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A garden for wild life in your backyard doesn't have to be a jungle of untidy plant life. It can and should be a quiet shelter for you and animals. In fact, you don't need a great deal of space to create a wildlife garden. Use what you have and build from there. A successful garden for wildlife is built on four aspects: shelter and protection, food sources, water sources and nesting areas. 

As you create a wildlife garden, keep this in mind. Your goal should be a pleasing mix of evergreen and deciduous trees and bushes. Plants that make your winter garden beautiful will also provide shelter and protection. 

Bird feeders are a must for any garden for wild life. Try making your own! Take into account that different birds feed at different levels and eat different kinds of seed, fruit and fats. Try to choose as many local varieties as possible. Also, look for plants that produce berries to serve as a food source in fall and winter. 

All animals need water to survive. An easy way to ensure the arrival of wildlife is to provide a clean water source. The traditional birdbath is fine, but placing a bowl at ground level will give some other creatures a chance. The low, boggy spot in the yard may be the perfect spot to dig out a pond for fish, frogs and birds. 

As you create a wildlife garden, plan for nesting areas. A few bird boxes around the yard can be an invitation to the surrounding bird population. Nesting birds are territorial and won't nest too close to their neighbors. 

Research has found that adults today have fewer friends than they did in the 1980s, and that more people say they have no one to discuss important stuff with. 

Play the violin. Not just play it-and sing along. A new study suggests that singing is an effective way to make new friends because it helps us bond quickly with others. 

For the study, led by Eiluned Pearce, Ph. D. at Oxford University, researchers looked at participants aged 18 to 83 in adult education classes organized by the Workers' Education Association in the UK. Eighty-four participants were enrolled in one of four singing classes; 51 participants were enrolled in one of two creative crafts classes or a creative writing class. 

Over a period of seven months, the classes went weekly. During the first, third, and final months, researchers asked participants to tell how close they felt to their classmates. Results showed something surprising. Although participants in all the classes felt closer to their classmates by the study's end, participants in the singing classes developed that closeness much more quickly. 

As for why exactly singing leads to fast group bonding, the researchers say one possible reason is that everyone does it at the same time. Compare that with creative writing or crafting, where everyone is working on an individual project. Another possible cause, according to the researchers, is that singing involves muscular effort, which causes the release of certain molecules（分子）that can make us happier and more willing to cooperate. 

The point here is that singing can be a great icebreaker among large groups of strangers, which can lead to individual friendships down the line. "Really close relationships still depend on communication between individuals or much smaller groups，" Pearce said in a release（发布会），"but this study shows singing can start the bonding process. "

Part of the reason that English has grown as a world language is that it easily adjusts to（适应）change. However， this means that what one was taught as a child in school may be out of date many years later. When words or phrases change, it can make speakers feel "wrong" because they were taught that something else was "right".

One example of this is a term connected to school itself. Today, it is common for people to say that they "graduated high school" or college. The word "graduate" has two common meanings. One is to mark off a series. The other meaning is closely related. As you move through school, you cross off a series of achievements: grade school, middle school, high school, and college. So, in a way, school itself is "graduated. "

So, when people used to speak of getting a degree, they said they "graduated from college. " "To graduate college" would have meant to mark it off by year -the first year, the second year etc. Similarly, "to graduate to college" would have meant to complete high school and move up to the next level.

But as happens often in English, when people understand your meaning, smaller words can disappear. "I graduated college" is now easy to say. This may distress people who were taught that you had to use "from" to be correct. But this is not the first time this phrase has been simplified. It used to be that you said, "I was graduated from college, "instead of, "I graduated from college. "

You can't know what English will keep and what it will lose. Who could imagine that we would still say we "dial" a phone number when we now push buttons on our cellphone? Yet we know what it means.

Before you begin studying English， ask yourself one question: Why do I want to study English? Is it because you want to, or because someone else wants you to? Like every decision in life, studying English must be something you want to do. 

If you know why you want to study, setting goals is easy. For example, maybe you want to travel to an English-speaking country. Great, and your goal might be to learn "Survival English". Perhaps you have already known many useful words, but you want to improve your listening skills and pronunciation. Whatever your goals are, write them down.

How long do you need to study to achieve your goals? This answer is different for every student. The important thing is to be realistic. If you work 60 hours per week, don't plan on spending another 40 hours a week studying English. Start off slow，but study regularly（定期地）. Use material that is challenging but not too difficult. Find out what works for you. After you have studied for a few weeks, change your study plan. Do you study best at night or on the bus on your way to work? Do you like to study alone in a quiet place or with friends and background music?

Learning English    requires    a lot of motivations（动机）. Nobody is going to take your attendance when you aren't in class. If you are sure you are ready to begin studying, make a promise. 

The things we do best in life are the things we enjoy doing. If you aren't having fun learning English, you're not studying in the right way! You can be a serious student who has fun at the same time. Make up your own reward（奖励） program to give yourself motivation to go on with your task. 

内容包括：1.校园、教室、操场等设施；2.主要的学习课程；3.个人感受和感想等。

要求：1.词数80左右；2.可以适当地增添细节以使行文连贯。