It’s so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations(假期)off? A new survey(调查)found that 31﹪of U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average(平均)each year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year.

So why don’t they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just can’t leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other country surveyed.

The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40﹪plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation.

Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year, but they can’t find time to use them all. More workers there return vacation days than any other country surveyed.

British workers have the longest working week in Europe(欧洲),with 23 vacation days --the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75﹪say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40﹪would sacrifice a day’s pay(工资)for one more vacation day.

One day，a little boy came to a shop and said to the shop assistant, "I want to buy twelve exercise-books of 10 cents and nine pencils of 15 cents, four pieces of rubbers of 20 cents. How much shall I pay?"

The shop assistant wrote all numbers down on a piece of paper and calculated(计算).

Then she said, "You should pay 3.35 dollars all together."

"If I give you 5 dollars, how much shall I get back?"

"You'll get back 1.65 dollars. Shall I pack these things for you?"

"No, I don't buy anything" the boy looked at the piece of paper and said politely. "This is my maths homework. Can I take the answer away?"

  Kim went to a beautiful beach on Monday with his friends. It was sunny and hot. So they had great fun playing in the water. In the afternoon, they went shopping. But the shops were crowded（拥挤）, they didn’t really enjoy it.

    The next day, it was rainy, so they went to a museum. It was boring. Kim found a small boy crying in the corner. The boy was lost. He helped the boy find his father. Kim was very happy. But he had no money for a taxi. So he had to walk back to the hotel. That made him very tired.

On Wednesday, the weather was very cool. So they played tennis. They played all the morning. It was really fun.

There are many classic (经典的) cultures in China. All of them have a very long history. Here we introduce some of them.

Dear guest，

We want to do our best to help with the environmental protection(保护), but we do provide washing things( toothbrush, toothpaste, bath shampoo, etc.). If you forget to bring any of these with you, just dial 9 and call the guestroom department(部门). If you wish, we shall send you what you need for free.

Dear guest,

The hotel wishes to save the worldˈs natural resources (资源). Every day, tons of detergent(洗涤剂) and millions of tons of water are used to wash towels(毛巾) which have been used only once.

Hereˈs how you can help:

★ A towel on the rack(架子) means:“ I’ll use it again.”

★ A towel on the floor means:” Please change.”

Dear guest,

Your bedclothes are changed every day.

If youˈd like to help save the world’s resources, just leave this card in the morning. Your bed will be made up as usual but the sheets(床单) will not be changed. In this way, we can both help protect our environment.

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If the food in a supermarket is not fresh anymore or is near the “sell-by date”, it goes into trash bins too. Every day, a large amount of food is wasted.

To cut down on food waste, France passed a new law last month. If forbids(禁止) supermarkets to throw away unsold food. Instead, they must donate it to charities. For food that isn’t safe for humans to eat, it can be used as animal feed(饲料). If not, the supermarkets will face fines of up to 75,000 euros(around 542,200 yuan)or two years in prison. The law also encourages educational programs for schools and businesses about food waste.

France is the first country to make a law that forbids wasting food, but it is actually a worldwide problem. According to the United Nations, each year 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted all over the world, and just 25 percent of that food could feed all the hungry people in the world.

The good thing is that people around the world are trying different things to deal with the food waste problem. Galdakao, Spain, puts a public fridge in the center of town. Anyone can drop off food and anyone can come and take them. A supermarket in Canada, Loblaws, encourages people to buy “ugly food” by selling them at lower prices, so they won’t end up being wasted. In China, we also have the “clear your plate” campaign(光盘行动). This means you should eat everything on your plate or take away the food you haven’t eaten up.

We have some helpful people in our community centre. Please look at the information about them below.

One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, “I am blind. Please help me.”

There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. More people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?’’

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”

What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day. But the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.

The first is: Treasure what you have. Some else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.

The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.