It is possible that the UK will have its first police cat in the future. The five-year-old girl, Eliza wrote to the police station recently and asked why they only used police dogs. She thought cats could be as useful as dogs because cats can climb trees to help people.

A police officer, Mr. Barton replied to Eliza. He said they were thinking about it, although they didn’t decide yet what a police cat can should do. He also drew a picture of his own cat Joey on the letter.

Eliza’s mother said she was surprised to receive the reply letter from the police station. “It’s amazing. They took Eliza’s advice seriously. She is smart and she came up with three ideas about what police cats could do. She thought cats could find out danger easily and they could climb up trees to help people. Also, they are good at finding their way home. So they could help people find the places they want to go. ”

I think it is safe to say that snakes are not popular among most people. It would be hard to find a person who is neutral (中立的), or simple doesn't care one way or the other. What I wonder is why something even without legs causes such great fear.

    Snakes are quite useful, but that doesn't seem to matter. Snakes help control the population of mice. Without snakes, perhaps we would find mice everywhere. Most of us, however, would rather see a mouse than a snake.

    The poison argument is a strong one. Some snakes are poisonous(有毒的), and this causes people's death. However, the poisonous snakes are only a small number. We can't say all the snakes are bad just because of a few dangerous ones.

    And what do we do with the people who really like snakes? They like snakes even more strongly than we dislike them. These people learn about them, find them out, and watch them carefully. Why? The only reason I can think of is that these people are open-minded. They are able to put aside differences and welcome the snake as a friend.

    Whatever the reason for our like or dislike, snakes do something good in the circle of life. They would prefer to be left alone, and that is what we should do. If you're lucky, you might not run across more than a few of them in a lifetime. That would be fine with most of us.

 Who’s building the new China? It’s not the factory owners or the businessmen. It’s the people who have left their homes to follow their dreams ,the dreams of a better life.

   We can see them every day, on every street corner, on every construction field（建筑工地） in cities, They work day and night even in the terrible working conditions and weather. They build the roads, the theaters the cinemas, and the supermarkets. They ever clean up our rubbish. They’re China’s migrant workers. Young and old, men and women are building the new China.

   More than 140 million migrant workers have left their homes in the countryside to look for jobs in big cities all over China. They hope to be rich, but they realize there will be many difficulties such as prejudice(偏见) and discrimination(歧视) from the people in cities.

   So many things need to be changed. The first is discrimination! They may not make as much money as some people in cities, they may not have everything people in cities have, but they are good and honest people just trying to live better. These worker are very important and necessary to China’s economic development and have become an important force for the change of Chinese society. They’ re building the new Child. So we should lend our hands and help them.

Most of us in China are used to paying for almost everything with our phones. But for foreign visitors who aren’t familiar with this method, it may seem strange. According to the country’s Prime Minister Lee HsienLoong. During Singapore’s National Day on August 20, Lee told the people about his first experience with Chinese payment methods.

Lee was waiting in line to buy chestnuts at a street stall in Shanghai and saw other customers show their phone and take the chestnuts without giving any cash. Soon after, he realized that the customers were using WeChat Pay, reported the Straits Times.

Lee pointed out that Singapore lags behind in mobile payments. “When visitors from China find that they have to use cash here, they ask, ‘How can Singapore be so backward?’,” Lee said.

With more and more Chinese tourists going abroad, lots of foreign companies and agencies accepted Chinese mobile payment, like WeChat Pay and Ali Pay. According to Xinhua News Agency, WeChat Pay has covered in 13 foreign countries and regions and Alipay over 200. So it is common to see a blue or green QR code in the mall of some foreign countries.

Maybe in the near future, when you travel to other countries, what you have to take is your smartphone.

Tourism(旅游业) today is much more important than before. In the past, only people with lots of money could travel on holidays to other countries. More people travel today than in the past because there is a growing middle class in many parts of the world, that is to say, people now have more money for travel. Special plane fares (特价机票) for tourists make travel less expensive and more attractive(吸引人) than ever before. One person doesn't travel for the same reason as another. But most people enjoy seeing countries that are different from their own. They also like to meet new people and to taste new food.

    Tourism causes many changes in a country and in people's lives. People build new hotels and restaurants and train the natives as guides to show visitors around places of interest. There're new night clubs and other activities. International tourism is clearly a big business.

For American teenagers, doing a part-time job is an important part of growing up. They can learn some important skills by doing a part-time job. They can also make some money in this way. Many teenagers believe that making their own money brings them pride and freedom.

American teenagers can do part-time jobs at the age of 14. On weekdays, they may go to work a few hours a week after school. They usually work for longer on weekends.

In summer, American teenagers are excited if they find part-time jobs at camps, swimming pools and amusement parks. These jobs can bring them much fun.

Some of the most stressful(有压力的) jobs include teaching, nursing, and police work. But these jobs can be useful for the future. When they grow up, the students with work experience are more likely(可能的) to succeed than those without work experience.

A favourite job for teenagers is taking care of babies, and they can start before the age of 14. What they only do is to stay in the house and make sure the kids are OK. At the same time , they can do their homework, or talk on the phone with friends.

It is important to balance(平衡) school, homework, and a part-time job. Many American teenagers agree to do a part-time job and they value(珍视) their work experience and the skills from the job.

       a week after school on weekdays.

D

Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or homes for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.

Other volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow (修整) their lawns (草坪). For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.

Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts(技术). Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.

Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.

volunteers?

B

Every year thousands of young people in England finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to university. Some young people go to other countries and work as volunteers. Volunteers give their time to help people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they do something helpful for the environment.

Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she wants to go to university to study Chinese, but now she’s living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to save the coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted (污染), the coral dies. I’m helping to do research(研究) on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.”

“I’m staying with a family here and I help do some housework. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize-and myself! When I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America."