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.

Technology plays an important part in our daily life now. Yet not many of us {#blank#}1{#/blank#} how much we rely on it until we compare our lives to those in the past. There was no {#blank#}2{#/blank#} technology at that time，yet the items that people had were quite enough for them to live their lives.

Without necessary cooking tools, the people could still {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to make their food as nice as our food today. Animal parts were thrown away if they were not delicious. Others were cooked over the fire. However，everything they {#blank#}4{#/blank#} was taken from the forests around them.

Grain in Ear, also Mangzhong in Chinese, is the 9th solar term (节气). It usually begins on June 5 and ends on June 20. During the period of Mangzhong, farmers in South China are busy growing rice {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. How about the farmers in North China? They need to harvest wheat before {#blank#}2{#/blank#} days come. In order to celebrate the solar term, there are many activities.

When Mangzhong comes, people in Anhui Province make different types of anmiaobao and colour it with vegetable juice. Anmiaobao is a kind of bread {#blank#}3{#/blank#} of wheat flour. People hope to have a good harvest in autumn by making it. 

In Guizhou, people {#blank#}4{#/blank#} mud wrestling (泥摔跤) matches during Mangzhong for many years. On this day, new couples plant rice together with good friends. While {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, they throw mud at each other. The person who gets the most mud {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to be the most popular person. 

Boiling green plums (煮青梅) is also a popular activity among people. In South China, June is the best time to harvest plums. And eating green plums is good for {#blank#}7{#/blank#} health. But remember to boil green plums before eating {#blank#}8{#/blank#}.

{#blank#}9{#/blank#} of years ago, people used solar terms to help with farm work. But even today, they are still of {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to our life. We can learn a lot from them. For example, life is like farming, and you get what you plant.

Do you know about "November 11th Festival"? Nowadays, November 11th Festival is very popular with the young people. It had become a special festival during these years. With four numbers of"1", this date was named as Bachelor's Day(单身节). The single young man hoped he could find his lover on this day before. However, with the development of online shopping, this day becomes more and more like a shopping festival. Many Chinese online companies begin their business promotions(促销) to sell their things. 

Big promotions in the name of celebrating Bachelor's Day usually start at the very beginning of November. 360 buy started its one -month promotion in October 10.

Suning's promotions were called "Zero Buying Within 300 Yuan". After spending 300 yuan on suning. com, the customers could get coupons(优惠券). They could buy another 300- yuan products(产品) for free with the coupons. They could also use the coupons in more than 1, 700 Suning's offline stores. If your home was next to one of them, it would have been easy for you to use a coupons. 

Tmall also offered coupons. Different kinds of promotions started at 10:00, 14:00, 20:00 every day. The promotions continued to Bachelor's Day. Taobao also joined in the promotions during the shopping festival. More than 10, 000 online shops joined in them , which was five times of that compared with last year. 

JD. com started its own promotions long before November11th. The promotions continued from last September to the end of November. There were thousands of promotions and coupons sold. 

Dangdang held its "Fire Promotions" from November 9. It also lasted until November 11.

Do you know the grass in the picture ? It is a kind of grass for cats. It is good for your cat. Are you a cat lover? Do you want your cat to be healthy? Then you can plant this kind of grass at home. Please find the following steps.

What you need: A small planter(花盆) Potting soil (盆栽土) Water

Seeds (种子) (You can buy them at any plant store. )

▲:

Fill the planter with the soil. Water the soil until it is a little wet. Throw seeds across the top layer (层) of the soil, and then press (按)them into the soil. Water the soil again. Keep the soil wet until the seeds begin to sprout (发芽)-about one or two weeks. Then water is needed. When your seeds grow tall enough, you can invite your cat to taste it.

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