It may be difficult to start high school. Thinking about making new friends might make you feel nervous.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}You are going to school with a group of students of your age. Here are several suggestions for you to follow.

    Forget your fear and just talk to someone. It's easier said than done. But try to take a deep breath and find your voice. Don't be afraid to approach (接近) people.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Sit in the middle of the classroom with as many new friends around you as possible.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Take part in after-class activities that interest you. Try to make friends in the clubs. If you don't join anything, you will be just going to class and then going home. Being in a club makes you more social.

    Stay clean. No one likes a bad smell that could knock someone over. Shower every day, brush your teeth and wash your hair.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    Be respectful (尊重的) of people's differences.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}And everyone believes in different things. It is a good thing to have different friends with different opinions because you can each share your own.

    Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    In the early years, these schools were much alike. Only young men went to college. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.

    In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard's law school. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Soon it began teaching American history.

    As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer it all.

A. In 1825. besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German.

B. Most of them are made up of smaller schools

C. Yale, Princeton and Columbia were opened soon after Harvard

D Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them

E. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew

Maggie：I have always admired students who hand their homework in on time and never forget to do it. So I was wondering，what are your tips for getting organized? Please post your ideas below to help me!

Justin：Good question，Maggie. I always spend about five minutes tidying up the desktop on my computer. I make a backup of important documents. I delete things I don't need any more and put everything into the correct place. 

Jeff：The most important thing is to start studying a few weeks before the exams and not to leave it until the night before! That's common sense，I think. 

Sawyer：Hi，Maggie. My tip is to have a big notice board in your bedroom，divided into different areas. I've got an area for each subject and another one for other work. I use board pens to write reminders and I make sure I look at it every day. The best part is when I clear something off the board!

Only half of the class handed in their homework one day. The teacher got an idea while he was giving his students a lesson about weight. He walked around the classroom while holding a glass of water up in the air. He asked his students, "How heavy is this glass of water?"

The students started to shout out their answers. 

"The weight of this glass isn't hard to find out, " the teacher said. "The problem is how long I'm holding it. If I hold it for two minutes, it doesn't feel like much of a problem. If I hold it for an hour, it might feel heavier as my arm begins to tire. If I hold it for a day or a week, my arm will hurt. It'll feel painful. I will be unable to think about anything but the pain that I'm in. In all of these situations, the actual weight of the glass will be the same. But the longer I hold onto it, the heavier it feels to me and the harder it is to hold it. "

"Your homework is like this glass of water, by the way, " the teacher said. The class then understood. 

Exercise and eating habits

Last Friday, my students and I went to a talk on health at Health Club. We went there by bus. We listened to the 1 for more than two hours. There, the students learned how to eat and exercise. Everyone 2 they learned a lot. At about twelve, we had some delicious food in the restaurant next to the 3 . After lunch, it started to rain. We had to get on the 4 . On our way back to school, I asked the students about their exercise and 5 habits. Here are the results. Only twenty percent of students usually 6 , and eighty percent like staying at home and watching TV. The answers 7 the questions about eating habits were also interesting. Most of them 8 eat vegetables. (Good!) All the students always eat junk food. (Bad!) But 9 students drink coffee. (Great!) Now they 10 to exercise more and eat more healthily (健康地).