Letter One

Dear Editor,

    After I finish my homework, I often go online and chat with my friends. Sometimes I play Internet games. But my parents hate to see me playing games on the computer. Maybe they have heard too much news about how QQ and Internet games harm children. Once I went to a net bar to play games after school. But after that I told my parents that I was playing basketball at school. I said so because I didn't want to make them unhappy. I feel bad about it. However, I need to rest for a while by playing computer games after studying for a long time. I really want my parents to understand that. Do foreign parents do the same to their children? Please help me.

Li Ping, Nantong

Letter Two

Dear Li Ping,

    I think it's not strange for parents to keep their children away from anything bad. Foreign parents will do the same as your parents! They may not let their children watch TV for too long a time, or like your parents, they don't want their children to play computer games.

    Talk to your parents and be honest to them, I think. Tell them what you are doing and why you are doing so to make them understand you. It's never good to do things behind your parents' backs. They aren't fools as you think sometimes! Our parents seem to know what is the best for us. Remember: to be honest is the best way.

Good luck,

Rebecca

    On Nov.18th,1908, three men went up in a balloon. They started early in London. The headman was Augusta Gaudron, and the other two men were Tannar and Maitland. They had a big balloon and they were ready for a long way.

    Soon they heard the sea. They were carrying the usual rope, and it was hanging down from the basket of the balloon. At the end of the rope they had tied a metal box. This could hold water, or it could be empty. So they were able to change its weight. It was for use over the sea. They were also carrying some bags of sand.

    After the sun rose, the balloon went higher. It went up to 3,000 metres, and the air was very cold. The water in the balloon became ice. Snow fell past the men's basket, and they could see more snow on the ground. The men tried to throw out some more sand; but it was hard. They tried to break the icy sand with their knives, but it was not easy. The work was slow and they were still falling, so they had to drop some whole bags of sand. One of them fell on an icy lake and made a black hole in the ice.

    At last they pulled the box into the basket. It was still snowing; so they climbed to get away from the snow. They rose to 5,100 metres! Everything became icy. They were so cold that they decided to land. They came down in Poland heavily but safely. They had travelled 1,797 kilometers from London!

    People can be addicted to(沉溺于) different things — e.g. alcohol, drug, certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive(强迫的):They have a very powerful psychological（心理上的）need that they feel they must satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders. They feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy on credit(以赊欠方式), charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words, compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending large amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy.

    There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that they don't need just because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets(预算), but they are really playing an exciting game. When they can buy something for less than other people, they feel that they are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason.

    It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people. Stores, companies, and advertisers use psychology to increase business. They consider people's needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising and sales methods. Psychologists often use a method called “behavior therapy(疗法)” to help individuals solve their personality problems. In the same way, they can help people who feel that they have problems with money.

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    Each of us has goals for life. Some of these may be long-term (长期的) or1lifetime ones, and other dreams or wishes for more immediate satisfaction.

    Just as you2great pleasure when you're trying to3short-term goals, there's also power in having long-term and lifetime goals. Both 4are valuable and serve each other. In order to be5in achieving a short- or long-term wish or goal, you must place your focus on the6result and train your mind on either a moment-to-moment, day-to-day, month-to-month, or year-to-year level.

    For example,7a farmer is to plow (耕地) a straight line, he must keep his eye on a faraway point. If his attention is8just a few feet in front of him, he will not plow straight. So, in order for his field to be plowed straight, he must 9and focus on his long-term goal.

    Focusing on a long-term goal can10the energy to get things done in the11. For instance, when a runner sets a(n) 12to run a mile, he'll13be tired when he14the one-mile mark. 15if this same runner sets a goal to run ten miles, he probably won't even be sweating (出汗) upon16this same one-mile mark. If this very same runner was to set a goal to run 26 miles and keep his mind on the completion of this long17, not only wouldn't he be sweating, but most likely he wouldn't even be out of breath as he ran by the18mark.

    Long-term goals,19, can't be achieved without first achieving20goals. We may have a goal to climb a ladder (梯子), but we have to take one step at a time in order to reach the top.

    Everyone can't live without money.       However, money cannot buy everything. You can't buy the following things only relying on money you have.

Time

    Money is a tool for trade. We spend most of our time on this earth getting, spending, worrying and fantasying about money.        Instead, money takes away your time that could have been spent playing with your children or having a long walk with your friends. When the sun sets, a day goes away from our life forever. No money has power to bring that back to life.

Self-respect

    There are a lot of examples to prove that no money can buy self-respect.        If you are your worst enemy, gods of money can't save you from the self-destruction you add to yourself.

Health

    As I write this, I found out that one of my best friends has brain cancer, and it is in the last period.       But no money can buy insurance for his life. We buy insurance for just about everything including our life but money can never bring life back.

Happiness

    This is controversial(有争议的). Money can buy happiness if it is spent bringing greater financial safety for the family.        Going after money every day can never find its destination with frequent eagerness to get more .

A. Show your respect for others.

B. Self-respect is got from within.

C. Money can buy a lot of things.

D. You can't buy the time or save it in your storeroom.

E. Of course money can get him the best health care possible.

F. So you should not try your best to earn money without caring about your health.

G. But money can't buy happiness if the purpose is to make money to make other people happy.

    I'm       only child of my parents, so they are worried       everything I do. For example,        I ride my bike, my parents won't let me       (ride) by myself. They are afraid I might fall off my bike and hurt       . They are taking great trouble to support the bike, with my mother even       (carry) a first-aid box. I'm not free to ride and I often say       (angry), “why not let me ride alone?”

    Now, most families have one child. Parents want to do everything for their children. This does no good       them. Too much love from parents may prevent children from       (be) independent. In my opinion, parents should let their children do       they should do alone.

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删除：把多余的词用斜线\划掉。

修改：在错词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

People are not so honest that they once were. The temptation to steal is greater than ever before — especial in large shops. A detective recently watched a well-dressed woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings. One Monday, there was fewer people in the shop than usual when the woman came in, but it was easier for the detective to watch her. The woman first bought for a few small articles. After a little time, she chose one of the most expensive dressed in the shop and hand it to an assistant who wrapped it up for him as quickly as possible. Then the woman simply took the parcel and walked out to the shop with paying. When she was arrested, the detective found that the shop assistant was her daughter. The girl 'gave' her mother the free dress once a week!

1）龙舟节，也叫端午节，是在中国的农历五月初五这一天庆祝。它是中国一个传统的节日.多数中国家庭都庆祝这个节日;

2）端午节节日起源；

3）庆祝活动：赛龙舟、吃粽子等。

农历  calendar      粽子  rice dumpling

注意：词数：100词左右。