Years ago, Tareq and his family left their home in Bangladesh to New York City, US. Tareq was only 12 years old then.

    In Bangladesh, Tareq's dad was a farmer. He worked hard for little pay. Every day, Tareq walked 6 kilometres to school. After school, he had to work on the farm.

    But Tareq had fun. He loved singing and playing cricket (板球) with his friends. One day Tareq's dad told him they would move to New York City. Tareq's dad found a new job there, and he thought life would be better there.

    In his new school, Tateq tried his best to understand his teachers, but it was quite hard. Also, he had few friends.

    Things changed when he started high school. His high school had students from 30 countries and a cricket team. Tareq was excited to join the cricket team. He was happy to be with kids who loved the game as much as he did. He practised before and after school. "Playing with the cricket team was the first time I felt accepted in America," he said. "When you play, it doesn't matter what grade you' re in or what language you speak."

    During his second year in high school, Tareq was named the cricket team' s most valuable player(最有价值球员).

    Tareq will go to university next year. He said, "Most universities don't have a cricket team. But that's OK, because cricket was there for me when I needed it most."

    About 10 years ago, I started a job as a trainer. In one of my first classes, the head trainer told us a story.

    He began by drawing a man standing in the middle of a circle. To make it more interesting, he drew things like a house, a car, and a few friends inside the circle.

    He asked the question," Can anyone tell me what this is？"In a long silence, one guy decided to speak out," The world?" The trainer said, "That's close. Actually, this is your Comfort Area. Inside your circle, you feel very comfortable. You have all the things that are important to your home, your family, your friends and your job. People feel that inside this circle they are safe from any danger."

    " Can anyone tell me what happens when you step out of this circle？"A strong silence came over the room. At last, the same guy started," You are afraid." Another guy said," You make mistakes." The silence continued and the trainer smiled and said," When you make mistakes, what can the result be?" The first guy shouted," You learn something."

    "Quite right, you are learning." The trainer turned to the board and drew an arrow（箭头）pointing from the man to the outside of the circle.  He continued to say," When you leave your Comfort Area you put yourself out there, in front of the world to be in situations that you are not comfortable with. The end result is that you have learned something that you did not know and you slowly become a better person." He turned again to the board and drew a bigger circle around the first one, and added a few new things like more friends, a bigger house, etc.

    The moral of the story is that if you stay inside your Comfort Area, you will never be able to expand your horizons（开阔视野）and learn. When you step out of your Comfort Area you will finally make your circle bigger and your mind grow stronger, and all in all a better person."

These days, we easily feel stressed as the work we need to do grows more and more. It's important to know {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to solve problems and find ways to relax. 

First, we should try organizing our problems from most important to least important as well as most urgent(紧急的)to least urgent. If some problems are both important and urgent, do those things first. Once those are done, work on things {#blank#}2{#/blank#} are important but not urgent. After that, we can work on problems that are less important. In this way we can clearly know what to do first and not worrying about the rest, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} we might easily feel stressed out with so much work to do. 

Sometimes we are still under pressure after sorting out(分类)our work. That's OK. We can try to add some exercise to our weekly plan. It doesn't need to go on a big trip for several hours, although that surely helps. It could be something as small as walking around the neighborhood for ten to twenty {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.

Finally, we can try meditation(冥想). Again, it can be a simple thing. Just set ten to twenty minutes with an alarm, sit straight, close our eyes, and focus only on breathing, If other thoughts come up, accept that they are there and let them fly away on their own. 

By trying these steps, we will feel {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and peaceful when finishing all of the work. 

要点：

1. 在2023年12月18日， 甘肃发生了一场大的地震， 很多人无家可归；

2. 地震经常发生在板块活跃的区域， 主要是由板块之间的运动造成的；

3. 地震很难预测， 但也有一些信号， 比如动物行为异常， 水位变化等；

4. 地震的破坏性很大， 会造成建筑物倒塌、人员伤亡、财物损失等情况；

5. 我们平时要多了解关于地震的相关知识， 降低地震带来的破坏性。

提示: 板块运动: plate 【C】 水位: water level

降低: lower 【V.】  破坏性: destructiveness【U】

要求： 1）所写内容必须包括要点中所提供的信息， 并可作适当的发挥。2）词数80词左右，不得出现真实的人名、校名、地名等相关信息。

How Much do You Know about Earthquake

①In most places in the world today, it is easy to find healthy food. With supermarkets, buying healthy food like fresh fruits, vegetables, fish, and meat is easy and convenient（便利的）. However, it is also easy to find unhealthy food today. Supermarkets and other stores sell good food, but they also sell frozen foods and junk food like chips, candy, and cookies. A lot of food today has chemicals（化学药品）. Research has shown that many of these chemicals are bad for our health. So did people in the past eat healthier than we do today?

②A century ago, people didn't eat junk food or frozen food. Instead, they ate natural foods without chemicals. On the other hand, their natural foods were not always as good as food today. In the past, meat often came from sick animals. It's not healthy to eat meat from a sick animal. In most places today, laws make sure that food is safe.

③In most countries today, we can buy a variety（各种）of foods. We can buy oranges in the winter and apples in the summer. Healthy fruits and vegetables are available（可获得的）at any time of year. These foods come from all over the world. In the past, this kind of variety was not possible. People could eat certain foods only in certain seasons.

④We also eat much more meat, sugar, fattening foods, and chemicals today than people did a century ago. Studies show that these things can cause（引起）heart disease（疾病）and a variety of other health problems. However, people live much longer now. Today, the average（平均）person lives for 70 to 80 years. However,100 years ago, the average person lived for only about 50 years. People live longer because we have better medicine now. But people also have longer lives because healthy food is usually available.

⑤So ____? Yes and no. People in the past did eat more natural food than we do now. But, in some ways, we also eat better today. We can eat healthier today than people did in the past. We just have to choose to eat good foods.