Researchers(调查者) find that young children aren’t sure about the meaning of money, but they do know it’s something important. A new study shows money makes children work harder, but it also makes them share less. Researchers use money, stickers and candy to learn more about how money affects(影响) children, and the result shows we are raising selfish（自私的）children. So it’s important for parents to help children build a right view of money. Here are some ideas.

Start young

With children who are five years old, parents can start talking to them about different kinds of coins（硬币）and let them pay for things when they go shopping, or play shopping games with them at home, so they know more about money.

Open a savings account (账户)

Opening a special savings account for children is a great way to show them how their money can grow. It will also start to teach them the easy knowledge on savings.

Pay for housework

Paying children for their work around the house is the perfect way to teach them about making money.

Make it step by step

Parents should talk to their children about saving and using money slowly. Don’t begin with a long chat when talking about it for the first time. Or it will make children lose interest and they will think having more money is an unhappy thing to them.

Weather changes (改变) with seasons. I like the weather with sunshine because sunny weather makes people happy. But I really don’t like the weather in Beijing because (1)it is very dry and windy in autumn. Sometimes there is a sandstorm(沙尘暴). But my favorite seasons in Beijing are spring and summer. In spring, flowers come out, trees turn green and everything is beautiful. In summer, there are flowers everywhere.

We know sunny weather can make people happy. A large number of people would like to go on trips in sunny weather. But the rainy, cloudy or windy weather can make people feel sad. So no one really likes windy or rainy weather.

What kind of weather do you like best?

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A lot of people like going on a trip when the weather is sunny.

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We can see many people riding shared bikes in China now.

Bike-sharing helps people to borrow a bike from one place and return it at another place easily.

This kind of bike has GPS or Bluetooth on it. You must have a smart phone if you want to use it. First, you have to download (下载) an APP on your smart phone. Then what you need to do is to find a nearest bike through the APP, scan (扫描) the QR code on the bike and you will get the bike.

Then you can enjoy your trip. What’s more, you can easily find one and don’t have to worry about where to park it. Every hour you ride, you need to pay only one yuan. It doesn’t cost so much, does it?

Science changes our lifestyles. Bike sharing makes our life easier. And we also hope that people can not only enjoy it but also put it to good use.

回答下面 5个问题,每题答案不超过 5 个词。

Chinese people have been celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes are (E) __________ the shape of a full moon on the Mid-Autumn night. They carry people’s wishes to the families they love and miss.

There are many traditional stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang’e is the most moving. Chang’e was Hou Yi’s (A) beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang’e. However, a bad man, Pang Meng, (G) 当后羿不在家时，他试图偷药。Chang’e refused to give it to him and drank it all. She became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round (F) __________ he could see his wife there. He quickly laid out (D) her favorite fruits and food in the garden. （C）How he wished that Chang’e could return!

After this, people (B) started the tradition of admiring（欣赏）the moon and sharing mooncakes with their families.

Dear John,

Thank you very much for your letter. I am glad that you enjoyed your holiday with me. We enjoyed having you and your sister here. We hope that you will both be able to come again next year. Perhaps you'll be able to stay longer next time. A week is not really long enough, is it?

We have been back at school three weeks now. I expect that you are both working very hard now because you are in Grade Two now. Tom and Ann went for a picnic yesterday but I didn't go with them, because I hurt my foot and I couldn't walk very well. They went to an island and enjoyed themselves there.

Tom, Ann and I send our best wishes to you. We hope to see you soon.

Yours,

Michael

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（2）How long did their holiday last（持续）for?（不超过5个单词）

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（3） Why didn't Michael go to the island for a picnic yesterday?（不超过10个单词）

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Christmas was coming．Mr. Smith had no money to buy any presents for his children. Mrs. Smith was ill and he spent a lot of money. And the harvest(收获) was bad and all his family were going to be hungry the next spring. He was quite worried about it.

"We had only a cock(公鸡), " said Mrs. Smith one day. "You can take it to the town. Someone will buy it there and you can buy some cakes and candies for our children．"

"It’s a good idea!"the man said and caught the cock the next morning and put it into a box. It was hard to walk on the road with snow. Two hours later he was very tired and wanted to have a rest. He put the box to the ground and sat down．

"The air in the box must be little, " the man said to himself. “I must let the cock walk outside for some time, or it will not live."

So he put the cock to the ground. When he started again, he couldn’t catch it any more．

"You are not clever!"Mr. Smith shouted angrily," You can herald(预示……的来临)the day at night but you can’t find the way to the town in the daytime! "

One day, a baby snail（蜗牛） found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell（壳） at any time．He was confused(困惑的), so he went up to his mother and asked, “ Why was I born with a shell that grew so hard and heavy?” His mother said, “Because we don’t have bones（骨头） to hold us up．We can only move slowly, so we need a shell to protect us．”

The baby snail asked again, “The caterpillar(毛毛虫) has no bones, either, and she can’t move quickly．Why can she live without a shell?” The mother snail answered, “That’s because a caterpillar will become a butterfly．She can fly high into the sky．The sky can protect her．”

The baby snail had one more question, “But the earthworm(蚯蚓) moves like us．He has no bones and he won’t turn into a butterfly．Why doesn’t he carry a hard and heavy shell?” His mother said, “He can dig a hole and hide in the ground, and then the earth can protect him．”

The baby snail then cried, “We are so poor! We have no protection from the sky or from the ground!” His mother smiled at him, “That’s why we have a shell．My dear, imagine that if we don’t have the shells, what will happen to us? Hot sun will dry out our bodies and we’ll have nowhere to sleep．What’s worse, we’ll die in the heavy rain．How terrible it is! We don’t depend on the sky or the ground for protection．We should depend on ourselves．”

Whenever we meet with difficulty or failure, teachers, parents or others often say to us or perhaps we say to ourselves, “Never give up.” These can be encouraging words and words of determination(决心). A person who believes in himself will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.

One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will hardly achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel disappointed（失望的）and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail, we will not be able to develop new skills and grow.

Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes so that we can not make the same ones. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted.

Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin to doubt our abilities.

In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not, we will learn something, and what we learn will help us to become better and more confident. Furthermore, if we give up, we have no chance of reaching our goals any more, but if we keep making great efforts, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.

Topic: Never Give Up

 Anger is a kind of feeling. Many things can make you angry. When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, when a friend borrows your favorite thing and then breaks it, you may get angry.

Your body will usually tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe(呼吸) faster; your face turns red; and you may want to break something or hit someone. But sometimes you hide your anger. You may hide it in your heart. The problem is that if you do this, you may get a headache or your stomach may hurt.

Actually, it's not good to hide your anger. It's normal (正常的) for you to get angry sometimes. As soon as you find your problems, you may try to relax. When you get angry, you can talk about it with adults, such as your parents and teachers. After doing that, you'll find those bad feelings start to go away. Here are some other things you can do when you start to feel angry: count from 1 to 100; give someone a hug (拥抱); go for a bike ride; think about good things, etc. 

Remember that when you are angry, how you act can make everything better or worse. 

Don't let your anger control you.

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Happy Mother's Day!

   Thank you very much for working so hard for all our family. You always get up at five thirty every morning. And you get home at seven from work every evening. You always cook delicious dinner for us. We all enjoy it. You really help us a lot.

   We know you like wearing (1) jewellery very much. (2) But we don't have much money to buy it for you. Peter and I can only make a cute card for you. For your health, please don't stay up too late.

   We love you forever, Mum.

   Your son & daughter,

   Peter, Amy