Bargain（廉价购买）shopping is popular among most people throughout the world. The main reason is that people know they get the opportunity（机会）to save money. But in order to buy things at the lowest prices, you need to follow certain tips.      

　Use the Internet. You have more shopping areas by shopping online. You can go to many online stores. You are able to see various products with different prices in them. Through going online, you can compare the products’ prices and qualities（质量）.

　Use online coupons(优惠券). By using these coupons, you can even expect a discount (折扣) of 50% on what you want to buy. There are many websites that offer these coupons and they have different kinds of goods for you.

　Shop at the right time. It is a known fact that there are certain items that go on sale in certain months of the year. Keep an eye on such sales and visit the store only during those particular times of the year in order to receive the best offers.

　Use a shopping list. By acquiring the habit of writing a shopping list, you will always remember to buy the things you want. If you just enter a store and start buying things that you are interested in, you will probably end buying many cheap things that you may not need.

　Take part in online auctions（拍卖）. If you are familiar with online shopping, you should take part in online auctions. Some websites such as e-bay offer auctions and give you the opportunity to buy products at low prices.

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        A farming game becomes popular on the Internet as users get up in the morning to steal crops and fruit from their friends’ farms and become the kings of virtual (虚拟的) farming.

      Just like the farm game “kaixin 001” in Chinese. Users can plant crops, and raise chickens and sheep, and the harvest can be sold and exchanged for experience points to increase the attraction. Players can sneak into (潜入) their friends’ farms and steal crops. The more practiced a user gets in planting crops, the more virtual money he or she can make. That makes it much more fun than just killing time on the Internet.

     Now more city white collars, young office ladies in particular, are going online to live a country life. ________ that they set the alarm for an early rise every day, when they start up the computer and go farming. If they overslept, their fields would turn into a tourist farm where anyone takes whatever he or she wants. They can use a virtual network to plant, water crops, get rid of pests, harvest and sell their crops, and they can raise chickens and cows, and buy dogs to guard the farm. The whole process is much more interesting than electronic chickens, and seeing the results of their own hard work pile in the storage offers some kind of satisfaction in an otherwise boring daily life.

     Compared with wasting some time on line, the game is more interesting. 

Europe is not very big . It is only about 2,085,000square mile in area. It is divided into more than twenty countries. The biggest country in Europe is France except Russia, which is only partly in Europe.

  The people of France are similar to the people of Italy, Spain and Portugal, and their languages are almost alike. This is because long ago all these people spoke Latin, so the language they speak today mainly come from Latin .Other people that are related to each other are the people from Britain, Germany, Austria, Holland and Norway. They speak languages called Germanic(日耳曼语). The third big language in Europe is Russian.

  The British Isles are made up of England, Scotland, Ireland and various small surrounding islands. From the British Isles, not far across the English Channel is the next European country, France. Its capital is Paris, which is a beautiful city on the River Seine. Traveling further from France, We will visit Venice in Italy, a beautiful city of water. Holland is different from the other countries of Europe, because a good deal of the land used to be under the sea. If traveling to the most northern part of Europe, we will get to Norway, which lies right beyond the Arctic Circle(北极圈）.

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Drugs are harmful and addictive. But young children may not know this. Use this guide to help teach your children to avoid drugs.

Make sure that what you tell your children is true. If you tell them that marijuana(大麻）can kill them, but in fact it can’t, then when they find out the truth, they will be hurt that you lied to them, and will no longer believe other things you tell them.

Never order them not to take drugs. This is especially important to older kids and teenagers. Most teenagers go through the stage of rebellion. When you forbid them to do something, it only makes them want to do it more. Tell them that drugs can be harmful and addictive and that they can ruin their life, but don’t forbid them to take drugs.

Do your best to build your children’s confidence and help them out of trouble. Adult drug addicts often had troubled childhoods or an extremely traumatic experience in their younger years, such as a divorce or death in the family. Many teenagers take drugs because they are unwilling to face problems and want to escape in this way. Encourage your children to overcome difficulties and make sure your children know that you love them.

Tell your children to stop spending time with friends who take drugs because children usually can’t resist temptation(诱惑) or they have to take drugs because of peer pressure. But you shouldn’t force them to do that. Being controlling and overprotective by keeping your children out of their social situations will only cause them to lose respect for you and mistrust your judgment. Remember that the choice is always theirs, and controlling their life will only make them more likely to use drugs to escape.

    Science has a lot of uses. It can uncover laws of nature, cure diseases, make bombs, and help bridges to stand up. Indeed science is so good at what it does that there’s always a temptation (诱惑) to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful. David Brooks, author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.

Brooks gained fame for several books. His latest book The Social Animal, however, is more ambitious and serious than his earlier books. It is an attempt to deal with a set of weighty topics. The book focuses on big questions: What has science revealed about human nature? What are the sources of character? And why are some people happy and successful while others aren’t?

To answer these questions, Brooks surveys a wide range of disciplines. Considering this, you might expect the book to be a dry recitation (背诵) of facts. But Brooks has structured his book in an unorthodox (非常规的), and perhaps unfortunate way. Instead of introducing scientific theories, he tells a story, within which he tries to make his points, perhaps in order to keep the reader’s attention. So as Harold and Erica, the hero and heroine in his story, live through childhood, we hear about the science of child development and as they begin to date we hear about the theory of sexual attraction. Brooks carries this through to the death of one of his characters.

On the whole, Brooks’ story is acceptable if uninspired. As one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest. I enjoyed, for instance, the chapter in which Harold discovers how to think on his own. While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with The Social Animal lie elsewhere. These problems partly involve Brooks’ attempt to translate his tale into science.

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The Internet has opened up a whole new online world for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before. But just as in face-to-face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when online.

The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be treated. Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the other person’s shoes. For anything you’re about to send, ask yourself “Would I say this to the person’s face？”If the answer is “No”, rewrite and reread. Repeat the process till you feel sure that you’d feel comfortable saying the words to the person’s face.

If someone in the chat room is rude to you, your instinct(本能反应) is to fire back in the same manner. But try not to do so. You should either ignore that person, or use your chat software to block their messages. If it was caused by disagreement with another member, try to fix the situation by politely discussing it. Remember to respect the beliefs and opinions of others in the chat room.

If you do decide to tell someone in the chat room about a mistake, point it out politely. At the same time, if you find you are wrong, be sure to correct yourself and apologize to those who you have offended.

It is not polite to ask others personal questions such as their age, sex, and marital status. Unless you know the person very well, and you are both comfortable with sharing personal information, don’t ask such questions.

  When Dan Shaw gets up from the sofa in his home, Cuddles is never far away. When he wants to go outside, he doesn’t take Cuddles out for a walk—Cuddles takes him for a walk Cuddles is clearly no ordinary family pet. It is a two-foot-high miniature horse and serves as the guiding eyes of Shaw, who is blind.

      When Shaw lost his sight, his wife suggested he apply for a guide dog. Shaw, an anima lover, said he couldn’t hear to part with a dog(which usually lives about eight to ten years)and get used to a new one, perhaps several times in his life.

      Then Shaw heard of a program about the tiny guide horses. He learned that the horse possess many qualities that make them an excellent choice for guiding people. They are clean friendly, smart and have great memories. They can be trained to remain calm in noisy and crowded places. Best of all, they live for25-35 years, which would enable Shaw to have the same guide companion for most or all of his life.

      Shaw immediately applied to be and was accepted as the first person to receive a guide horse. The instant he met Cuddles, he knew he was making the right choice. Then he began his training.

      Through training, Shaw and Cuddles learned to find their way on busy streets, step over curbs(便道沿儿)and find elevator buttons. Cuddles even demonstrated(显示)its ability to step in front of Shaw and block him, to prevent him from walking into a dangerous situation The little horse also expertly led Shaw through busy shopping malls. They got along without any difficulties. Now Shaw is confident that Cuddles will change his life for the better.

People are travelling more than ever before. The World Tourism Organization says that by 2020 the number of international travelers will be more than 1.6 billion people per year. The increase in the number of tourists also means an increase in the kinds of tourism. Here are four different kinds of tourism that have appeared recently.

   Medical tourism can be for a lot of things, from operations to visits to the dentist. This kind of tourism includes going to a different country for health care. A few of the popular countries offering medical tourism areIndia,Cuba,Thailandand Jordan.

   Nearly all tourists eat in restaurants, and dining is one of the top three tourist activities. But if you were in a country famous for its food, would you learn how to cook it? Welcome to the unusual form of culinary(烹饪的) tourism, where people go to another country to learn how to prepare its food. Cooking holidays are growing in popularity now.

   Disaster tourism is the act of visiting the site of a disaster. Examples include tours to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, to parts of Thailand after the tsunami(海啸) or tourist visits to ground zero in New York. This kind of tourism is not very popular with local people for understandable reasons.

Another growing area of tourism is literary tourism. This is a kind of cultural tourism and there are several types. It can be connected to the life of an author, for example visiting the author’s home or favorite places, or connected to the lives of characters in a story. It can also be a visit to a place where a film was made.

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Thanksgiving remains very much associated with grandparents . More than any other holiday in America, it’s about honoring distant ancestors.

Children may enjoy the gathering or look forward to apple pie. But Thanksgiving activities aren’t centered on kids. There are no candies to collect, gifts to unwrap or eggs to hunt. There’s no staying up past bedtime for fireworks or Father Christmas.

I’ve heard neighbors talk about“going home”for Thanksgiving but“staying home”for Christmas. Even with the“well-known”bad Thanksgiving traffic, people are willing to travel to their parents’or grandparents’. By contrast, with Christmas being so much about kids, parents or grandparents may more often be asked to travel to where their offspring(子孙)live.

As an annual national holiday, Thanksgiving was started to help unify(统一)the country and strengthen family bonds. Thanksgiving celebrations continue to emphasize the hosts, along with earlier generations and the power of tradition. And traditions respond to circumstance. Generational changes, scattered(分散的) relatives and health issues can make it difficult to bring everyone together, or unrealistic to rely on Grandma and Grandpa as hosts.

And then there are the stresses of the holiday: all the cooking , all the cleaning, the headaches of travel and so on . In her book“Overwhelmed,”Brigid Schulte writes of a particular Thanksgiving as a breaking point:“The twenty-pound turkey is still pink and raw, waiting to go in the oven. The table is still not set , and the kitchen, covered in pots and pans, piles of vegetables, and spilled(洒出的)flour, looks like a bomb has hit it .”Yet even so , the day tends to be calmer than the gift-giving craziness to follow in December, and all the candy-colored, children-centered customs of Halloween and Easter.