When she was very young Severn Cullis-Suzuki learned that the United Nations Assembly（大会）was going to meet in Brazil, Severn ____ that she wanted not only to go there but also to say something. She started to raise money for the ____ and when she was 12, she had enough for the 11, 000-kilometre journey.

Severn was sure that she had ____ to say, and when she made her five-minute speech _____ the UN Assembly, she tried very hard to make a difference. She talked about ____ problems like pollution and the hunting of animals. She also talked about the ____ of children in many parts of the world, especially poor children who don’t have enough to eat. She compared them with children in richer countries who have more than they need and throw things ____. Severn’s questions were a challenge to the world’s leaders—questions about why the grown-ups who ____ the world don’t take more care of it and of the people who live in it.

Many people who heard her speech were crying at the end, and everyone ____ with thunderous applause（掌声）when she finished.

Severn showed that young people can make a difference ____ they’re brave enough to believe in themselves. Who knows? Perhaps you could be another Severn.

On the bottom of most plastic packaging（包装）, there’s a small triangle （三角）with a letter or a number written inside. These little symbols are not easy to be noticed, but are really important. They tell you what kind of plastic it is and whether it can be recycled or not.

Can it be recycled?	Types of Plastic
√	Pet   This is the plastic that you often see on supermarket shelves! It’s used to make plastic water bottles and biscuit boxes.
√	HDPE HDPE is a stronger type of plastic. It is what milk bottles are made of.
×	LDPE LDPE is a very soft plastic which is not easily broken. It is what shopping bags are made of.
×	PS (POLYSTYRENE]    This plastic is often seen in our daily life. You’ll probably have seen it as those cheap white cups you get hot drinks in, or as takeaway food packaging.

Chinese is mainly divided into 13 dialects（方言）and these dialects can be further divided into many kinds of local dialects. Putonghua (or Mandarin) the predominant dialect, is spoken by over 70% of the population and is one of the 6 official languages of the United Nations. Within these large dialect groups, there are small groups, many of which are difficult to understand. In Fujian, for example, people living 10 kilometres away from one another can be speaking different Min dialects.

Putonghua. It is the mother dialect of Chinese living in northern China and Sichuan Province. It is called Guoyu in some parts of China, like Hong Kong, Macao（澳门）and Taiwan. It is known in English as Mandarin Chinese, or Standard Chinese.

Wu. Spoken in Shanghai, most of Zhejiang and the southern parts of Jiangsu and Anhui. Wu is made up of hundreds of different of spoken forms.

Hakka/Kejia. Hakka is widely spoken in Fujian, Taiwan, and some countries in Southeast Asia.

Min. It is spoken in Fujian, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Min group is the most diverse（多样的）, with many different spoken forms used in neighbouring countries.

Yue. It is spoken in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, all over Southeast Asia and by many Chinese living abroad.

Resting my head on Helen’s shoulder, I put my arms round her waist（腰）. She drew me to her, and we rested in silence.

We had not sat long before another person came in.

Some heavy clouds, swept from the sky by a rising wind, had left he moon bright; and her light, coming in through a window near, shone full both on us and on the coming person, Miss Temple.

“I came on purpose to find you. Jane Eyre,” said she. “I want you in my room, and as Helen Burs is with you, she may come too.”

We followed Miss Temple to her apartment. It had a good fire, and looked cheerful. Miss Temple told Helen Burns to be seated in a low arm-chair on one side of the fire place, and herself asking another, she called me to her side.

“Is it all over?” she asked. looking down at my face. “Have you cried your sadness away?”

“I am afraid I never shall do that.”

“Why?”

“Because I have been wrongly accused（指责）, and you and everybody else, will now think me a bad girl.”

“We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us.”

“Shall I, Miss Temple?”

“You will.” said Miss Temple, “You have been accused of lying when you were little. Tell us the truth, but add nothing and exaggerate（夸大）nothing.”

I made up my mind that I would be most modest and most correct. Having thought for a few minutes about where to start, I told her all the story of my sad childhood.

Everybody has a brain, but not many people know how the brain works. Some people believe that the brain is like the hard disk of a computer. We use it to store files—pictures, language (words, texts, sounds) and so on. Others compare the brain to a huge cupboard with lots of shelves and boxes in it. We put information into these boxes and hope to find it again later.

The brain is not A computer disk, And it isn’t a cupboard. Look at the picture here. It looks a bit like weeds（杂草）in a garden, doesn’t it? The picture actually shows a child’s neocortex—a part of the brain that controls sight and hearing. You can guess what happens—more “weeds” grow as the child gets older. Scientists call these neuronal（神经元的）networks. The networks grow around our neurons. -What makes them grow? Learning! “Learning is brain change,” says Professor James Zull from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. “Without learning, nothing changes in the brain. For every new word you learn in your English lesson, every problem you solve in maths, every new song you learn to sing, a neuronal network grows in your brain and the brain changes.”

The more neuronal networks we grow, the better we can think and the better we remember. You may wonder if there is anything you can do to make the networks in your brain grow better. Professor Zull says yes, there is. He says that brain change is strongest when a) you are interested in and like what you are learning, b) you are in control of what you learn and c) you get challenging tasks that make you think hard. Understanding a challenging task makes you feel good and develops your brain.

It was a very hot day. As I was sitting on the bench, waiting for class to begin, I saw Timothy waving a brown paper bag at Jenna. Happily, the two of them walked away to somewhere.

33． They stopped at a quieter area behind the library. “Strange,” I thought. “They must be up to something!” I watched them from behind a large tree and saw Jenna pass some money to Timothy. Timothy then passed the paper bag to Jenna. Both of them were smiling and seemed very happy.
34． Timothy must be selling answers to the holiday worksheets to Jenna! It made sense to me as Timothy was an excellent student and Jenna always needed help in her homework. I could not stop myself and jumped out from behind the tree. I cried, “
35．”

Timothy and Jenna were surprised. “What is happening?” Jenna asked. After I told them what I had thought, they laughed. I turned out that in the bag was a special comic book bought by Timothy’s brother.
36． Once I heard the explanation, I turned red. I wished the ground would swallow（吞下） me then to save me from the shame. I said sorry for my mistake and quickly ran away.
37．

Does my goldfish know who I am?

I think this is a great question. I do spend my days
48． (study) how fish go about their lives. First of all, fish are much smarter than people think. People often talk of goldfish having three-second memories, but in fact they can learn all kinds of things, and remember them
49． quite a long time.

This shouldn’t surprise us too much. Just like other animals, they can find enough to eat, and
50． (know) when it is sale to be out in the open. Being able to learn and remember things helps
51． (they) do this.

Many kinds of fish can tell one from another, according to their group, their relatives,
52． even their own eggs. But fish live in
53． very different world from us. For many kinds of fish, although seeing is important,
54． (sense) such as smell and touch are even more important.

So, does your fish know who you are? I believe your fish will
55． (sure) know when it is feeding time. My own fish become very
56． (excite) when my hand appears near their tank, even before I drop the food in. I’m not sure that your fish will be able to remember what your face
57． (look) like, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if it could remember you in other ways, perhaps by the sound of your footsteps as you walk towards the tank.

A two-week-old baby hippo sat alone on the bank of the Zambezi River in Zambia, a country in Africa. His mother was dead. The morning sun rose and with every passing minute he lost more strength. Without his mother, the baby probably wouldn’t make it through the night.

Luckily, Ian Stevenson and his friends saw the baby hippo. They took him back, fed him milk and eggs. The young animal was saved and soon doubled his weight. He seemed happy and healthy.

Later, the hippo, now called Douglas, was moved to an ideal home at Chipembele, a wildlife center owned by Ann and Steve Tolan. They built a sleeping place for Douglas by a pool where he liked to swim. They fed him every three hours. Douglas enjoyed playing with the Tolans’ pet dogs and swimming in the pool. Sometimes at night, other hippos came from the nearby river to eat grass. At first, Douglas would walk into his pool to hide. “But he soon fought against his shyness and played with them,” Tolan says. Douglas remained at Chipembele for about five years before he was moved to another part of Zambia.

在日常生活中, 冲突难免发生。请以 “A conflict with…”为题。用英语写下你与他人（如：家人, 老师, 同学等）或自己内心发生过的冲突故事。故事需包括冲突的发生和解决。

A conflict with ________