It is difficult for the parents of every family to teach their children to be responsible (有责任的) for housework.

    The Shatian School in Shanghai is making its students do housework for their parents. The third graders(三年级学生) must learn how to cook and clean, sixth graders do the laundry(洗衣服) and seventh and eighth graders cook balanced meals with 15 yuan.

    Many parents think it's a good way for children to try housework but they don't know how to do it at home. With the following ideas, you really can get your children to help at home.

    If you want to make your children think that they can do everything quite right, please don't always scold(批评) if them but give them lots of praise at home. Talk more about what they did right, not about what they didn't do. If your child finishes some difficult work, give him or her a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad as a reward.

How to be a friend of yourself?

We often pay attention to developing relationships with others. However, we forget the basic step: being friends of ourselves. How can we have good relationships with others if we don't even have good relationships with ourselves?{#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

First, forgive(原谅) yourself. It's true that you are not perfect, and neither is everybody else. It's normal for everyone to make mistakes.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

Second, accept things you can't change. There are many things you cannot change, such as your background and past.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}If you face the things you can't change, just smile and move on.

Third, focus on(聚焦于) your achievements. You can try making a list of your achievements, which do not have to be big things. There are a lot of small but important achievements in our life.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

Last but not least, stop comparing yourself with others. You are unique.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Your success is not determined(决定) by other people. Instead, it is determined by your own life purpose.

Talk about the ways of transportation of your classmates in 5-7 sentences.

Aspects(方面):(1) How? How far? How long?(2) What do you think of different ways of transportation?

The phrase "southern spuds"becomes popular,thanks to Harbin,a city in Northeastern China that has taken the Internet by storm.

Over 3 million tourists poured into Harbin during the three-day New Year holiday.And many of them came from southern China where snow was nowhere to be found.Harbin locals gave these visitors a cute nickname "nanfang xiaotudou"or"southern spuds".It is because southern people are usually shorter and they look like small potatoes when wearing thick jackets and hats.To Harbin people,this name is not to make fun of southerners,but to create a sense of warmth with humor (幽默).

Harbin tried everything to meet tourists' needs,especially those from the south.Cooks carefully cut the local frozen pear into small pieces.Symphony(交响乐)concerts find their way into shopping malls.A drone(无人机)lifts a man-made moon for tourists to take photos.Harbin really went all out to make them happy.

However,even though they did all these to please the southern tourists,this nickname

"southern spuds"sparked a debate(辩论)on the Internet.While Harbin locals use the name to show warmth and goodwill,some sightseers feel that calling them"small potatoes"is making fun of their height (身高).

Even though people from the Northeast are sincere and warm,we have to admit (承认)that there is regional stereotype(地区刻板印象)in some parts of China.Nowadays,people travel all the time.Therefore,it's important to make the world a more welcoming place.After all,everyone likes kindness and dislikes discrimination(歧视),whether (不论)it's on purpose or not.

This story is about a young man. He worked hard at his lessons. He was too busy. He didn't have time to rest, so he was ill. Every night, when he went to bed, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. But he couldn't. He thought, "I must go to see the doctor." He said to the doctor, "I can't go to sleep at night." "Try counting numbers. When you reach one thousand, you'll be asleep."

The next day the man came back to the doctor's office. "Well," said the doctor, "how are you today?" 

"Yes," he said. "I tried counting one, two, three … up to （直到)one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drank some tea. Then I went on counting up to one thousand. But I still couldn't fall asleep." 

My grandma loves cats. She has two cats in her house. The white cat's name is Mimi, and the black one is Lele. 

Mimi is nine years old. She's an old cat now. But her hair is always clean. She can't run fast now. When she sees a mouse, she lets it go. 

Lele is six years old. He is a young cat. But he isn't always clean. He can run very fast. So he can catch more mice(mouse 复数形式). Every time he gets a mouse, he shares it with Mimi, because they are good friends.