Televisions have been necessary in most houses for a long time. Children like watching TV. Some parents are happy about that because it keeps their children f1.playing with each other and breaking things.
Watching TV can help your children l2.about lots of things, such as music, cultures in foreign countries, and many other things. They will know what is good and what is bad. TV also provides children with u3.information about the outside world.
However, it’s not r4.to say that watching TV doesn’t have any bad effect on children. You can’t let them watch TV as much as they want. Watching TV takes up a lot of time. Children need to find the world by t5., not just from TV. Besides, children are growing and they need to move around and get plenty of e6. Sitting still and watching TV too much will make children become weaker physically. Most children like to eat snacks w7.watching TV. That will make them put on weight. To make it worse, some TV programmes may be f8.of ads and violent scenes. These things, of course, are bad for children.
As parents, you have to choose the right channels for them, and shouldn’t let the TV be on all day. Turn it off right after the programmes end. E9.them to join in the outdoor activities. Never put a TV in the bedroom, especially not in your c10.room!
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Putting on a play can be fun. Acting can be like the “let’s pretend and dress-up games children play. Actors pretend（扮演）,for a little while, to be other people. They t1. to look like and talk as other persons do.
Professional（职业的） actors take part in plays and television programs given in large cities. They make their .l2. by acting. But other people act in plays just for fun and are not p3. for their work. They are high school or college students and adults who are members of “little theatre” groups. In the d4., they are students, teachers, doctors, lawyers, or police officers. They are actors o5. in the evenings or on weekends.
The little theater groups has a long history in America. One of the o6. groups is in Indiana. They are called the Players Club, and they put on eight plays a year. People in the city buy tickets to see the plays. A7. who wants to act may join the Players Club. Before each play, auditions（试演） are held so that people can try o8. for the different parts. Not all members of the group are actors. People are also needed to h9. with the lighting, clothes and makeup.
There are little theater groups in many cities. They continue to put on plays because they bring p10. to a large number of people. People in a little theater group enjoy having the chance to act, and the audience enjoy watching the plays.
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When you wave to a friend, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone, you mean to be f1.. When you put one finger in front of your m2., you mean "Be quiet."
Yet, people in different countries may use different sign languages.
Once an Englishman was in Italy. He could speak little Italian. One day w3. he was walking in the street, he felt h4. and went into a restaurant. As the waiter came, the Englishman o5. his mouth, put his fingers into it and took them out again and moved his lips. In this way, he meant to say, "B6. me something to eat." But the waiter gave him a lot of things to d7.. First tea, then coffee, then milk, but no food. The Englishman was sorry that he wasn't a8. to tell the waiter what he wanted. He was ready to leave the restaurant when a9. man came in and put his hands on his stomach. And this sign was good e10. for the waiter. In a few minutes, the waiter brought him a large plate of bread and meat. At last the Englishman had his meal in the same way.
Last summer, after 16 years in America, I travelled to Moscow where I grew up. Mom gave me a m1.showing the location of my grandfather’s grave(坟墓). She asked me to visit it and I p2.to do it.
But I found no time to visit it until I was leaving. By the entrance to the cemetery(公墓), a lady was selling flowers. She had only s3.left. I bought them all, but it was then that I realized the map was l4..
I did not want to call my mother for I had already told her I’d gone to the cemetery. Then I found the office. An old woman looked t5.the records and found two Abraham Pikarskis with no further details.
I set off to look for them, hoping that at least one would have a p6.on the stone.
I found the two graves. B7.said Abraham Pikarskis, no pictures, nothing else.
I put three flowers on the grave in front of me and went back to the first one. I also put three flowers there.
I stood there with the last flower. F8., I put it on the grave. If this is really my grandfather’s, he got the most. If not, let this be a respect to the s9..
I flew home to New York the next day. When Mom saw me, she started crying.
“Son, thank you for visiting Grandfather’s grave. When you called and told me you went there, I t10.you were just comforting me. But this morning, my cousin called from Moscow, saying she saw your flowers on your grandpa’s grave.”
Should I ask how many flowers her cousin saw? Three or four?
It may not be hard to name the most popular girl or boy at school. But have you ever wondered what m1.them popular? Is it about wearing the latest fashion or being in the basketball t2.?
The secret to being p3.at school, according to an Australian study published in the Journal Child Development this month, is neither of those things. I4., it is empathy(感同身受), or understanding and s5. others’ feelings, reported Science Daily.
Popular children are “b6. at knowing what others want, think and f7.”, according to the study.
The study included 2,096 children f8. 2 to 10 years old from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
“Our study suggests that understanding o9. feelings can help children become or remain popular”, wrote Virginia Slaughter, professor(教授) of psychology at the University of Queensland, who led the study.
“It means empathy is important both for making friends in the early school years a10.for keeping friendships as children grow older”, added the Daily Mail.
Xie Liang, over 80 years old, has offered free help to people asking for directions for more than 10 years. He has been f1. as “the king of giving directions” in Beijing since 2001.
Every day, Xie goes to Dongzhimen Long-distance (长途) Bus Stop and gives help to at least 1,200 people asking for directions. During holidays, the n2. may be even 3,500. There are more than 50 roads and streets meeting at Dongzhimen, and at l3. 100 thousand people pass by there every day.
The reporter of Beijing Youth Daily had an i4. with Xie. At that time, he arrived at the bus stop and placed his little table with maps and guidebooks w5. by himself on it.
“Is it really f6. to ask you for the way?” asked a man with a strong southeast Chinese accent (口音).
“Of course,” answered Xie with a smile. “Quite a lot of people have asked me the s7. question. I am a volunteer.”
The reporter found that more than 5 people came to ask him for the way in a minute, and Xie told them the way p8. and gave every one of them a note with his words on it.
Xie has a husky(沙哑的) voice. People think that it’s the r9. of his hard work.
Now Xie has encouraged several other volunteers to join him. Many people hope to do volunteering work like Xie, but it’s hard to do the work as w10. as he does.
