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河北省承德市2023届九年级中考一模英语试卷
Hobbies are ways of self-discovery, and hobbies help build self-respect. Hobbies are educational tools as well. By working on hobbies, children learn to set goals, make decisions, and solve all sorts of problems. If all these sound good, you may would like to help your child develop a hobby, and try these suggestions. |
Set a good example. Scott Harris, a hobby shop buyer and hobby workshop leader in Gastonia, North Carolina, finds that children with hobbies tend (倾向于) to have parents with hobbies. |
Be prepared to sacrifice (牺牲) space. Your child will need work space for his or her hobby projects. Choose a special room, a corner of the basement (地下室), part of the garage, or a similar area. No matter where you set up the space, your child should be able to walk away from the hobby and come back to it later. |
Provide some guidance. Nothing will kill a child's love for a hobby quicker than lots of frustration (挫折) during the learning stage. Help your child get off to a good start by showing him or her clearly how to closely follow a set of directions. |
Limit television watching. It's impossible to work on a hobby and watch TV (or play video games) at the same time. For want of spare time, a hobby may never be developed. But find a hobby, a talent may be born, and life may be enriched (充实) by it, too. |
Every year，TIME magazine puts out its list of best inventions. They change how we live，work
Polly's Braille （盲文） Help Many blind children learn braille at school. Their teachers can let them know how they're doing. Now Polly can help them at home. It gives replies through sound to braille learners. Kids can write by using Polly's electronic braille board or keyboard. It can correct mistakes，too. |
Recycled Paint About 10% of paint bought in America each year is wasted. Up Paint is trying to recycle it. It's working with a group called Paint Care. They collect the left paint. Then they resell it. "We're making a good everyday paint，" Dustin Martin says. He's the founder of Up Paint. So far，it has offered 18 colors. |
Bear Hugs Hugimals provide comfort anytime you need a hug. Marina Khidekel founded the company and made them. These animals give kids the feeling of being hugged in real life. "Teachers feel that Hugimals animals help kids with their bad emotions，" Khidekel says. |
Eye﹣catching Sound Creating a kind of technology that's also a work of art isn't easy. But Teno makes it. It's a light that is easy to carry. It's also a speaker. It looks like a broken stone bowl. Pull it apart and light and sound pour out. You can touch it to change brightness or sound. |
Do you believe in green living? Read the following blog and replies about a fun, easy and creative way to make your lifestyle greener.
Posted by Gina at 8:32 a.m.on 11th February 2021 New Uses for Old Clothing Nowadays, we're more wasteful than ever—buying, using and throwing things away without thinking about the costs. We need to start living more responsibly—but how? One answer is to upcycle(升级利用).
If you're like me, you might already make soil for gardening from food waste and use empty paper boxes as storage space. Did you know you can apply the same way to old clothing? You just need imagination! I started upcycling clothing. Making new things out of old clothes is the best way to mix my talent and my interest. Do you upcycle? If so, what new things have you made? If not, why not give it a try? | |
TerryB Posted at 9:08 a.m.on 11th February 2021 Reply Why don't you give your old clothes to people in need? I even give away the most expensive things I don't wear anymore. So I can help the environment while giving something useful to people in need. Gina Posted at 9:28 a.m.on 11th February 2021Reply Good point! I'm talking about only the oldest clothing in your room—the clothes that are too old to be worn by others. The same idea goes for food waste at restaurants and supermarkets. Before upcycling food that can still be eaten, for example, using it to make soil, we should give it to those in need. | |
Betty99 Posted at 10:18 a.m,on 1lth February 2021Reply I've made shopping bags out of T-shirts and dog toys out of socks. Upcycling clothing is a fun hobby, but the most important thing is that it makes me feel like I'm living less wastefully. |
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