Sometimes it seems that time is flying. Perhaps it doesn't need to feel this way. Our experience of time can be possibly changed. By understanding the psychological (心理学的) processes behind our different experiences of time, we might be able to slow down time a little.

    One basic law of psychological time is that time seems to slow down when we're exposed (接触) to new environments and experiences. The law is caused by the relationship between our experience of time and the amount of information our minds process. The more information our minds take in, the slower time seems to pass.

    It follows, then, that we have different experiences of time in different situations. In some situations, our life is full of new experiences. Our minds process a lot of information and time seems to slow down. In other situations, we have fewer new experiences and the world around us becomes more and more familiar (熟悉的). We become insensitive to our experience, which means we process less information, and time seems to speed up.

    How can we slow down time? Here are two suggestions.

    Firstly, since we know that familiarity makes time pass faster, we can expose ourselves to as many new experiences as possible. We can give ourselves new challenges, meet new people, and expose our minds to new information, hobbies and skills. This will increase the amount of information our minds process and expand (增加) our experience of time.

    Secondly, and perhaps most effectively, we can give our whole attention to an experience-to what we are seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling or hearing. This means living through our senses rather than through our thoughts. For example, on the way home, focus your attention outside of yourself, instead of thinking about the problems you have to deal with. Look at the sky, or at the buildings you pass, traveling among them. This open attitude to your experiences helps take in more information and also has a time-expanding effect.

    To a certain degree, we can understand and control our experience of time passing. It's possible for us to slow down time by expanding our experience of time.

Do you know how to help people? The answer is to be a volunteer! Volunteering means to 1 time helping others.

·Help yourself by helping others

When you volunteer to help 2 , you are helping yourself. If you are angry, doing something can be a great way to 3 yourself down. Lots of people really 4 volunteering. Doing volunteer work means one important thing: You 5 a difference to the world. So where do you start? School is a good 6 to start it if you are looking for volunteer ideas. Ask a teacher 7 ideas.

·Do things with 8 members

Volunteering is a great way to have fun with your family. Talk to your 9 , brothers or sisters and see what they might be interested in. Find something you all agree on. Here are some 10 for things you do as a family 11 cleaning up a park and planting trees or flowers in your local community.

·Invent your own opportunity

Kids can 12 up with their own ways to raise money or provide needed services. You can make and sell products, and 13 the money to charity.

Volunteering gives kids a sense of responsibility. Volunteering can help kids learn important things about 14 — like what kinds of things they're best at. A volunteer job can 15 help some kids decide what they want to do when they grow up. So what are you waiting for? Make a plan to start volunteering today!

Perhaps you've already watched or heard about Readers, a TV show that has recently become popular on CCTV, which is hosted by Dong Qing. It invites different people to read aloud on the stage and tell their moving stories. They can read everything, like poems, books, letters and so on.

Many people are fans of the show and fall in love with reading aloud at home. Now the show gives people special reading pavilions（亭子） to read in some big cities of China, but every pavilion is so small that only one person can come into it each time. Everyone can read what they like for three minutes in the pavilion. Later the show will pick out some of the readers and invite them to read on TV.

Thanks to the wonderful TV show on CCTV, the young are becoming more and more interested in Chinese traditional culture.