Violence is more than a criminal problem. It's also a public health issue.
More than 6,000 people (injure) annually due to violence, mostly young people in low-income neighborhoods .Job programs for teens done with school have proven
( cost) and seem to do little
( reduce) violence.
But summer employment for kids still in school may be effective, according to a study by criminologist Sara Heller at the University of Pennsylvania.
She followed more than 1,600 young people, many of took part in a Chicago program called One Summer Plus. It offers 8-week stints at jobs such as camp counselors, community gardeners, or government office workers at minimum wage.
One group of kids worked 25 hours a week, with an adult mentor. Another group worked 15 hours and got 10 hours of social-emotional ( educate).
A control group got nothing. ( base)on school and police records, Heller found a 43 percent decrease in __
( violence) crime in the two groups that had jobs. This lasted long after the program ended.
The work ( apparent)helps students learn to manage conflict, reduce frustration
improve self -control.
Heller concludes that intervention programs can be low-cost and effective, “even for problem as destructive and complex as youth violence.”
Our body, which has close relations with the food that we eat our daily life, is the most important thing that we own, so our body
(need) proper treatment and proper nourishment (营养).
The old saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is not as silly as some people think. The body needs fruit vegetables, such as apples, pears, banana, carrots and cabbages, because they contain vitamin C,
is very necessary and important to us all. It’s clear that a lack of vitamin C can make people ill and weak easily.
In order to get enough needed vitamins, many people take extra vitamins in pill form, (believe) that these will make them
(health). But a good diet is made up of nourishing food and this gives all the vitamins that we need. The body doesn’t need or use extra vitamins, so why waste money on them?
Nowadays many people are too busy to bother about eating properly. They throw anything into their (stomach), eating something carelessly and
(hurry). The list of illnesses
（cause）or made worse by bad eating habits is frightening. It is high time we should realize the importance of having a good diet. If not, it is impossible for
(we) to keep fit and strong.
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Have you complained your family, your boss, or even your life? Maybe everyone has, but after reading this story, you may change your view and treat the world with another attitude.
An ass (驴), (belong) to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work, could not bear the life any longer. So he made a petition (请求) to God, to be released from his present service and provided with
master. After warning him
he would regret doing it, God made him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, the ass found that he had
(heavy) loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, and asked for another change again. God, telling him that it would be
last time that he could satisfy his request, made him sold to a tanner (皮革工). The ass found that he
(fall) into worse hands. Knowing his new master’s occupation, he said, “It would have been better for me either to have been starved by the first owner
to have been overworked by the second. But now I have already been bought by my present owner,
will peel off my skin even after I am dead, and make me useful .”
We can see that people with dissatisfaction in a place are not (like) to find happiness in another.
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Once upon a time, a poor traveler stopped under a tree. From his bag he took out a bowl of _______ (boil) rice and started to eat. Nearby was a small shop,
______ a woman was selling fried fish to travelers able to pay for it. When the man finished eating and got up to leave, she shouted, “You have not paid me for your meal!”
“But I ordered ______ from you!” he said.
“______ everyone sees, you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice,” argued the woman. “If you hadn’t smelt the fish, your meal would not have been so
_______ (please)!”
Soon a crowd gathered,_______ supported the traveler, but also agreed that the wind was blowing from the shop to the place where he had eaten,
______ (carry) the smell of the fried fish to him.
At last, the woman took him to a judge and after_______ (tell) the judge the story, she insisted that
_______ the man had enjoyed her fish smell, he should pay 25 cents. After hearing the evidence, the judge asked the man to drop a 25-cent coin on the ground. “Here is your payment, the sound of 25 cents
_______ the smell of the fried fish.”
How do learning habits influence learning results? It’s useful and necessary to discuss learning habits. There is a famous（say）“Good habits lead to good endings”, which shows the importance of habits.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” also（show） a healthy everyday habit helps to build up our body. Thus, good learning habits can help us gain great learning results, high scores and abundant knowledge
（include）. At first, learning habits form our ways of thinking and
（attitude） to the content of our learning.
（obvious）, a good habit can help us to speed up to reach our destinations. As we can see, developing a good habit is so important that I would like to introduce one kind of good learning habits — keeping
learning diary every day. We can start the habit by
（write）a learning summary and remember to record something impressive and meaningful. Keep it in mind,
gradually we can gain this good learning habit and benefit from it.
What’s（much）, I find out that I still have some bad learning habits
well. I can only concentrate on reading for a short time, and I will conquer this problem by spending more efforts on concentration practice.
I believe that through my efforts, I can gain good learning results by having good habits.
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Mike: I’d like to buy a computer. Could you please give meadvice?
Rose: Yes, with (please). I’ve got some information about computers. Computers with a P4 work much
(fast) than other ones.
Mike : How about computers with a P3 ?
Rose: Oh, very good,they don’t work as fast as P4 computers, yet they are much cheaper. Generally
(speak), they can meet people’s
very well.
Mike: I think I buy the fastest one I can get. My old computer was out of work lately. It
(work) slowly. I’ve got tired of that working speed.
Rose: I don’t think is necessary for you to buy the fastest one. It would be a waste of money. A P3 computer is
( probable) good enough for you.
Mike: Thank you for your advice. Can you help me choose one?
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