Parents always want the best for their kids. But everyone has their own way of parenting (养育). Here are some popular parenting styles. Which one do you like best?

Has anyone ever told you that eating carrots will help you see in the dark? This is just one of many incorrect beliefs you may have heard. Below, TEENS has picked out scientific explanations for three mistakes that people make about their eyes. Let's take a look.

Can eating carrots improve your eyesight?

Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which helps the eyes to turn light into information for your brain. This allows people to see in darker places. However, eating more carrots won't help you see better. A certain minimum amount will help, but a large number of carrots will not give you superhuman vision.

If your parents have bad eyesight, will you have bad eyesight, too?

Myopia (近视) can be passed from parents to children. A study by the American Optometric Association found that if both parents are myopic, there's a 33 to 60 percent chance that their child will be. For children who have one parent with myopia, the chance is 23 to 40 percent, and it's down to 6 to 15 percent for kids with non-myopic parents. So if your eyesight is bad, your children might still have good vision.

Do color blind people see the world in black and white?

Color blindness doesn't usually mean that people see the world like an old movie. They usually can't tell certain colors apart, especially green and red. Another commonly confused pair of colors is yellow and blue. Our eyes have cone cells (视锥细胞) that sense different wavelengths of light. If these cells don't work properly, color blindness occurs. There are different levels of color blindness. Some people are only color blind in low light. However, in the most serious form of color blindness, everything is shades of gray.

"Cool" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit . As the world has changed, the word has had manymeanings. "Cool" can be used to express feelings of interest  almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will （say）, "It's cool." You may think, "He's so cool," when you see your favorite football player. We all maximize the meaning of "cool". You can use  instead of many words such as "new" or "surprising". Here's an interesting story we can use to the way the word is used a teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall they had visited. On  student's paper was just the one sentence, "It's cool." Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and （feel）.

But the story also shows a scarcity of words. Without "cool", some people have no （word） to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility. Can you think of many  words that make your life as colorful as the word "cool"?

I have a good friend who has a very nice name—Gina. She comes from . She is agirl. She has big eyes. Her long hair is very . She moved to China with her parents two years ago. We didn't know each other until last year. From then on, we became good friends.

At weekends, we often get together to join the club. She plays the piano very well. What's more, she often helps me with English and I teach her Chinese. We will be good friends forever.

On a Friday night in New York, a poor young man called Jack stood near the subway station, playing his violin. He wanted to make some money. The music was so great that many people stopped and put some money into the hat.

The next day, Jack came again. He put the hat on the ground, and then he took out a large piece of paper and put it under the hat. Then he began playing the violin. Many people came, looking at the paper. It said, "Last night, a gentleman put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to get it back."

People all wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a man rushed through the crowd to the young man and said. "I'm Bill Black. I am so happy that you've come back here!"

Then Bill explained the whole story:  He happened to hear Jack's wonderful music on his way home the last night. He took out ﹩10 and put it in the hat on the ground. However, his ring was also thrown in. But he didn't know about it until he got home. He thought he wouldn't be able to have his expensive ring back. But to his great happiness, he got it again.

Jack was a student at an art school in France. He planned to fly back to France that morning. However, when he saw the ring in his hat, he decided to stay and tried to find the owner. He said, "Although I don't have much money, I live happily, but if I lose honesty, I will never be happy."

Suggested outlines:

1）Who/what is your star in your heart?

2）Why do you think he/she/it is a star to you?