Winning Color

    You are getting ready to play a football match and you want to win. What color should you wear to help you win? You are getting ready to go to an interview and you want to succeed. What color should you wear to help you succeed? Strange questions, perhaps, but color could be the key to your success. Read on and find out how.

    The most popular color in Britain is black. Wearing black makes people feel more confident, but can often make you look unemotional. This may be why people sometimes think that British people don't want to make a strong impression (印象). Although black is common in Britain, most people agree that in fact blue is the world's favorite color. The students in school and the people who work in business often wear blue. Wearing blue will show that you are an effective and hard-working person.

    Sometimes people mistakenly think that red makes you look strong and successful. However, you will be seen aggressive (好攻击的) if you choose red clothes. New information now says that yellow, not red, is the color of winning. Australia and Brazil are both very successful in the sporting world, and the sports things of both countries are yellow. Strangely enough, athletes who wear yellow glasses during a race can improve their time by up to half a second. Tests show that the yellow color makes them feel positive and energetic and could be the difference between a medal and no medal.

    So, next time you have an important event in your life—a race, a match, an exam or an interview—think about you clothes. The color of your clothes can change your life!

    Audrey is a Chinese-American student. She has found value (价值) differences between Chinese and Americans.

    About money:

    ①Americans would like to spend more than they have, so many of them are always in debt (欠债). Chinese usually spend less than they have, so many of them always have money left in the bank.

    ②American kids love to make money by themselves. Chinese kids always ask their parents for money.

    ③Americans parents think that it is not useful to send their children to an expensive university. Chinese parents would do anything to send their children to good universities and that might make them very poor sometimes.

    About school:

    ①Many American girls take part in sports, dancing and singing groups while Chinese girls take part in academic groups.

    ②Some American students think that "B" is a gift while Chinese students think that "B" is terrible.

    About American parents and Chinese parents

    American parents allow their daughters or sons to have some part-time jobs in their free or at weekends. Chinese parents usually don't allow their children to do so in middle or high schools.

要点：1. 保持健康的重要性；2. 保持健康的方法。 要求：1. 短文须包括提示中的所有要点，并适当发挥；

2. 短文中不要出现真实的地名、校名和人名。

参考词汇：keep healthy, important, vegetables, fruit, stay up, in one's opinion（在某人看来）.

Care for Health

Nowadays, more and more people like to travel in their holidays. I have read a report about the1 people spend their holidays. It is reported that in recent years several new holiday habits(习惯) have 2 . Among them, the most3 one is the growth of holiday camps. 

From the report we can see that, in 1990, forty percent of people stayed at home for their holidays. However, now the percentage has 4 to nine percent. More people go out for fun. People enjoy the 5 air, clean water and green hills when they go camping in places far from the city. In 1990, thirty－eight percent of people6 going to the seaside. However, in 20027 twenty seven percent were interested in going there. What great8 !

Why have those changes9 ? I think there are several reasons. First, it's because people can afford to travel. Second, people prefer to live a high-quality and colourful life. Third, their attitudes(态度) to relaxation have 10 changed. Fewer and fewer people want to save much money by living a simple life. 

 Most English people have a first name, a middle name, and a family name. Their family name comes last. For example, my full name is Jim Allen Green. Green is my family name. My parents gave me both of my other names. People don't use their middle names very much. So"John Henry Brown" is usually called"John Brown". People never use Mr, Mrs, or Miss before their first names. So you can say John Brown, or Mr Brown, but you should never say Mr John. They use Mr, Mrs, or Miss with the family name but never with the first name. 

 Sometimes people ask me about my name. "When you were born, why did your parents call you Jim?" they ask, "Why did they choose that name?"

 The answer is that they didn't call me Jim. They called me James. James was the name of my grandfather. In England, people usually call me Jim for short. That's because it is shorter and easier than James. 

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