Having one of those days or weeks when everything seems to annoy you? Even if you do nothing about it, your bad mood will probably go away after some time.__1__

●Walk it off

Exercise is the most popular bad mood buster. __2__ Taking a fast ten－minute walk, or doing some quick exercises can do wonders towards changing that bad mood.

●__3__

Listening to your favourite music for a while can also make tensions go away quickly, because music starts associations with past positive experiences we've had.

●Give yourself a pep talk

Stop and listen to what's on your mind. __4__ Write them all down on paper, including the pessimistic messages you've been giving yourself and then give optimistic answers.

●Avoid things that won't improve your mood

TV may not help much: You need to increase your energy level and stimulate your mind. __5__ Sugar and caffeine contribute to depressed moods while carbohydrates, such as potatoes and pasta (意大利面食), produce a calming effect in people who have a desire for them.

A. A person who's in a bad mood has low energy and high tension.

B. Bad moods are often started by too many negative thoughts.

C. A person with bad mood gets angry easily.

D. Tune it out.

E. Eat more food.

F. But with a little effort, you can forget it much faster, often within a day or two.

G. And before you reach for that piece of cake and coffee, think about how what you feel and what you eat are linked.

1. ________　2. ________　3. ________　4. ________

5. ________

Money Matters

Parents should help children understand money.   71     So you may start talking about money when your child shows an interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.

1. The basic function of money

Begin explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It’s important to show your child how money is traded for the thing he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier (收银员).   72   When your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more complex ways of using money.

2. Money lessons

Approach money lessons with openness and honesty.   73    If you must say no to a child’s request to spend money, explain, “You have enough toy trucks for now.” Or, if the request is for many different things, say, “You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy.”

3.    74  

Begin at the grocery store. Pick out two similar brands of a product — a name-brand butter and a generic (无商标产品), for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money,    75    If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to make another purchase with the money saved. Later, you may explain how the more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.

A．Wise decisions

B．The value of money

C．Permit the child to choose between them.

D．Tell your child why he can—or cannot—have certain things.

E. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you.

F. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store.

G. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest.

 

Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds;  (2)citrus （柑橘）fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables ; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷物), rice is also in this kind of foods; (7) Butter or something like butter. 

People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways.  People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first thin g is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kind of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?

A. chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages.           B. potatoes, carrots, rice, bread.

C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes.            D. beef, pork, fish, milk

It is important for people to eat __________.

A. three times a day                        B. dinner at twelve o’clock

C. cooked food all the day

D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day.

People in different countries and different places of the world________________.

A. have the right kinds of food to eat          B. cook their food in the same way

C. have their meals at the same time            D. eat food in different ways.

Which of the following is NOT true?

A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.

B. There are too many people in the world.

C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.

D. The scientists are trying to make people e grow to be strong and healthy.

If there is paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?

A. When people eat their lunch.                 B. What to do with the two problems.

C. How to cook food in different ways.      D. Why people eat different kinds of food. 

Question: What are some ways I can calm down quickly when I’m feeling overwhelmed (不知所措的)? Sometimes I don’t realize how much stress is building up. Other times, several stressful events happen at once. I suddenly go from calm to completely overwhelmed quickly. 1
Answer: There are many ways to calm down quickly. The following are four quick and easy ways to deal with whatever situations are at hand:
● Take a walk.
2 Taking a walk provides the chance of getting you out of the stressful situation. You can return in a new state of mind.
● 3
You can feel better right away by practicing breathing exercises. Getting more oxygen into your body and releasing physical stress are two ways that can make you feel better. You can do them anytime or anywhere.
● Give your mind a break.
You can steal away a few minutes of peace. 4 It’s easy to do. It can relax you physically as well as mentally (精神上地).
● 5
If you can look at your situation in a different way, you may be able to have a different opinion. It will cause you less stress. Read more about stress, and learn how you can change the way you look at things. It’ll be useful when you’re stressed.

A．Take a deep breath.

B．Reduce stress in your life.

C．Try to get back peace of mind.

D．Exercise can help you to throw off stress.

E. Look at your situation differently.
F. How can I quickly calm down when it happens?
G. What’s your opinion about how to deal with stress?

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If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows this, and nobody would think of questioning this fact. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by exercising it regularly, either consciously or unconsciously. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough opportunity to become strong.   . One of them exercises his arms and legs by playing tennis, while the other sits in a chair or a motor car all day.

If a friend complains that his arms are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, or that he is just unlucky, and few of us realize that it is just as much his own fault as if it was his arms or legs that were weak.  . But all of us can, if we have ordinary bodies and brains, improve our strength and our memory by the same means — practice.

Have you ever noticed that people who cannot read or write usually have better memories than those who can? . Of course, because those who cannot read or write have to remember things. They cannot write them down in a little notebook and they have to remember dates, time and prices, names, songs and stories, so their memory is the whole time being exercised.

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A. What do you think of it?

B. Yet many people do not seem to know that the memory works in the same way.

C. Not all of us can become extremely strong or extremely clever.

D. So if you want a good memory, practice remembering.

E. Someone else says that he is poor in health.

F. Why is this?

G. The position is exactly the same as that of two people