted me to spend more time on books. Furthermore, my mother is better6it."
The director said, "I have a request. When you go back today, clean your mother's hands, and see me tomorrow morning."
7 the youth felt surprised, he did as requested. When he went back, he happily requested his mother to let him 8her hands. His mother felt 9but with mixed feelings she showed her hands to the kid. He noticed that there were so many chilblains（冻疮）in her hands. Some of the chilblains were 10 painful that his mother shook when they 11with water. The youth cleaned his mother's hands with tears 12. He realized that the chilblains in his mother's hands were the price paying 13his graduation, excellent scores and his future. After 14his mother's hands, the youth washed all the remained clothes.
The youth learned to appreciate 15help of others and worked really hard. He received respect from his workmates and became a manager in the company.
As a child, I started learning to play the piano, my favourite musical 1, but I was forced to 2 when I started my middle school so that I could focus more on my studies.
It's one of my biggest 3 to stop practising the piano when I recall sadly today. During the following years, I kept telling my piano teacher that I would 4. However, I didn't keep my promise because was 5 with my study. Gradually I lost touch with her. Some years later, my teacher died. I was very sad because I lost such a good teacher. She was a warm and gentle woman. It hurts me to think she may have been disappointed that I 6 returned. I haven't taken lessons since then. To be honest, I wanted to. Sitting at the piano, I couldn't help recalling many 7 — times of my practising at home and playing before my teacher. These memories, however, good or bad, never caused my 8 for playing the piano again.
This thought then led me to think that 9 is like music, and that we all try to play different roles in the instrument of our life. Sometimes the pitch（音高）is 10 when we play it well, but sometimes we are out of tone. No matter what style our music is, it is important that we still love it in heart.
Though I may never make it back to piano lessons, it doesn't mean that I've stopped making music.
Once upon a time, there lived a girl in ancient China named Mulan. Her father used to be a general who was too old and weak to fight, but not too old to teach her how to ride a horse and use a sword. Girls usually did not learn these skills at that time. But Mulan's father believed everyone should know how to fight, even girls. And Mulan also believed that girls could be as brave as men.
One day, the emperor（皇帝）sent soldiers to Mulan's village. Because war was coming, men were needed for the army. The military leader of the soldiers put up a list of names in the village square. Each name represented one man from each family.
Mulan saw her father's name on the list. She knew her father couldn't fight in a war. Mulan's brother was a little child. There was only Mulan who take her father's place. But the army did not take girls as replacements for fighting men.
Quietly, the next morning, before her father could report for duty, Mulan stole her father's armor（盔甲）. She dressed herself up as a man. The soldiers accepted "him" in her father's place. Mulan was very careful and fought bravely as other soldiers over the years. No one found that she was a girl. When the war was over, Mulan received a special award from the emperor for her courage. The emperor gave her a horse and a bag of treasure.
Her family greeted her with joy. Her brother was pleased with the gift of her military clothes. Mulan dressed once again in the clothes of a woman. That evening, Mulan and her family got together to watch the sunset.
Two of the men who had worked with Mulan in the war stopped by her home on their way home. When Mulan greeted them, they could not believe their eyes. One of them shouted, "Are you really Mulan?"
After recalling many moments, they finally believed that Mulan was a woman. They spread Mulan's story across China and it inspired many young women, who wanted to ride a horse and use a sword.
a. Mulan stole her father's armor and dressed up herself as a man.
b. Mulan saw her father's name on the list.
c. The military leader of the soldiers put up a list of names in the village square.
d. The emperor sent soldiers to Mulan's village.
e. The soldiers accepted Mulan in her father's place.
Living and dealing with kids can be a tough job these days, but living and dealing with parents can be even tougher.
If I learned anything in my 16 years, it is that communication is very important, both when you disagree and when you get along. With any relationship, you need to let other persons know how you are feeling. If you are not able to communicate, you drift apart. When you are mad at your parents, or anyone else, not talking to them doesn't solve anything.
Communication begins with the concerns （关心）of another. It means that you can't just come home from school, go up to your room and ignore（不理睬）anyone. Even if you just say "Hi", and see how their day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing.
If you looked up the word "communication" in a dictionary, it would say "the exchange of ideas, the conveyance（表达）of information, correspondence（通信）, means of communication: a letter or a message". To keep a good relationship, you must keep communication strong. Let people know how you feel, even if it's just by writing a note.
When dealing with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing as a parent. If you are trying to make them see something as you see it, tell them that you'll listen to what they have to say, or ask them politely to listen to you. Yelling or walking away only makes the situation worse.
This is an example: one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she had to be home by midnight after the fireworks, but she didn't feel she could leave earlier. That would be rude. After all, they had been nice enough to take her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were mad at first. But when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren't mad any more and let the incident go. Communication is the key factor（因素）here. If Sophie's parents had not been willing to listen, Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble.
Communication isn't a one-way deal: it goes both ways. Just remember: if you get into a situation like Sophie's, tell the other person how you feel and listening to the other is also the key factor to communication.
Nutrition（营养学）experts put forward advice on how to eat well — and, most importantly, not lose your mind doing it. And there are some tips that stand the test of time, and that experts themselves follow. Here are some habits they live by — and that will change the way you eat.
Eat lunch like a king
You've heard to make breakfast the biggest meal of your day, but you may not be that hungry when you wake up. In fact, "your biggest meal should be around noon when your digestion（消化）is at its peak and you can feed your body when it actually needs fuel," says Dr Lipman. At lunch, preference of protein（蛋白质）and greens is suggested, like a hearty（丰盛的）bowl of lentil soup and kale salad. You don't need a huge meal at dinner only to sit and catch up on some TV plays and then go to bed.
Eat the rainbow
Greens, oranges, reds, purples, yellows ... you get the picture. Eating the rainbow will provide your body with kinds of disease-fighting phytonutrients（植物营养素）, and will naturally fill you up to help you say "no" to unhealthy foods, says Lipman. Plus, most adults struggle with getting the recommended five kinds of fruits and vegetables a day (though some say seven kinds). A worldwide study in 2018 found 58% to 88% of adults don't hit that mark. In another study, adults who were offered all kinds of vegetables ate more of them without increasing the calories at the meal, found in a 2017 study.
Know where your snacks are
Increased snacking is one reason behind the rise in calorie over the past few decades, according to a 2017 study in PLOS ONE. Sure, you don't know if you'll be hungry some time between the meals. But, "When you leave your office to go find something, that's when bad choices are made," says Schapiro. "That's when a hot pretzel, bag of candy, or donut can look very attractive." Make sure to keep in your drawer or fridge some healthy snacks, like Greek yogurt, individual packs of nuts, dried fruit.
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Dear Victor, I have received your letter from school and I am glad to know that you are becoming responsible enough to decide on your career. You are now in the final year of high school and are going to start further education in college. You know that we belong to different times, and my social life is different from yours. However, all I can say as advice is that you must choose a career wisely. The first consideration is your interest. You can only succeed and feel happy when you do something you enjoy. You must get a job which not only provides you with something useful, but also you are pleased with. Then, you must read a lot in the field you are aiming at. Also, you should get to know the men and women who work in that field. When mind and heart work together, success is inevitable. No career is more or less important. I think your interest may be in the field of making TV programs. Your good communication skills, your taking an active part in school plays and the prizes you have won in speech competitions all lead you to that direction. So a career in Mass Communication and TV film production will bring luck to you. If you succeed in that field, you will become famous and rich. Think a thousand times before making any final decision about your career. After all, we want you to be a man of success. We all know that you are old enough to think for yourself. With all the best wishes! Your loving father |
Sumo wrestling（相扑）is a national sport in Japan. Every year there are six tournaments（联赛）, and millions of Japanese watch them on television.
Sumo is almost as old as the nation of Japan itself. There are written records of national sumo tournaments in the 8th century.
In many sports, athletes are thin and can move very quickly. However, sumo wrestlers weigh from 100 to 160 kilos (kilograms). One famous wrestler weighed 195 kilos. Sumo wrestlers start training when they are boys. They exercise to make their bodies strong. They also eat a lot.
They wrestle in a round ring with a sand floor. He is also the loser if any part of his body except his feet touches the floor. Each wrestler tries to push the other down on the floor or out of the ring. Then, the wrestler who is rushing falls down or moves out of the ring.
Sumo is not very popular in other countries, but the Japanese think that it is a very exciting sport.
A. Stories say that there was sumo wrestling over 2,000 years ago.
B. A tournament is a scries of matches.
C. Sumo wrestlers do not move quickly, and sumo wrestling is a very slow sport.
D. Sometimes one wrestler just steps aside when the other wrestler rushes toward him.
E. A wrestler loses the match if he leaves the ring.
One Saturday morning, Tom was unhappy because his aunt gave him a tof painting their fence. He has no i in the work at all. After working for a while, he sat down to take a rest.
He knew that the other boys would soon walk around and l at him. He decided to p a joke on them. So when Ben went by, he p he really enjoyed the work and considered it as a valuable chance. And this made other boys admire him and give him presents for that work.
Soon the work was finished and his aunt was so p with him and gave him an apple as a prize.
⑴多吃蔬菜水果，远离油炸食品和软饮料，保证均衡饮食。
⑵坚持运动
⑶保持良好心情，减小压力。
⑷自己的看法（1-2条）
注意：⑴词数：80词左右（短文开头已给出，不计入词数）
⑵可根据内容适当发挥。
⑶不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息，否则不予评分。
Hello, everyone! As we all know, health is the key to success. You can learn better with a stronger body.
