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    Are you interested in students in other countries? Do they also have so much homework like you? What do they do in their spare time?

    On April 8, a report came out on the lives of high school students in China, Japan, South Korea and the US. It surveyed around 6200 students from the four countries last year. You will find the answers to many of your questions in this report.

    Who study hardest?

Chinese students spend the most time studying. Nearly half of Chinese students (48.65%) spend more than two hours on their homework every day. That's much more than students of the US (26.4%), Japan (8.2%) and South Korea (5.2%).

    Who sleep most often in class?

Japanese students fall asleep in class most often. About 45% of them said they sometimes sleep in class. In South Korea, it's 32%; in the US,21%; and 5% in China.

    Who are the most distracted?

    American students are the most active in class, but also the most distracted. 64.2% said they chat with friends in class; 46.9% said they eat snacks in class; and 38.9% said they send emails or read storybooks in class.

    What do they do after school?

    In their spare time, most Chinese students study or surf the Internet. Most American students go out to play with their friends. Most Japanese students do physical exercise. Most Korean students watch TV.

Whether it's studying for exams, working on a project or struggling with an essay, we've all been under huge stress at some point. When it gets hard for us to bear, we can reach a level of exhaustion — the terrible burnout (倦怠). However, that feeling of exhaustion is not just physical; it can be mental as well.

According to Psychology Today, burnout isn't just caused by working long hours; it is more about prolonged or repeated exposure to a stressful situation.

Its result can be feelings of cynicism, depression and lethargy (嗜睡). Suffering from burnout can stifle (扼杀) our creativity and productivity. Ironically, this means that striving to be more efficient can result in a reduction in our productivity. But what can we do to avoid the evils of burnout? Well, there are some tips that may help you.

Psychologist Albert Bandura's idea of self-efficacy — which is the theory that you should believe in your ability to complete a task at hand — may assist you. A feeling that the task is achievable and that you are capable of succeeding might make a difficult task less tiresome.

Finding ways to express your creative side may help. Not everyone has creative aspects to their jobs, therefore, they need to find other outlets. They could paint, write or take part in local theatre. All of this may help to free them from the stress that may exist in their working life.

Looking after yourself and your surroundings can also be beneficial. The consequence is that you are surrounded by a cleaner and more positive environment. This, in turn, leads to another tip, which is to have healthy and positive thoughts. Being negative can be incredibly draining (心力交瘁的). Having a positive mental attitude towards everything you do means that you may feel more capable as well.

Burnout is a common condition associated with the pressures of the modern world. It's not just a physical condition; it has psychological effects that can impact heavily on your work and life in general. Taking steps to avoid burning out can benefit not just us, but our bosses and families.

    Summer is the perfect time to relax. As you plan for your trip, here are some tips on how to protect yourself. .

    Fight against the mosquitoes in the hot spots.

    There are many mosquito-borne illnesses in tropical regions, which are traditionally vacation hot spots. Therefore, mosquito repellent (驱蚊剂) that contains DEET should be an essential item in your travel bag.

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    In lesser-developed countries there is less equipment for clean water and public health. If you can't avoid unhealthful water, make sure you bring along a tea or coffee—making pot that will boil water for you. You'd better buy a case or two of water and check that all bottle caps are sealed to assure the bottled water isn't just a refilled bottle of dirty tap water.

    Always protect your feet.

    It's best to wear slippers in the shower, but if you must be barefoot, put a towel down on the floor. . You should never walk barefoot in any area of a foreign country, including your hotel room.

    Be sure to eat safe fruits.

    . They may have been washed in the same water, or wiped with the same rag used to clean work surfaces in kitchens. The best advice is to bring your own peeler（削皮器）so that you know that something clean has been applied to the fruit.

    Enjoy the smell of roadside stands, not the food.

    Unless the food is piping hot when served, it's best to stay away from roadside stands, no matter how good the smell of the food might be. If you are concerned about whether a restaurant is clean, order the food to go. .

    More than 10 years ago, it was difficult to buy a tasty pineapple.The fruits that made it to the UK were green on the outside and, more often than not,hard with an unpleasant taste within.Then in 1966,the Del Monte Gold pineapple produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves.

    The new type of pineapple looked more yellowy-gold than green.It was slightly softer on the outside and had a lot of juice inside.But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the hit-and-miss pineapples we had known. In no time, the Del Monte Gold took the market by storm, rapidly becoming the world's best-selling pineapple variety, and delivering natural levels of sweetness in the mouth,up until then only found in tinned pineapple.

    In nutrition it was all good news too.This nice tasting pineapple contained four times more vitamin C than the old green variety.Nutritionists said that it was not only full of vitamins, but also good against some diseases.People were understandably eager to be able to buy this wonderful fruit.The new type of pineapple was selling fast9 and the Del Monte Gold pineapple rapidly became a fixture in the shopping basket of the healthy eater.

    Seeing the growing market for its winning pineapple, Del Monte tried to keep market to itself.But other fruit companies developed similar pineapples.Del Monte turned to law for help, but failed. Those companies argued successfully that Del Monte's attempts to keep the golden pineapple for itself were just a way to knock them out the market.

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For some years, my mother worked for a charity as President and Secretary. Selling raffle tickets(兑奖券)was her main means of bringing in the charity's much-needed funds. We girls would accompany her, selling tickets with great success. My father made and donated beautiful wooden toys, jewellery boxes and other lovely items as prizes.

Now my sister was always coming up with "good ideas", most of which didn't work out to plan. But that didn't deter her. She had many just waiting to be tested. When she was eight and I was just five, we had a wonderful idea for a business adventure. We decided we would sell raffle tickets for charity, and that charity was us!

So one afternoon, we told our mother we were going to play in the park with our cousins as we did most days after school. But instead, we walked around the streets armed with a raffle book, a pen and a large cloth bag to carry the money.

We'd accompanied our mother many times when she sold tickets, so people were familiar with us when we appeared at their doors. Despite the blank looks they received when asking about the prizes on offer, they were very generous. Although there were no actual prizes, our mother's previous track record enabled us to sell nearly the whole book of raffle tickets.

Like a little pair of lottery(彩票)winners, we walked home and proudly showed off our takings. But our enjoyment of this sudden wealth was short-lived, and our plans for spending it quickly failed. Our angry mother took us back to every ticket buyer, making us apologise and give the money back. Thankfully, our sweet neighbours didn't make a big deal of our "clever" misbehavior and thus my mother's fundraising career could continue safely. We were taught a good lesson by our mother that day. Also I remember my sister's entrepreneurial(企业家的)spirit dried up a bit after that.

    What is the most popular communication tool today? your answer is QQ or MSN, I must say you are a bit old fashioned. Today, a new form of communication “Wechat”, which   (own) a Chinese name Weixin, is becoming the most influential text and useful tool all over the world.

    What advantages do Wechat have? First, Wechat is relative cheap way of communication; that is to say, it uses network traffic instead of telephone fare. Next, we can know  is going on at any time. And we can have (easy) access(通道) to information available than other messaging tools.

    What roles does it play our daily life? According to the latest report, the registered (登记的) users on Wechat platform has topped 200 million and expanded its business to overseas market. Can you imagine that a mobile phone “app” is so (attract) that it reaches 200 million users within 8 months? Wechat itself has become the most popular mobile chat application in the world. A large of people have become “Wechataholic”, which means they keep staring at the mobile phone all the time and can't live without .

    However, while enjoying its great convenience, people should not ignore the danger of (cheat), for information on Wechat is publicly known.

James Baldwin, an author, once said, "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. " Looking back, I have found this was1. As a child, I was not the best listener, but I did learn valuable lessons by2my elders.

While in elementary school, I was caught into3. A classmate had a quarrel with me because of some4and he even threatened to beat me. I didn't know how to5him and I was even unwilling to go to school. Then my father6my trouble and decided to go to school with me. I wasn't sure what he was planning to do, but I felt safe around him. When at school, he talked7to me and the boy I had issues with. He explained that we needed to solve our differences and learn to8 our friendship. He told us a9 in which he resolved (化解) the differences by an earnest (真诚的) talk and made friends with another man. Then he10and we had to solve the problem ourselves. There we stood, face to face without a word. I broke the11first and a heated discussion followed. Gradually, both of us realized we had a lot in common apart from the differences. At last, as my father12, we extended our hands and13our differences. It was at that moment that a lifetime friendship was formed.

What my father said did not impress me much but he set a good example of14this kind of problem. This is a reminder that it is more effective for elders to teach children by their15.