We can learn a lot from the movie. We should be thankful to the earth. If we always get everything from it without stopping, we will be punished(惩罚). We should face our mistakes like Maui and find the true ones for ourselves like Moano.

Long ago, there was a mother and a son living in a house. She worked hard every day,    but  they were always poor.

The story happened on a hot heavy rainy day. After class, I wanted to get some water from the water room. Oh! There were so many people! I had to wait in the rain. My hair didn't get wet because I wore a hat, but my clothes did.

   When at last it was my turn, I filled the bottle as quickly as possible. I began making my way back when I saw a boy coming towards me, who was holding two umbrellas in his hand. As he came nearer, I recognized that it was Tom.

   Tom had been my classmate for nearly three years, but we never shared more than ten sentences. He was always silent, but I liked talking. We were quite strange people and had nothing in common. He was a cold person and I even didn't want to see him.

   "Hey!" He said, "I saw you standing in the rain, so I brought you this umbrella. But it seems a little late, your clothes are already wet." On hearing this, I couldn't say a single word.

   "Don't just stand there. Let's go!" He said and held the umbrella for me. We walked towards the dormitory(宿舍) and this time we talked a lot.

   "I really want to make friends with you." he said, "You may think I am silent, but it is because I always can't find the right words to say."

   The rain finally stopped and we saw a rainbow in the blue sky, I said to myself, "I would never judge(判断) someone only by his appearance."

 Nowadays more and more people care about the exploration (开采) of the natural resources , such as oil. Though there are many kinds of resources, with the fast increase of population and appearance of many more factories, the more we use, the fewer there will be left for the future. Oil is getting less and less year after year. It’s said that oil can last for only 50 years. Natural gas perhaps will last about 38 years.

      Oil can be used in many ways and it’s difficult to imagine what the modern world will be like without oil. But oil isn’t easy to find and get out of the earth. Men must study the rocks. When they think the rocks in a certain place may have oil, a metal tower is built. A machine in the tower cuts a hole down into the ground. At the same time, a steel pipe is pushed down to stop the sides from falling in and to keep out water. At last if the men are right, usually the oil rushes up the sides with great force(力量) by the pressure（压力）of the gas in the top of the rock, and it rushes high into the air. If the oil catches a light, there will be a terrible fire. So a kind of cover is fixed on the top of the pipe, and the oil can run out through taps（活塞）.

      If we make a well near the middle of the oil field, we can also get gas. Such gas is sent through pipes to towns far away and used in houses and factories like coal gas.

      Today oil is under pressure as never before. The price of the oil keeps rising all the time. In many countries, the governments encourage people to save oil as much as possible.

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Although environmental problems have existed for centuries, some people still care little about our environment. Problems like ice melting, electronic waste are lighting up news programs and becoming part of an ongoing dialogue about the environment.

As a teenager, what do you think all the problems mean for your future and for the future of the planet? For our October 2016 writing contest, we want you to really consider what you think about environmental problems.

Use these questions to help focus your essay

  What environmental problem do you think should cause the greatest alarm and action?

  Do you think that you have a personal responsibility to help solve environmental              problems or do you feel helpless against the struggle?

  What do you think could help a specific environmental problem?

Don’t try to answer all these questions. Use one of them to make a personal essay.

The title of the essay

When you hand in your essay, title it as: Environmental Problems: _______.

Include the phrase “Environmental Problems” as the beginning of your essay title, but then make the rest of your story title unique. Examples:

  Environmental Problems: Trashy Behavior and the Plastic Bottle

 Environmental Problems: We Can’t Exist If We Refuse to Change

Rules:

(1) This is a non-fiction essay contest.

(2) Essays are 500 words or less.

(3) Essays must be your original work.

The deadline:

Midnight Oct. 30, 2016

Results:

The winner will be posted on our writing contest website or on Teen Trend Report after Nov. 26, 2016.

Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don’t agree with them.

Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources(资源), we are short of(缺乏) others, for example, fresh water(淡水). It is reported that we will have no coal(煤) or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future and where can we move? Think about it. I think we should say no to the

students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.

In our everyday life, we can do many things to prevent waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps(水龙头) when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day, if we do our best.

As I never had a job before, I really wanted to start it. I got my job at the age of 22,When I arrived, I was a little nervous at first, but everybody was so friendly that I felt at ease (舒适的) soon.

My work at first was to help with auditing (审计) information on the computer. I was busy with lots of numbers all day. Being a friendly and great team of eight people to work with, the workers were always ready to help. That really made me know how to work effectively (有效率地) in my job.

Before my work, I did not know what auditing was, but now I do better in the job. I become more confident (自信的) with learning something new for future jobs. I can say that you may feel nervous about your first day at work, but you will soon be a part of the team. Now I work here for three years, and I enjoy my job very much. I thank all the workers for making me feel welcome and a part of the team.

I think people should have a work experience (经历) — it is an excellent way to get skills (技能) and make you feel more confident for future jobs.

One year, a college in the United States announced that it would offer a lot of money for the pure white marigold(金盏花). The high reward attracted so many people, but in the nature, besides golden, the marigold is brown, andit is not easy to get the white one. So after they were excited for a time, many people had forgotten the announcement.

  One day after 20 years, the college received a letter and 100 seeds(种子) of pure white marigold. It turned out to be an old woman of over 70 years old. Some scientists in the college doubted it, but it was surprising that those seeds finally took root(根) in the earth. The miracle（奇迹）appeared after one year, the field was covered by pure white marigold.

  So the old woman who was always unknown to the public became a new focus(焦点).

  The old woman was a flower-lover. When she read the announcement 20 years ago, she got very excited like others. But her eight children were against her decision. After all, a woman who never knew the seed genetics(遗传学) couldn’t complete the job that scientists could never do, so her thought was only a daydream.

  Still, the old woman didn’t change her mind and went on working. She planted some of the most common seeds and took good care of them. A year later, when the marigold came out, she chose the faintest (最暗淡的) one from those golden and brown flowers and got the best seed. The next year, she again grew them and chose…. Day after day, year after year, through many seasons, the old woman’s husband died, her children flew far, a lot of things happened in her life, but only the wish to grow the pure white marigold took root in her heart.

   Finally, after 20 years on the day we all know, in the garden she saw a marigold, which was not nearly white, but as white as silver or snow.

   A problem even scientists couldn’t deal with was solved by an old woman who didn’t understand genetics. Was it magic?

   To take root in the heart, even the most common seed, can grow into a miracle!

 Sarah is 14 years old. She is tall and smart, but there is a scar(伤疤) on her face. Sarah is not happy about it.

   One day, Sarah’s mother takes her to the city zoo. There are many kinds of animals in the zoo. Sarah’s mother likes dolphins(海豚)best, so they go to see the dolphins first. There they see a dolphin swimming.

   “Oh, that dolphin looks so ugly(丑). I don’t like it, Mom!” Sarah says to her mother. Then the dolphin starts to play with a ball. It plays very well. “How smart the dolphin is!” “What a beautiful dolphin!” All the people there say. Sarah starts to enjoy the show.

  “What do you think of the dolphin now, Sarah?” Do you like it?” the mother asks Sarah.

  “Oh, so great! Now I really like it. ” Sarah answers.

  “That’s it, my daughter! Although the dolphin doesn’t look beautiful, many people like it because it’s smart and it can play with a ball so well.” The mother says,

   “So don’t mind your scar. All of us like you so much!”

When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy and he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental health problems.
When he left the hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, USA. But when he was there, he did things in a different way. For example, he didn’t like the doctor’s white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams because he was too different.
But Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital and often dressed up like a clown to make the children laugh
When he finished medical school and become a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called “the Gesundheit Institute”，together with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.
Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1988, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said,:”Hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who is a friend. I enjoyed playing him.”