现在有些中学生追求时尚，要求父母给他们买名牌服装和电子产品等。情根据以下要点写一篇关于中学生攀比消费的英语短文。短文应包括以下要点：
1.创建节约型社会；
2.集中精力于学习上；
3.父母的钱来之不易；
4.适当的结尾。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2．不要逐句翻译，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：节约型社会 an economical society
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。没处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（／）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分
Nowadays television is playing important role in our daily life. On the one hand, television present a very vivid world to us. On television, we can watch excited Olympic football matches. We can also travel to New York and go sightseeing in London. On television, we can learn many things happened in the world with having to go outside our houses. Television also plays an education role in our daily life. It provides various educational program for different viewers. On the other hand, television could also be harmful. Watching television too much hurts to our eyes, influences our sleep and work and cuts down children’s study time.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Cars and trucks are not the only vehicles where phones and other devices can cause distraction(分心)。In 2008, one engineer of a train was texting and ran through a red signal and ran into 1. train. That crash killed twenty-five people. In 2009,two airline pilots became distracted by their personal laptops during a flight. They 2. (fly) one hundred sixty kilometers past the city 3. they were supposed to land. In 2010, two Hungarian tourists died in 4. boat crash on the Delaware River. The accident happened 5. a crew member on a boat 6. (pay) attention to a cellphone and laptop computer. Almost everyone knows about the risks of distracted driving. But what about distracted walking people 7. get struck by cars or trains while walking, 8.(wear) headphones? A new report says the United States had 116 headphones related pedestrian crashes 9. 2004 to 2011. Three times as many of these happened in the last two years as in time closely follows the rise in the 10.(popular) of mini players. Seventy percent of the crashes killed the pedestrian.
It was the Greek shopkeeper in a small corner shop in London that taught me about the power of an act of ______, which has motivated me to give. I was a student, ______ and very poor. I would work early morning and late nights to pay for my ______, and I was tired—really tired—all the time.
On the day I went to that shop for the first time, I was ______ with a very high fever. I had been ______ work for a few days, and run out of ______. Having been working so hard since I moved to town, I had no ______ nearby who could help. Normally, I would have gone to the ______, but on this occasion, I went into the Greek shop because it was ______.
I ______ a few items, from the looks of which revealed the ______ that I lived alone. Then I handed them to the shopkeeper, who told me, “You are unwell.” She pointed at the salami and bread I was buying and ______, “ I can make you a sandwich, so you don’t have to do it yourself.” I nodded, rather timidly. So , she made the ______ and asked me to ______ a moment. She went in the back room and returned with a container of hot soup.
“ I will ______ you up,” she said with a broad, genuine ______.
What really warmed me up, ______, was not the soup. It was her smile and kindness that made me feel ______ when I was particularly lonely. I had been quite ______, but, from that day on, I did not let shyness prevent me from ______ random acts of kindness.
1.A. bravery B. politeness C. kindness D. faith
2.A. friendly B. single C. unreliable D. honest
3.A. apartment B. dream C. studies D. company
4.A. concerned B. hot C. hungry D. sick
5.A. off B. in C. from D. beyond
6.A. clothes B. food C. energy D. hope
7.A. colleagues B. relatives C. friends D. parents
8.A. clinic B. company C. Greek shop D. supermarket
9.A. closer B. farther C. prepared D. reliable
10.A. came across B. picked up C. wiped out D. put off
11.A. result B. gift C. fact D. chance
12.A. concluded B. imagined C. guessed D. offered
13.A. sandwich B. salami C. bread D. soup
14.A. consider B. sit C. wait D. hold
15.A. fix B. warm C. turn D. take
16.A. cry B. cover C. laugh D. smile
17.A. though B. instead C. too D. still
18.A. amazed B. cared C. lost D. confused
19.A. satisfied B. kind C. honest D. shy
20.A. performing B. searching C. deserting D. treating
Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? 1. The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life. Make a plan for achieving goals that you believe will make you happy. Your moods will very likely increase（增加） if you are going after something you value.
Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively（消极的）. When you are surrounded by people who think that way. 2.When something goes wrong, try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self pity.
Truly happy people don’t allow setbacks 挫折 to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the things back to their favor.
3. These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.
4. Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance, you will be putting yourself in a better mood.
Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.
Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness. 5.
A. There are some tips in life that lead to happiness.
B. It’s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself
C. On the contrary, if you are around people who are happy, their emotional state will be easily passed to you.
D. Being overweight or not eating foods containing nutrition have a negative effect on your mood.
E. What makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy.
F. These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves.
G. Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy.
Children often suffer pain and insecurity when their parents separate. When my ex-husband and I broke up after 10 years of marriage, our daughter was 5 years old and our son only 3. We decided to see a psychologist about the best way to explain this new situation to the children. She shared with us this special story about a land turtle and a sea turtle, which we then used to help them better comprehend.
Once upon a time, a land turtle (Mommy) met a sea turtle (Daddy) close to a beautiful shore. Soon they fell deeply in love and decided to get married. For a time, they continued to live at the water’s edge so that Mommy could sit on the sand and keep dry and warm, while Daddy sat in the shallow water to keep cool. A few years later two baby turtles arrived. They were very special indeed, and looked a little like each of their parents.
But as the years went by, Daddy sea turtle started spending more and more time in the ocean as he traveled deeper and deeper to look for pearls. Mommy land turtle also started wandering up into the sands to hunt for food in the woods. Little by little, Daddy and Mommy turtle started to drift apart. Finally one day, Mommy and Daddy turtle decided they didn’t want to live together any more. The little turtles continued to spend time with each of their parents. They made lots of friends with all the fish, dolphins and whales in the ocean and also many friends with the rabbits, deer, and foxes in the woods. In fact they grew up to be a new kind of turtle that could live both in the ocean and on the land.
Over the years, this tale of the land and sea turtle has helped my children cope and accept the fact that my marriage to their father was over. They know that we once loved each other very much and that they were born out of true love.
1.When the parents divorce, their children often feel ____.
A. unsafe B. relieved
C. indifferent D. annoyed
2.The underlined “They” in the second paragraph refers to “_______”.
A. The land turtle and the sea turtle
B. The two baby turtles
C. The author and her ex-husband
D. The author’s children
3.We can conclude from the third paragraph that ______.
A. the divorce of two turtles harmed their children greatly.
B. the author and her ex-husband still live together after the divorce
C. parental divorce is not always bad for the children’s growth
D. the tale of the two turtles is widely read in the USA
4.We can probably find this passage in the column of _____.
A. Culture B. Parenting
C. Career D. Education
