Many people like to travel by plane, but I don’t like it because an airport is usually far from the city. You have to get there early and wait for hours for the plane to take off and it is often late. On the plane you can’t open the windows or choose (选择) the food. Planes are fast, but it usually takes people hours to go out of the airport and into the city.

   I like traveling by train. I think trains are safe. Railway stations are usually in cities. When you are late for a train, you can catch another one. You can walk around in the train and open the windows. You can see many interesting things on your way. I know it takes a little more time.

   I also like cars. You can start your journey (旅行) whenever you want to, and you needn’t get to a railway station or a bus stop. Also you can carry many things with you in a car. But sometimes there are too many cars at rush hours (高峰期) on the road and you have to move very slowly.                 

The seven-day National Holiday was fun for many Chinese, but not for the animals in Xiangjiang Zoo in Guangzhou. Some of the animals were nervous, because too many people crowded(拥挤）into the zoo nearly every day during the holiday, according to (根据) the workers at the zoo.

   Visitors took a lot of photos, hit the cages, shouted at the animals and made noise the whole day. Others gave the animals some food that they should not eat.

   Many animals were scared (害怕) and didn’t come out. Koalas were in the grass. A panda sat in a corner. A monkey was angry at a child and wanted to get out of the cage and nearly broke its arm. A little giraffe was ill after eating the food given by a young man.

   “We hope the visitors, while enjoying the time in the zoo, think about the animals and their health,” a worker from the zoo said.

   “Hitting cages will scare baby animals. It can make them change color, and even die.” Experts(专家）said. “Monkeys and bears can hurt their stomachs (胃) after eating too much food given by visitors. Some animals, such as zebras will die if they eat the plastic (塑料) bags.”

   The same problem happened at Beijing Zoo, yet most visitors stopped when workers in the zoo asked them to.

Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don’t know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for ideas. It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication (交流) is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something. These things are difficult to say to their family members. However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them. Some parents often may even stop their children from meeting their friends. Do you think of the following questions? Who choose your friends? Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you? Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like? Your answers are welcome.

Computers are very important for the students now. For the city students, itˈs very easy to surf (冲浪) the Internet. And for the village(乡村)students, they can go toInternet bar. Most of them spend more than two hours there, and some of them even spend（花费）more than eight hours there. They can do their homework, search for some information for their homework, listen to music, send emails and play games. Most of them spend too much time playing games. So it’s bad for their study.

Bad days happen to us all. Often a day that starts out bad just continues to get worse. Sometimes there's a "domino effect(多米诺效应) " with bad events．For example, you sleep through the alarm, so you're stressed. And you will sit in the bad traffic, which will also make you late for work, etc.

   How can we turn a bad day to a good day? Here are some ideas that have worked for me:

   Smile a lot

   Smiling a lot will help you feel relaxed. Research has shown that smiling produces three useful chemicals which make us feel good.

   Talk to a good friend

   Keeping bad or unhappy things in your mind is not a good idea. Talking to someone who cares and listens really does help us feel better, too.

   Concentrate on your good things

   It's hard to concentrate on how bad things are when you're concentrating on how good things are! Think of 10 or more things you're thankful for, and you'll achieve a whole new outlook (人生观) on your day.

   Get some exercise

   If you can, go for a walk．Exercising will help you feel better．Excising can get your day back to be normal again.

   Make the day a challenge

   If you make yourself think of the day as a challenge, you'll start to do all the things you can to make your day better.

For most people, the word “fashion” means “clothes”. Actually, there are fashions in many fields, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, restaurants, music, films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs and languages.

Fashions change as time goes by. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions change. People now are wearing different clothes from before. A house of 1990 is different from a new house of 2016. Music style changes a lot. Today fashions change more quickly. We have lots of ways to know fashions more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and televisions send information from one country to another in a few hours.      

New fashions mean that people will buy new things. If you love the most fashionable things, you will spend a lot of money. In fact, you should choose what is the most suitable for you. That’s the right way.

 Scientists are working on something new. It is a machine that can give blind(失明的) people a new way to read, Soon the blind may be able to read almost everything.

   The machine is called the FingerReader. It is like a ring on a person's finger(手指). The FingerReader can scan(扫描) words and then a computer will read the words out loudly. It works more quickly than any other reading machine.

   Making the FingerReader wasn't easy. Scientists tried many different ideas. It took them three years to make it. Many blind people helped to test the machine. Jerry Berrier, 62 years old, was one of them. Jerry was born blind. He likes the FingerReader because it is small. It can be taken anywhere.

   However, the FingerReader is not ready for sale, It has a big problem now. Scientists still need to improve it because it can't work with smart phones. The FingerReader can read books, magazines, newspapers and computer screens, but it has problems reading a touch screen(触屏).

   Scientists believe that many people may want to buy one if the FingerReader is for sale because it can really change blind people's life.

          I am very sad because I can’t go camping with my friends.I’m on summer holidays,but  I still have much homework to do.Besides（除……之外）that I have to play the pia-no  for at least(至少) one hour a day.I must go to an art school  twice every  week to learn drawing and handwriting.When I tried to tell my father that I want to go campi-ng with my friends,he got very angry.He seemed disappointed（看起来很失望）. I was v-ery sorry to see that,but I  really want to go out for a while.I want to feel,see, hear  and find out the real world.I know it is very important for students to study hard.We  can get lots of knowledge(知识).But the meaning of knowledge is very wide(  广泛的 )    .I   don’t  want to be a bookworm .Father,please don’t put so much pressure (压力 )   on me.I need to go outside for sports,singing,dancing and other activities.