A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. ____water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder__
__had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man__
__ ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled_
_ ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home_
__a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let___student taste the water. He spit it out, __
__ (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like_
__?" The teacher replied," You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be__
__ (sweet). "We understand this lesson best__
__we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
We are a primary school in England. Our students start arriving at our playground from about 8:45 a.m. Most of the children live nearby, so they walk to school. But some children have to travel to school by car. Each of the children is dressed in a school uniform (校服) and carries the homework and packed lunch in a schoolbag.
School starts at 8:55 a.m. The teacher on duty blows a whistle (哨子) and the children line up in their class groups. They wait quietly for the teacher to send them to their classrooms. When they arrive at their classrooms, the children empty their schoolbags and put their homework in their boxes. After the children take their seats, the teacher reads out each child’s name in turn. Upon hearing his / her name, the child replies “yes, Mrs. (the teacher’s name)” and the teacher writes down whether the child is in school or not.
And then at 9:10 a.m. the children attend an assembly in our main hall. They sit on the floor in rows with the youngest children at the front and the older children at the back. As the children enter the hall, they listen to music quietly. Each week we have a different musical theme (主题). Besides, the children also listen to stories.
After the assembly, the first lesson of the day begins at 9:30 a.m. Our morning lessons are usually English and Maths. Each of these lessons lasts an hour. Between classes, the children have their morning break from 10:20 a.m. to 10:35 a.m. They eat their snacks (小吃) or play games like football on the playground. At the end of the break, the teacher on duty blows a whistle. The children stand still and wait to be told to line up.
Each day, the children have their lunch break from 12 noon to 1:10 p.m. Most of the children bring their own packed lunches from home. A packed lunch usually consists of sandwiches, fruit, a drink and a packet of crisps. Some children have a school dinner cooked in our school kitchen. While the children are waiting to have lunch or after they have finished eating, they play games on the playground or attend lunch-time clubs. We have teachers on duty, who look after the children during lunch breaks. After the lunch break, the children have afternoon lessons, which continue until 3:15 p.m. when the children go home.
| A typical school day at a primary school in England |
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| Arriving at school |
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| The start of school |
● At 8:55 a.m., the teacher on duty blows a whistle to make the children ● The teacher |
| ● At 9:10 a.m. the children attend an assembly in the main hall, where they listen to music or stories. ● They sit on the floor in rows at different |
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| Morning lessons |
● The first lesson of the day begins at 9:30 a.m. and each class lasts as ● The morning lessons are usually English and Maths. ● The morning break is from 10:20 a.m. to 10:35 a.m., when the children eat their snacks or play games. |
| Lunch breaks and afternoon lessons |
● The lunch break starts at 12 noon and ● During the lunch break, the students ● School is |
Happy Graduation, Seniors! Congratulations! What’s next? Below is some sociologically-inspired, out-of-the-box advice on work, love, family, friendship, and the meaning of life. For new grads from the two of us!
1. Don’t Worry About Making Your Dreams Come True
College graduates are often told: “follow your passion,” do “what you love,” what you were “meant to do,” or “make your dreams come true.” Two-thirds think they’re going find a job that allows them to change the world, half within five years. Yikes.
This sets young people up to fail. The truth is that most of us will not be employed in a job that is both our lifelong passion and a world-changer; that’s just not the way our global economy is. So it’s ok to set your sights just a tad below occupational ecstasy. Just find a job that you like. Use that job to help you have a full life with lots of good things and pleasure and helping others and stuff. A great life is pretty good, even if it’s not perfect.
2. Make Friends
Americans emphasize finding Mr. or Ms. Right and getting married. We think this will bring us happiness. In fact, however, both psychological well-being and health are more strongly related to friendship. If you have good friends, you’ll be less likely to get the common cold, less likely to die from cancer, recover better from the loss of a spouse, and keep your mental acuity as you age. You’ll also be able to face life’s challenges, be less likely to feed depressed, and be happier in old age.
Having happy friends increases your chance of being happy as much as an extra $145,500 a year does. So, make friends!
3. Don’t Worry about Being Single
Single people, especially women, are stigmatized in our society: we’re all familiar with the image of a sad, lonely woman eating ice cream with her cats in her pajamas on Saturday night. But about 45% of U.S. adults aren’t married and around 1 in 7 lives alone.
This might be you. Research shows that young people’s expectations about their marital status (e.g., the desire to be married by 30 and have kids by 32) have little or no relationship to what actually happens to people. So, go with the flow.
And, if you’re single, you’re in good company. Single people spend more time with friends, volunteer more, and are more involved in their communities than married people. Never-married and divorced women are happier, on average, than married women. So, don’t buy into the myth of the miserable singleton.
4. Don’t Take Your Ideas about Gender and Marriage Too Seriously
If you do get married, be both principled and flexible. Relationship satisfaction, financial security, and happy kids are more strongly related to the ability to adapt in the face of life’s challenges than any particular way of organizing families. The most functional families are ones that can bend. So partnering with someone who thinks that one partner should support their families and the other should take responsibility for the house and children is a recipe for disaster. So is being equally rigid about non-traditional divisions of labor. It’s okay to have ideas about how to organize your
family – and, for the love of god, please talk about both your ideals and fallback positions on this – but your best bet for happiness is to be flexible.
5. Think Hard About Whether to Buy a House
Our current image of the American Dream revolves around homeownership, and buying a home is often considered as a stage on the path to full-fledge adulthood. But the ideal of universal home ownership was born in the 1950s. It’s a rather new idea.
With such a short history, it’s funny that people often insist that buying a house is a fool-proof investment and the best way to secure retirement. In fact, buying a house may not be the best choice for you. The mortgage may be less than rent, but there are also taxes, insurance, and the increasingly common Home Owners Association (HOA) fees. You may someday sell the house for more than you bought it but, if you paid interest on a mortgage, you also paid far more than the sale price. You have freedom from a landlord, but may discover your HOA is just as controlling, or worse. And then there’s the headache: renting makes you avoid the stress of being responsible for repairs. It also offers a freedom of movement that you might cherish.
So, think carefully about whether buying or renting is a better fit for your finances, lifestyle, and future goals. This New York Times rent vs. buy calculator is a good start.
| 1. Don’t Worry About |
◆College grads are reminded to follow their passion. ◆The ◆Just find a great job that can make your life full, even if it’s not perfect. |
| 2. Make Friends. |
◆Americans put a lot of emphasis on getting married. ◆Both psychological well-being and health are more strongly related to ◆With good company, you will keep away from illness and have the |
| 3. Don’t Worry about Being a Bachelor. |
◆Single women adults ◆If single, be actively |
| 4. Don’t Take Your Ideas about Gender and Marriage Too Seriously. |
◆The most functional families are ones that can bend, that is to say , to be principled and more |
| 5. Think Hard About Whether to Buy a House. |
◆Buying a home is often considered as a stage on the path to full-fledge ◆In fact, buying a house may not be the best choice for you to invest and to secure retirement. ◆Renting |
Since it was founded a year ago, the babysitting pool has become increasingly popular in the United States. More and more mothers have joined it and have benefited from it. What attracts them most is the idea that you pay your babysitter not in cash, but in paper cards. When you join the babysitting pool, you are given thirty cards, which are worth 30-minute babysitting time each. For each half an hour while you are gone, the babysitter gets paid one card.
There are rules regulating this service. You should not watch more than three kids at a time including your own. On big holidays, such as Christmas and Thanksgiving, the babysitter should be paid twice as much, which means two cards for every half an hour. When you leave the babysitting pool, you should return all the cards. If you are out of cards, you cannot use money instead. You should have to baby-sit for others to earn enough cards so that you will have them handy when you yourself need a babysitter.
Many mothers think highly of this service. It keeps children in constant touch with one another, and makes life easier for the mothers. Since in most cases, the babysitter is the mother who watches other kids at her own home, it is still possible for her to do her own things while the kids play with each other. In fact most mother babysitters find that their own kids are less of a monster and easier to watch when they are around other playmates. Moreover, since the babysitting pool service does not involve money, it will not be a financial loss to the family.
In the past year, the babysitting pool has helped so many mothers with their work that they all think that it is indeed a good community service worth keeping.
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Friday Jan. 9,2009 Cloudy
This morning, on my way to school, I saw something lying by the roadside. To my s , it was a gold necklace. I quickly picked it and looked around. No one seemed to be looking for the lost
necklace. Should I hand it in to the
(最近的) police station?
But classes would begin in a minutes. I had no time to deal with it. So, I decided to t
it with me to school for the time being. Soon
I got to school, classed began. After class, I handed in the necklace to the headmaster,
(告诉) him the story. He spoke h
of my honesty. When school was over, I heard our school radio station broadcast the school
(新闻) that
(表扬) me for doing a good deed. Mom and Dad were overjoyed to hear my story.
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In many countries,_ ___ is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space. __
__, in the United States, this idea may still be considered odd.
But this type of housing, ____(call) co-housing, is gaining _
___(popular) in the United States, too. Co-housing complexes are popping up across the country. For many people, this way of life is a
___(relieve) to the busy modern lifestyle. A co-housing community has
__(private) owned houses and shared land. There is often a “common house” with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room. About 25 co-housing communities __
__(build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned.
A co-housing complex is a place ___ residents shop, cook, and eat together. Residents of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared community. Children have other kids to play _
___which many families like. Other residents like the feeling of living in a “village”. Residents also say that they can live in co-housing for _
__(little) money than they would pay for nearby apartments.
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