Nowadays parents and their children are spending less time together. As a result, many children are getting less love than their parents once got. How to help parents and their children stay connected? Below is a list of helpful tips for family life
Eat and chat
● Sharing a meal together. Lets parents and their children have time to talk about each other’s lives. This is also a time for parents to listen to and give advice to their children.
Read often
It is important for parents to read to their children.Reading to your children cultivates(培养) an interest for knowledge. It also helps their attention last longer. Look for books that your children like reading. After their reading, ask questions about what the books are about.
Plan an outing
Sometimes getting out of the house is important. Jump into the family car and go for a trip to the beach. Also visit to a zoo, a park or a museum will lead to a long discussion.
Help with schoolwork
A great way to spend more time with children and light a fire or learning is to help children with their schoolwork. A parent’s help will cause a child to become more interested in school and to improve his or her grades.
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| Tips for better____ |
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| Eat and chat |
Share a meal together Talk about each other’s lives Listen to children and ____ |
| Read often |
Read to children so that they will become interested in knowledge. Look for books that children prefer to___ Ask children questions about ___ |
| Plan an outing |
Get out of the house and get ready for a ___ |
| Help with schoolwork |
Spend more time helping children with their studies. |
People use their mouths for many things. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word “mouth”. But some of them are not so nice.
Sometimes, people say something to a friend or a family member. Later they regret because it hurts that person’s feelings. Or they tell the person something they didn’t mean to tell. The speaker might say: “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.”
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say. When this happens, the friend might say: “You took the words right out of my mouth!” Sometimes a person has a bad or sad experience with another person. He might say that experience “left a bad taste in my mouth.” Or the person possibly has a very frightening (可怕的) experience, like having an angry dog running after him. He might say: “I had my heart in my mouth.”
Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. You might say the person “was born with a silver spoon (银勺) in his mouth”. He is the opposite of a person living from “hand to mouth”. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.
| A．feel sorry | B．feel excited |
| C．feel proud | D．feel surprised |
| A．excited | B．afraid | C．surprised | D．happy |
| A．You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth |
| B．You really put my foot in my mouth |
| C．You really left a bad taste in my mouth |
| D．You took the words right out of my mouth |
| A．busy | B．hard | C．easy | D．rich |
| A．Different Uses of Mouth |
| B．People and Their Mouths |
| C．Expressions about Mouth |
| D．The Importance of Mouth |
How could we tell time if there were no watches or clocks anywhere in the world?
The sun might be the world's first“clock”，except in the far north，where the Eskimos（爱斯基摩人）live．There，it's dark most of the winter，and light most of the summer．But in most
of the world, if you don't have a clock that shows time, you still know that when the sun shines, it's day, and when it's dark, it's night. The sun can not only tell you whether（是否）it's day or night but also it's morning, noon, or afternoon. When the sun is almost directly（恰好）overhead, it's noon.
People who live near the sea learn from the tides. In the daytime, for about six hours, the water rises higher and higher on the beach. And then it goes down and down for about six hours. The same thing happens again at night. There are two high tides and two low tides every 24 hours.
Seamen on a ship know time by looking at the moon and the stars. The whole sky is the clock.
In some places in the world the wind comes up at about the same time every day or changes
direction or stops blowing. In these places the wind can be the clock.
A sand clock is an even better clock. If you had fine dry sand in a glass like the one in the picture, you would have what is called an hourglass. The sand in the hourglass goes from the top part to the bottom part in one hour. When the hourglass is turned over, the sand will take another hour to go back again.
| A．they know very little about the sun |
| B．the sun there never goes down in winter. |
| C．it’s too cold for them to go out to watch the sun |
| D．there are long dark winters and long light summers in the far north |
| A．ocean current |
| B．storm |
| C．a regular rise and fall of the sea |
| D．wave |
| A．News | B．Science |
| C．Business | D．Advertisement |
| A．Different Ways to Tell Time |
| B．Useful Machine to Tell Time |
| C．The History of the Clock |
| D．The Development of the Clock |
| A．Five | B．Four | C．Six | D．Three |
In Britain, children go to school from Monday to Friday. School usually starts nine o’clock in the morning and finishes at about three o’clock in the afternoon. Most schools ask their students to wear a school uniform.
School always starts with registration. What is registration? Every child going to school each morning and afternoon is recorded(记录) in a special book. The teacher reads out each child’s name in turn. On hearing his/her name, the child makes a reply(回复) and the teacher writes in the book. From the book, you can see whether(是否) the child is in school or not.
At 9:10, children go to the meeting place. There they sing songs, listen to a story and pray(祈祷).
The first lesson begins at 9:20. They have break time from 10:20 to 10:35. During break time, the children have a snack and play games outdoors. After that, they go back in for another lesson until lunch at 12:00. Afternoon lessons begin at 1:10 and end at 3:15, and children go home. They don’t have a break in the afternoon.
| A．Around 20 hours. | B．Over 40 hours. |
| C．About 30 hours. | D．Only 6 hours. |
① Teachers call over the children’s names.
② Teachers write something in the book.
③ Children answer “Here”.
| A．①②③ | B．①③② | C．②①③ | D．③①② |
| A．They meet, sing and pray. |
| B．They have a lesson. |
| C．They do some reading in a classroom. |
| D．They play some games. |
| A．Before they go to school. |
| B．After they have afternoon lessons. |
| C．When they finish their outdoor games. |
| D．At about half past ten in the morning. |
| A．In Britain, most students live at school at night. |
| B．Students in Britain mustn’t call their teacher’s names. |
| C．Students in Britain go to school before nine every morning. |
| D．Students in Britain have a long break between the afternoon lessons. |
Have you ever noticed that you seem to learn faster in certain classes but slowly in others? Maybe you think it’s because of the different difficulties of subjects, but the real reason is that our learning types are different.
Now, you may wonder what a learning type is and how to find yours.
There are mainly three different learning types: Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. You can be a combination(混合) of learning types, but most people have one main type. Visual learners learn best by seeing. If you seem to easily remember information from pictures, charts and videos, you are likely a visual learner. Auditory learners learn best by hearing. If you seem to remember things by hearing them, then you are likely an auditory learner.
Kinesthetic learners learn best by doing. If you seem to learn best by working with your hands or testing out what you are shown, you are likely a kinesthetic learner.
So now that you know your personal learning style, the trick is to find out how to use your new-found knowledge to help you in your classes.
Tips for Visual Learners
＊Pay attention! For visual learners, this is very important! If yourteacher uses a PowerPoint, watch the pictures carefully and find out whatthey might include and their hiddenmeanings.
＊Take notes by drawing charts and connecting ideas instead of justcopying
down a list. This way, your brain will easily connect thedifferent concepts(概念). You can even draw pictures if you find that worksbetter foryou.
＊Mark your notes or your note cards in different colors. This will helpyour
brain in keeping all of the information separate. Different colorsshow different types of information orimportance.
＊Download the PowerPoint if your teacher puts it on QQ. This way, youcanreview them before anexam.
Tips for Auditory Learners
＊Again, pay attention! If you aren’t listening while the lecture ishappening, then as an auditory learner, you’re missing the easiest way for you tolearn.
＊If your teacher allows you to record the lecture, record it forfuture
listening.
＊If you find that taking notes stops you from listening, ask a friend ifyou can borrow his or her notes or write down everything you rememberright after thelesson.
Tips for Kinesthetic Learners
＊The first point is paying attention once again! For kinesthetic learners,it’s especially important to take notes either by writing or typing, in orderto actively get information as you receiveit.
＊Make use of laboratories and other class activities. Focus on whatyou’re
learning from the experience and pay close attention to the processthatyou gothrough.
＊Visualize! That is to imagine yourself picking up information and puttingit into a category(类别). This may sound silly, but in this way you’re“doing” something without actually physically doingit.
＊Rewrite notes and reread information. Try to translate the informationinto examples. This can help kinesthetic learners remember what they needto know.
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Visual |
learn best byseeing |
In class: If your teacher usesa PowerPoint, watch thepictures carefully and tryto After class: Use different colorsas |
Auditory |
learn best byhearing |
Inclass: After class: Borrow yourfriend’s notes or write downeverything accordingto |
Kinesthetic |
learn best bydoing |
In class: Take your notes bywriting or typing.Take |
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Have you ever taken photos by using mobile phones with selfie sticks(自拍杆)? 
However, a pair of US artists from New Mexico, Arie Snee and Justin Crowe believe they have invented a better one and they call it “selfie arm”.It makes those people in the pictures seem to be holding hands with a loved one.
The pair say it offers a far better experience than using a straight stick. The selfie arm makes people feel they are not alone when they take photos.They think their invention solves the main problem that the selfie stick has — people look alone while they are taking pictures of themselves with great interests. The product, at present, just an art project and a model conveniently provides you a welcoming arm.
The pair say they are fascinated by these new ideas.
The “selfie arm” is made of fiberglass. The project that they work on shows the growing selfie stick.
Phenomenon (现象) directly and the increasing nee d for narcissism (自恋) and Internet agreement.
| A．It is lightweight and easy-taking. |
| B．Thousands of “selfie arms” have beenmade. |
| C．It seems that they are together with theirfriends. |
| D．For better or worse, they have taken the world bystorm. |
E．This new invention is a small, useful and cleverly-designedtool.
F．And better yet in the future, it’ll talk in a friendly way and never getangry orupset.