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What is the best way to get away from the stress and pressure of our daily lives? Go on vacation! Vacations can1us a chance to have a rest and can also help us to spend more time with our 2ones. Whatever you do for your vacation, you need to plan 3.
The first thing you need to do for a 4vacation is to find out where to spend it. Different people have different 5of relaxing. Some might like to stay at home for a week; others might like to climb mountains. Try to find a place where you can 6the most.
The second thing to decide is how much 7 you plan to spend on your trip. If you always 8 money, you won't be able to enjoy your holiday. Spending 9money than you can afford to go on a vacation will only make you feel 10, so make a useful plan that will allow you to spend your holiday well.
A vacation can help you to feel relaxed and get away from the busy world around you. It's very helpful to your health, so make sure you plan your vacation properly!
The following shows a typical day in Darwin's middle and later years. During that time, he developed a strict routine that seldom changed, even when guests were present.
7:00 a.m. | Rose and took a short walk. |
7:45 a.m. | Breakfast alone. |
8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. | Worked in his study; he considered this his best working time. |
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | Went to the drawing-room and read his letters, followed by reading aloud of family letters. |
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon | Returned to his study to work. |
12:00 noon | Walked, starting with a visit to the greenhouse, the number of times depending on his health, usually alone or with a dog. |
12:45 p.m. | Lunch with the whole family. It was his main meal of the day After lunch, he read The Times and answered his letters. |
3:00 p.m. | Rested in his bedroom on the sofa, smoked a cigarette, and listened to a novel read by his wife. |
4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | Worked in his study, clearing up matters of the day. |
6:00 p.m. | Rested again in the bedroom with his wife reading aloud. |
7:30 p.m. | Had high tea when the family dined. If no guests were present, he played two games of backgammon (西洋棋)with his wife, usually followed by reading to himself. |
10:00 p.m. | Left the drawing-room and usually in bed by 10:30, but slept badly. |
He's always the first to arrive at school in the morning and the last to leave. He's always asked to answer the teachers' questions and he's always in first place in his class and in the whole school.
Aron Anderson is in a class of his own — in fact, he's the only pupil in his school. The ten-year-old boy studies in this farthest primary school in Britain. Whether he likes it or not, Aron gets the most attention of his teachers all the time.
During the school day, he has two classrooms, a music room and a library all to himselfAnd between classes and after school, he has the whole playground with its slides (滑梯), swings and basketball court.
One problem, of course, is that although he loves football, he has no other friends to play with. He also becomes one of the most expensively educated children in the UK.
Aron's father Ewan is a 43-year-old fisherman who sometimes spends days at the sea. His mother Denise works in the island shop. She is also a firefighter.
The island used to have a senior high school and a farm, but they were both closed with many families leaving. “I just wish we could go back ten years. There were lots of children and the older children used to help the younger ones at school,” Aron's mother said.
At the midnight, thunder was crashing and the rain was pouring. Suddenly my father rushed into my room. “Adam! Adam! Get up! We're flooding!” he shouted and shook me by the shoulders. That woke me up! I ran downstairs to the basement (地下室). It was like a swimming pool. My mother and I immediately started to pick up things and take them upstairs. I had no shoes on, so my feet felt quite cold.
Things got worse every minute. Within the next hour, we had moved everything that we could to the first floor. The computer, big-screen television and heavy boxes filled with our most valuable things were taken to safety. However, our piano, sofa, washing machine and water heater were all still down there — being destroyed. There was nothing we could do.
That was the hardest part. Knowing that your home is being destroyed is bad enough, but realizing that you can't do anything to stop it feels even worse. Water had come in our front door. Rescue boats were floating in our streets. Mother told me to pack an overnight（通宵, 前夜） bag of clothes and valuables and get ready to leave.
When it was finally safe to walk outside, all the people in the neighborhood gathered at the street corner. People became friends, and friends became like family. People comforted each other. We learnt later that the National Weather Service had declared (宣布) the storm a flash flood.
I really have learnt something from this flood, I've learnt what destruction is. I have learnt what safety means. I know in the future, when I watch people's lives affected (影响) by natural disasters, I can understand them. I will show my great pity on them and I will do what I can to help them.
I am a professor of sports and exercise so I often deal with nervousness in my research with sports people Actually, most people experience nervousness at some time or another.
If you are feeling nervous, my advice is to first find the causes. (38) Make a list of those things that are making you nervous and work out which ones you can do something about. Focus all of your efforts on managing the causes that you can control.
Most people cannot tell the difference between controllable and uncontrollable causes, so things they can't control become a big reason for nervousness. Dealing with this is very important if people want to keep a healthy mind.
Simply try to accept the uncontrollable causes of nervousness. You might be worried about the weather on a big day, an accident or an attack on the train, or perhaps just things that other people are doing at work. The results may be very important but there is still no use worrying because you can't control any of these things Accept that you can't control everything. Once you understand this, it becomes easier not to worry.
If a situation, such as swimming, is causing you to be nervous, try to face it as often as possible so that you can get used to it.
It can often help to think about yourself doing the thing that makes you nervous, and then close your eyes and imagine it going well. Imagine how the flight or job interview is going to happen so that you can get used to it. This will help you understand that the thing you worry about most is probably not going to happen.
A report by UNEP联合国环境规划署（United Nations Environment Programme） says that by 2050, the world's population is expected to reach 9.6 billion and feeding us all will require at least 60% more food than we have ever produced before. What's more, if we can't find out a way to do with it, food shortages (短缺) could be a big problem.
A main purpose of the report is to make people be aware of the importance of this challenge. In the past, food production increase relied on the practices like cutting down trees, using chemicals and wasting water. Today we understand the environmental price of those techniques.
“The question now is how to produce much more food and at the same time avoid all the environmental problems that we had in the past,” Searchinger, a famous scientist said.
We need to develop new ways to produce food. We can no longer cut down trees. Instead, we'll have to protect water and land, and reduce air pollution.
The report also mentions the importance of reducing food loss and wasteAccording to the United Nations, the waste adds up to one-third of all the food we produce —an amount that could feed an additional 2 billion people.
The report also suggests that we make changes in our diet. “You have to eat more efficiently (有 效地),” said Searchinger, “and above all that means eating less meat, and especially reducing the growth of beef.”That's because raising cows is an inefficient way of producing food. Of all the energy that goes onto feeding cows, only about 1% is converted (转换) into food for people.
Once upon a time, a big lion lived in a zoo. One day, he (be) very hungry. When Bill, the keeper, gavehis dinner, he ate it up quickly. Quite by mistake he ate up the keeper too. it was time for lunch, Bill did not show up. The other keepers sat down to eat, still wondering young Bill was not there. (sudden) there came a loud sound from the Lion House. They went (see) what was the matter. There they saw the big lion (lie) on the ground. He looked (big) than before. The keepers looked at one another and all of them said at once, “Of course! The big lion has eaten poor Bill.” They got two (bottle) of medicine quickly, and then they made the big lion sleep for operation (手术). They cut up the front of his belly (肚子).Bill jumped out from it, looking quite all right.
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（1看法：在父母看来, 我们仍是孩子；父母这样做是为了保护我们。 （2建议：给父母写信谈谈你的想法；主动帮你父母做些力所能及的事情。 2回信应包括以上所有提示的信息, 做到行文连贯, 不要逐字翻译。 3词数：不少于80。开头和结尾已经写好, 不计入总词数。 Dear Josh, Thanks for your e-mail. I have ever had the same experience. I even had a fight with my parents. But now, I understand them. I hope this helps!
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