In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution．They join environment clubs．In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean．

    Here are some things students often do．

    No-garbage lunches．How many lunch bags do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again．Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school．

    No-car day．On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car including the students and the teachers．Cars give pollution to us, so remember:

    Walk, jump, bike, or run!

    Use your legs! It's lots of fun!

    Turn off the water! Do you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty cubic meters of water an hour? In a year, that would fill in a small river. In the environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets．

    We love our environment．Let's work together to make it better．

    Life in the future will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will happen. But what will the changes be?

    The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.

    Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every room. And computer studies will be one of the most important subjects in schools then. People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travels. Travelling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.

    There will be changes in our food too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier. Work in the future will be different too. Robots will do dangerous and hard work. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

    Schools in the UK are quite different from those in China. In the UK, at the beginning of the term, students must select their courses and teachers first.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} So in the first term, don't select too many courses, or you'll feel nervous and it may influence your study. Then you have to ask for some teaching plans. There is some information about subjects, time arranging, marks and textbooks. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Different teachers have different teaching methods.

    If the teacher is called "killer" by the last grade, many students will give up choosing him, because this kind of teacher will leave too much homework, give too many exams and too low grades.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} How to buy textbooks makes each student feel hard. The textbooks in the UK are very expensive. Each copy is about $30 -50. In order to save money, many students buy some used textbooks. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    In class, discussing is very important. The teachers always encourage you to ask questions or show your own opinions freely. They don't usually ask you to sit well. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} They usually don't give you much homework to do. So in the schools in the UK you can learn knowledge and do exercises by yourself. You must do almost all things independently.

A. And some students usually borrow textbooks from the school library.

B. At the same time, you must select the teachers.

C. Selecting is very important for your grades in the UK.

D. Instead, they allow you to sit or stand everywhere you like.

E. There is another thing after you select the courses and the teachers.

Secret to Happiness

There's a Chinese saying that goes "If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap (小睡). If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, become wealthy by chance. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}" Helping others by giving may be the secret to a happy, healthy life. The more you give, the more you'll gain. The key is to find a method that works for you. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

Find your love. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}You might feel bad if you are doing something you don't like. You will feel great when you put your love into giving.

Give your time. The gift of time is often more valuable to the receiver, and more satisfying to the giver, than money. People don't all have the same amount (数量) of money, but everyone as time. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} It can be just a few hours a day, or a few days a year.

Be active. Take every chance to serve your community. You are free to choose what you want to do. Make full use of services that match your values.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} You can easily get used to selfless giving. When you give, make sure to keep our own needs in mind. You matter, too!

All in all, by proper giving, you can gain purpose, meaning and happiness—all of the things at people look for in life but are so hard to find.

A. Don't forget about yourself.

B. Here is some advice that you can take.

C. You can give some of this time to help others.

D. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

E. But sometimes you are not sure where money is going.

F. Your giving should not be from orders but come out of love.

Did ancient people plant trees? {#blank#}1{#/blank#} they didn't have a special day to plant trees like Tree-Planting Day, the tradition of planting trees has been there for a long time. Back then, it was always {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (rain) around the Tomb-Sweeping Day in spring. The trees that were planted around this time had better conditions to grow than usual, so people formed the custom of planting trees around the Tomb-Sweeping Day.

There were many kinds of trees. However, mulberry trees (桑树) and fruit trees were the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (popular) of all. To feed the silkworms (蚕), more mulberry leaves {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (need). Silk came from the silkworms, and then it was made into silk clothes and traded between the East and the West of the world. Among the ancient people who suggested {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (get) trees to offer food and clothes, there was a man whose name is well-known, Mencius (孟子) .

Dong Feng, a famous doctor in the Three Kingdom Period (三国时期), saved many {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (patient) lives for free. He only asked them to plant apricot trees (杏树) on a hill. Gradually, a forest of apricot trees grew on {#blank#}7{#/blank#} hill. That's why we now praise a doctor who has excellent skills with the words "warmth in an apricot forest".

Each dynasty has different tree planting projects. Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (personal) planted a ginkgo tree(银杏树) in a temple in Chang' an 1,400 years later, the ginkgo tree is still growing. So far, the temple {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (become) a popular place for tourists.

So, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the Tree-Planting Day next year, do you want to plant a tree with your wishes on it?