Two waste bottles for a pencil, 500 grams of unrecyclable waste for a notebook, and 15 kilograms of waste paper for a soccer ball or basketball－the equations（等式）are kept in mind by Nyima and all other students at a Second Middle School in Qinghai province.

Every weekend, Nyima holds a plastic bag of garbage, such as used water bottles, as she returns from home.

The garbage collected by the 14-year-old will be turned into stationary（文具）, items like pencils and notebooks, she says. "It is a habit for us to pick up the garbage in the ground." said Nyima. "It is hard to find enough garbage for exchange now"

"It took me about one month to save up enough waste bottles to get something like a notebook," said Nyima. The boy students sometimes work together and wait for a long time in order to get larger items, such as soccer balls and basketballs.

Since 2015, a program called "Garbage for Stationery" has improved the school environment and made students care about the environment around them in six middle schools in the area along with ecology（生态学） and environment classes.Students have welcomed the program since it started.There are about 40 stationary items available for exchange. The school has spent about 20,000 yuan on the program, and some of the money has come from donations from society.

According to Nyiga, headmaster of the school, fighting poverty through education requires not only knowledge but also a sense of responsibility among future generations to protect the environment the local people rely on.

Do German kids wear uniforms? What time does school start in Germany? Find out here!

Just like you, children in Germany have to go to school from Monday to Friday. They have to be【小题1】from 7:30 a.m to 8:15a.m.

They usually have five or six lessons every day. School subjects are【小题2】to those you may have. There is five to ten minute【小题3】between two lessons. German kids can go out and play with classmates.

There isn’t much time, because the school day finishes before lunch. So German children have【小题4】afternoons. But they get lots of homework.

German school children get 15weeks of holiday each year. The students like the long 6-week summer holidays the best.

My little 10-year-old daughter, Sarah was born with a muscle missing in her foot and wore a brace(支架) all the time. She came home one beautiful spring day to tell me she had competed in “field day”, and they had lots of races amd other, 【小题1】 events.

Because of her leg【小题2】, my mind races as I tried to think of encouragement for my Sarah. I wanted to say something to cheer her up, but before I could say anything, she said, “Daddy, I【小题3】 two of the races!”

I couldn’t believe it. And then Sarah said, “I had an advantage.”

I knew it. I thought she must have been given a head start--some kind of physical advantage. But again, before I could say anything, she said, “Daddy, I didn’t get a head start-- my advantage was I had to try 【小题4】 !”

My daughter taught me s lesson in heart sbout courage. This is true courage! My little girl!

   Psychologists tell us that there are four basic stages that human beings pass through when they enter and live in a new culture. This process, which helps us to deal with culture shock, is the way our brain and our personality react to the strange new things when we move from one culture to another.

Culture begins with the” honeymoon stage. ”This is the period of time when we first arrive in which everything about the new culture is strange and exciting. We may be suffering from”jet lag(时差)”but are thrilled to be in the new environment, seeing new sights, hearing new sounds and language, eating new kings of food. This stage can last for quite a long time because we feel we are involved in some kind of great adventure.

Unfortunately, the second stage can be more difficult. After we have settled down into our new life, we can become very tired and begin to miss our homeland and our family, friends, pets. All the little problems in life seem to be much bigger and more disturbing when your face them in a foreign culture. This period of cultural adjustment(调整) can be very difficult and lead to the new arrival rejecting or pulling away from the new culture.

The third stage is called the “adjustment stage”. This is when you begin to realize that things are not so bad in the host culture. Your sense of humor usually becomes stronger and you realize that you are becoming stronger by learning to take care of yourself in the new place .Things are still difficult ,but are now a survivor.

The fourth stage can be called ”at ease at last”. Now you feel quite comfortable in your new surroundings. You can cope with most problems that occur .You may still have problems with the language, but you know you are strong enough to deal with them.

There is a fifth stage of culture shock which many people don’t know about. This is called ”reverse(反转)” culture shock. Surprisingly, this occurs when you go back to your native culture and find that you have changed and that things have changed while you have been away. Now you feel a little uncomfortable back home. Life is a struggle.

   Micheal Scofield has won fans all over the world. The star of the hit show Prison Bread is kind, clever and good looking. But what about the man behind the character?

Wentworh Miller, the 35-year-old actor who plays scofield, is a hard guy to figure out. He doesn’t come from a traditional background and doesn’t_____ a traditional path.

Miller didn’t take a direct road to fame and fortune. He graduated from Princeton University in 1995 with a degree in English, not a degree in theatre or film. He didn’t even act when he was in college. His only ___experience was in his university’s well-known singing group. Yet, at graduation, Miller still decided to make the move to the Hollywood.

Miller has always been different. Although he is American, he was born in Britain when his father was studying there. His family background is a_____of cultures. “my father is black and my mother is white. That means I have always been caught in the middle. I could be ____ one, which can make you feel out of place.” Miller says.

Following his unusual path, Miller didn’t start trying out for films and TV shoes when he got to Hollywood. Instead, he worked as a production assistant. Not what you would ____ from a Princeton graduate.

However, it all paid off for Miller in the end. Working on Production side, he learned a lot about what makes a good ____.

In 2002, Miller played a role in the drama Dinotopia. He starred as a shy man. The producers remembered his performance when they were making Prison Bread two years later.

With a golden globe nomination(金球奖提名) and another season of Prison Break under his belt. Miller seems ready to take over all of Hollywood.

How to survive a disaster? Most survivors says that nothing felt, sounded or looked the way they would have expected. Reality was in some ways better, in other ways w【小题1】. They say there are things they wish they had known.

On September 28, 1994, a ship called the Estonia sank, which was the worst sea disaster in modern European h【小题2】. Kent was then a 29-year-old passenger. He was hanging out in the bar with some other passengers that night. Suddenly, the ship list to 30º, hurling passengers across its passageways. Kent began to act at once. “I started to react very differently from normal. I started to say, ‘Oh， the boat is sinking.’ ”Like many survivors, Kent experienced a state in which the brain focuses on the individual experience, “I just say my small world.”

But as Kent made his way into the corridor, he noticed something strange. Not just one or two passengers, but entire groups seemed unable to m【小题3】. They were conscious (有意识的), but they were not reacting.

In the case of the Estonia and other diseases, the freezing response may have been a natural and horrible m【小题4】. Under extreme stress, our brains search for a proper survival response and sometimes choose the wrong one. But the more encouraging point is that the brain is plastic. It can be trained to respond more properly. If we can r【小题5】 our own fear even a little bit, we might be able to do better.

Fire drills, particularly if they are unexpected, can dramatically reduce fear. Knowing where the stairs are in a building can give your brain an a【小题6】. Safety drills give our brains blueprints in the unlikely event that we need them. We can also help each other do better. Many flight attendants are now rained to scream at passengers in burning planes, “Get out! Go!” People r【小题7】 well to leadership in a disaster, and then they can do remarkable things.