A peer is a person who is about the same age as you. Peers affect your life, whether you know it or not, just by spending time with you.

    ____ Maybe another student in your science class taught you an easy way to remember the planets in solar system. Maybe you got others excited about your new favorite book and now everyone's reading it. However, sometimes peers affect one another in another way____ Maybe a kid in the neighborhood wanted you to steal with him.

    Some kids give in to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fit in, or because they worry that other kids may make fun of them if they don't go along with the group.____ The idea that “everyone's doing it” may influence some kids to leave their better judgments or their common senses behind.

    Peer pressure can be extremely strong and hard to get rid of. Experiments have shown how peer pressure can influence someone to change her/his mind from what she/he knows for sure is a correct answer to the incorrect answer-just because everyone else gives the incorrect answer!____

    ____ Paying attention to your own feelings and beliefs about what is right and wrong can help you know the right thing to do. Inner strength and self-confidence can help you stand firm, walk away and resist doing something when you know better.

A. Peers can have a good effect on one another.

B. Peer pressure is the direct influence on people by peers.

C. Good peers may give you a hand when you are in trouble.

D. That holds true for people of any age in peer pressure situations.

E. Maybe one kid in school tried to get another to cut class with him.

F. It can be hard to walk away from peer pressure, but it can be done.

G. Others may go along because they are curious to try something new that others are doing.

—— Show me the map, please. I wonder ______.—— Look, it's here, in the east of China, near Taiwan Province.

“历史丰碑解读”
以“人民英雄的历史，血与火铸就的丰碑”为主题，阅读课文中摘录的人民英雄纪念碑碑文，查找相关书籍和网站，结合以前所学的历史知识，回顾中国近代以来人民革命的历程，感受中国近代波澜壮阔的历史，从中接受爱国主义教育。