Dear Henry,
Thanks for your letter. I'm having a nice time here. You want me to tell you how I like Chinese people. As a foreigner, it's 1for me to tell what Chinese people are like. But my2in Beijing said something.
A couple of weeks ago, I went to buy four3 for travel. As I was going down the street, it suddenly rained4. A stranger called me into his little shop.
He offered me with a cup of tea and a chair. When the rain got lighter, I5 him and rushed to a store nearby to buy my suitcases.
If you've ever tried to push four big suitcases by6 , you may understand my situation. I looked so silly. Then I felt a touch on my shoulder (肩膀) . It was the seller. He said that I should wait. A few7later, he drove up in a car, and put my suitcases inside. Then we went driving happily along the road to my home. I gave him some8, but he refused. In9English he said, "Feel good, help you. "
Now, you can see Chinese people are always ready to10you.
Yours,
Mike
How is middle school students' study pressure in different countries?
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Country |
Time for homework every day |
Students' feelings |
Parents' opinions |
|
China |
At least one hour |
Tired and unhappy |
Children should take some afterschool classes to get better grades. |
|
Korea |
About 30 minutes |
Stressed out |
It's normal to spend equal(平等的)time on afterschool classes. They are as important as school lessons. |
|
England |
Less than 30 minutes |
Relaxed |
It's important for kids to take afterschool activities, especially sports. |
|
France |
No homework |
Happy |
Children should enjoy their childhood! They shouldn't spend time studying after school. |
It's reported that in the new century people will wear "smart clothes". People use them not only for covering their bodies, but also for many other kinds of uses.
Many kinds of smart clothes will come into the market in the new century. An English clothing maker invented the"MP3 blue jacket". This kind of jacket can be used not as only an MP3 player, but also a cellphone. How amazing! A German company, made a cloth keyboard, which can be put in pants. So you can control your computer with it easily anywhere. When it gets dirty, you can wash it and make it clean.
With the improving of the new technology, smart clothes will get much smarter. Scientists are trying to make clothes that can show your body's temperature and heat you up before you feel cold. There will be another kind of smart clothes. They are special medical (医疗的) smart clothes. They can tell the doctor when you are in danger. They can also provide important information about your environment. They can warn (警告) you of serious pollution. Smart jackets with GPS ( 全球定位系统) technology can protect you from getting lost.
People will love the idea. Maybe smart clothes will be common on New York streets one day, and even around you.
In the last few years, some researchers have decided to study why kids lie. So they did a survey(调查) and made up a special team of 12 students, all under the age of 21.
Each student was given 36 cards, and each card listed a topic that teens sometimes lie about to their parents. The researchers worked through the cards with the teens, learning what things the kid was lying to his parents about, and why.
By the end of the interviews, the kids saw for the first time how much they were lying and how many of family's rules they had broken. It was reported that 98% of the teens had lied to their parents. Out of the 36 topics the average teen was lying to his parents about 12 of them.
Most parents believe their child will stop lying when he gets older. Many books also advise parents to just let lies go一they'll grow out of it. But the truth is that kids grow into it. In some studies, a 4yearold child will lie once every two hours, while a 6yearold child will lie about once every hour and a half.
My work allows me to live in different countries. Reading books helps me to connect (联系)with my friends and family, and my home country, the UK. Here are just some books that I read a lot.
Daddy Long Legs
This book follows the story of a young girl, Judy, as she goes to university and gets lots of new experiences. This book always reminds me of my mother, because she used to read it to me when I was ill in bed.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This is a science fiction book about a man's adventure (冒险经历) in space . It is creative and has a very British sense of humor (幽默感) . For this reason, it might be difficult for foreigners to understand, but when I read it, I feel a strong connection to my home. When I worked in Japan and the USA, the book was by my side.
Harry Potter
I'm sure many of you know Harry Potter books! I have read them many times since primary school. I really got lost in the stories. These days I' m reading them again in Germany.
The Railway Children
This was one of my favorite books. It was a gift for my 13th birthday from my best friend, so it still strongly reminds me of my childhood (童年) . It follows three children and their adventures next to a railway.
What do you usually do with wasted bikes? Instead of letting thousands of perfectly good bicycles go to waste. Mike Than Tun Win is repairing them and sending them to children in Myanmar.
"People spent from $300 to $500 making one bicycle. It's expensive, " Win wrote online. "When I see the wasted bikes on the roads or in the parks, I feel really sad. "
Win thought of the young village children. "I often see many students walking a long way from home to school in villages, " he said. "Some students often walk up to one hour. Their families can hardly pay for a bike. They never think about going to school by school bus. "
Then Win came up with an idea. He wanted to recycle (回收) the wasted bikes and make them into new ones. He started Less Walk, an organization (组织), so that he could buy unused bikes from bike company. Now he gets about 4, 700 new bikes, and there are 5, 300 more bikes on the way.
After knowing Win's idea and his organization, a lot of people gave him support. "Three months after I wrote about my idea online, I'm very happy because I can finally start working on it. "Win said.
Win is now talking with different organizations to discuss distributing the bikes. After some time, children in Myanmar will get their own bikes.
School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything at school, teacher can't teach his students everything they want to know. His work is (show) his students how to learn. He teaches them to read and think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students.
It is always much (important) to know how to study by oneself. It is quite (easily) to learn something, but it is difficult to use it to solve problems. Great (invent) do not get everything from school, they still invent many things and change the world a lot.
How can the inventors do all of this? One of the answers is that they know how to study. fact, a lot of things are not learnt in the classroom. They get a lot of knowledge by (read) outside school. They work hard and never give up all (they)lives.
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运动的重要性 |
运动的时间与方式 |
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♦保持健康； ♦培养个人的性格 |
♦上学时步行或骑自行车； ♦体育课做各种锻炼（跑步、打篮球…） ♦周末与朋友去爬山、游泳等． |
参考词汇：keep fit，train a person's character，on foot，PE class，climb mountains
要求：1）词数：80词左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数．
2）短文中不得出现真空的人名、校名和地点．
Let's Do Exercise Together
It's very important for us to do exercise．
