Weekends are short. They are only two days out of a seven-day week. To make your weekends look longer, you need to plan it better. Here are some ideas.

★Get up at your usual time. The biggest mistake(错误) is to think that the weekend is a good chance(机会) for getting up late. So getting up early can make you feel the weekends are longer.

★Finish homework as early as possible. Nobody wants to do homework, but we have to do it. The earlier you do it at the weekend, the better you will feel. You can do homework from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a. m. on Saturday morning. After doing your homework , you can plan your weekends well.

★Go out to enjoy weekends. Weekends feel longer if you get out and enjoy them. Think about what you like to do. Plan a sports activity, for example, playing football in the park. You can also plan to go to a museum, a zoo, or a park.

    Growing up in this fast world means we must make a lot of decisions in a short time. We must learn how to make right choices and decisions to make our lives better. There are some tips you can use when you make decisions.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Every day, we meet many people and things. You can learn from them. Whether they are big or small choices, they can give you examples of how to choose and what to do. They can help you understand how to make right decisions.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Making small decisions will give you chances to practice for making bigger choices later in life. Maybe you will do better and better.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} They are always staying with you and understand you better than anyone else. Asking them for advice can help you feel relaxed and clearer about whether you choose the right side.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} You should know that the fast decisions may not always be the right ones. When you make a decision, the first step is to stay calm and think what you can get from every side of the choice. It may help you to make a right decision.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} But remember that the right decision isn't always popular, and the popular isn't always right. Just do it the way you like.

A. Do it as your way when you make a decision.

B. You should not be rushed when making decisions.

C. You should not be worried.

D. You can start by making small decisions.

E. You can ask your parents or friends for some advice.

F. Learning from other people and their decision-making examples is a good way.

    More than one million international students are studying in the United States. Many of them find it helpful to have a smart phone and an American credit card(信用卡).

    These things make it easy to pay for many kinds of goods and services. But getting a credit card as an international student is not a simple process. Normal US lenders ask for a social security number(社会保障号码). In addition, they ask to see a person's credit history. This helps the lenders fully believe that someone is responsible and make timely payments. These are the things most international students do not have.

    But one company is trying to make the process easier and fairer for them.

    Jack Guo is from China. He now studies at a university in California. He says having an American credit card makes it easier for students to get around town. And, he says, credit cards are important for international students who hope to live in the country in the future.

    Kalpesh Kapadia came from India to study at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He faced the same difficulties that many international students face when trying to get an American credit card. He decided to open SelfScore(万事达信用卡).

    Without asking for credit history and a social security number, SelfScore looks at materials such as passports，visas, and acceptance letters to American schools. The company also considers a student's ability to pay.

    About 10, 000 international students from more than 66 countries now have credit cards through SelfScore. Kalpesh says less than one percent of SelfScore's credit card holders are late for their payments because of different kinds of reasons.

    Mona has an interesting hobby. She collects stamps(邮票). She spends a lot of time on her stamp collection after school. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} They are all in color. Mona likes stamps with pictures of animals and birds on them. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} She also borrows books on animals and birds from her school library. She learns many things about them. Sometimes Mona has many stamps of the same kind. She gives them to her classmates. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Mona writes to her friends in many countries. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} In return, they send her stamps of their countries. Mona's father also gives her stamps.

    He brings them home from his office and he often enjoys the stamps with her. But Mona's mother never gives her stamps because she thinks spending too much time on them is bad for study. Many of Mona's friends collect other things. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} But, all of them say that Mona's collection is the most interesting of all.

"Tum left! Tum right!" In the information technology class, Zhang Ruixuan was controlling a robot to move around. What a wonderful and 1 classroom!

"This is part of our artificial intelligence (AI) courses," said the 10th grader 2 Beijing 101 Middle School. The school 3 Al classes to both junior and senior high school students. Students want to learn more, 4 there are also optional (选修的) courses, apart from compulsory (必修的) courses that teach basic knowledge. That means students have more 5 .

"This term in our compulsory class, we have 6 learned to code (编程) using a programming language called Python," said Zhang. Using Python to code is a 7 skill for training AI models. In recent years, Python has been 8 in high school graduation exams in places like Beijing, Jiangsu and Anhui.

9 , having AI education in schools has become a growing trend in many places, with Zhejiang Province being a typical example. In 2020, Zhejiang added AI 10 into textbooks from Grade 5 in primary school all the way to senior high. In the city of Wenzhou, the government is planning to 11 1,000 AI experimental schools by 2025.

"With the development of 12 , our textbooks have been changing all the time," said ShangVin, an IT teacher from Beijing 101 Middle School. "From typing to using Word and Excel, and then today's coding and AI, the courses are 13 the times and teaching students necessary skills." In the future, there will be more jobs where AI knowledge is 14 . Even in daily life, people may need to understand things like ChatGPT and things on the Internet. "AI education will become increasingly 15 ," Shang added. People are looking forward to more information technology classes.

Nowadays, more and more people like to travel in their holidays. I have read a report about the1 people spend their holidays. It is reported that in recent years several new holiday habits(习惯) have 2 . Among them, the most3 one is the growth of holiday camps. 

From the report we can see that, in 1990, forty percent of people stayed at home for their holidays. However, now the percentage has 4 to nine percent. More people go out for fun. People enjoy the 5 air, clean water and green hills when they go camping in places far from the city. In 1990, thirty－eight percent of people6 going to the seaside. However, in 20027 twenty seven percent were interested in going there. What great8 !

Why have those changes9 ? I think there are several reasons. First, it's because people can afford to travel. Second, people prefer to live a high-quality and colourful life. Third, their attitudes(态度) to relaxation have 10 changed. Fewer and fewer people want to save much money by living a simple life.