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Tim: Hi, Susan. I've been wondering when I'd run into you. What are busy with?
Susan: Nice to meet you here, Tim. I'm buying some Christmas gifts for those work with me, but it's really headache?
Tim: Maybe I could give you some advice. Firstly, you should consider (divide) them into different groups. Who are the people that are your friends as well as your workmates and who are the people you do not know well see pretty much daily.
Susan: OK, then should I do?
Tim: For the friends, you want to buy personal gifts. Chocolate, for example.
Susan: This is what I always give, but I know one of my friends, Mary, is a diet.
Tim: Does she like fruit or coffee? Anyway, think the gift that you know your friend likes.
Susan: Well, I think fruit is helpful to keep (health). What about others?
Tim: You can send them cards.
Susan: Christmas cards?
Tim: Yes, you can afford them. More (important), it reminds them that you're thinking of them.
Susan: Thank you for your suggestion, Tim. You (help) me out.

Julie enjoyed reading when young. She grew up in key middle school in her city, her parents both taught Chinese. That meant she was surrounded by either teachers who were busy teaching or students who (devote) to their studies. So she developed her love of .
Her interest reading also benefited from the fact that parents only let her watch half an hour of TV a day. She learned to use her mind and imagination to entertain . It’s not really (surprise) that reading became her vocation. When not reading she enjoyed watching films, walking and relaxing with her friends. Reading brought her much (please) and she never wanted to stop learning. Not only did reading enrich her knowledge it improved her learning scores.

Hugging is an extremely positive form of communication. It expresses the values of love, approval, gratitude and forgiveness. Research shows that hugs have more positive effects on children and adults than just some encouraging words and a smiling face. Giving our child a hug on various occasions can make a world of difference in our young learner's lives.
On the first day of school, giving a hug coupled with a few calming breaths just might help your little learner overcome "The First Day Fears." By the way’ giving hugs for the first full week wouldn't hurt either. Hugs are relatively inexpensive and apparently very healthy.
It's the day of the class play and your kid is not so confident about saying a few words as a wild turkey in front of an audience. Giving a hug coupled with a few encouraging words just might help them feel more confident.
Usually, bedtime is the most frightening time of the day for most kids，who feel very stressed and may stay up. Giving a tight hug coupled with reading their favorite story or singing their favorite song may help them have a good sleep.
Besides, according to Intelligence Quotient Development in Children on eHow.com, "A caring yet inspiring environment is always helpful in promoting a child's language skills. Make sure your child gets plenty of hugs and kisses and hears positive and encouraging words from you."
Sometimes we get caught up in teaching, parenting, providing, and protecting our children that we forget to hug them. If there's one thing your child or student may need from you to help adapt their behavior or improve their IQ, it may just be something as simple as a hug.
A positive hug could change the course of the day for you both when you least expect it. So remember to hug your children often and put emotion behind it and really mean it!

Title	The Positive Effect of Hugs
Introduction	Hugging positive messages, and it can make the children's world different.
Benefits	◇Helping children fears	■Giving a hug and whispering to _ them down
◇Building	■Hugging with a few words of_
Relieving	■Hugging and reading bedtime stories or singing their favorite songs
◇Improving children's language skills and IQ positively	■Creating a caring and inspiring (83)_ with plenty of hugs, kisses and encouraging words ■ to give children a hug out of a tight schedule
Conclusion	A positive hug to children can be of great benefit to both the giver and the

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The World Bank, the United Nations and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine did a study to urge hand-washing around the world. They found that one million lives could be saved each year if people washed their hands with soap often. They said that programs to increase hand-washing with soap could be among the most effective ways to reduce infectious disease.
Doctors say, many diseases can be prevented from spreading by hand-washing. These include pinworms(寄生虫), influenza(流感), the common cold, hepatitis(肝炎) A, meningitis(脑膜炎) and infectious diarrhea(腹泻).
Hand-washing destroys germs from other people, animals or objects a person has touched. When people get bacteria on their hands, nose or mouth, they can infect themselves by touching their eyes, nose or mouth. Then these people can infect other people.
The experts say the easiest way to catch a cold is to touch your nose or eyes after someone nearby has sneezed or coughed. Another way to become sick is to eat food prepared by someone whose hands were not clean.
The experts say that hand-washing is especially important before and after preparing food, before eating and after using the toilet. People should wash their hands after handling animals or animal waste, and after cleaning a baby. The experts say it is also a good idea to wash your hands after handling money and after sneezing or coughing. And it is important to wash your hands often when someone in your home is sick. The experts say the most effective way to wash your hands is to rub them together while using soap and warm water. They say you do not have to use special antibacterial soap. Be sure to rub all areas of the hands for about ten to fifteen seconds. The rubbing action helps remove germs. Then rinse(冲洗) the hands with water and dry them.
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	Hand-washing could be among the most effective ways to reduce infectious diseases.
Many can be prevented.	Pinworms, influenza, the common cold, hepatitis A, meningitis and infectious diarrhea.
to do hand-washing	●Before and after preparing . ●Before eating and after using the. ●After cleaning a baby. ●After handling money and after sneezing or coughing. ●When there is a in your home.
to do hand-washing	●Rubbing them together while using and warm water. ●Rubbing all areas of the hands for about 10-15 seconds and rinsing the hands with water and dry them.
How hand-washing works	Hand-washingup germs from other people, animals or objects a person has touched.

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Zebras have their own bug repellent(驱虫剂)?
Eww bugs! They are so annoying! We humans are lucky that we can apply repellents to avoid nasty bites. But what’s an animal to do? They have no choice but to spend their days shooing them off with their tails, unless, of course, they are zebras, who apparently have their own automatic repellent--- their striped skin!
Scientists had originally thought that the reason why the animal had developed the black and white lines was to help protect itself from predators in the African savannah, because the stripes make it difficult to single out one zebra that is traveling with a herd.While that may be true, the theory has never been tested or proven. Now the experts have another---that the stripes have evolved to repel the annoying horse flies that not only feed off their blood, but also, transmit dangerous germs into the bodies of these innocent animals.
The study was performed by a team of Swedish scientists. One of the clues that got them thinking along these lines was the fact that darker horses got bitten more often than light-colored or white ones.
The fact that zebras are born black and only develop strips as they grow older made the scientists theorize that the stripes may be something the animals have developed to make themselves less attractive to flies.
To test if this may be the case, they painted some boards at a horse-infested horse farm in Budapest with patterns of black and white stripes of varying widths and applied a layer of glue on them. What they noticed was that the places where the black and white stripes were at their narrowest (similar to what zebras have) attracted the fewest flies. They achieved similar results when they painted horses with black and white zebra-like stripes.
While the research are not sure why this may be the case, they believe it may be something to do with the way insects operate---horseflies are attracted to horizontally polarized light（偏振光）; since white does not reflect it, white horses are luckier than black ones. But zebras seem to be the luckiest of all. When the researchers measured the polarized light reflected from real zebra skins, they found that it matched light patterns that were the least attractive to horseflies.
While this theory does make logical sense, nobody is 100 percent sure that it is really true, given that it has never been tested on a real zebra. If it is true, it does raise the question of why a horse, a close relative of the zebra has failed to develop stripes. The researchers believe that this could be because there are more horseflies in Africa, where zebras reside, then anywhere else in the world.

Title	Zebras have their own bug repellent?
Reasons for zebras developing their strips	Original belief	With the black and white lines, one zebra is difficult to single out while traveling with a herd, thus ______ it from its enemies.
New theory	Zebras, residing in Africa where there are most horseflies in the world ,have developed strips to avoid being_______ .
A study	Researchers	A team of scientists from _______
________	To test if strips are developed to make zebras less attractive to flies.
Clues	White or light-colored horses are less _____ to get bitten than dark ones. Zebras develop strips as they grow older though born black .
Method	Some boards at a horse farm are painted with patterns of black and white stripes variously ______ , a layer of glue applied on them Measured the polarized light reflected from real zebra skins
________	The places where the black and white stripes were similar to the ______zebras have attracted the fewest flies Strips of zebras matched light patterns that were the least attractive to horseflies
Principle of zebras’ black and white strips repelling the flies	Horizontally polarized light, which white does not reflect, _______ to horseflies.
Conclusion	_______tested on real zebras, the theory isn’t definitely true.