What do we really mean by being open? Being open is a kind of invitation to others to come in, to speak and to share. It is important for others to get to know how we think and feel. In this way, we will be understood and accepted by others. If we aren’t open with others, we won’t fully believe in ourselves or others.

  Here are a few ways for you to be more open. First, make your outside behavior the same as your inside feelings and thoughts. Second, share how you really feel about something instead of just opinions. Third, try to change your questions into statements (陈述句) and talk in the first person so that people will understand you more easily. For example, you might say, “I feel happy that you’re here.” instead of “Are you glad that you’re here?” Finally, try not to say, “I don’t know.” This usually means I don’t want to think about it any more.

  Remember also that it is not suitable to be open with everyone in every situation. You may want to be more open with close friends, but not with people you don’t know well, because you are not sure how someone else will use what they know about you. Besides, some people may not be used to too much openness. If we say everything we feel or think to them, they will feel very uncomfortable at times.

  In all, being open is a good way for us to get on well with other people, but we’d better keep the balance (平衡) between being open and not being too open.

Many students like to talk about fashion,because they want to be popular at school.But I don't think they are popular at school.Here are their opinions and my opinions.

Some boys like to have long hair.They think that can make them different.But I can't stand it.Some girls like to wear earrings，and they think they look beautiful,but I think it's boring.And some students like wearing hats in class.They think they look cool. But I don't mind it.

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There are lots of interesting things to do in Sunshine Town.

    Would you like to live in a q  (1)   town? The air is f  (2)   here. You can see many trees and flowers. There is   (1)  （也）a beautiful park in the town center. The old people like   (2)  （跳舞）in the park and children like to   (3)   [flaɪ] kites in it. Sunshine Town is not   (4)   from the center of Beijing. People can get to the center of Beijing   (5)   subway in twenty minutes.

    Would you like to eat Chinese food? Would you like to try some Chinese dumplings? There are many Chinese r  (8)   here. You can buy hamburgers and chicken, too. Do you like   (6)  （画画）? Why don’t you visit our   (7)   [ˈsɜːvɪs] center? Don’t miss the art shows there.

    Welcome to our town. We are glad to meet you soon.

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Miss Smith is only twenty. She is of medium h___(1)____, and she has curly brown hair. She likes children and her work. She e___(2)____ singing, dancing and swimming. From M___(3)____to Friday, she stays at school and teaches the children English. She has a lot of work to do every day, b___(4)____ she often plays soccer with her students after school. She thinks doing sports is good for their health. She is very b___(5)____ on school days, but she has some free time on weekends. On Sundays she usually d___(6)____ her car to her grandparents’ home and stays with them. She likes to s___(7)____ time with her grandparents on Sundays. Her grandma makes the foods she likes. And she enjoys playing Chinese chess with her grandpa. He’s very g___(8)____ at it ! They also like to sit and talk in their neighborhood and sometimes they watch the neighbors’ cats climbing the t___(9)____ It’s relaxing to spend weekends like this. She drives back to school on Monday morning.

She is a good teacher, so she is popular with her students. They like m___(10)____ friends with her and like her very much.

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   Hainan Island is ________ ________ ________ (在南方) of our country. ________ (在……上) Hainan Island, you could ________ (欣赏) bright sunshine, ________ ________ (新鲜的空气) and beautiful scenery. You will never forget that.

   Haikou City is the capital of Hainan Province while it is also ________ ________ (最大的) city on the island. There, you could ________ go to visit the flower markets ________ (要么……要么……) enjoy the delicious seafood. You could find many beautiful beaches. People love ________ ________ (沿着……走) the seaside or ________ (游泳) in the sea. There are many tall coconut palms (椰子树) ________ ________ (看).

   ________ ________ (欢迎到) Hainan Island! I'm sure you will have a good time there.

  Before coming to China for my study, I knew that the Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival every year. But I didn't know how important this festival is f____（1）__ them. And I used to think that it I____  (1)  ____ just one or two days.

   After coming here, I found that this festival is the biggest and the most i____  (2)  ____ one. We have a holiday during the Spring Festival, so we can w____  (3)  ____ programmes about the Spring Festival on TV. The programmes make us know more about Chinese c____  (4)  ____. Foreigners also c____  (5)  ____ and enjoy this wonderful festival. Luckily, the international office of our university held a p___  (6)  _____ for us on the Eve of the Spring Festival. We ate much Chinese f____  (7)  ____ and the most important one was jiaozi. At the end of the party, we e____  (8)  ____ a firework show.

   I hope that the f____  (9)  ____ of the Chinese nation will always be bright.

Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, October 12th in 2012. He was the first Chinese （1）________ (win) this prize.

   Mo Yan's real name is Guan Moye. He （2）________ (bear) in a poor family in Gaomi, Shandong Province in 1955. His parents are both farmers. At the age of 12, he stopped （3）________ (go) to school and began （4）________ (work) on the farm. Then he went on （5）________ (work) in a factory. In 1976, he joined the PLA (人民解放军). From then on, he started to learn to write stories. His first story （6）________ (come) out in 1981.

   Most of his works were based on （7）________ (he) own life at the early age. One of his （8）________ (famous) works was Red Sorghum (《红高粱》). It was made into a （9）________ (wonder) film by a famous Chinese director named Zhang Yimou.

   As a writer, Mo Yan is very（10）________ (success). He is a symbol of China's literature.

There are a lot of （1）m________ in London, and one of the most （2）p________ is the British Museum. （3）T________ of people visit it every year. They can （4）s________ lots of interesting things from different times and places.

   The British Museum is very serious, so it is quiet there. People （5）m________ make a noise and they mustn't （6）t________ the exhibits. Photography is not （7）a________ in the British Museum, so it's a good （8）i________ to visit the museum shops and buy postcards. （9）E________ to the museum is free, so you can （10）v________ it as often as you like.

It is said that Thomas Edison was the first person that said hello over the telephone. But Edison didn’t invent “hello”. As a ____(1)____ [ˈmætə(r)] of fact, the greeting had been used around for centuries  ____(2)____ the invention of the telephone in 1876.

    In the past, people greeted each other with “hallow”, which may have come from the old ____(3)____(France) word “hola”.

The Americans said “hullo” to  ____(4)____other every day. But“hello” became a way of making contact (联系) after the telephone was  ____(5)____(invent).

So, Edison made hello a popular greeting and an important  ____(6)____[pɑ:t] of our lives. But Alexander Graham Bell, who created the telephone, never liked “hello” and  ____(7)____(support) the use of “ahoy”.

With the ____(8)____(develop) of the telephone, “hello” became a general greeting very soon. Webster’s dictionary kept “hello” a greeting word even though Alexander Graham Bell said no  ____(9)____the greeting all his life!

But the dictionaries continued to keep “hello” a standard greeting in the English  ____(10)____['læŋgwɪdʒ]. Hello, Alexander Graham Bell, are you listening?