E.You have to talk to him or her.
F.Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.

Have you ever wondered what an American high school is really like? This article will describe a typical (典型的) high school and its students.

A typical American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about l, 500 students. Every student is given a locker. When students first arrive at school, they go straight to their lockers to put away or get their textbooks and to hang up their outdoor clothes. As American textbooks are expensive, students would rather loan (租借) than buy them. Students must pay back if they lose any of them.

American students have different types of school transport. They usually take a yellow school bus or walk to school if they live close enough. Sometimes their parents drive them to school. When they turn 16 years old, most take a free driving class at school for one term.  If students earn passing grades in the class and also pass their state driver's exam, they can begin driving themselves to school.

Each day, students take six or seven classes. They must take Science, Maths, English and Social Studies. They can choose Art, Homemaking, Fashion Design and other classes.  In some schools students are required to take one or more of the following special classes: Health Education, Physical Education or Foreign Language Studies. Students move to different classrooms for each subject. This is because each teacher has their own classroom.  There is a five-minute break between classes, to give the students the time to hurry to their next class.

The regular school day usually ends early in the afternoon. After school more than half of the students are involved in after-school activities. These activities include sports-especially football, basketball, baseball and soccer or clubs, such as yearbook, speech, school newspaper, photograph or student government.

Hello, boys and girls! Do you like to make new friends at school? Yes? Here's some of my advice（建议）.

Don't be shy（害羞的）! Try to talk to all of your classmates. Smile and say, "Hello! What's your name?" If you didn't hear the name clearly, try, "Sorry, can you repeat（重复） that for me, please?" Then give your name and say, "Nice to meet you!" It's really as easy as that! It's important to get people's names right. If you get themwrong, they might feel sad!

____ Ask about school, sport, music, and more! As you listen, think of more questions to ask. So when your classmate stops talking, you can jump in and ask another question! But remember, you have to be a good listener before you can ask good questions.

Try to share! Tell your classmates something interesting about yourself. Then your new friends can get to know you too! Soon enough, you' ll be the best of friends!

I hope you find my advice helpful! Now go make some new friends!

Duan Jiayang, a 13-year-old student of a middle school in Shenzhen, learns the skills required to take care of vegetable fields. "We have many activities, such as placing the mulch film(地膜), "he says, "It's not easy. "

In China, many parents place a heavy focus on their children's good grades, but vocational(职业的) skills have little been cared. "Some parents do everything for their children, "says Yan Mei, an official in the middle school, adding that many students are short of the basic skills needed in their daily lives

Since March last year, the governments have launched(发布)a lot of policies(政策), requiring that colleges, middle schools and primary schools pay more attention to teaching students practical skills. Following these policies, the middle school launched an"agricultural(农业的)class base"on one of its schoolyards. Students plant fruit and vegetables on an area of land about 4, 000m²in size. 

In the days coming up to the MayDay holiday, students of different grades at the school worked together in the fields, says a head teacher of a middle school. They planted watermelons, carrots and corn. 

The school hopes that students will understand the food is quite precious so that they will better realize the difficulties that their parents went through. 

"The best mianshilies in China and the best Chinese mianshilies in Shanxi." Can you imagine that in North China's Shanxi Province, there are over 280 kinds of mianshi, or cooked wheaten (小麦的) food?

Shanxi people's love for mianshiis closely connected to the local natural conditions. The dry weather on mountains and plateaus (高原) makes it a good place for growing wheat. Therefore, as time passing by, Shanxi people not only developed an eating habit for mianshi, but also invented different ways of cooking wheaten food.

Among the many Shanxi mianshi, the sliced (削的) noodle is the most famous one. It is a noodle made with a special knife. When making it, the cook needs to hold the dough (生面团) with one hand, while fast slicing the noodles into the soup pot with the other hand. The length and thickness of each sliced noodle are required to be the same. Experienced cooks can even turn the way of slicing noodle into an excellent show. They can slice 200 noodles in one minute, and make sure each noodle falls exactly into the soup pot 1.5 meters away.

In Chinese food culture, people like to give special meanings to the food. For example, they would have a bowl of Changshoumianon their birthdays, carrying good wishes for health and long life. In many places, the tradition is to serve jiaozito a person leaving home, and noodles to a person returning home, as both foods have their own important meanings.

Well, seeing all these Chinese mianshi, do you feel enjoyable? Would you like to have a try?