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 Jeff Gaye, the young American swimmer, is becoming more and more famous. He has his own teacher, driver and even his own cook. Each time people hear him speak on television, they can't believe he's only 13. Jeff's father is an engineer but he is also his son's manager. He says, "I don't make Jeff do anything he doesn't want to do. He chooses which competition to swim in. But he works hard and wins nearly every race. I cut out all the newspaper articles about him and put them in a big box!”

 Jeff is very busy every day because people want to write about him or photograph (给……拍照) him for magazines. “When I'm at school,” Jeff says, “I just want to be like my classmates. That's really important to me.” But Jeff doesn't have a normal schoolboy's life. He often has to travel for international races and has little free time. “I go to the pool every day and swim there for at least six hours. When I'm in the pool, I love every minute.”

    Doing exercise is very important for everyone. But it can be a little difficult to keep a exercise plan when winter comes.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Do you have the same problem? I'll tell you what you can do to change the situation.

    To stay active during the winter, you should first make it as easy as possible to do your exercise.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} The following advice will give you some ideas for making winter exercise more comfortable and more enjoyable.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} If you want to exercise outside, you might keep the clothes in the dryer for a few minutes before that. It's often harder to get warmed up when it's cold outside. Putting on clothes fresh from the dryer is just one way to get your body warm.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} If it's really cold outside, you might even try a quick shower to get you warm before you do exercise.

    Walk in door.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}To get out of cold weather of winter, you can simply walk in door. Probably in the living area of your room, Walking indoors makes you feel safe and gives you a dry and warm temperature to do it.

A. Take a hot shower.

B. Walking is a good way to stay healthy.

C. Put your sports clothes in the dryer.

D. The cold weather makes you want to stay in your warm bed.

E. Second, make something different before you lose interest in doing exercise.

    In the 13th century, the famous Italian traveler, Marco Polo, traveled a long way to China. During his stay in China, he saw many wonderful things. One of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money. In Western countries, people did not use paper money until the 15th century. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

    A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2,000years ago. He made it from wood. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} He then put these pieces of paper together and made them into a book.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth. Every day, people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting nearly 48,000 trees every day.

    Since it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper now. If we don't, we will not have enough time to grow more trees to take the place of those we use for paper.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} We can use both sides of every piece of paper, especially when we are making notes. We can choose drinks in bottles instead of those in paper packets. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs and not paper ones. When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give us a paper bag, we can save it and reuse it later.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} If we all think carefully, we can help protect trees. But we should do it now, before it is too late.

Tips for Writing Better Articles

    Many of us don't spend a lot of time improving our writing skills. This can be a problem when we hand in our articles. Good writing skills will help us improve our grades and benefit us later in life. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

    Make good word choices. When we're not sure which word is the right one for a sentence, look it up in a dictionary. Many of us choose words in a hurry and don't take the time to decided if they're proper. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    Check facts. If we want people to believe what we write, we must make sure our facts are true. We should use dependable facts.

    Rewrite. A common problem is that we don't like to rewrite. In fact rewriting is the best way to find out and correct some mistakes, like grammar and spelling mistakes. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, though it takes more time and more work.

    Read aloud. Sometimes it's easier to find problem with spelling, word usage, and grammar when we read aloud. Reading aloud help us not only find out our problems but also develop our writing.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Preparing a list is necessary for writing a good article. Such a list includes:

Is there a proper title? Have we explained every point? Are all the parts of the article included? This can help us to make sure that we have covered everything.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. But with a few simple steps, we can improve our writing skills and learn how to write better articles.

    Remember when you were a little child trying to learn to walk？

    First, you had to learn how to balance (平衡) yourself and stand. You fell down, and then got back up. You laughed sometimes and cried at other times. After much practice, you finally learned how to balance yourself. You got much pleasure from this new feeling of power—you'd stand everywhere you could. It was a happy time—you did it!

    Now the next step—walking. You'd seen others do it. It didn't look that hard—just move your legs while you were standing. Wrong—more difficult than you ever imagined. But after you tried again and again and again, you understood how to walk.

    If people found you walking, they cheered, "Oh, look at what the kid is doing." This encouraged you! But look back on those days when you were the little child—how many times did you try when no one was watching, or when no one was cheering？ You couldn't wait for someone to encourage you to take the next steps. You learned how to encourage yourself.

    So, keep trying and encouraging yourself as you learned to walk if you want to succeed in doing something.