Fat people are always looking for ways to be slim without giving up their favourite food or taking a lot of exercise. Here is some good news for them. This is not a diet. Itˈs a simple way to become slim. And you donˈt even have to give up the food you love or do a lot of exercise. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and youˈll become thin.

    (1) Wake-up

    When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, bend(弯曲)forward until you feel sore(酸)in your back. It will burn about 10 calories(卡路里).

    (2) Start with soup

    When you have a meal, order a clear soup, and have it before having the main food. In this way, youˈll feel fuller, so youˈll eat less when the main food comes.

    (3) An apple (or more) a day

    Apples are full of fiber(纤维)and water, so your stomach(胃)will want less. The study shows that people who eat at least three apples a day lose weight.

    (4) Stand up and walk around

    Every time you use the mobile phone, stand up and walk around. Most of the heavy people sit two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn 50 or more calories.

    Use these skills, and you will become slimmer and slimmer.

We each have a memory(记忆力). That’s why we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things by heart(心), but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again. Many of the great men of the world have got surprising memories.

A good memory is a great help in learning a language（语言）. Everybody learns his mother language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign（外国的）countries. They can learn two languages as easily as one because they hear, remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the pupils（学生）have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.

But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.

  Thousands of years ago, the ancient people of Babylon and Egypt studied the stars in the sky and created the zodiac（黄道十二宫图）. It was first used to count time. Later, many people used the stars to describe a person’s character and to foretell（预言）what would happen in the future.

  A person’s zodiacal sign is connected to his or her birth date. Some believe this sign can tell us about a person’s character. For example, some think that a person born under the sign of Cancer (between June 22 and July 23) is kind and home-loving.

  In many countries in Asia, people believe the Chinese horoscope can describe character and foretell future events. In the Chinese horoscope, there are future events. In the Chinese horoscope, there are twelve animals. A person’s animal sign is connected to his or her birth year. Each animal has a different type of character. People born in the Year of the Rat are friendly, but careful. Those born in the Year of the Monkey are smart and good at making money.

  In Asia, a person’s blood type is also used to describe character. People with the blood type A are calm and serious, but they may be selfish. People with the blood B are independent but may be lazy. People with the blood type AB are honest, and people with the blood type O are talkative.（健谈的）

  Not everyone believes that star signs or blood types can be describe character. But reading the horoscope can still be a lot of fun.

 Do you remember your dreams? Do people have the same dreams? Why do we dream? There are many questions about dreams. We dream during the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep. We have about five periods of REM sleep during the night. The first REM cycle lasts about 10 minutes. As the night goes on, the REM cycle gets longer. By early morning, the REM cycle can last up to 90 minutes. Usually, it is in this last REM cycle that we remember our dreams.

  Dreams change as people age. People may have several dreams each night. Some are like films and usually in color. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something and trying to find the answer. Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t remember the dreams clearly.

It is reported that too much dreaming is bad for our health. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work. That is why we may have a long sleep and still feel tired when we wake up.

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The giant panda

Population    in the wild: about 1,600

Appearance   Weigh at birth: about 100—200 grams

             Adult weight: about 100—150 kilograms

             Colour: black and white

   A giant panda is a kind of bear. It has a white face with black patches around its eyes. It also has black ears, shoulders and legs. The rest of its body is white.

   Pandas live high up in the mountains of Central and Western China. They live in the bamboo. In zoos, their menu includes bamboo, apples and carrots. A giant panda can eat as much as 30 kilograms of bamboo a day.

   Pandas like to live on their own. They need to eat a lot stay healthy, so they spend more than 12 hours a day eating. Although they are big and heavy, it is not difficult for them to climb trees. They are strong enough to protect themselves.

   Pandas live for about 20 years in the wild, but in zoos they can live for up to 35 years.

   People are cutting down forests, so the pandas are losing their homes. Some people are killing them for their fur. It is cruel of them to do so. There are not many pandas in the world now. It is important for us to protect them.

①Pandas are killed by some cruel people.

②pandas can’t protect themselves

③Some people damage the forests.

④pandas only live for about 20 years

Many young people like eating chocolates. They are very delicious. Many people also know something about 3D technology(技术). And the 3D technology is changing our lives. Today I will tell you something about both of them.

A company 3d-prints(3D打印) all kinds of chocolates. These chocolates are colorful and healthy. They also have different shapes. Some are like bears, some are like dogs and others are like horses. But people can’t buy them in any supermarket at the moment.

The company is from Belgium. And it is a very famous company. Because the chocolates are hard to transport(运送), the company wants to open lots of shops around the world.

I believe we will be able to eat chocolates made by 3D printers in the future.

a. chocolates              b. 3D technology           c. young people             d. a company

  Learning English well is not easy. I try my best to find some ways to improve my English. First, reading loudly. I read whenever I am free. Second, listening. I spend half an hour listening to the radio every morning. Third, speaking. I always practice my spoken English with my sister. Last, writing. I started keeping a diary in English a few years ago.

—Andrew

    I learn English by watching English movies. By watching movies, I can practice my listening. By studying subtitles (字幕), I can improve my reading and writing skills. The most important thing is, watching movies is fun!

—Jane

    Every morning, I like to read English articles loudly or have some listening practice. I try to speak English as much as possible. I think communicating with friends and teachers in English is very interesting. When I am free on the weekend, I will watch some English movies. It helps to improve my listening.

—Eric

    English is one of my best subjects and I started learning it when I was ten years old. But at the very beginning, listening was a little difficult for me. So I did a lot of listening practice, such as listening to tapes and watching English TV programs. I found it really helpful.

—Eliza

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