One of the secrets of successful people is that they have good habits. The good habits help them to be successful.

What are good habits? How can you get into good habits? Here is some advice for you.

First, everyone has his merits (优点). You should always look for the good in people and learn from them.

Second, you should try to learn new things and skills every day. Reading a few pages of a book or a newspaper every day may help you.

Third, start the day the right way. When you get up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself today you must keep your good habits.

I think the last one is the most important. No matter what good habits you decide to develop, you should try to keep them. Then you can have a life with success and happiness.

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.

Wally: Excuse me. How can I get to the hospital?

Sally: Well, the hospital is on Tenth Street. It takes you about 20 minutes to walk there. Walk along this street and turn left at the second crossing.

Wally: OK. Then?

Sally: You’ll be on Fifth Road. At the end (尽头) of the road, you can see a park in   front of you. Turn right and go to Lipton Avenue.

Wally: Go to the park, turn right into Lipton Avenue?

Sally: Yes. Then turn right again at the first crossing. You’ll be on Tenth Street. Walk  on and you’ll see the hospital on your left. It’s across from a bank.

Wally: OK, I got it. By the way, can I take a bus there?

Sally: Of course. You can take Bus No. 5. Look, the bus stop is over there. It takes you about ten minutes.

Wally: Thank you very much.

Nowadays, advertisements can be seen everywhere. Some hate them, but some consider them very helpful. And I agree, with the latter.

    Advertising can form a connection between companies and customers. It wonˈt be wrong to call advertising a way of communication between companies and their customers. Good advertising increases the needs of the public. In a successful business, advertising plays an important role. Advertising can be used to help people know about a product and to draw possible buyers. Advertising helps companies make more money by increasing sales.

    There are different kinds of advertising. Here are some common types.

    Non-electronic advertising advertises products through newspapers, magazines, books, posters and so on. By the means of advertising, companies can let people, who are connected directly and indirectly with non-electronic media, know about their products. Advertising on printed things is cheaper than advertising on television.

    Electronic advertising is the most popular means of advertising. One can cover different kinds of people by using this kind of advertising. Television viewers are in every home. If one is advertising on TV, his products would be introduced in almost every, house.

    Advertising on the Internet is getting more and more popular over time. You can get your advertising to reach every corner of the world.

    Many companies have their own department of advertising. The departmentˈs aim is to advertise the companyˈs products and services. On the other hand, many companies depend on advertising agencies(广告公司) for promoting(推销) their products and services. Companies should pay money to these agencies. Advertising agencies are always there to give advice, helping promote your products and services.

Believe it or not,oceans and seas are easy to be harmed by the development of human society．They are also influenced by man-made pollution easily．It is human beings that do great harm to the ocean ecosystem(生态系统)．

The coral reefs（珊瑚）that provide food and protection for many ocean creatures（生物）is important toecosystems．However, the coral reefs in almost all the oceansare in dangerof pollution.Chemicals from factories end up in the oceans and destroycoral reefs.If the coral system die,some ocean creatures will be sure to die out．

Protecting the ocean also has something to do with the protection of ocean wildlife like dolphins.The fishing industry depends on modern ways to catch many fish in order to earn more money.But net for fishing also catch other sea animals.The fishing boat workers are advised to check their nets and set other ocean animals free.But the boats are in a hurry to make money and often other ocean animals are caught with fish．

Oil spills(溢出) can destroy the ocean environment because oilcankill all ocean life．The world depends on oil and there is plenty of oil off the shore in many countries.The need foroil is more important than the risk of the oil spill.However,the fact is that one ocean mistake can lead to an ocean environment accident. Itwill cause years ofdamageto the financial ecosystems andkill all the creatures in the area of the spill.The oil will be washed up on the shore and destroy ecosystems along the shore，including birds．

Everyone who cares about the environment should pay more attention to protecting the ocean,and all of us should do something for the protection of the ocean．

More and more people around the world are joining in dangerous sports. Some people climbed the highest mountains; some traveled into unknown parts of the world; some sailed small boats across the largest sea. Now some people begin to look for new excitement.

Bungee jumping (蹦极) and motorcycle racing (摩托车赛) are quite dangerous sports. Bungee jumping only lasts for a few minutes or even seconds. You jump from a high place, about 200 meters above the ground, and there is a rubber band (橡胶带子) tied to your legs. When you jump down, the rubber band pulls you up. About 2,000,000 people around the world have tried bungee jumping.

Why do people join in these dangerous sports. Some scientists say that it is because modern life has become safe and it is not interesting. In the past, people lived in danger. They had to go out and look for food, and life was like a fight but was interesting.

Many people think that there is little excitement in life. They live and work in safe places, buy food in shops, and there are doctors and hospitals to look after them if they become ill.

The founder of Apple Steve Jobs was not only one of the fathers of the personal computing time, but also one of the giants of the information age. Here are some of his greatest contributions.

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.

Australia is nearly 7.7 million square kilometres.Itˈs the sixth largest country in area after Russia，Canada，China，the United States and Brazil.

There are rainforests and large plains in the north，snowfields in the southeast，desert(沙漠) in the centre and croplands in the east，south and southwest.About one third of the country lies in the tropics(热带地区)．Australia has a coastline of 36，735 km if it were possible to drive non－stop along the whole coast at 60 km/h，it would take about 24 days to complete the trip.

Australia is the worldˈs smallest continent(洲) and the sixth largest country being equal(相等的) in area to the USA without Alaska.The continent is one of the oldest lands.It is more than 3，000 million years old，and it is the flattest of the continents.

The population of Australia is more than 20 million.It is one of the worldˈs most urbanized countries，with about 70% of the population living in the ten largest cities.Most of the population is concentrated(集中) along the eastern seaboard and the southeastern corner of the continent.