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My mother is 92. Unless I have to be out of town, each week I take my mother to do her 1  and visit the doctor, providing 2  and transportation. During the week, however, she likes to go to a nearby store to 3  some small things she needs. 

Last week she walked up to the store, but when she went to pay for her groceries, she was 4  about three dollars. The only 5  to pay for the groceries was to take off the 6  she could do without: a bottle of rubbing alcohol (医用酒精) and a bar of soap. By taking off these, she was able to 7  the new total to the amount of cash she had with her. 

At this store, people 8  and then go off to the side to 9  their own groceries. My mother was putting her groceries into shopping bags when a 10  came up to her and said, "Here are the things that you 11  . " handing her the rubbing alcohol and the 12  . My mother, who is never speechless, was speechless. She 13  for the woman's name and address so that she could 14  her. The woman told her it was her 15  . 

My mother was so 16  by her gesture that she decided to go back to the store and give the cashier (收银员) a five-dollar bill to keep on hand 17  the same happened to someone else if they didn't have enough 18  for all of their groceries. 

So, whoever you are, thank you for the random act of 19  that not only helped my mother out, but 20  too. 

According to Jessica Hagy author of How to Be Interesting, it's not difficult to make yourself interesting at a dinner party. 

, if you're out of your comfort zone or if you're wandering into somebody's house for the first time. So the main thing is just to show up and be adventurous, trying different foods and talking to strangers. 

People love to talk about themselves. If you can start the conversation with a question other than "What do you do for a living? ", you'll be able to get a lot more interesting conversation out of whomever it is you're talking to. , it can bring in "I have this old, broken-down vehicle " or "I rode the bus with these crazy people who were laughing at silly jokes in the back. " It just opens up conversation. 

 ? If you can't take their wine away, you should certainly try to take away their soapbox (讲台). If you're the host, you can ask them to help you in the kitchen with something and just remove them from the situation. . 

And what about that other dinner-party killer: awkward silence? If you're faced with an awkward silence at a dinner party, the only thing that always gets everyone talking again is to give the host a compliment (赞扬). . Just quickly turn around and say, "This cake is extremely delicious and you have to tell me all about it. "

So being interesting at a dinner party isn't that hard. 

A. How do you know the host

B. The first step is to go exploring

C. If you ask the question "How did you get here? "

D. Be prepared to have awkward conversations with strangers

E. Or turn the conversation into a topic where they have little to say

F. What about that person who had too much to drink or won't stop talking

G. He or she is the person who is feeling the weight of that awkwardness the most

When I was 9, we packed up our home in Los Angeles and arrived at Heathrow, London on a gray January morning. Everyone in the family settled quickly into the city except me. Without my beloved beaches and endless blue—sky days, I felt at a loss and out of place. Until I made a discovery. 

Southbank, at an eastern bend in the Thames, is the center of British skateboarding, where the continuous crashing of skateboards left your head ringing . I loved it. I soon made friends with the local skaters. We spoke our own language. And my favorite: Safe. Safe meant cool. It meant hello. It meant don't worry about it. Once, when trying a certain trick on the beam(横杆), I fell onto the stones, damaging a nerve in my hand, and Toby came over, helping me up: Safe, man. Safe. A few minutes later, when I landed the trick, my friends beat their boards loud, shouting: " Safe! Safe! Safe! " And that's what mattered—landing tricks, being a good skater. 

When I was 15 my family moved to Washington. I tried skateboarding there, but the locals were far less welcoming. Within a couple of years, I'd given it up. 

When I returned to London in 2004, I found myself wandering down to Southbank, spending hours there. I've traveled back several times since, most recently this past spring. The day was cold but clear: tourists and Londoners stopped to watch the skaters. Weaving(穿梭)among the kids who rushed by on their boards, I found my way to the beam. Then a rail—thin teenager, in a baggy white T—shirt, skidded(滑)up to the beam. He sat next to me. He seemed not to notice the man next to him. But soon I caught a few of his glances. "I was a local here 20 years ago, " I told him. Then, slowly, he began to nod his head. "Safe, man. Safe. "

 "Yeah," I said. "Safe. "

Yoghurt

It was a rough week. The price of oil skyrocketed as the temperature dropped sharply in Maine. We were looking at a high of eight degrees that week, and I had missed three days of work so my paycheck was going to be lower than normal. I was stressed, to say the least. I shopped strategically, looking for every possible way to cut pennies so I could buy groceries and keep the house warm.

My eight-year-old son didn't understand when I told him we were struggling that week. He wanted a special kind of yoghurt, but I didn't have the extra three dollars to buy it for him. It was the kind of yoghurt with a cartoon kid riding a skateboard on the front of the box, and a mere two spoonfuls in each cup. It was the kind of product that wastes a parent's money and makes me hate advertising.

I felt guilty as a parent when those big eyes looked at me with confusion, as if to say, "It's just yoghurt. What's the big deal?" So I found a way. I put something back as single mothers often do. He got his yoghurt.

On the way driving back from the grocery store, I noticed a homeless man holding a sign by the side of the road. My heart hurt, and I tried not to look at him. I watched people stay away from him on the street and walk by without even meeting his eyes. My son didn't seem to care much, either. I looked at the man closely then — bare hands grasping a piece of cardboard, snot frozen to his face, a worn-out jacket. And there I was struggling because I had to buy oil and groceries. But I decided to help. I pulled over to the man and handed him a five-dollar bill.

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Seeing this, my son became confused and surprised. 

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On that day, my son performed an act that most adults wouldn't have done.

亲爱的同学们，欢迎你们加入华一大家庭，成为人人交口称赞的华一er。当你第一次行走在华师一的校园时，你第一眼看见什么？那时那刻，你的心中是不是对未来充满了期盼？请以My First Day in the New School为题写一篇短文。

内容要点：1.所见所闻
2.高中生活的期盼
3.未来的目标

注意：1.写作字数应为100左右
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

参考词汇：华中师大一附中No. 1 Middle School Affiliated to CCNU

My First Day in the New School

If your phone needs a software upgrade (升级), you would likely run the installations (安装) when it's(full) charged. Otherwise, your phone and its software would take longer to synchronize (同步).

A new study finds human energy systems operate in  similar fashion. Our metabolisms (新陈代谢) likely function best in the morning  our bodies are fresh and fully charged. The research, based on a seven-year dietary analysis of 50,000 adults, finds that body weight, measured by body mass index (体重指数)(BMI),  (match) when we eat and how often we eat. Specifically, people  eat larger breakfasts and adopt an 18-hour overnight fast (禁食), say from 1 pm to 7 am, have the  (low) body weights. Those who ate more than three meals, or three meals plus snacks, had higher BMIs. Those who ate later in the day, after 6. pm, (compare) to those having the largest meal at breakfast or lunch, had higher body weights.

The Loma Linda University, researchers found that 18-to-19 hour overnight fasts reboot (重启) our metabolisms  (help) our bodies burn calories. So, depending  your goals and health status, you may consider rearranging your meals so you consume more calories in the morning when insulin（胰岛素） function is most efficient.

As Kahleova said, the ancient advice to eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar has new science behind .

A 90-year-old driver is providing it's never too late to pursue（追求）your dreams. Last year, Hershel McGriff became the 1 driver to compete in a NASCAR event when he raced at the Tucson Speedway in his home state of Arizona.

McGriff has been 2  since he was a teenager. His first time behind the 3  came when he was just 17 years old after he read an ad in his local newspaper and was drawn to the 4  that comes with driving hundreds of miles per hour around a track, 5  for first place.

"I borrowed my dad's 1940 Hudson — an ugly car, and I got a couple of guys to help me," McGriff 6 his beginning in the sport. "I didn't do very 7 .I think I finished 12th or 13th out of a bunch of cars. That got me started."

His first win on the NASCAR circuit (联赛）came when he 8 in Mexico at the age of 22. McGriff went on 9 dozens of races, finally being 10 as one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers. He retired from the sport at 74, but he never stopped his love for the track and decided to return to racing for a few special events that have made him famous in his hometown and 11 others to keep pursuing their dreams as well.

McGriffs spot in the race was a gift for his 90th birthday from his son and long-time friend, team owner Bill McAnally. "Bill called me up on the phone and said, ‘For your 90th birthday, I will furnish the car. All you have to do is 12  it," McGriff said. "When he made the 13 , I was ready to accept

McGriffs history-making race proves that you can pursue your dreams at any 14  , but for this young — at — heart racer, it was just a chance to get behind the wheel and 15  pursuing his passion.

Starting high school is a great experience for any teenager. Whether you are coming from a middle school ( grades six through eight) or a junior high school (grades seven through nine) , there are many things about high school that are different from your old school environment. 

You will face being in a new school, making new friends in an unfamiliar class and getting to know new teachers.These new teachers will usually have higher academic (学术的)level than your middle school teachers.  In return, they expect you to work hard and develop your skills. On top of all this, peer pressure（压力）to drink and smoke often increases in high school. 

Although there is a lot of pressure, it is nothing you cannot deal with. If you are feeling pressure to do something that you feel is wrong, talk to a friend, parent or counselor to find a solution. 

If you are not succeeding academically, find someone to help you. If you feel lonely, try to join a school club or group to make new friends.

 With time，you will come to be thankful for everything about your experience. On the point of starting your high school, are you ready?

A. You will experience many changes.

B. They want to help you get into college.

C. High school may seem discouraging(令人沮丧的)at first.

D. You can make friends at senior high school easily.

E. They are there to help you get into this great new time in your life.

F. High school is difficult for those who are not prepared well at first.

G. Besides, the pressure could also come from grades, loneliness and so on.

You have probably heard of the Mozart effect. It's the idea that if children or even babies listen to music composed of Mozart, they will become more intelligent. A quick Internet search shows plenty of products to assist you in the task. Whatever your age, there are CDs and books to help you taste the power of Mozart's music, but when it comes to scientific evidence that it can make you more clever, the picture is more mixed.

The phrase "the Mozart effect" was made up in 1991, but it was a study described two years later in the journal Nature that aroused real media and public interest about the idea that listening to classical music somehow improves the brain. It is one of those ideas that sound reasonable. Mozart was no doubt a genius himself; his music is complex and there is a hope that if we listen to enough of it, we'll become more intelligent.

The idea took off, with thousands of parents playing Mozart to their children, and in 1998 Zell Miller, the Governor of the state of Georgia in the USA, even asked for money to be set aside in the state budget so that every newborn baby could be sent a CD of classical music. It was not just babies and children who were exposed to Mozart's music on purpose, even an Italian farmer proudly explained that the cows were played Mozart three times a day to help them to produce better milk.

I'll leave the debate on the effect on milk production to farmers, but what about the evidence that listening to Mozart makes people more intelligent? More research was carried out but an analysis of 16 different studies confirmed (证实) that listening to music does lead to a temporary improvement in the ability to handle shapes mentally, but the benefits are short-lived and it doesn't make us more intelligent.

Chinese cuisine is widely known and enjoyed all around the world. Who doesn't long for a favourite Chinese dish? But there is one interesting concept concerning Chinese food which is almost unheard in the West, and which is becoming increasingly ignored by the youth of the East — the ancient custom of tonic food.

Tonic food is food which is consumed to improve one's well-being or avoid sickness. For instance, it was once the custom for new mothers to eat a sesame oil hotpot every day for the first month after giving birth. It was believed that this dish would benefit the muscles, reduce pain, improve circulation, stimulate sweating, and warm the body. Some foods, such as goat meat and spinach (菠菜), are seen as "hot", while others, such as Chinese cabbage and radishes (小萝卜), are seen as "cold". One should be careful not to eat too much of either "hot" or "cold" food. However, how much "hot" or "cold" food one should eat depends on the time of the year, how the food is prepared and what it is prepared with, and the individual's health.

The custom of employing tonic food for a healthier life also influences the catering industry. Chinese herbal medicines, such as the wolfberry (枸杞子), can be found on many a restaurant menu, either added to fruit tea or as a beneficial addition to a dish. These herbs attract customers, such as overworked office staff in need of a modest pick-me-up.

So, whether you need to boost your strength with a large helping of chicken soup, or increase your mental powers with some fish soup, you may find that this ancient Chinese custom could be just the tonic you were looking for.

When someone asks me what my goals are for the coming year, I don't usually know how to reply. Of course I, as most people do, want to see an improvement in my grades. This year, however, I'm hoping for something different.

Through the course of my school life, I've gradually developed a new understanding of the word "prioritization (优先次序)". The first thing I wish to get in Senior 1 is the ability to manage my time better. I'll surely become busier with the coming semester, and proper organization is important. From school clubs to academic competitions, everything should be set up in a way that doesn't influence my health, which leads me to my second goal.

My mother has always told me put my health first, so in the future, I hope to both physically and mentally healthy. A person can't study without having the energy to do so. In order to stay energetic, they must put their health first, no matter how busy they are, or how much work they have to complete.

And finally, I hope that I won't be discouraged by my failure and never give up on my dreams. I hope that I'll have the courage to try new activities and clubs. I believe my final goal can apply to every student around the world. We should all respect one another's likes and dislikes, and focus on each other's strengths, not our weaknesses. Everyone should try to take part in all of life's opportunities.

Albert Einstein once said, "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." In my case, it's the other way around. In order to keep moving, I must keep my balance—the balance between studies and activities, efficiency and procrastination (拖延症), academics and health, passions and dislikes. The new journey is going to be a hard one, but if I establish these goals, I believe I will make it through to the end.

Burlington School, London

Burlington School is located in Parsons Green, 15 minutes by underground from the centre of London. Our standard of teaching is high, with courses in General and Specialist English. The coffee bar is open all day serving freshly-cooked meals, and the school organizes a range of social activities to complement(补充) the classes. Students live either in homestays or in one of our hotels.

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University of Liverpool, English Language Centre

You can have confidence in the University of Liverpool. While studying here, you will benefit from modern English teaching methods in small classes of fewer than 16 students.

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Interactive English School Brighton

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New School of English, Cambridge

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