When people travel abroad(国外), they sometimes stay in the homes of the local people. This is a homestay.

    I am living with an old English couple, in the west of London. They have a clean four-bedroom house. This is a new house. It has two bathrooms and a garden with many beautiful flowers. I have a bedroom of my own.

   There are some shopping centres and a restaurant near the house, and the house is close to an underground station. It takes about 30 minutes to take an underground to the centre of London.

    I think a homestay may be a good choice for you if it is your first time to visit abroad. The local people are friendly and helpful. If you want to celebrate the holidays with them, you will get to know more about their culture and customs.

    A new research on students' sleeping habits says that more than 70% of students do not get enough sleep.

    Researchers found that primary school students get 9 hours and 10 minutes of sleep a night, junior high school students get 8 hours and 6 minutes, and senior high school students get 7 hours and 9 minutes. None of those hours are enough for each group. Not enough sleep can cause many kinds of problems in children and teenagers.

    In 2007, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission asked primary and middle schools in the city to adjust their timetables so that students could get more sleep. Two years later, a research found that students at schools that adjusted their timetables got more sleep than in 2005.

    The researchers hope that the government will take measures to make students have enough sleep. Students in other places may even less sleep than those in Shanghai.

    Welcome to England! The weather of England often changes. It can be rainy, sunny, cloudy, windy, warm, foggy or cold at any time of year. If it's raining when you get up in the morning, it can be hot and sunny in the afternoon.

    In England, shops are usually open from 9:00 in the morning to 5:30 in the afternoon. On Sundays some shops are open from 10:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. But most shops are closed. Banks, museums（博物馆）or other places are open from 10:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. You can go to the parks at any time.

    All the cities have buses, trains and taxis（出租车）. People wait in line (排队等候) for buses and they will not be happy if you come to the front from the end of the line. Don't forget that, traffic goes on the left.

Be careful and enjoy your time here.

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    Mistakes are great teachers. Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes to achieve their goals and wishes, and who are able to learn from those mistakes. And in order to learn from mistakes , you must be willing to pay for them .

    Mistakes can be very valuable, but when you try to get others to pay for your mistakes, then you lose the chance to learn from them. When something goes wrong, it's usually very easy to find someone else's mistakes, but is that useful?

    Much of the value of mistakes comes from the fact that they need a cost that must be paid. The person who learns the most from a mistake is the one who pays the price for that mistake.

    When you make a mistake, what you shouldn't do is to run away from it. You need to accept it because you can learn a lot from it. The mistake has been made, so make the most of it. Pay the price, learn the lesson, and grow that much stronger.

    When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Remember the causes , and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The present is still in your power. Make full use of your mistakes to achieve your goals and wishes.

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Have you ever been toThailand?

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    Now we arestaying in Bangkok (曼谷) It is the capital of Thailand and it is a very interesting placeto visit. Yesterday we visited some places of interest in the city. They aregreat! This morning we went shopping.

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B. The weather has been very hot.

C. Thailand is called" Land of Smiles" becausepeople here are very friendly.

D. It is a country in Asia.

E. Bangkok is a wonderful place to shop for jewelry (珠宝) and clothes.

Make memories of ginkgo (银杏)leaves

    Autumn is the season of harvest (收获). Leaves turn golden and are blown around by the wind. The ginkgo is one of my favorite trees.

⑴I love its beautiful golden leaves which look like fans. This autumn, I picked up some ginkgo leaves. I cleaned and dried them in the sun. When they are ready, they will be my specimens (标本). And I will put them in my books and use them as bookmarks. ⑵They will remind me of the season whenever I open my books. They are my memory of this autumn.

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