Hot pot(火锅) and Hotpot

    I'm learning English in the UK where I meet a lot of new friends and eat something delicious. Hot pot is many Chinese people's favorite food, including(包括) me. After having three days of hamburgers, sandwiches and potatoes in the UK, how excited I was to know that there was going to be a free meal of hotpot to welcome the new students. On the way to the canteen, I seemed to smell the hot pot in the air.

    To my surprise, when I stepped into the room, in front of me were still potatoes and bread. Where was the hot pot?

    With many questions in my head, I sat down to have the free meal. After talking with a French girl, I got to know that hot pot is completely different from hotpot. Chinese hot pot is written in two words and hotpot, one word, is a traditional English dish.

    Hotpot is made from mutton and onion. On the top there are sliced potatoes. People put it in the oven all day in a heavy pot and on a low heat. You can often see it at parties in the UK because it's easy to prepare for a large number of people and is not expensive.

    Hotpot doesn't taste bad. However, I still miss hot pot, two words!

    The cartoon movie Bolt is an interesting movie. All the characters are very lovely. The movie is about a dog and his name is Bolt. Bolt is a dog star. He always thinks he is very strong. He often plays in TV programmes. Many people love him. So he is a little proud.

    One day people take him to New York, but the poor dog is lost there. The place is far from his home town. It's about 2,000 miles away. Bolt wants to return to his world. He has to face all the danger by himself. He begins to go across the USA.

    On his way he meets Mittens, a lonely cat. Then they meet a mouse. His name is Rhino. He likes watching TV very much. They become friends.  They meet many strange animals and people on their way.

    At last Bolt feels that he can be a hero both in TV programmes and in real life. The movie is very instructive. Children can learn something from it.

内容包括：（1）something about your mother when she was very young. (2) your plans for Mother's Day (3) your hope 

写作要求：（1）语句连贯，词数100左右 ； （2） 短文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数； （3） 文中不能出现考生的真实姓名和学校名。

Mother's Day is coming. It reminds me of my mother and something about her when she was young.

We rely on our memory for sharing stories with friends or learning from our past experiences. Yet evidence shows that our memory isn't as consistent as we'd like to believe.

There are countless reasons why tiny mistakes might happen each time we recall past events. And whenever these mistakes happen, they can have long-term effects on how we'll recall that memory in the future.

Take storytelling for example. When we describe our memories to other people, we might ask ourselves whether it's important to get the facts straight, or whether we only want to make the listener laugh. And we might change the story's details depending on the listener's attitudes. It isn't only the message that changes, but sometimes it's also the memory itself. This is known as the "audience-tuning effect", showing us how our memories can change automatically over time, as a product of how, when, and why we access them.

In fact, sometimes simply the act of repeating a memory can be exactly what makes it easy to change. This is known as "retrieval-enhanced suggestibility". In a typical study of this effect, participants watched a short film, then took a memory test a few days later. But during the days between watching the film and taking the final test, two other things happened. First, half of the participants took a practice memory test. Second, all of the participants were given a description of the film to read, which contained some false details. Participants who took a practice memory test shortly before reading the false information were more likely to reproduce this false information in the final memory test.

Why might this be? One theory is that repeating our memories of past events can temporarily make those memories malleable. In other words, retrieving（找回）a memory might be a bit like taking ice-cream out of the freezer and leaving it in direct sunlight for a while. By the time our memory goes back into the freezer, it might have naturally become a little misshapen, especially if someone has influenced it purposely in the meantime.

These findings lead us to wonder how much our most treasured memories have changed since the very first time we remembered them. Remembering is an act of storytelling, after all. And our memories are only ever as reliable as the most recent story we told ourselves.

 As a book lover, I' ve tried both paper books and e- books. While both give you the pleasure of reading, the experience can be quite d{#blank#}1{#/blank#}. 

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E- books can be stored in a lighter reader. Many e- book readers also have a dictionary for you   to look up new words quickly! However, you can only get e- books online. And you must read  e- books on an e- book reader, a computer, or a smartphone. Moreover, our eyes can get tirede{#blank#}4{#/blank#} when we read e- books on the screen for a long time. 

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Wildwood School Library Guide This will offer you some information about our school library. You can use this guide to help your kids use our library.

Service Hours  3:00 p.m.—5:30 p.m. on school days; 8:30 a.m.—11:00 a.m. on weekends. On school days, your kids may borrow or return books during opening hours only when his classroom teacher allows him to. On weekends, our library is open to both you and your kids.

Borrowing  Each student can borrow one or two books at a time. More books can be borrowed only for class reading activities and school research.

Returning  Books borrowed from the library can be kept for 15 school days. 

The books must be returned before the due date（到期日） or the kid can not borrow other books.

Damaged（受损的） or Lost Books  When a book is returned in a damaged condition, the kid will have to pay three dollars for the damage. Full price must be paid if a book is lost. We encourage students to carry their library books in plastic bags to protect them from rainy weather.

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