The Year of Dragon is coming. Among the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac(生肖), the dragon is the (popular) one. In Chinese culture, the dragon is symbol of power, luck and success. Many people believe that a person born in the Year of Dragon will be kind, friendly and (luck).
There are certain traditions at a Chinese New Year celebration. For example, people would give a red envelope, or Hongbao, to (they) children or grandchildren for good luck in the coming New Year. It is a good way to show love, good (wish) or blessings(祝福). This tradition (start) more than 2,000 years ago. During the celebration, people can (easy) see dragon dances and other traditional activities. Most importantly, some of the family members work and live in different cities, they will all get together to have a family reunion(团圆) dinner.
In fact, all of these traditions have one thing common — people wish to have good luck and look forward to (make) bigger progress in the coming year.
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These years, people show all kinds of things on the Internet—good food, nice clothes, wonderful vacations and so on. Now showing the number of steps is becoming popular.
People are finding it important to be in good health. To keep healthy many people go to work on foot. When they start walking, they open the step counter (计步器) app on their phones to record how many steps they walk that day. After a day' s walk, some people show the number on WeChat or Weibo. This can make them learn from each other and keep exercising.
" This helps me to exercise much and keep a good habit," Miss Liu said. " I can also talk about how to keep healthy with my friends on WeChat. We are in the same group to encourage each other to keep exercising. "
Mr. Wu likes to exercise. But in the past he was kind of lazy and didn' t want to exercise every day. " After I use the step counter app, everything is different. It' s great to exercise with my friends. Sometimes there are prizes for those who walk more steps. I really like it," he said.
Walking is a relaxing and useful way to exercise. Both the old and the young like it. Recording the steps helps people develop a good habit of walking and showing the number can make people more interested in walking. But don' t take the number too seriously.
Andrew was a smart boy. He liked doing things in a way that he thought to be clever. But sometimes he made1 choices.
One day, his father gave him some2 and asked him to buy some goldfish. When he got to the market, he found that the killifish looked like small goldfish, and they were much3 . So he bought some killifish and kept the rest of the money for himself.
When he got home, his father4 what Andrew did at once. He knew his son didn't buy the right fish. At the same time, he thought his son might be good at marketing(市场销售). And he should5 a way to help his son grow well.
He had an idea. Then he said to his son, "Andrew, do you know what you have bought? Are they goldfish?" Andrew felt shy and said in a6 voice, "Er, no, but..." His father continued, "Well, I'm glad you know how to7 money. But you should do things honestly,8 others won't trust you." Then he helped Andrew start with some chores(琐事) like buying daily things, managing his own pocket money and helping his uncle in his store. Later, Andrew worked as a salesman. He kept working hard at it.9 , he became a successful businessman.
Several years later, when talking about the key to his10 , Andrew said, "Thanks to my father, I got to know myself well and developed in a right way."
On November 14. 2023. the International Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO)(国际民用航空组织) officially recognized China' s Bei Dou Satellite Navigation (卫星导航)System(BDS) as the world level. This makes it one of four global (全球的) satellite navigation systems, along with the United States' GPS, Russia' s GLONASS and the European Union' s Galileo.
China started to develop the BDS in 1994. The system came into use in 2000. After 12 years of work. it began serving the Asia-Pacific region. In 2020, with the global use of BDS-3. China has improved the system to provide users with more correct positioning services. making it a valuable tool for more industries(行业), including transportation, agriculture(农业) , and surveying (测量) .
Now with 59 satellites in its network, the BDS has served more than 1. 5 billion users across the world. Most mobile apps providing maps navigation and shopping services inChina already support the BDS. China' s satellite navigation industry is growing fast. Its value reached more than 500 billion yuan in 2022. That number is expected to double by 2025. In the first half year of 2023, there were about 13. 4million new BDS devices (设备) . Nearly60% were used in transport systems. The rest were used in communication and agriculture. The former made up about 28% and the latter 12%.
As BDS gets more popular, it is expected to play an increasingly important role in global navigation and positioning services.
In the past, my old grandmother didn' t enjoy talking on the . Actually, she hated it so she was always refusing to use it. She told us that she preferred speaking to people in person. It always her sad that she couldn' t see the person she was talking to. The other day, we chatted my grandmother, and mentioned video calling over theInternet. It was invented for people to see each other talking online. Then we came up with an . We bought her a laptop(笔记本电脑). One of my went over to her house and taught her how to use it. Luckily, she was a quick .
Now she enjoys when talking with us every day. She is happy and you can tell from the expression her face. She says it' s also very convenient. She can put it anywhere in the house it is small and doesn' t take up much room. Sometimes she even talks to us while she' s in the kitchen cooking!
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There was once a painter whose goal was to paint the most beautiful painting in the world. Day and night he painted to make his greatest work. He painted many paintings. but every time. he would throw away paintings that he thought were less than perfect (不那么完美).
At the same time, another painter who worked in the same studio(工作室) also painted many paintings. He tried his best to paint and seldom threw any paintings away. The first painter would sometimes walk by, looking at the second painter' s finished works. and laugh at them. " No one will buy these paintings. They are worthless! " he would say.
The second painter would always answer. " We' ll see. " And in time, the second painter sold nearly all of his works. People were happy with them even if they were less than perfect
The first painter couldn' t sell any of his paintings, and he never achieved what he wanted. And he gave up his dream of perfection finally.
There is a saying——" Practice makes perfect. " It is used to say that people become better at something if they do it often. For example, if you want to be a good writer. you should write every day.
But in fact, this saying is not always true. No one is perfect, and looking for perfection often ends in failure(失败). But if we simply do our best and work hard, we can usually succeed in life. So please remember: perfection is not always possible, but that' s okay.
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What is real happiness? Different people have different ideas about it. Some people like money better than 1 in the world in the past. They think if they are 2 , they have happiness; nowadays some think if they are in good health. they have happiness; others think if they help people in trouble, they have happiness.
In fact, everyone in the world needs happiness. Everyone wants to own happiness. Many people always 3 happiness. Many people live in happiness, but they don' t realize it. So you must have your own answers to happiness. You can find happiness 4 . For example,working is happiness;playing is happiness; reading is happiness. . . . happiness lies in what you do 5 you find and enjoy it.