Parents and children often face the challengesof money. Common topics include setting pocket money, learning to save, anddeciding to buy expensive things. The goal of most parents is to teach theirkids how to deal with money wisely. The goal of most kids is getting money tospend. How can families achieve these goals?
Jared ___15___ to stay at home, but his mom sent him anyway.He had to sit next to Jessica. At reading time, Mrs. Thomas asked Jared toread. Reading aloud always made Jared ___16___ . As he picked up the book, his hands shook.“He can’t read,” Jessica said. “I didn’t call on you, did I?”
Du, 23,is a student from Shanghai University. He won third place at the ninth IOIO (國(guó)際折紙奧林匹克) in February this year. A total of 803 competitors from 59countries and areas took part in this year’s event.
Russia’s skating silver medalist AlexandraTrusova, 17, amazed the world with five quadruple jumps (四周跳)during free skate at the Beijing Winter Olympics. No other woman has everfinished five quadruple jumps in an Olympic competition.
ThreeRiver-Source National Park on the Qinghai-TibetPlateau(青藏高原),is the largest national park in China. Because it is home to the sources of theYangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, people call it “China’s water tower”.
When youand your friends turn to each other to talk about problems or troubles, yougive each other advice and help. One important thing of our growth is to makedecisions to help our friends and learn to support each other. This requires usto learn what it means to help friends and how to help them in right ways.
Everyone knows how similar chimpanzees (黑猩猩)are to humans. So it’s no surprise that their greetings are also close to ours.The most common ways of greeting between chimpanzees are hand touching andhugging. Sometimes they also kiss each other. Some chimpanzees can even learnsimple sign language.
Raden Roro Hendarti, nearly 50 years old, is alibrarian in Muntang village. She started a “trash library”, hoping to makechildren read more as well as make them realize the importance of environmentprotection. Each weekday, Raden puts all kinds of books on the back of herthree-wheeler (三輪車)and rides to Muntang village. There, children line up to exchange plastic cups,bags and other trash for books from Raden’s mobile library. After finishing theexchange, Raden carries back all the trash.
I often hear some students say English isdifficult, so they can’t learn it well. ___11___ English is very easy for me. I’m good ___12___ it. I’m very glad to tell you ___13___ about how I study English.
FIFA World Cup is one of the biggest sportsevents in the world. It ___11___every 4 years. The first World Cup was in 1930. It has a history of over 90years. During the World Cup, ___12___fans watch the games and cheer for their favorite teams or players.
Lastsummer, I was holding the net when Grandpa asked me ____19____ I couldhelp him teach Frank how to play chess. I said no because I wanted to catchfish. Grandpa had been the one who’d taught us how to catch fish, but then the ____20____ made him stay behind.
Late onenight, Gulliver received a warning that some nobles wanted him killed. Even theemperor of Lilliput wanted to give him less food to save ___16___. It was true Gulliver was very expensive.
An unexpected thing happened in the ____11____ of my eleventh year. Thehome I had ____12____inwas burned to the ground in the middle of the night. ____13____ , mymom, dad, grandma, brothers and I escaped(幸免于難).
元代是題跋的興盛期。到了元代,倪瓚那一批畫家就徹底不顧忌“簽名"。他們的文人畫,講究"詩書入畫”,有詩有序,作品才算完整,于是題跋成了書畫的重要組成部分。題跋中除了簽名,一般還要交代創(chuàng)作的時(shí)間、地點(diǎn)、人物,或者寫首詩配合畫面,生怕后人感受不到畫家的情緒。這樣一來,對(duì)畫家的要求就高了,不僅要會(huì)寫詩,還要書法好,最重要的是會(huì)搭配,整體美觀。畫畫的人變了,畫作自然也就不同了,就好比文藝青年喜歡往各種“無聊”的地方增加難度,并且樂此不疲。
自省的力量,首先在于可以“”。古人云“以責(zé)人之心責(zé)己,則寡過”“日省其身,有則改之,無則加勉”,極言自省是修身養(yǎng)性、提升境界的重要方法。《世說新語》載,周處年少時(shí)兇強(qiáng)俠氣,為鄉(xiāng)里所患,與蛟、虎并稱為“三害”。周處射虎殺蛟三日不見,鄉(xiāng)人以為周處死了互相慶賀,周處回來后聽到鄉(xiāng)鄰相慶,才知被鄉(xiāng)鄰憎惡,乃“有自改意”,由此棄惡從善,“有文思,志存義烈,言必忠信克己”。今天,我們講自省,對(duì)思想、工作、生活點(diǎn)滴及細(xì)節(jié)予以檢視,客觀地看待自我,清醒地查找不足,其意義并非止于懺悔,而在于超越自我,促進(jìn)自我認(rèn)知、自我完善,不斷喚醒善意良知,不斷升華人格。
考古發(fā)掘中,洞穴是發(fā)現(xiàn)原始人使用火的遺跡的主要地點(diǎn)。于是有人認(rèn)為,洞穴居住是當(dāng)時(shí)人類的生存方式。學(xué)者雄辯地反駁了這種認(rèn)識(shí)。原因其實(shí)很簡(jiǎn)單:洞穴是物質(zhì)環(huán)境中極具隨機(jī)性的地貌。食物源和新鮮水源是生存的第一要素,卻未必在洞穴附近。在絕大多數(shù)動(dòng)物的生存策略中,都看不到犧牲第一要素去遷就洞穴的習(xí)慣性選擇。地下動(dòng)物的洞穴往往是自挖的。北極熊在冰雪上為自己挖洞過冬。其他熊的洞穴選擇也是隨機(jī)的,利用樹洞、山洞等等。何況那是冬眠,不是日日覓食的溫暖季節(jié)。原始人要跟著食物源跋涉、遷徙,不會(huì)定居于附近缺水少食的山洞。那為什么山洞中屢屢發(fā)現(xiàn)火的遺跡?只能有一個(gè)解釋,那里是他們保存火種的專門場(chǎng)所。在不避風(fēng)雨的露天場(chǎng)所保存火種太過冒險(xiǎn),且更消耗木材。這是人類使用火不久就可以完成的認(rèn)識(shí)。于是,當(dāng)保存火種的山洞距離食物源、水源較近時(shí),山洞尚可兼作部落聚會(huì)的場(chǎng)所,當(dāng)山洞距離食物源、水源較遠(yuǎn)時(shí),山洞就只能充當(dāng)火種保存地。而為了降低因看管人能力低下而導(dǎo)致火種熄滅的概率,乃至一次次失敗經(jīng)驗(yàn)的吸取,都會(huì)導(dǎo)致專職保存火種者的產(chǎn)生。很可能是這樁當(dāng)時(shí)最緊要的事情,造就了人類社會(huì)中的第一次專業(yè)分工。
回鄉(xiāng)過年,帶小外甥去小店買花炮,回來路上聽見有人喊他名字,我正要回頭,卻聽小外甥壓低聲音說,快走。我還沒反應(yīng)過來,他已經(jīng)一溜煙跑回家了。我轉(zhuǎn)過頭,看見一個(gè)和他年齡相仿的小男孩愣愣地站在遠(yuǎn)處,無所適從的樣子。 回到家里,小外甥說那是他同學(xué),不過大家都不跟那小男孩玩。小男孩有時(shí)攆著跟人家玩,有時(shí)候又會(huì)莫名其妙地罵人,甚至動(dòng)手,下手還特別重,有次把一個(gè)男生的耳朵都打出血了。 為什么會(huì)這樣呢?小外甥的爸爸告訴我,小男孩沒人管,媽媽幾年前就沒了,爸爸在外面打工,也不怎么回來,他跟著爺爺奶奶住。
有一年的春天,我因?yàn)榧棺祩?cè)彎沒有得到完全矯正,再加上長(zhǎng)時(shí)間久坐,經(jīng)常腰背疼得坐立難安。因別人介紹認(rèn)識(shí)了家在重機(jī)廠的李醫(yī)生,便下定決心好好治療。每天下了班就開車到重機(jī)廠李醫(yī)生家。剛好是三月,風(fēng)暖起來,花開成片,如同有人在潑灑顏料一般,醉人的酒紅,少女明艷的桃紅,嬰兒般純凈的粉白,這邊染一塊,那邊染一塊。到李醫(yī)生家,要經(jīng)過農(nóng)大門口一條筆直的路,兩旁種滿重瓣晚櫻,這個(gè)時(shí)節(jié),花團(tuán)錦簇,觸目驚心。一直以來,我總是回避從這里經(jīng)過,農(nóng)大總是提醒我心里的疼痛,讓我想起弟弟,想起他在這里生活的歲月。我的弟弟,曾在這里學(xué)習(xí),后來,他得了癌癥,發(fā)現(xiàn)時(shí)已是晚期,治療了半年多,還是離開了。弟弟開始治療也是在三月。爸爸的朋友在醫(yī)院對(duì)面有一套小房子,弟弟暫時(shí)住在這里,我每天下了班過去。
農(nóng)諺有“小滿小滿,麥粒漸滿”的說法。此時(shí),小麥度過一冬的休眠期后,經(jīng)過返青拔節(jié),抽穗開花,亟須熏風(fēng)暖熟,雖然仍是一片青綠,但有著一股蓄勢(shì)待發(fā)的勁頭。麥穗已經(jīng)抽齊,麥粒鼓著腮幫一般,泛出一層透明的綠色。等到這晶瑩的嫩綠變?yōu)辄S綠,麥子也即將成熱了。農(nóng)諺又云“小滿未滿,還有危險(xiǎn)”。小麥成長(zhǎng)的最后階段灌漿期十分關(guān)鍵,籽粒才剛剛盈實(shí),若碰到災(zāi)難天氣或病蟲害,麥粒未經(jīng)過充分的乳熟期,小麥的品質(zhì)便會(huì)大打折扣。
那位教師立刻用這束樹枝朝她頸背上狠狠抽打了十幾下。彭斯的眼里沒有涌出一滴眼淚。我目睹著這一場(chǎng)面,不由得升起了一股徒勞無益的怒火,氣得雙手直發(fā)抖,只得停下手中的活兒,可是她那張若有所思的臉上,卻神色如常,沒有一點(diǎn)變化?!熬笃獾墓媚铮 彼箘P契德小姐嚷道,“你那邋遢習(xí)慣怎么也改不了啦。把掃帚拿走!”彭斯遵命照辦了。當(dāng)她從藏書室里出來時(shí),我仔細(xì)朝她打量著。她正把自己的手絹放回口袋,瘦削的臉頰上還有一絲淚痕在閃閃發(fā)光。