The way we spend our time can be. divided into three groups，or jars(罐子).These would be the necessary tasks jar, the voluntary tasks jar and the happiness jar.

    Every day，we spend time filling the necessary tasks jar. We fill this jar with useful things，like making money，doing housework，buying food and paying bills. We then fill another jar with voluntary tasks like taking children to activities and cooking family meals. Those jars are very important，but we may not enjoy them. If we don't fill them each day，our family won't run properly.

    However, we often forget to fill the third jar—the happiness jar. This is the jar that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your happiness jar sometimes empty at the end of the day? We all have days like that. Between doing all the necessary, and voluntary tasks，time flies by on some days，and before we know it，it is time for bed.

    That is why each day we try to fill our happiness jar. Most days，I fill mine by going to the ballroom dance(社交舞)class. Playing music is another way that I fill my happiness jar. This week，I was happy to take part in an orchestra(管弦乐队)practice at my church(教堂).At the end of the evening, my happiness jar was full.

    Consider how your time is spent. Try to find ways to achieve a balance. At the end of the day，hopefully we've done all we can to make sure that our happiness jar is filled.

某报刊编辑的建议：

A. Don't worry. A lot of practice is the only way to become a good pianist.

B. Try to tell your classmates that you need their friendship.

C. When you feel angry, you should stop talking and become a good pianist.

B. Try to tell your classmates that you need their friendship.

C. When you feel angry, you should stop talking and walk away until you calm down.

D. Don't worry. Everyone worries about their schoolwork Find a hobby or a sport to relax yourself.

E. Let your parents know you will be lonely if you can't go out. Also, you can ask a teacher to talk to your parents about the after-school activities.

    One day Bill's friend Tom says to him, "I am going to have a birthday party on Sunday evening. Bill, can you come to my party?" "I'll be glad to," answers Bill.

    Before Bill goes to the party on Sunday afternoon, his mother says to him, "Now, Bill, don't forget to be polite(礼貌的). Don't ask for food until(直到) someone gives it to you. "

    "All right, Mum," Bill answers. And (A) he goes to Tom's house on his new bike.

    (B) There are a lot of children at the party. They play for an hour. Then Tom's mother gives them some food. But she forgets to give Bill any. (C) Bill waits politely for ten minutes and then holds his plate up(举起他的盘子) in the air and says loudly(高声地), "Does anyone want a nice and clean plate? "

根据短文内容,完成下列各题。

Lake Street School

256, Lake Street

Mountain Town

Lake Street School Big Day Out!

Dear Parents,

    We are happy to have our summer trip to the Children Movie Museum and the Sports Park on Thursday, July 11th (Grade Seven) and Friday, July 12th (Grade Eight). Students can learn lots of very interesting things about the cinema and how movies are made. They will also learn about many sports and their rules.

Meeting Time: 7:40 am

Leaving Time: 8:00 am

Meeting Place: at the school gate

Arriving Time: by 5:00 pm

    We have this trip for the students to learn outside the classroom and also have a good time with friends. Students need to take a pen and a notebook with them because they have to take notes about what they see. They also need to wear their school uniforms and sports shoes. Please tell them to follow the rules in the museum and the park.

    We will be eating lunch at the dining hall of the park. The cost of the trip is 40 yuan. It is for the bus ride and the lunch.

    If your child cannot come, please tell your head teacher by July 8th in your class teacher-parent WeChat group.

Did you throw something away today? The answer for most people would be yes. But where does our 1  go?

It doesn't just sit in the rubbish bin. Every day, 2  come to take the rubbish from our rubbish bins. They put it into a big truck and 3  it to landfills(垃圾填埋场). At the landfill, people sort(分类) the rubbish. They recycle some, 4  some and bury(埋) the rest of it underground. The more rubbish gets recycled, the 5  the environment will be. It means 6  less rubbish ends up in landfills. 

So many Chinese cities encourage people to sort out their rubbish 7  throwing it away. Put the food in one bag. Put the plastic bottles in another. And throw them in the right rubbish bins. In this way, we can help 8  a lot of time, money and energy for all of the society. 

Many foreign 9  have good sorting systems. So they have higher recycling rates(比率). In Sweden, only 1 percent of household waste 10  in landfills every year. In Japan, people recycle nearly 50 percent of the rubbish. 

There is 11  a lot to do when it comes to rubbish sorting in China. People in the country make about 300 million tons of the rubbish every year. 12  they only recycle less than a quarter of it. The rest of it ends up in landfills. Most of it is unsorted. The good news is that many cities are 13  different ways to make things better. Beijing has started a new programme to 14  rubbish sorting. If people sort out their rubbish, they'll 15  points. They can exchange the points for shopping cards!

One way to improve your English is to learn English idioms（习语） and then use them.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}. They make you sound more like a native speaker. Like other languages, English has thousands of idioms which you can use in many different situations, or to talk about your feelings and opinions. So how do you learn them?

Learn idioms in the context（上下文）

Don't learn idioms by making lists. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Make sure you have an example of how the idiom is used, and know clearly whether it's common. This is important, because if you use the idiom in the wrong situation, it won't sound natural.

Don't try to learn too many at one time

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. For that reason, don't try to learn more than five at any one time. Don't forget: You'll need to practise your new idioms(like any new vocabulary), so limit（限制）what you do in any lesson.

Understand the feeling

We often use an idiom to express a feeling or emotion. So for example, we say that someone has a heart of gold. Because gold is a valuable metal, we can imagine that someone with a heart of gold is a good person. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.

Listen out for idioms

If you hear two words used together in an unusual way, it might be a new idiom. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. However, usually you might need to make a note of it or ask the person who has spoken it.