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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When people take a vacation, many choose to visit places of interest. But can they always enjoy it? The fact is only some of them can get pleasure sometimes. What makes one trip more enjoyable than another? The most important is to plan well. 

First, choose a right season to travel, Many places of interests have special beauty and activities in different seasons. Summer is the best season to swim in the sea. If you enjoy making a snowman, you should go travelling in winter. 

Second. you must find right vehicles. Travelling by plane is quick but expensive. But you will have to miss the beauty along the way. If you have enough time and want to enjoy the beauty out of the window, you can take the train. 

Third, traveling always makes you tired. So finding a nice hotel to have a good rest is necessary. We'd better make sure what kind of room we need. How are the conditions of the room? What's the price of the room?

Every minute that you spend in planning your trip may save your ten minutes of trouble during your trip. It may also add an hour of pleasure!

In ancient times, people's only transportation means（交通方法）were their feet. So it was 1 for them to travel from one place to another. As a result, they knew 2 things about outside world. The world was too big for them to understand. 

With the development of society, more and more transportation means 3 : bicycle, bus, car, train, ship, plane, etc. They carry people to and from every corner of the world. And they make people 4 to each other. 

So it's easier for people from different countries to understand each other, to communicate with each other. So the world is getting smaller and smaller, just like one big 5 .

Daming lives in Beijing. Read and learn about her day. 

What colour is the sea? It's blue. What colour is the grass? It's green. What colour are the strawberries? They're red. Everything in the world has its colour. Our art teacher tells us that red, blue and green are three primary colours (三原色) if we put red and green together, we can get yellow; if we put red and blue together, we can get purple. We all live in a colourful world.

Different colours can give us different feelings and different colours have different meanings. The same colour also has different meanings in different places. In China, people like red very much because we think red can bring good luck (好运) to us. But in some European countries, it means anger (愤怒). In most countries in the world, people like green, but people from England and Japan don't like it. In Australia, people think that black cats can bring them good luck, but in America, people think the white cat is a lucky cat.