In recent years, more Chinese people have been travelling at home and abroad, but some of them don't have good manners.

    For example, on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, there is chewing gum (口香糖) in almost every corner. And newspapers show photos of a child peeing (撒尿) outside a restaurant at Hong Kong Disneyland. In foreign countries, things are sometimes even worse.

    Some hotels in Singapore are upset with Chinese tourists. This is because some of them spit in their rooms and smoke in bed.

    Zhang Lei is a tour guide from Shanghai. Once Zhang led a group of three Chinese tourists to Europe. On the train, the group talked and laughed very loudly. Some of them even took off their shoes, and one coughed loudly without covering his mouth. Lots of other travelers moved away from them.

    "Bad manners hurt China's' international image (形象)”， explained Zhai Weihua, a Chinese government official.

    So, in mid-August, the government started an educational program so that travel agencie can teach good manners to tourists at home and abroad

Primary and junior high school students in France will no longer be allowed to use mobile phones in school.

On Dec10,2017, France’s Education Minister(教育部长)Jean- Michel Blanquer said that mobile phones will be banned from schools in France. This rule will go into effect(实施)in September 2018.

Children will be allowed to bring their phones to school, but will not be allowed to use them at any time until they leave school, even during breaks and lunch time.

“These days, the children don’ t play at break time anymore. They are just all in front of their smart phones and from an educational point of view that’s a problem,” Blanquer said.

The number of children who own a cellphone has greatly increased in France over the last few years. More than 8 in 10 teenagers in France had smartphones in 2015, compared to 2 out of 10 in 2011.

While some people have welcomed the rule, a great number of teachers, students and parents are questioning it. Some schools plan to put all the studentsˈ phones in one place and give them back at the end of school. But it’s not easy to do this. Valerie Sipahimalani, the deputy head of a French teaching union, pointed out that many schools have no space to keep the phones and teachers donˈt have the right to search students. Besides, some parents and students believe students should be allowed to use their mobile phones in case of an emergency.

Many Chinese people who have been to the United States think that Americans pay a little part of their money for food each day. Yet, in the latest 13 years, food prices have gone up 30% for most American families. Everyone agrees that the cost of feeding a family has risen sharply. But who is really responsible（有责任的）?

  Many people say the farmers who produce the vegetables, fruit, meat, and eggs are responsible. But farmers say that the rise in food prices is very small compared to (和…相比) the rise in their cost of living. Farmers think middlemen have got much more money than they do. Middlemen are those people who stand between the farmers and the people who buy and eat the food. For example, truck drivers, owners of food stores and so on. Are middlemen really responsible for higher food prices?

Economists（经济学家）don’t think so. They have found that the money that meat packers and food stores get is less than 1% in all. They say that food costs more now because modern housewives have jobs outside the home. They have less time for cooking after a day’s work. They like to buy food which has already been prepared before it reaches the market. They want to buy many kinds of food that can be put on their dining tables easily and quickly. But of course they must be prepared to pay for the services of those who make their work easier.

It seems that the answer to the question of rising prices is not an easy one. Quite a number of people share the responsibility for the sharp rise in food costs.

A lot of kids dream of becoming Internet stars. Every day, they post videos online and hope to become the next Internet stars.

  Kids who find success online don’t always have special talents. Lis Marie Johnson once posted a funny video of herself eating something. More than a million people watched it! Should you try to become an Internet star? The followings may help you decide.

  Bethany Mota is one of YouTube’s biggest stars. She was 13 when she started posting videos about clothes and more. Today, she’s 20, and she has over 9 million fans.

  People who post the most popular videos on YouTube can make thousands of dollars. Experts have guessed that Bethany makes about $40000 a month. She also has her own clothing line (服装品牌). Bethany won a Teen Choice award, and she appeared on the TV show Dancing with the stars.

  There’s another benefit to being an Internet star. “I’m my own boss.” Bethany said.

  On the other hand, putting videos of yourself on the Internet can be hazardous . Being bullied (欺负) online is one of the biggest risks. A few years ago, a girl named Rebecca Black posted a music video called “Friday”. Many people hated it. Rebecca was bullied so badly that she left school without finishing her study.

  Becoming an Internet star isn’t easy, either. In fact, very few people make any money on the Internet. And making videos takes a lot of time and hard work. Bethany says that even a five-minute video takes days to create. That doesn’t leave much time for school work, friends…or just being a kid.

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  There were three big fish in the lake．One of them，Demo，was wise；another one，Jimmy，was half-wise；Martin，the third one，was stupid．
Some fishermen came to the bank of the lake with their nets．The three fish saw them．
Demo decided at once to leave，to make the long and difficult trip to the ocean．He thought，"I won't discuss with these two about this．They love this place so much that they call it home and will stay on．How silly they are!They still haven't realized we are in great danger now．Their ignorance will cost them their lives．"
Seeing the wise fish had left，Jimmy thought，"My guide has gone and now I've lost my chance to escape．"He felt sorry for it and then thought，"What can I do to save myself from these men and their nets？Perhaps I should pretend（假装）to be already dead，giving myself totally to the water．"So he did that．He went up and down with the water，helpless，within arm's reach of the fishermen．
"Look at this!The best and biggest fish is dead．"One of the men lifted him by the tail，and threw him up on the ground．He rolled（滚动）over and over and moved secretly toward the water，and then，back in．
The third fish was aimlessly jumping about，trying to escape with his speed and cleverness．The net，of course，finally closed around him，and as he lay in the hot frying-pan bed，he thought，"If I get out of this，I'll never live again in the limits of the lake．Next time，the ocean!I'll make it my home．"

What do you do in a situation like this? You’re calling dinner with friends at a nice restaurant. You’re having a great time when a phone rings at the table next to you. A man takes out his phone and starts talking loudly about problems he’s having with his girlfriend. He talks for almost ten minutes! This happens all the time－on buses, in restaurants, everywhere!

  Many people find cell phones useful in their daily lives. But we’ve all sat next to someone talking too loudly on a cell phone. You may want to tell the loudmouth to end the conversation, but let the management take care of those noisy customers. You can only control your own behavior. Here are a few rules:

  Off means off!Follow the rules of restaurants and other public places. If a sign says “turn off cell phones”, don’t use your phone. If you are allowed, speak softly and for a short time and try to move away from other people.

  Lights off, phone off!Never make calls in a theater or at the movies.

  Pay attention! Talking on a cell phone while driving is dangerous. And watch where you’re going when you’re walking down the streets and talking on the phone.

  As more people use cell phones, things are only going to get worse. So, the next time you’re getting ready to make a call, stop and consider the people around you.

In the Olympics, star athletes always get the public’s attention. Especially under China’s State-run sports regime(体制), gold medalists are seen as representatives (代表) and are highly valued. But this year is a little different for Chinese people because some of their most-loved athletes haven’t won championships.

 Swimmer Ning Zetao, didn’t enter the finals of his sports. Fu Yuanhui, a bronze medal winning swimmer, has become a new hero of Chinese people.

  On Aug.8^th, after learning that she got a new personal best in the women’s 100m backstoke(仰泳) semifinal in Rio, Fu said, “I’v already ….used my prehistorical powers (洪荒之力).”And when being asked about her expectations about the final the next day , Fu Yuanhui, “I don’t have many expectations. I am satisfied about myself.”

  Fu’s straightforward(直率)and happy personality won her millions of fans on the Internet overnight. People call her the “Prehistorical Girl”

 “‘Prehistorical Girl’and the netizens who appreciate her have taught all of us a lesson: Sport is about the struggle and , especially, enjoyment, but most definitely not about gold,”wrote People’s Daily in a commentary on Aug.9^th.

Winning used to be everything for China’s Olympians. Athletes who get gold have fame and fortune(财富), while those who disappoint often get ignored or even criticized.

Hurdle champion Liu Xiang became a national hero at the 2004 Athens Olympics. But four years later at the Beijing Olympics, when an injury forced him to give up just before running his first race, he was bitterly criticized.

Now , China is ready to welcome a sports star without a gold medal. “Public attitudes toward competitive sport and the Olympics have lifted to a higher level,” commented People’s Daily.

“As we mature(成熟) in mentality, learn how to appreciate competition , and become able to calmly applaud(喝彩) our competitors, we’d show the confidence and tolerance(宽容) of a great country,” said CCTV in its weibo post.

In almost every big university in the United States, football is a favourite sport. American football is different. Players sometimes kick the ball, but they also throw the ball and run with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances to move the ball ten yards（码）. They can carry it or they can throw it. If they move the ball ten yards, they can try to move it another ten yards. If they move it to the end of the field, they receive six points（点).

    It is difficult to move the ball. Eleven men on the other team try to stop the man with the ball. If he does not move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.

    Each university wants its own team to win. Many thousands of people come to watch. They all shout for their favourite team. Young men and women come on the field to help the people shout more. They dance and jump while they shout. Each team plays ten or eleven games each season.

　 The season begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it may play another game after the season ends. The best teams play again on January 1, the first day of the New Year. Many people go to see these games and many others watch them on TV.

Research says that husbands do not do their fair share of work around the house. A study from an American university says that men seldom do the same share of housework. Researchers interviewed 182 working couples who became first-time parents. Both husbands and wives worked almost the same number of hours in full-time jobs. However, men did five hours a week less housework than women after their baby was born.

It is a different story for mothers. Becoming a parent added 21 hours a week to a mother’s work. Most of this was looking after her baby. New fathers did not do more work because they did not realize the mother was doing so much more. Another reason is that after a baby is born, fathers follow the “traditional” roles. That is, the mother looks after the baby and the father works outside. This happens even when the mother is working the same number of hours in her job.