“Take a walk with any three people and at least one of them will have something to teach you . ”

1.    it was Confucius（孔夫子） — China’s most famous thinker and teacher.

When Confucius was young , he visited many famous teachers and studied music , history , poetry(诗歌) and sports. At the age of 22, he became a teacher himself and started his own school. 2.    

For more than 2000 years, Confucius’ ideas have been around in people’s everyday lives. 3.   

Now they have gone far into east and south Asia. 4.    Because they help a lot not only in everyday life but also in society.

Confucius’ most important ideas are about kindness and good manners. Confucius said young people should take care of the old.5.      

Some of Confucius’ most famous sayings are: “A kind person should care for others”, and “be strict with yourself, but be kind to others”.

A.  Why are his ideas so popular?

B.  Do you know who said that?

C.  People can still hear them today.

D.  In his life, he had over 3000 students.

E.  How did he think up those important ideas?

F.  He also said that everyone should go to school if they want to learn.

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Satellites Forecast the Weather

Now satellites are helping to forecast (预报) the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The 1.________ take pictures of the atmosphere (大气), because this is where the weather forms (形成). They send these pictures to the 2. ________ station. So the scientists there can see the weather of any part of the world and tell how the weather will change.

Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries can  3. ________ satellite pictures. 4. ________they receive the new pictures, they compare (比较) them with the earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have  5. ________ during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather 6. ________, they can tell people about it. So the weather satellites are of a great  7. ________ to the scientists at the station. In the past they could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours  8. ________. Now they can make good forecasts for three  9 ________ five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather  10. ________ a week or more ahead.

Tom and Mike were good friends.Sometimes they were kind to each other, sometimes they were not.But all of their classmates said they were like brothers.
One day they went out for a walk together.At noon they were very hungry and they went into a restaurant to have lunch.The waiter came up to them and asked, “What can I do for you?”
“Please bring us two apples first.” said Tom.
When the waiter put two apples on the table, Mike took the bigger one at once.Tom got angry.
“You are impolite, Mike.Why don’t you take the smaller one?” Tom said.
“But I am right.” said Mike with a smile, “if I let you take first, which one will you choose?”
“Of course I’ll take the smaller one.” said Tom.
“Yes,” Mike said, “If you take the smaller one, the bigger one will still be mine.Don’t you think so?”
“Oh!” Tom couldn’t answer.
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