Have you ever made your friends angry or unhappy because of your words? Do you have trouble asking people to reply your requests(要求)?If so, maybe your words isn't polite. Now let's learn how to speak in a right way.

    Could you give me five minutes? VS Go away!

You're really busy with studies, but your classmates nee your help. Though you're too busy to do anything else, you shouldn't just say "Go away!" You can keep everyone happy by saying "Could you give me five minutes?"

    Excuse me. VS Move out of the way.

    Telling someone to "move out of the way" is not polite. Saying " excuse me" will help you get the result you want and there won't be any trouble.

    I'm afraid I can't. VS No.

    It can often be difficult to refuse an invitation from a friend. People will think it is not polite to just "no". The next time you have to refuse an invitation, you'd better say, "I'm afraid I can't." Would you mind …? VS Stop it!

    A boy is talking on the phone loudly in the cinema. Would you like to stop him? It's not polite to day " Stop talking here!" You'd better say, "Would you mind not using your phone in the cinema, please?"

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

This is an old English saying. Do you know it before? It says that we must go to bed early and get up early in the morning. Then we should be healthy. We should also be rich (wealthy) and clever (wise).

      This is true. The body must have enough sleep to be healthy. Children of a young age should have ten hours’ sleep every night. Children who don’t have enough sleep can’t do their work very well. They will not be wise and they may not become wealthy!

      The body also needs exercise. Walking, running, jumping, swimming and playing games are all exercise. Exercise keeps the body strong.

      Exercise also keeps the blood（血液）moving around inside the body. This is very important. Our blood takes food to all parts of our body. The head also needs blood. Exercise helps us to think better!

To encourage reading, a Chinese company placed over 10,000 books around the underground, in taxis and on planes in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The activity earned the support of many Chinese stars. The “book-dropping battle,” however, won little praise. Instead, the movement drew much criticism(批评).

    Some books were left untouched. Around the underground, passengers thought the books were left there to save the seats. Some books were taken away by cleaners. People also complained that they couldn’t get to the books—the carriages were too crowded.

    The movement led to a hot debate.

    Most people thought it could do little to encourage reading. “I think the best result is that people take selfies(自拍)when they pick up the books and write a post on WeChat. After that, they will just bring the books back home and place them on their bookshelves,” wrote one Weibo user.

    Some pointed out that while Watson was a great reader, the Chinese stars who supported the movement didn’t seem to be reading much. Isn’t it embarrassing that the movement is supported by stars who don’t read a lot?

    Murong Xuecun is a famous Chinese writer. He thought the book-sharing campaign was not at all a bad thing. “In the past years, the Chinese economy(经济) has been developing rapidly. Everybody is busy with work. They don’t have time for reading,” said Murong. “However, just because Chinese people don’t read regularly, it doesn’t mean we should do nothing to encourage reading,” Murong added.

As students, you may have many dreams. They can be very big like becoming Superman, or they can be small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.

 If you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream come true?    Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that making our dreams come true is life’s biggest challenge.

“You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a star. These ideas stop you from realizing your dream,” the book says.

In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first important thing you must do is to remember what your dream is.

Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster. A big dream is, in fact, many small dreams.

Never give up your dream. There will be difficulties on the road. But the biggest problem comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of (代替) watching TV will bring you better exam points. Saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book. When you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. Then you will be able to learn more skills and find new interests.

Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and conditions are not important because they really are. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great abilities, and that’s just how life is.

However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually put it into practice. What’s more, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practising. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, the time that most people won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like great pain and will probably make you give up well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people showing some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some unusual talent, but thinking that way does you no good，and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, with all your heart and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards(回报). Time and hard work won’t make sure that you will get the great success you may want, but it will make sure that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

People like to say," The hand that rocks(摇动) the cradle(摇篮) rules the world.” Or they say, “Behind every successful man, there is a woman. "Now some women still hope their husbands and sons can be successful. But some women want more for themselves. They want to be as successful as men.

Today many best jobs are still given to men. Even when women do the same work, they are often paid less than men.Some women want these things changed. They want to stand beside the men, with the same chances for success.

Now many American women are earning money outside their homes. More than half of the women at the age of 18 to 65 have good jobs. In general, working women have more education than those who stay at home. Among women with jobs, eight out of ten drive a car to work, and most of them often spend their holidays away from home. They like travelling by air. Women's work had made several changes in women’s lives and in men's lives, too.

But things are quite different in the Middle East countries. In some Middle East countries, women have to stay at home. Their duty is to look after their families and do all the housework. They can't find work outside. When they go out in public, they cover their faces with something and walk behind their husbands.

For the past few years women's life has been changing in those countries. Many women want to play an active role in the society. Though working gives them few chances of getting married, many men still want to marry them in the old ways.

When the six very best students from different cities in Guangdong Province all together chose universities in Hong Kong; when the very best students of Beijing picked up HK University while giving up the nearby Beijing or Qinghua University; when the highest enrollment (录取) rate of Hong Kong Science and Industry University reached 48︰1, itˈs the high time to ask what happened to the education in China .

    Years ago, the answer certainly would be "Beijing or Qinghua University". But now no one could give the exact answer without thinking twice. The only sure thing is that HK universities have gradually showed an unusual attraction to a great many mainland students.

    Itˈs no doubt to call this HK craze (狂热,发狂), which even surprised HK universities themselves.

    How can HK universities come before Beijing and Qinghua University and attract so many mainland students?

    First, Hong Kong universities offer large-amount sholarship (奖学金), especially for the top students who can receive the sum scholarship as much as 400,000 HK dollars. Since a number of families find it a little difficult to afford higher education, itˈs easy to understand why HK universities are their first choices.

    Second, most HK universities receive professors and students from all over the world and both Chinese and English are spoken in class. This kind excellent language atmosphere (氛围) is another attraction for mainland students.

    Furthermore, university students in Hong Kong have a better chance to study abroad as exchange students.

    Can mainland top universities like Beijing or Qinghua University be calm as before when facing the unexpected competition from HK? Will they take measures (采取措) to win back the top students who once help them set the worldwide reputation (名声,名誉)? Time will explain it.

    The fierce competition brought by HK universities can be a good thing for the Whole improvement of education in China, After the awakening and action-taking of mainland universities, they can perform better together with HK universities.

    At least, it reminded the mainland universities the tuition fees (学费) are what students have to consider when they are choosing universities. Itˈs time to move.

  How can you learn about a person when you meet him for the first time? The fastest way is to look at his shoes.

A recent research shows that people can learn 90% about a stranger simply by looking at the person’s shoes. The research includes the study of the size, price, color, style and quality of the shoes, in order to learn how old the person is, how much he makes every month, what kind of person he is in life, how he works and so on.

In the study, 63 university students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by volunteers. The volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then they were asked to fill out a questionnaire (问卷).

So what did the shoes say about their owners?

Some of the results were expected. People making more money each month most commonly wore expensive shoes. Colorful and fashionable shoes were usually worn by people who are outgoing and outstanding.

However, some of the results are surprisingly interesting. For example, comfortable shoes were mostly worn by people who easily agree with others. And ankle boots (裸靴) were more likely worn by aggressive (有进取心的) people.

The strangest of all may be that those who wore uncomfortable-looking shoes are mostly calm and quiet people. And if you have several pairs of new shoes and take very good care of them, you may spend a large amount of time worrying about what other people think about you.