School is more than a place where students learn subjects such as math, science and reading.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} While the focus of school is not to make a student socially popular, learning these skills is an important part of education. You may have personal issues when it comes to making friends in class, but with coaching you will be well on your way to climbing the social ladder. Here are some instructions.

    Partner with classmates. Use projects as a reason to partner with people you would like to become friends with in your class.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Be reliable when partnering on a project so that you carry your own weight and put your best foot forward.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}There are many lulls (间歇) during class that will afford you an opportunity to engage a classmate. Giving a compliment to a person without overdoing it will help you come off friendly without looking desperate. Icebreakers can be as simple as saying hello or talking about the weather or class work.

    Get involved in activities. Offer to join a study group or get involved in other school activities to meet up with potential friends.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

Share your knowledge with others. Helping others you wan! to befriend to understand a concept is a great way to avoid disrupting the class and to make contact.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Send others positive signals such as smiling or waving so that you seem friendly.

A. Break the ice without disturbing the class.

B. Take an active approach to making friends.

C. Ask for help from students you want to befriend.

D. Join available school programs that you are interested in.

E. Assignments will give you an excuse to communicate if you are shy.

F. It is also an environment that teaches and tests social communication.

G. This can be pleasing as well as a great way to interact with parents.

    Breaking bad eating habits and starting good ones is one of the healthiest steps you can take.

    But making healthy choices natural can take time.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} In fact, it can take a certain time for a new habit to feel natural. So how do you stay on track until your new healthy-eating plan takes hold?

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Setting too many goals or too many unrealistic ones can disturb you right from the start.

    Think about why you're snacking.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Or are you just bored or maybe a little stressed out? Skip the extra calories and take a five-minute walk instead.  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}The buddy(好友)system will keep you both on track. If you fail, don't give up. According to the European Journal of Psychology study, little bumps(凸块)in the road aren't likely to disturb the process of creating new habits. So, be patient and get back to your healthy ways as soon as you can.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. Start small.

B. Are you really hungry?

C. Try to do something big

D. With a little patience, those bad habits will soon be gone

E. After all, it's hard to change a lifetime of bad habits overnight.

F. What kind of food do you want to eat when you are hungry?

G. And find a friend or co-worker who wants to make healthy changes, too.

    Food safety is a problem in all places around the world and people in different areas of the world prepare foods in different ways. The WHO released five simple rules for preparing food in a safe way.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Key 1: Keep clean.

    The first key tells about the importance of washing. People should wash their hands often—before touching food, while they are preparing food, and any time after they go to the toilet. People should wash all surfaces and equipment used for preparing food.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

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    People should separate raw, or uncooked food from foods that are already cooked and foods that will not be cooked. People should store raw meat, chicken, and fish in containers, or in separate areas. Raw foods should not touch prepared foods.

    Key 3: Cook completely.

    People should cook eggs and meat, like birds, seafood, and animals, especially carefully. These foods may carry more micro-organisms than other foods. Food like soup must be boiled for at least a minute to make it be cooked completely. It is also important that people re-heat cooked food completely.

    Key 4: Keep food at safe temperatures.

    When people are finished with eating, they should keep the left food in a refrigerator below 5℃ and shouldn't store it for too long. At room temperature, about 20℃, the amount of micro-organisms can increase very quickly.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}They cannot grow as quickly in a very hot or very cold environment.

    Key 5: Use safe water and raw materials.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Damaged or old food may develop harmful chemicals as it gets older.

A. Eat cooked food immediately, while it is still hot.

B. They call these rules the “Five Keys to Safer Food.”

C. Separate raw and cooked.

D. People should use safe water and choose fresh foods.

E. Keeping everything clean helps people to avoid micro-organisms.

F. People should also protect cooking areas and food from insects and animals.

G. But temperatures above 60℃ or below 5℃ control the growth of micro-organisms.

    Lavender essential oil (熏衣草精油) is obtained mostly from the flowers of the lavender plant. It has not only been used in making perfumes for many years but also has various health benefits.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Lavender essential oil is known as an excellent treatment for various types of pains including those caused by sore and tense muscles, muscular aches, backache, and So on. A study on postoperative pain relief showed that combining lavender essential oil vapor with the oxygen significantly reduced the amount of pain experienced.

    Induce (引起) sleep. Frequent studies on elderly patients have shown an increase in their sleep regularity when their normal sleep medication is replaced with some lavender essential oil being placed on their pillows. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Therefore, it often replaces modern medicines for sleep issues.

    Reduce mental stress and anxiety. Lavender essential oil has a calming scent which makes it an excellent treatment for the nerve and anxiety issues. The refreshing aroma removes nervous exhaustion and restlessness while also increasing mental activity. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    Provide hair care. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}A Scottish study reported that more than 40% of alopecia(脱发)patients in the study reported an increase in hair growth when they regularly applied lavender essential oil to the skin under their hair. Therefore, lavender oil is sometimes recommended as a preventative measure for male pattern hairlessness.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}There is a significant research on the effects of lavender, in combination with other essential oils, as a way to prevent the occurrence of breast cancer in mice. However, this could be an indication of an increased chance of lavender battling the presence of other cancers.

A. Prevent cancer.

B. Relieve muscle pain.

C. It has a relaxing impact on people.

D. Promote muscle strength and health.

E. It has a well-researched impact on the automatic nervous system.

F. Lavender essential oil is very helpful in the treatment of hair loss.

G. Therefore, it can be helpful in treating depression, nervous tension and emotional stress.

    Unless you think you're the smartest, who doesn't want to be smarter? Of course I want to be smarter too. So I try to find out who's the real smart guy that maybe I can learn from.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    ▲ They probably do social media. Not always, but probably.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} They also use this to ensure they can feed their brains with things they otherwise wouldn't have come across.

    ▲ {#blank#}3{#/blank#} They never bother their head about the problem of "work-life balance" and somehow manage to seem 100% engaged in what they're doing, on all fronts simultaneously(同时), even though you know they're taking appropriate steps behind the scenes to make sure their lives are well balanced.

    ▲ They know they are the smartest in the room, but they don't spend much time talking about that.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} That is, they challenge themselves to make everyone else in the room the smartest person too.

    ▲ They never, ever, under any circumstances, make you look stupid, even though it would be easy to do so. They've learned through bitter experience that the only thing that happens when you make someone look bad is that you look bad yourself.

    ▲ If they are managers, they will make every effort to get people more connected and more popular than them in their teams.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} They're not threatened because they know that smartness is synergistic.(相互促进的)

A. It is not only a chance to listen.

B. They know it is an advantage to them.

C. They take it as a personal challenge instead.

D. They will be smiling even when things go wrong.

E. Now I've got an answer about whether someone's smart.

F. They also ensure their smart people look smarter than them.

G. They deal with home, work and personal interests perfectly.

How do actors and actresses memorize hundreds of lines? Memorizing lines takes practice and constant repetition. However, there are a few ways to make the memorization process run smoothly and quickly.

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For most performers, there is no quicker way of memorizing lines. To learn lines, an actor must recite the play loud over and over again. Most rehearsals (彩排) encourage this by running through the lines or having a "read through". By the time opening night arrives, most actors have spoken their lines hundreds of times.

Listen to your cast members(参演人员).

Sometimes inexperienced actors spend rehearsals just looking at fellow performers, waiting patiently to say their next line. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} This will help the actor learn his lines better because the context of the dialogue is absorbed.

Record your lines.

Because there is often not enough rehearsal time, many performers find ways to listen to the play's dialogue during everyday activities. They use a tape recorder or an MP4 player to listen to the lines from each relevant scene. Some actors prefer to record the lines of all the characters, including their own. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Others like recording the lines of fellow cast members, and they leave a blank space so that they can insert their dialogue while listening to the recording.

Think positively and don't panic.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Actors forget lines now and then. When it happens, however, most of the time the audience never notice. If you forget a line in the middle of your performance, don't freeze. Stay in character. Keep the scene going to the best of your ability. If unfortunately you forget a line once, you will probably never forget that line ever again. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. Most actors will experience stage fright before the opening night.

B. Read lines loud and repeat them.

C. Practice makes perfect.

D. Read lines loud and remember them in a flash.

E. Sometimes embarrassment is the toughest method of memorization.

F. Then, they not only listen carefully, but they also speak all of the lines.

G. Instead, they should be listening carefully, responding in character at all times.