Have you ever wondered what an American high school is really like? This article will describe a typical (典型的) high school and its students.

A typical American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about 1,500 students. Every student is given a locker. When students first arrive at school, they go straight to their lockers to put away or get their textbooks and to hang up their outdoor clothes. As American textbooks are expensive, students would rather loan (租借) than buy them. Students must pay back if they lost any of them.

American students have different types of school transport. They usually take a yellow school bus or walk to school if they live close enough. Sometimes their parents drive them to school.

When they turn 16 years of age, most take a free driving class at school for one term. If students' exam passing grades in the class and also pass their state driver's exam, they can begin driving themselves to school.

Each day, students take six or seven classes. They must take science, math, English and social studies. They can choose art, homemaking, fashion design and other classes. In some schools students are required to take one or more of the following special classes: health education, physical education or foreign language studies. Students move to different classrooms for each subject. This is because cache teacher has their own classroom. There is a five-minute break between classes, to give the students the time to hurry to their next class.

The regular school day usually ends early in the afternoon. After school more than half of the students take part in after-school activities. These activities include sports, specially football, basketball, baseball and soccer or clubs, such as yearbook, speech, school newspaper, photograph or student government.

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Waste sorting (垃圾分类) has come. It's so important to us humans. We do waste sorting before throwing rubbish away. We are happy to see some fine examples. However, it is not easy for everyone to do this. Some people may spend so much time deciding the kind of the rubbish. Luckily, the twin sisters front Beijing developed an app (应用程序) to help solve the problem.

The app is easy. When users need to throw away their rubbish, they open the app first. In the app, they can find the names of different rubbish. Then, they choose a kind of rubbish in the app, and the right rubbish bin (箱) will open. The app is also helpful. It makes use of speech recognition (语音识别) technology. Then users can just speak out the name of the rubbish, and the rubbish bin will open. 

In fact, waste sorting isn't difficult, but we need some time to get used to it. Of course, technology can help us to do it better.

Many countries have special holidays that celebrate important events in their past. For example, the United Statc s has Independence Day on July 4th. France has Bastille Day op July 14th. And in Chile, they cclebrate the Fiesta s Patrias on September 18th. But Chile doesn't spend only one day celebrating its independence. It is celebrated for at least two days, September 18th and 19th. 

These two official days are referred to as Dieciocho("eighteen, " pronounced dee-cee-oh-cho)because they start on the 18th. September 19th is celebrated as the Day of the Glory of the Armies. It marks the victory of winning the Spanish army in wars. It is also time to celebrate the end of winter, which in Chile appears during July and August, and the coming of summer, which begins in December. Sometimes 26 festivities might go on for an entire week, and many schools and businesses close for that week so people can travel and celebrate with their families. 

How is Fiesta s Patria s celebrated? There are parades, music and dancing, lots of amazing food and drink, and many partics. Most of all, it is a time for Chilcans to cclebrate their culture and customs. Many men and women dress in traditional Chilean outfits. 

Many small towns and cities begin their celebrations with traditional parties called fondas. These fondas feature live cueca music and dancing. Cueca is a type of music from Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia, and is played with guitars, accordions, percussion, and guitarrons (a large bass gutar) La Cueca is Chile's national dance It is one of the most important parts of celebrating Fiesta s Patrias. Everyone can learn the dance quickly. They work in pairs and mimic(模仿) the courting dance of a rooster and a hen. The partners hold hands using a cloth, and they stomp(跺脚)and circle cach other. Couples often compete to sc e who is the best cueca dancer. 

Dicciocho is a great time to visit the country and experience Chilean culture, food, and fun. Just make sure to bring your dancing shoes and your appetite. 

The first computer came out in 1946. It was very1 and it worked slowly. Today computers are much smaller and2 faster. What can computers do? A writer said, "People can't live3 computers today."

The4 came a little later than computers. It is about 25 years5 than computers. But now it is almost6 . We use it to read books, do some shopping, play computer games or make friends. Many students use the Internet quite often. They7 online and maybe they never know these people. They don't know their8 names, ages and work. They are so interested in making the "unreal friends" that they can't put their hearts into9 . Many of them become poorer (更糟糕) in subjects than before10 that.

Computers and the Internet let us learn more about the world, but we should remember that they can't do anything.