Mr Robin（知更鸟）had his house in a tree.
     His four baby robins lived in it. They grew very fast. Soon the house was too little for them.
   “It is time for you to fly,” said Mr Robin.
   “Oh, we can not fly,” said the baby robins.
   “You can, if you try, ” said Mr Robin.
     A robin tried. He flew into a tree.
   “Oh, how interesting!” said the little robin. “I like to fly. See me go!”
     Then the other robins tried.
     In a little while they could all fly.
     The robins could fly, but they could not sing.
   “No, Dad, we can not sing.”
   “You can, if you try. Hear the other birds sing. Look at the pretty flowers and the blue sky. Then you will want to sing. Hear me sing to you. Now sing for me.”
      One little robin sang.
     Then they all sang.
     A little girl came by. “Wow, hear the birds sing!” she said. “How happy they are!”

    Almost everyone in China knows David Beckham. He is a famous former English soccer player. He is introducing his three sons to you.

    Hi! My name is David Beckham. I'm 42 years old. I come from the UK. I played soccer, but I retired in 2013 and I didn't play soccer any more from then on. I have four children, three sons and one daughter. I love them very much!

    This is my youngest son Cruz. He is 12 years old. Cruz wants to be an actor(演员). But I think he is too young to act now.  He should stay in school. He can take acting lessons first.

    Here's Romeo, my second son. He is 15 years old. This kid is good-looking. He is a young model(模特) for clothes brand Burberry. He also dances well.

    This is my eldest son Brooklyn.  He is 18 years old. Brooklyn is a shy boy. He likes soccer very much.

A..Have the willingness to change an opinion in the face of better data. 

B.Reading is a good way to stay open-minded.

C.A system can be measured,refined,and optimized.

D.The better we get at writing the better we get at thinking. 

E. Argue with yourself.

F.They only make a conclusion once they have studied a topic in depth.

There is no quick hack to becoming a critical thinker but there are some habits that one can build to after their character in the right direction.

● Read a lot and read widely

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Well read people understand that there are different ways to look at a problem and different lenses with which to view the world.

● Don't jump to conclusions

A good critical thinker has built up the habit of not jumping to conclusions especially when there is no data.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

● Create systems,not goals

For example,creating a system habit that promotes writing every day is more effective than setting the goal of writing an essay a week. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.A goal only focuses on the outputs.

●{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

Great thinkers routinely and intelligently try to counter their own arguments.They go back and forth until only the most rational and strongest argument exists based on the knowledge they have.

● Write

Writing is thinking. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.Writing also helps us separate what we actually know from what we think we know.

Do you wear school uniforms at school? Do you like them? In many schools, students must wear   uniforms every day. Ann Rooney is a twelve- year- old schoolgirl in Hong Kong. In summer, girls in her school wear yellow shirts and blue skirts. And boys wear white shirts, too. But they wear blue shorts. When it's cold, both girls and boys wear white sweaters and green trousers. They also have blueT- shirts and black trousers for P. E. classes and sports meetings. Ann always wears size S because she is short and thin. Her best friend Lisa Brown wears size L.

But some students don't like wearing the same uniform every day. Ann has a good idea. She likes to wear different socks(袜子) every day." Socks make boring school clothes fun," she says. Many boys and girls in her school also have socks with different patterns(图案) to show their characters(个性). Milly Nichols, 15, is one of Ann's classmates. Her favorite pair of socks has small pictures of hamburgers on them because she likes hamburgers very much. How about wearing a pair of socks to give some colors to a boring uniform?

Colours can affect（影响）our feelings（感受），so knowing something about colours can help us find the right colours in our rooms.

It is easy to see red in Chinese rooms. It means happiness（幸福）. But if your bedroom is red, you may not sleep well. It's an active colour and makes us want to play sport.

Orange is a good choice（选择）for a dining room. People like having dinner and talking together in an orange room.

If you are a student，ask your parents to paint your study（书房）yellow. Yellow can help you think fast. You may be more confident（更自信的）.

You probably don't know that many of the walls of the rooms in the hospitals are blue. Why？Because blue can make sick（生病的）people feel quiet. They can have a good rest and become well soon. So use it    in your bedroom and you can have a good sleep.