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— About ten minutes' walk.

— About half an hour.

— He goes to school by subway.

活动一：British Geniuses Introduction

活动二：English Film Sharing Activity

活动三：British Food Festival

注意：

1. 80-120词;

2. 可适当增加细节，以使语句通顺、条理清楚、意义连贯；

3. 文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称等个人信息；

4. 信的开头已给出，不计入总词数；

5. 书写规范，卷面整洁。

Dear Mr. Smith,

I am writing to share my ideas on the activities designed for the British Culture Festival. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Best wishes,

Li Hua

People make long journeys to different countries. However, the biggest journey is the self-discovery journey. How can you start the journey of self-discovery? Here are four tips for you.

Find out your most valuable ability. You may have different kinds of abilities. It could be about your ability to create, your ability to understand others or your skills at football. But which of them are you proud of? This will help you know yourself better.

Know what makes you excited. This will tell you where you can get your own joy. It could be when you are performing a dance on stage, when you help your dad fix his computer or even when you are doing research on your school science project.

Get out of your comfort zone (舒适区). It is always comfortable to stay in your familiar area. However, in order to discover yourself, you need to put yourself in some uncomfortable situations. You can do some outdoor activities you are afraid of. This will give you a chance to learn more about how you feel, think and react when the challenge comes.

It is also a powerful way to discover things about yourself. When you are in a different place, you may have a chance to rethink what you always believe.

People may want to finish the journey as soon as possible. As you go through life, many experiences can change you, and this helps you grow. The journey to self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

A. You need to find out the answer.

B. Some even make their way into space.

C. Discover and share different cultures.

D. Spend your time in a new environment.

E. In fact, the self-discovery journey is a lifelong task.

F. For example, you can go out for some difficult rock climbing.

Marin's story is not unique. Millions around the world make a living from picking through waste and reselling it. Only about 28 percent of the cans that could be recycled are actually recycled. Rubbish collectors keep millions of additional recyclables out of landfills every year.

Yet collectors are ruled out by government policies (政策). The United States Supreme Court in 1988 stated that household garbage is public property (财产) once it's on the street. That enables police to search rubbish for evidence (证据), but that protection hasn't always been extended to recyclers. And in places like New York City, which is testing city-owned locked containers to hide garbage from mice, containers are made clearly inaccessible (难得到的) for collectors.

"There's value in the waste, and we feel that value should belong to the people, not the city or the companies", says Ryan Castalia, director of a nonprofit recycling and community center in Brooklyn.

Recognized or not, waste pickers have long been treated with respect. Marin recalls an occasion when someone living next to a building where she was collecting cans threw water at her. "Because I recycle it doesn't mean I am less of a person than anyone else," she says. Some governments are taking action because they realize that protecting the environment and humanity should go hand in hand.

The small Paris café was filled with the smell of coffee and people's chatter. I sat across from Charles Strickland at a wooden table. Once a rich businessman in fine suits, he now wore an old coat with white paint on its sleeves.

When I asked him why he left his wife and two children and moved to this place, he remained calm and cold, explaining that painting had become as important to him as breathing to a living creature. Forty years old as he was, he believed this was his final opportunity to change his life. "My relatives will take care of my family," he said without any regret, as if his children were strangers he had met only once.

For more than a year, he had lied to his wife by telling her he was playing cards with friends in the evenings, but he was taking art classes to learn painting in fact. With his hands shaking slightly, he said in an anxious voice, "I have to paint. When a man falls into the water, it doesn't matter how he swims; he has to get out or else he'll drown (溺水)."

When I asked him, "What will you do if you never become successful?" he just repeated, "I have to paint." There was no sign of doubt or regret in his words. It was clear that he had completely turned down the normal rules of society. "I will not follow a path set by others," he added.

Looking at his worn shoes and fingers with different colors of paint, I finally said, "You have become a heartless man." To my surprise, he just stood up calmly, adjusted his old hat, and suggested, "Let's go find somewhere to eat." Around us, waiters cleared tables while people laughed and drank coffee. These happy sounds felt strange after our serious talk, like sunshine breaking through storm clouds.

Excerpt (节选) from The Moon and Sixpence