When youand your friends turn to each other to talk about problems or troubles, yougive each other advice and help. One important thing of our growth is to makedecisions to help our friends and learn to support each other. This requires usto learn what it means to help friends and how to help them in right ways.
Everyone knows how similar chimpanzees (黑猩猩)are to humans. So it’s no surprise that their greetings are also close to ours.The most common ways of greeting between chimpanzees are hand touching andhugging. Sometimes they also kiss each other. Some chimpanzees can even learnsimple sign language.
If youthink you have walked into a library with a ____11____ likethat, you are exactly wrong. ____12____, you’ve entered the workplace of CourtneyHolmes, known as the Storybook Barber (理发师).
Late onenight, Gulliver received a warning that some nobles wanted him killed. Even theemperor of Lilliput wanted to give him less food to save ___16___. It was true Gulliver was very expensive.
For Yang, one of the long-expected activitiesduring the Spring Festival is to take photos with family members. On the earlymorning of the second day of the Chinese New Year when the whole family reunite,he would dress up and wait for the photo to be taken.
I’m glad to receive your letter and know yourunforgettable(难忘的)experience.Now I’d like to share mine. Last Friday, I was cleaning my room and found anold photo in a drawer. While I was looking at it, the ___16___ memory of that day came back to me.
Paper cutting or tearing is a cultural traditionin China. For centuries, it has been passed down from one generation(一代人) tothe next, especially from mothers to daughters. This beautiful art created byskillful artists is used to decorate(装饰) doors, ceilings, and bedsin people’s homes, or at celebrations such as birthdays and weddings.
Mr. Zhang was a cook in Canada. He ___11___ in Guangzhou, and he learned to cook in HongKong. He moved to Canada for work when he was 26 years old. Everything was goodtill COVID-19(新冠病毒)brokeout. Last year, he returned to China because the economy(经济)inCanada began ___12___down.
Du, 23,is a student from Shanghai University. He won third place at the ninth IOIO (国际折纸奥林匹克) in February this year. A total of 803 competitors from 59countries and areas took part in this year’s event.
生平所见之友,以穷以老而遂于衰颓者,十居七八。赤豹②,君子也,久居江东,得无有陨获③之叹乎?昔在泽州,得拙诗,深有所感,复书曰:“老则息矣,能无倦哉?”此言非也。夫子“归与归与”④,未尝一日忘天下也。故君子之学,死而后已。
As a boy, Kevin visited national parks and helearned the Earth is in ___12___condition. He felt worried, and he wanted to ___13___ the Earth. In 2009, he went to swim in waternear North Pole(北极)todraw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).
The app — called Sit With Us — is ___15___. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon,he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ___16___ that invitation. They can then use the app todecide when and where to ___17___.
At the age of nine, Kelly dreamed of being abasketball player. But one day when she was playing basketball, she hurt herleft leg ____16____.
Antarctica lies in the most southern part of theworld. It is the coldest area on Earth. There isn’t much rain, but there is alot of snow and wind. The lowest temperature was on 21 July in 1983 at -89.2℃!
“Red Trip” in TonghuaTonghua is a good choice to have a “red trip”. It is aplace full of “red stories”. The well-known national hero Yang Jingyu oncefought here. Experience the “red spirit”!
I joineda band (乐队)as a drummer in my middle school. I thought itwould be fun playing the drum and meeting new friends. At first it was easy,but a month later, it got difficult. I was the only one who couldn’t keep pace (节奏)with the other players. Our teacher,Angie, singled me out to keep practicing while everyone else got to relax. Ifelt ashamed (羞愧的)as my teammates watched me fail so many times.Finally I got so tired of practicing that I didn’t care about doing it right.
米吃多了,就有了想法。诗人说“米是漫山遍野的精灵,是生长绿色的种子,是陆地结的珍珠”,我也有这个感觉。有时我看到掉在桌上的一粒米,会产生一番联想:这粒米,不知道是哪粒种子被种在土里,经过了多少风霜雨雪,又被哪个农民精心养育,浇水、施肥、捉虫、打药,顶着酷暑烈日收割了来,再冒着酷暑高温脱了粒。脱一遍还不算,再脱一层皮,再脱一层皮,成为白白亮亮的精米,大有缘法落到我的饭碗里,结果不等它入口,就被轻轻抛弃,假如这米有灵,不知道会不会伤心?
①我妈是一个知青,我爸是一个农民。在我幼时的岁月里,我爸应该很辛苦。只有他一个农村户口,却有三个城里人要养活,他的田地太少了。但他勤快,愿意为生活付出所有气力。据说我家永远是每亩地里出钱最多的人家,而他的女儿们却几乎没去过那片土地。
“幸好!”妈妈笑道,“走出五里路我就哭了,一哭哭了几百里……”常乐想问为什么,忽然响起一片古怪的声音。满池塘都在怪叫。常乐像皮球一样弹到妈妈怀里,大叫:“水里有怪物!”
一只蜉蝣从水里一点一点钻出来。远远的天边,一个红红的家伙一点一点冒上来。蜉蝣高兴地和它打招呼:“你好,你很神奇呀,你一来世界就亮了。”“你好,小蜉蝣。”“你认识我?你是谁呀?”“我是太阳。”“太阳,我好快乐呀,我有一天的生命,你和我一样吗?”