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    Every Saturday morning, there is a line of boys and girls on Garden Street. They are waiting to see a film. The film never starts before eight o'clock. But the boys and girls can't wait to come earlier every time. They do not mind waiting for a long time at all.

    One Saturday morning, there was a very interesting film. Tom came running down the street. He wanted to be one of the first to get in. He walked up to the front of the line and pushed his way in there. Now Tom pushed his way right in front of Peter, and no other people were in front of him. Peter did not say a word. Instead, he reached up and pulled off Tom's hat. He handed the hat to the boy behind him and said, "Pass it back, John. "

    John passed the hat to the girl behind him.

    "Pass it on, Kate," John said to the girl.

    The hat was passed very quickly to Betty at the end of the line. Tom looked at Peter and asked, "Where's my hat?" Peter pointed down the line. There, at the end of the line, Betty was holding up Tom's hat. Everybody smiled but said nothing.

    Tom stood there for some time. Then he walked all the way back to Betty. "Here's your hat," she said politely.

    Tom goes to see the films on Saturday morning as before. But now he goes straight to the end of the line and waits for his turn to buy the tickets.

    Do you always want to help fight global warming? Then join the Earth Hour party on Saturday, March 28th, by turning off all lights from 8: 30-9: 30 pm. This small action, taken by hundreds of millions of people around the world will make it easier for us to fight global warming. More importantly, it will prove what can be achieved if we all come together to protect our planet.

    Earth Hour was started by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). In 2007, the organization asked the local people in Sydney to turn off all lights and unnecessary machines for one hour. Over 2 million families and 2, 100 businesses accepted the challenge. This simple action resulted in saving 10% of the electricity used by the city's people during a regular evening hour. The success of the effort encouraged people all around the world to take part in the action, and Earth Hour became a world-wide tradition and was celebrated every year from then on.

    Earth Hour is timed to be similar to the spring equinox, which is around March 20th every year. This makes amazing effect, resulting in wonderful pictures when the usually bright cities go dark.

    The WWF recognizes the "superheroes" who have supported Earth Hour to protect the planet to the next level Eddy, a 21-year-old man, who has been keeping his eyes on Earth Hour since 2010, has encouraged thousands of locals in the Dominican Republic to take action on fighting global warming. These include small actions like turning off unnecessary lights or using recyclable bags.

    Not sure how to spend the hour? The WWF suggests a candle light dinner or a picnic under the stars with your family. If that is not interesting for you, how about a late night hike or bike ride? For more ideas or to sign up for the fun event, go to earth hour. organization. Remember, we only have one planet, so let's try our best to protect it.

    It was shocking that four in ten teenagers admitted they thought they were unable to stop using the Internet. Two-thirds of the 2, 000 students surveyed admitted they took their iPads, smart phones or laptops to bed.

    Girls seemed to be more affected, spending their time chatting with friends on social networks while boys were more attracted by computer games.

    The organization, Tablets for Students, questioned youngsters from 11 to 17.

    An 11-year-old girl said, "I can never get it off, and at night I stay up for two to three hours after I'm meant to sleep. " Another 10- year-old student added, ""

    The result of the survey inspired Tablets for Students to introduce a charter containing five top tips on how to deal with teenagers' need connected to the Internet.

    Experts have expressed concerns that teenagers are leaving themselves weak to cyber bullying. They may have a point.

    So next time your teenagers want to use their favorite electronic product before going to bed, consider telling them to leave it till morning and just letting them have a good dream instead!

A. It's the first thing I look at in the morning and the last thing at night.

B. It found the most common online activities were socializing, networking, media and gaming.

C. And some even said that they preferred the company of electronic products to people in real life.

D. We have seen a rapid increase in the number of children who are connected with online bullying.

E. This included stopping your teenagers from taking their phones to bed and buying them an alarm clock.

    One of the biggest mistakes people make whenthey're trying to impress someone is that they think people only pay attention tothe important or "big" things they do. But the1isthat the little things are also very important. It's the little things we do ordon't do every day that2us into who we are. People will rememberthe little things you do and that can make the3.Here are some little things you should pay much attention to.

    Be on time.4you'relate for something, you re giving someone the opportunity to judge you without youeven being there. If you say you're going5 at a certain time, then be there at that time.waiting for someone when they should already be there is6.

    Don't break your promises. There are too manypeople making promises that they know they can't7.They do so because it makes the other people feel better at that moment. The problemis that down the road, when you don't follow through, that person will feel disappointedand8angry. If you can't keep a promise, don'tmake it. If you do make a promise, do9you can to keep it.

    Respect others10includesyour elders, friends, co-workers. family members, etc. This can be hard when youhave to be around someone who has different opinions11you,or who acts in a12you don't agree with. But you can still bepolite. If you respect others, you will win respect for13.

    Say "Please" and "Thank you"often. These are small things but they go a long way. Expressing your thanks topeople, even for the smallest acts of14, shows that you see the goodin people. It15that you pay attention to the things peoplearound you are doing and saying.

    Our government has been promoting garbage classification. The garbage can be divided into four categories. The first category is recyclables, paper, plastic, etc. The second type is food kitchen waste. Food kitchen waste has skin core, melon fruit and so on. The third category is hazardous waste. Hazardous waste has batteries, light pipes and so on. The fourth kind is rubbish. It is except the above three of garbage! The benefit of garbage classification is to save resources, reduce environmental pollution and make the city beautiful.

    Just do it you think about it. It happened that my mother was not at home that day, and I sorted the garbage in my house. The recyclable waste paper and bottles can be recycled. They are ready to be to the waste collection station. I put them in bags. Then I put the garbage can't be recycled or burned into the dustbin. At this point, I found several used old batteries, I don't know whether to , or recycle. So, I searched the Internet for recycling waste batteries.

    At this time, my mother came back and saw that our home was clean and tidy and she was and asked me what was wrong. I the garbage classification process to my mother and then told her about the benefits of garbage classification My mother was happy that I did a good job.

    Lionel Messi was named the best player in the world for a record sixth time when he took home the Ballon d'Or at an awards ceremony in Paris on December 2.

    He has the trophy five times, moving ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo, and finished third in the mens rankings this time behind Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk. Megan Rapinoe, a star of the USA's World Cup winning side, won the women's award.

    Messi, 32, received his first Ball on d'Or 2009. Over the past ten years Messi has gone on to become the most celebrated in football and perhaps the greatest to play the game. " Ten years ago I received my first Ballon d'Or guided by my three brothers, he said. "Today, I receive my , guided by my wife and children. ”

    As my wife says, it's important to never stop dreaming and to always work to improve and continue to enjoy myself. I hope to continue to play for some time. I know I am very lucky even if, one day, I will have to retire. That will be difficult but I still have beautiful years in front of me".

A: Hey, Emily. How's it going?

B: ! I went to have a study trip this summer. It's helpful to me.

A: ?

B: I went to Victoria, Canada. I stayed and studied at a local high school for nearly a month.

A: Wow, sounds good ?

B: Well, I think Canadians are usually friendly

A: By the way, ?

B: Actually it's for my English learning, especially for improving my spoken English.

A: ?

B: I must live and study with foreign classmates. So as you can see, I must speak English as much as possible.

A: Haha! Practice makes perfect.

B: You're right.

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