Henry was a boy of nine. He was born in a1family. His father was often ill and couldn't go to work. Only his mother worked in a factory. She worked hard and hoped to give her four children and husband2food and clothes. But she failed. Her family was sometimes hungry. Of course, she couldn't send Henry to school. She was 3it but she didn't know what to do. The boy was very clever and taught himself to read, write and4 at home in the evening. And in the daytime he was polishing（擦）shoes in the street, so he could make some 5for his family.
One afternoon the boy saw a young man's shoes were 6, so he said to him, "Let me polish your shoes. "
"No, thank you, "the young man said and walked away.
"You may pay me only one dollar, sir, "the boy shouted7him. But the young man said no again. Then the boy thought for a while and told him that he would polish his shoes for nothing. The young man 8with the boy, and soon one of his shoes was shining brightly. The man showed9shoe to the boy, but the boy said no to polish it if he wasn't paid two dollars for his work. The young man didn't want to 10anything on it and went away.
But his shoes were so different that he had to stop. He turned back and gave the boy two dollars. In a very short time the shoe was as bright as the other one.
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Ashley Power's mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she often surfed the Internet, but she couldn't find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, "If I had my own website（网站）, I would make it interesting for teenagers. "
So, when Ashley was sixteen, she had her own website called Goose head. She didn't know whether it would go well, but three years later, her website was the most successful teenagers. "
website in the USA！It was getting 100, 000 hits（点击量）every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees（雇员）.
After a few years, the website was closed down. Ashley was asked to write a book which was about how to design（设计）a website and start a business. In the book, Ashley told readers what it was like to be the boss of a company when she was only sixteen. "I was so happy. But it was very busy in many ways. I got very tired. I mean, I was only sixteen！If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you would get very tired, too！"
In a recent interview, Ashley gave advice to teenagers who want to start their own business. "Just be strong, find your dreams and work hard at them. And don't listen when people say' not to you. Just keep going until you hear' yes'！"
Earth Day is on April 22nd. People say thanks to the Earth and learn ways to keep the Earth safe and clean. But saving the Earth is not just for grow-ups（成人）. Kids are also taking an active part in it.
The American writer and filmmaker Lynne made a film called Young Voices for the Planet. It lists a lot of stories about different kids who help to keep our environment clean.
Team Marine, US A group of students in a Santa Monica High School started an organization called Team Marine. They tell people why plastic bags are bad for sea animals and environment. In 2011, they successfully made lawmakers（立法者）in their city stop people using plastic bags.
Felix, 15 Germany In 2007, a 9-year-old boy, Felix, started a club Plant for the Planet. It encourages children around the world to plant trees in their own countries. Felix helped plant 25 million trees in Germany and 120 million trees in the world.
Alec, 17, US When he was 12, Alec set up Kids VS Global（全球的）Warming. It teaches kid about weather change and ways to stop the world getting warmer and warmer. Alec travels widely to encourage people to help stop global（全球的）warming. He has given more than 70 talks across the country.
Olivia, 13, US When Olivia was 11, she heard about the 2010 oil spill（漏油）in gulf of Mexico. She painted 500 pictures of birds to raise money for the clean-up. She raised more than $200, 000 to protect（保护）birds and other wild animals.
For a long time, many people wished to have a kind of new air conditioner（空调）. They can carry their air conditioners with them on hot summer days. Sony has a new invention about this kind of new air conditioner. It is called Reno Pocket. It is small and light in weight and it can be put into the pocket of a special T-shirt. The Reno Pocket is controlled（控制）by a smart phone app. It is able to make you feel cooler or warmer. The Reno Pocket comes out of Sony's startup acceleration（众筹创业）program. However, Sony only has plans to sell the Reno Pocket in Japan at present.
According to a spokesperson（发言人）, the product is mostly fit for businessmen who have to wear suits in summer. Now the T-shirts include men's sizes in small, medium or large, but the product is not really for all-day use so much. It needs to be charged around two hours and lasts about 90 minutes.
In a blog post, Chichi I to, a project leader on Reno Pocket, said people pay more attention to the functionality（功能性）and comfort（舒适性）in their clothing. In 2017, his team started thinking of ways they could mix technology with fashion to meet people's needs. Reno Pocket was the result.
Though Japanese buyers are looking forward to buying the new product, they will have to wait for some time. If the project is successful, deliveries of the invention will begin in the near future, then people can buy it in the store.
Body language is one of the best ways to find out what is really going on inside someone's head. A small movement of the mouth or nose, or a wink（眨眼）of the eye-these actions can show so much more about persons' feelings than anything they say to you. Here are some basic movements made by Westerners and their meanings.
Shrug（耸）your shoulders. This means "I don't know" or "I don't mind it". If your friends shrug their shoulders when being invited to a party, it shows they are not very interested in it.
Keep your fingers crossed! It is a gesture that wishes for good luck. Before people take exams, they often cross their fingers in the hope of good grades. Football fans do the same thing when their favorite team gets a penalty（点球）-they wish the player will score a goal.
Rub（揉）your chin（下巴）. If someone rubs their chin, it often means they don't believe what someone is saying！So if your friends make this gesture, it secretly tells you how they feel.
Scratch（挠）your head. If your foreign English teacher scratches his head when you ask a question, then he is puzzled and might not have understood what you said. Either that, or he can't remember your name！
Anyway, the most important is that you need to be very experienced to fully understand what you see.
（①=Para. （自然段)1 ②=Para. 2③=Para. 3④=Para. 4⑤=Para. 5 ⑥=Para. 6）
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A. But how do I deal with the words I don't understand？ B. I hope I can. C. I'm having trouble learning English. D. I failed my math test. E. Well, be patient（有耐心的）. It takes time. F. What's your problem？ G. But I'm a very slow reader. |
A: You look worried, David. What's wrong?
B: .
A: You said you liked English. .
B: I find it difficult to do English reading, especially reading a longer passage.
A: That doesn't sound too bad.
B: What should I do?
A: Don't read word by word. Just read quickly to get the main idea at first. Read word groups.
B: Oh! I see. .
A: To guess a word's meaning by reading the sentences before and after it. You probably mob I understand more than you think.
B: That sounds difficult.
A: . You can improve your English reading by more practice. The more you read, the faster you'll be.
B: I'll try. Thank you, Mrs. Black.
Throughout history, people have used jewelry（珠宝）to make their clothes look more special.
Jewelry was, and still is, in fashion all over the world.
In South Africa, men in the Ndebele tribe（部落）often gave their wives jewelry made of silver or gold rings. Ndebele women wore necklaces（项链）around their necks and bracelets（手镯）around arms. Rings were even worn on their legs. The rings showed wealth（财富）. A woman with many rings had a richer husband. In the past, women only took the rings off when their husbands died. Today Ndebele women still wear the rings, but not all of the time.
People in India have been wearing jewelry for more than 5, 000 years. In the past, both men and women wore a lot of jewelry. Women wore as many as 50 bracelets at a time！Today, men stopped wearing so much jewelry in India, but for women jewelry continues to be very important. Also, jewelry means safety in India. If a family has trouble with money, they can always sell their jewelry.
In ancient China, people believed that jewelry meant wealth and god luck to them. The more jewelry they had, the richer they seemed to be. Also, jewelry has some special meanings. People used to give the new born baby some jewelry, which was often made of jade（玉石）, as a gift. They believed that the jade used in their jewelry was alive and that it could keep bad things away. Many Chinese people today still believe this.
Pigs Teach Us About Life
China and Western countries may have different cultural beliefs（信仰）about animals, but when it comes to pigs, there are almost no different ideas for us and we all have the ideas and opinions. We all think that pigs are ugly, lazy and silly.
Let's look at the idioms（习语）and phrases in our languages. In Chinese, people often say "Boiling a dead pig", and "A pig looking in the minor is still a pig'. And in English, there are also expressions such "eating like a pig" and "to teach a pig to play on a flute（笛子）". All-these idioms and phrases have nothing to do with admiration（钦佩）or praise.
However, that is not true, As a matter of , pigs have some fine qualities（品质）especially when the Year of the Pig comes at the Chinese Spring Festival.
First of all, a research report shows that pigs are not at all but very clever. They like to play. They can remember things for a long time. And they know the differences good people and bad people.
There are also lovely pig characters in cartoons. Poppa Pig, for example, a TV play has now become of the most popular cartoons in 180 countries. The four members in the cartoon's pig family all the children about love, friendship, and the value of family.
And another example is Modulo（麦兜). The creator(创作者）of McDull said, "People are paying too much attention to high speed and quick results, but Modulo（麦兜）is slow and patient. No mater how difficult the road to success is, he always keeps on hard for his dreams even though he keeps failing. He has a heart of gold. "
