2013年21世纪报初三版21stCenturyJunior3.doc

Memories to build on本文作者： Zhang Yuanyuan and Zhou Yixuan 回顾初中生活，历数成长印记词数 250 建议阅读时间 5 分钟TIME flies. Your time in junior high school will come to an end in a few months. Let’s look back over the last three years. What were the highs and lows?For Zhang Xiaomeng, a senior high school girl from Jiangsu, meeting her best friend Hua Xuan was the best part of her time at junior high school. They went to class together, had lunch together, and even went to the washroom together.Having one or two best friends is important, said Xu Zheng, a teacher from Jiangsu. “Students have secrets. They don’t want to tell their parents,” Xu added.However, being too rebellious (叛逆的) in junior high is the biggest regret (遗憾) for Liu Anqing, a senior high school student from Fujian. “I didn’t listen to my parents. I quarreled with my mother every week,” said Liu. “I wish I could go back to that time and get on well with them.” Time also needs to be taken care of. Zhang Zihua, 15, from Shanxi, thought he had plenty of time to prepare for the big exam at the end of Junior 3. Then one day, he was told: “The exam is in 100 days.” “We need a solid (牢固的) knowledge base to pass the exam. But I didn’t care about it,” said Zhang. Gu Xiaoli, a teacher from Jiangsu, said that it’s never too late to catch up. “No matter your regrets about wasted time, you can always pick things up from now,” said Gu. Zhang Yuanyuan and Zhou Yixuan contributed to the storyTeens 点金重点词汇quarrel v. 争吵用法：quarrel with sb 和某人吵架。

quarrel 可作名词，have a quarrel about 就……问题而争吵Those children are always quarreling over little things.We had a quarrel over money. Friendship gives us sweet memories of our campus life. XINHUATry to stay honest 期号：394 信用代码将成为伴随终生的第二张“身份证”词数 290 建议阅读时间 6 分钟BEING dishonest won’t make your nose any longer. But be careful – it may cause problems for your personal development.China is setting up a nationwide social credit code (信用代码) system. It’s based on resident identification (身份) numbers and codes for organizations and companies, People’s Daily reported.The system will be made both for people and companies and organizations. Every person will get a unique credit code. It will be with them for a lifetime.Credit is a way of knowing whether a person or company is trustworthy (可信的). It is important for banks to know when they lend money.“A credit system urge people to be careful about their behavior and to be responsible for what they have done,” said Ni Dafang, a businessman in Shaoxing, Zhejiang.The country started doing credit investigations (调查) in 2004. People’s Bank of China launched a financial (金融的) credit information database. The database records of a person’s behavior in borrowing and repaying. If you don’t pay back money in time, for example, you will affect your credit record.Things that damage the credit rating also include forgetting to pay mobile phone, water, electricity and gas fees, according to Changjiang Times.Bad records may cause people problems. For example, they may be turned down when borrowing money from banks. If a person has made up to his or her bad behavior, the bad records can be cleared in five years.Details of the new credit code system have not yet been released. But people are expecting them to cover more aspects of people’s lives.A comprehensive (全面的) credit system could improve the lives of those with good credit records and cause problems for those without, the newspaper commented.XINHUABright ideas help us all本文作者： Zhang Chunmei 期号：395我的发明不深奥，但很生活。

词数 260 建议阅读时间 5 分钟DO you ever worry about thieves breaking into your home? Do you often remind parents to keep wide awake while driving?Liu Junkang, 13, has these worries. He deals with them through his inventions.Liu studies at Nanjing Hongguang Middle School. Since primary school, he has been interested in inventions.Liu saw that his mom spent a lot of time cleaning hair on the floor. So he tied adhesive tape (胶带) to a roller and added a handle (把手). A new mop (拖把) was invented.One day, a thief tried to break into his home. Luckily a neighbor saw and stopped it. The experience gave Liu a new idea. He made an auto-alarm (自动报警器) and put it into the mat. If a person stands on it, the alarm goes off.At the 24th Jiangsu Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest in March, Liu showed his latest invention.It looks like a normal Bluetooth earphone, but Liu and his friend added a mercury balance device (水银平衡装置) to it. When the wearer falls asleep and his head leans to one side at an angle (角度) of 15-25 degrees, the mercury device will turn on an alarm to wake up the driver.“I read reports about traffic accidents caused by tired drivers. This device could help,” said Liu. It costs only 10 yuan.“My inventions are not about difficult theories (理论). They are about being useful,” said Liu. “If everyone thinks deeper about everyday problems and works out new ways to solve them, our lives will be better,” he added.By Zhang Chunmei, 21st Century Te。