I had a quarrel（争吵）with my boss this morning and it really drove me crazy. I decided to go for a run because exercise would work to make me ______.

I put my earphones on, listened to music that could make me happy and ran out of the door. But I couldn’t stop thinking about the ______ of my morning and was filled with more anger（怒气）.I wasted so much of my energy thinking about my morning that I couldn’t ______ anything.

I ran fast, ignoring（忽视）all around me. And then something unexpected（意想不到的）happened. About 3/4 of my way through the run I met an old man. I’d guess he was in seventies. As I was ______ him, the man smiled and gave me a thumbs-up（竖起大拇指）. Did he just do that? I thought so but wasn’t sure. It made me smile and took me right out of my bad ______.

I thought to myself how amazing that was— a little piece of kindness from a ______. It was exactly what I needed and I hoped he knew the difference it made.

So I turned around and rushed back to catch up with him. I came up behind him and said, “Excuse me, I don’t mean to be a strange person but...” At this moment the old man was looking at me ______. He must be thinking something was really wrong with me. “Did you just smile and give me a thumbs-up?” When I doubted if he would answer my question, he ______ and said “Yes!” And I told him how it ______ everything and that I really appreciated（感激）it. And a big smile appeared on his face.

Though a moment of kindness is ______, it makes such a difference. It made my day.

The ants and the grasshopper(蝗虫)lived in the same big field. The ants always worked hard, and tried to prepare and harvest enough food for winter.

Their happy neighbor, the grasshopper, couldn’t understand them. He just kept singing. One winter day, the ants were busy spreading their grain(谷物)in the sun to dry. The grasshopper was nearly dying of hunger, so he went to the ants to ask for some food.

“Good day to you, kind neighbor,” said the grasshopper. “Won’t you lend me a little food? I will certainly repay(偿还)you before this time next year.” “Why don’t you have any food of your own?” asked an old ant. “There was a lot of food in the big field all summer. What did you do?”

“Oh,” said the grasshopper, forgetting his hunger, “I sang all day long, and all night long.” “Well, then,” said the ant, “If you can sing all summer, you should dance all winter.” And the old ant went back to her work, singing the ant song, “We ants never borrow; we ants never lend.”

Egg caring(蛋雕）is often called the most fragile(易碎的）art, as it requires great care before, during and even after the carving. Yu Wen, the granddaughter of a famous local painter in Dxandong, Liaoning province, has been practising egg carving for about 25 years.

Yu has used more than 10,000 eggs, and years of hard work has left many thick calluses(茧）on her hands. Sometimes she can’t even hold chopsticks properly after a long day of holding the carving knife. But in Yu’s opinion, the difficult process makes egg carving twice as exciting. “If you carve off too much, the work is broken and there is no way to deal with it. That makes the sense of achievement even greater when you finish a piece.” said Yu.

Yu’s love for egg carving started with a local tradition. In northeast China, when a baby is born. Friends and relatives often send eggs colored read as gifts, and some may carve auspicious（吉利的）words on them. The character “福” is a popular one to be carved onto eggs. Yu carves with not only popular characters or traditional patterns（图案）, but also Peking Opera masks and wall paintings. Her egg carving is just as much about eggs as it is about Chinese culture.

Now Yu teaches egg carving at a local university. In recent years, she has seen more people coming from across the country to learn the art. “I hope I can better combine（结合）the art with traditional culture in the future,” Yu said.

When you feel sick, you go to the doctor. She checks your fever, and asks what you’ve been thinking about recently. When you leave, she gives you not only some medicine but also a list of thinking skills that you are supposed to practise daily. She says that the way you think is causing some of your illness.

Doctors and scientists who study the human mind and try to explain why people behave in the way they do are called psychologist（心理学家）. They are starting to believe that your brain is connected to every part of your body through your nervous system（神经系统）. Now scientists have proved that how you think and feel can have an influence on the health of your body. Stress can help us better understand this link（关联）.

Stress is caused whenever there is a problem or a change in your life. In fact, stress is necessary. Without stress, we would never learn anything or grow or change. But too much stress can hurt you. It can weaken your body’s protection so that you are more likely（可能的）to catch diseases. It can even make you more likely to have an accident.

What can you do about stress? First, you can try to find ways to change things so you aren’t under so much stress. You can set up a plan to finish homework or go to a doctor or a psychologist to try to work things out with your family or your friends. But sometimes you can’t change a stressful situation. Sometimes you don’t even want to. A big change might be a good change, but it will still be stressful.

The link between your body and brain works in two ways. Your body can help your mind deal with stress. If you are under stress, you need to take especially good care of your body. It’s important to get enough sleep and eat nutritious（有营养的）meals. Another thing that you can do is daily exercise, like running and jogging.

You just heard you would have a math test on Friday—the same day as your history test. Are they crazy? How will you get all your study done? Don’t worry about it.
41．

Good learning methods are developed in the classroom as you take notes.
42． Make sure your notes are easy to read, and review.

When you sit down to study, think about how much time you want to spend on each subject. Most people can keep focused（专注）for about 45 minutes a time. After that you’ll probably want to take a short break. When your 45 minutes of studying are up. You can take a 15-minute break.

Many teachers tell students what the format（总体样式）of an exam will be like.
44． For example. If you’re going to have multiple-choice questions（选择题）, you’ll pay more attention to studying facts and details.

Sometimes it can be useful to with your classmates or others in a group. In this way you can make sure that your notes are correct and that you understand the subjects.

Dad bought me a violin as a gift on my
46． birthday. He said excitedly to me, “Once you learn to play it, it’ll stay with you for life.” But I didn’t want to play it. I just wanted to play games, but Dad asked me
47． violin lessons every day.

One day, I found a box in a corner. When I
48． it, I saw a beautiful accordion（手风琴）. “It’s your
49．.” Mum said. “His parents bought it for him but he was too busy on the farm for his family to learn to play it.”

I had to practise
50． the violin an hour every day, and every day I tried to get out of it. But Dad didn’t allow. I asked why. He answered, “Because you can bring people joy. You can touch their
51．” He said softly, “Someday you’ll have the chance I never had: you’ll play beautiful music for your family. And you’ll understand why you’ve worked so hard.” I thought of father’s accordion and felt
52．.

The lessons stopped after I finished high school. When I grew up, I got
53． and moved into a new house with my family. Later, I put the violin in the attic（阁楼）.

One afternoon, my two children found the violin by accident. They got very excited. “Play it. Play it,” they laughed and said. I started to play some simple songs. I was surprised I could still remember
54．. Soon the kids were dancing. Even my wife was laughing and clapping（拍手）to the beat（节奏）.

At that moment, my father’s words came back to me, “Someday you’ll have the chance I never had. And you’ll understand.” I
55． knew why Dad had told me to practise hard. Dad never learnt to play this accordion. But I told my family, “This is my father’s music.”

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How to Be a Good Student

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