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A box of strawberries are bad in front of you. Without doubt, you throw it away. But it’s more than just strawberries that you are wasting.

The life of a strawberry starts from a seed (种子). A farmer plants it and waters it. Later, people pick it and back it in a box. A truck takes it far to a supermarket. Water, labor, fuel and money must all be spent in order for a strawberry to come to you. If you waste it, you waste all of these things.

It’s hard for people to realize how much work goes into the food we eat every day. That makes food waste a big problem around the world. Every year, 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted around the world. That’s one third of the total amount of food we have. In China alone, people waste 35 million tons of food each year, according to CCTV.

As we throw food away, there are still 820 million people starving (挨饿) around the world. Many children go to sleep but still feel hungry, and 3.1 million of them die of hunger each year. The COVID-19 pandemic had made the situation even worse. With many countries no conger transporting food to other countries during that time, over 10,000 children died of hunger each month.

“Wasting food means wasting natural resources and missing the opportunity to feed a growing population in the future,” said UN Food and Agriculture Organization Director General Qu Dongyu. It’s time to take action now.

Do you often see products labelled (贴标签) “Made in China”? “Made in China” is becoming a fashionable one.

The story of Chinese fashion began when Feiyue and Huili, both Chinese sports shoe brands, suddenly got international attention. Their products were seen all over the world. Chinese sportswear brand LI-NING was at The New York Fashion Week in September. They showed their new designs—sweaters and jackets with Chinese characters.

Shaun Rein, the founder and managing director of Chinese Market Research Group (CMR), said that the latest Chinese brands no longer catch customers’ eye by low prices. It is because China’s young people are now more confident about their own culture. They don’t show immediate interest in Western culture anymore.

“Today’s young people in China are more and more fond of Chinese cultural elements (元素).” Jin Qu, the manager of a clothing shopping website, said at a cultural festival, “They like these elements printed on their clothes, even the picture of Laoganma. Now, young Chinese people are proud of these Chinese symbols.”

In fact, many stars in Western countries are now interested in Chinese cultural elements in fashion. Rihanna, a US singer, for example, wore a shiny, heavily embroidered (绣花的) yellow dress to this year’s Met Gala to match the theme “China: Through the Looking Glass”. The dress was designed and made by Guo Pei, a Chinese designer.

“We have to move from making to creating.” Aric Chen, a Chinese-American designer, once told The New York Times, “We want to replace the words ‘Made in China’ with ‘Designed in China’.”

The 24 solar terms (二十四节气) were first used in China and now are followed in many other parts of the world. Rain Water, the second solar term. means the increase in rainfall and rise in temperature. Spring is in the air and it’s a great time 10 go on an outing (远足). Many of our foreign readers are interested in knowing more about Rain Water. If you are one of them, now read on.

Spring bamboo shoots

Rain Water is the best time of the year to eat fresh bamboo shoots. It’s said that one can only know the taste of spring after enjoying the spring bamboo shoots. The cooking of bamboo shoots in China dates back to over 2,000 years ago.

The cold spell (寒潮)

The cold spell is a period when the weather is colder than usual. During Rain Water, rainfall can result in lower temperature and wet weather. It is strongly advised not to take off the thick coats too early and to keep warm.

Visits to in-laws (嫡亲)

One of the main customs during Rain Water is husbands’ visiting their in-laws and giving gifts. A typical gift is a pot of cooked food that includes trotters-the feet of pigs. This is a way for the sons-in-law to express their thanks.

Nutritious (有营养的) porridge

The wet weather during Rain Water is considered harmful to people’s health, so a bowl of nutritious porridge is the best choice to warm the body. People in some places have porridge cooked with dihuang to resist cold and wet weather. It is also good for people with problems like headaches.

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China’s 15 -year-old Chen Ye won gold in the Men’s Park Final of Skateboarding at the 19th Asian Games.in Hangzhou on Sept. 25, 2023.

Chen started ________ this sport in 2016. “I remember one day I went to a sports store, and ________, I saw a skateboard. I decided to give it a try,” Chen told China Youth Daily. ________ it was really challenging to stay on the board at first, Chen found it very interesting. “Every time I did some difficult tricks, I felt the joy of making breakthroughs (突破). What a(n) ________ feeling it was!” said Chen.

Gradually, Chen needed a better skatepark for ________. To meet the need, his father decided to make a skate bowl himself. “He would work on it late into the night, sometimes until three or four in the morning,” said Chen. “I’m really ________ for my father’s support.”

As a junior high school student in Huizhou No. 1 Middle School, Chen needed to find a balance ________ his schoolwork and skateboarding. His only “privilege (特权)” was being ________ from PE classes, during which he would do schoolwork because he needed to practice in his own skate bowl for hours after returning home. He trained in the morning, studied in the afternoon and sometimes had to have extra (额外的) classes with the teachers’ ________.

Looking at the seven years of learning skating, Chen said this experience made him stronger and more ________ to do something he truly loves.

青少年的未来是光明而美丽的，努力热爱，努力奔赴，尽可能使它成为现实！某英文报社正在开展以“未来的我”为主题的征文活动。假设你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈你未来的工作、你的家以及你的业余生活。

提示词语：imagine, own (自己的), program designer (设计师), colleagues (同事), pet, colorful

提示问题：

1.What kind of job would you like to do in the future?

2.What will your home be like?

3.How will you spend your spare time?

注意：根据所给提示，完成一篇不少于 50 词的英语文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

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中国传统节日是中华民族悠久历史文化的重要组成部分。假设你是李华，你的英国笔友Nancy对中国传统节日很感兴趣，请你用英语向她介绍一个中国传统节日及原因，并描述上一次你是如何度过这个节日的。

There are many traditional festivals in China. I’d like to introduce one of them to you.   _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________     

Yours,

Li Hua

Social media allows people to keep in touch with friends, family and the people around the world with like-minded interests, and share their own thoughts, personal updates, and opinions online. However, using social media too much and posting many selfies (自拍) have caused a rise in narcissism, according to a new study. Narcissism is when someone becomes very selfish and believes they are very talented and beautiful. They need attention from other people and think they are better than everyone else.

Researchers at universities in Swansea and Milan found that heavy users of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter showed a 25 percent rise in narcissism in just four months. The researchers studied how 74 people aged 18 to 34 used social media and looked at how their personality changed. They said that posting selfies seemed to increase levels of narcissism in a way that text messaging does not. Those who used social media too much, through posting pictures, showed an average 25 percent increase in such narcissistic personality over the four months of the study. Only one of them in the study didn’t use social media, and others’ average use was around three hours a day, not including usage for work. Some said that they used social media for as much as eight hours a day for non-working reasons.

More than two-thirds of the participants at the beginning used social media for posting pictures. Professor Phil Reed, from the Department of Psychology at Swansea University, said, “There have been suggestions of links between narcissism and the use of selfies on social media, such as Facebook, but until this study, it was not known if using such social media is related with the growth in narcissism.”

The results of this study suggest that posting selfies can increase narcissism. Professor Read said that about 20 percent of people may be at risk of developing narcissism. This is because they want attention and likes from other people after they post a selfie. They also want to show others how their life is better or how they are more beautiful or attractive. They might feel good at the moment, but in the long term, it only serves to drive good people away from them, have negative effects on their success, and leave them weak and at risk.