Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. “I got a red flower today. Could you please sign this note?” he said to mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.

    Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is “OK”, but he often gets “You can do better than this.” Mum knows what it means. She tells me “You can do better than this” means “Extremely bad” in China.

    In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is “Please be nicer tomorrow”. Many parents are satisfied with a B-grade for each subject.

    But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spend more time on homework than I did when I was 6^th grade in the US! Yet his parents and teachers didn't think he worked hard enough.

    Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.

Imagine you're at a restaurant. You order a salad with beautiful green lettuce (生菜)， nice red tomatoes, yellow peppers and cucumber. When it comes, you can't wait to take that first mouthful. But stop for a minute and think about how long it actually took to get to your plate. Not from the kitchen, but from the farm.

Let's take a look at a salad served in the United States. "Fresh" food, such as the lettuce, might be grown locally. But what about the other food on your plate? Nowadays, the country of origin (来源) of most of our fresh produce (农产品) - that's the place where produce was grown - is thousands of kilometers away. Produce was picked, washed, packed and brought to a center halfway around the world before it traveled to a store near you. So food which looks fresh has actually traveled in a refrigerated truck for a week.

But that isn't the only problem. Food needs transportation, and all forms of transportation cause air pollution. The farther food travels, the more gas is used, so more pollution is set free. Shipping fresh produce can add up to forty-five times more pollution to the air.

There is a solution, however. We can stop eating food from other countries, and we can buy fresh produce grown locally. The lettuce picked yesterday will taste a lot better. It'll also be healthier than the lettuce picked a week ago. Eating locally-grown produce also means that you eat more kinds. We forget that different fruits and vegetables grow in different seasons. Unluckily, this means we have to eat seasonal fruits and vegetables. That means we can't eat fresh summer fruits and vegetables in the winter. But we really shouldn't anyway!

Dear Emily，

Yours，

Li Hua

Once you decide to study in the US, you should know which city is right for you Let's look into one of the most famous {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(America) cities— Seattle. Seattle is{#blank#}2{#/blank#} large coastal city with about 3.2 million people. Because of{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(it) green forests, Seattle is a good place to have outdoor activities such as camping,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(climb), hiking and so on.

There's always something to do in Seattle. You'll be {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(interest) in film festivals, fan clubs and concerts. Hundreds of films around the world are shown during the Seattle International Film Festival.{#blank#}6{#/blank#} wonderful it is! When you study in Seattle, it is important {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(have) a university experience. Seattle is the home to lots of famous {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(university) which will surely meet your needs. If you want to learn{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(much) information about Seattle, search on the Internet. But do remember to take an umbrella— it {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(rain) from time to time.

Flu （流感）season is coming! Are you prepared? Here are answers to your question!

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The flu is a virus（病毒） that passes easily from person to person. Usually the flu appears in winter and the rainy season. 

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In fact，they come from different viruses. Although the symptoms（症状） can be almost the same，flu symptoms are more serious. Cold symptoms only last about seven days while the flu can last two weeks. 

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The seasonal flu is very common all over the world. Children，old people and people in poor health catch the flu easily. In the United States，five to twenty percent of the people pet the flu every year. 

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The flu is pretty dangerous. It can give you fever（发烧） or even make you die. Every year in some countries. 

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Today, I want to tell you about three great places to stay in our city.

 Eastland Hotel is the most beautiful hotel in the city. It's one of the most expensive {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in the city. Many guests like to stay there because {#blank#}2{#/blank#} is quiet and peaceful.

 Blue Moon Hotel {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a very small swimming pool. It's the smallest one in the city and it's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} very crowded. Fewer and fewer people go there for swimming. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} , its restaurant is the most popular in our city. Guests and local (当地的) people love to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} there because of the great service and the best food in town.

 People's Hotel is in the center of the city, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} it is very noisy. I think it's the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} hotel in the city. However, the rooms are large with the most comfortable beds {#blank#}9{#/blank#} all the city's hotels. Guests of People's Hotel are usually {#blank#}10{#/blank#} , because this hotel is the most expensive hotel in the country.