"My family have been watching the'Super Girl' singing competition TV programme. My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea," said a Yangzhou father.

    To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing MUD games (多用户网络游戏) online, it is impossible not to know this jargon (行话). In such Internet games, "PK" is short for "Player Kill", in which two players fight with each other until one ends the life of the other. In the case of the "Super Girl" singing competition, "PK" was used when two singers had to compete with each other for only one chance to go up.

    Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also found their students' compositions, using Internet jargon, difficult to understand. Once a high school teacher from Nanjing asked her students to write compositions, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargon that she didn't understand. "My 'GG' came back this summer from college. He told me I had grown up to be a 'PLMM'. He always took me to the 'KPM'...," went one composition. "GG" means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for "brother"). "PLMM" means Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). "KPM" is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonalds. "Gr 8" means "Great". "LOL" has the meaning of "Laugh Out Loud".

    If you don't even know what a "Kong Long" (a bad-looking girl) or a "Qing Wa" (a bad-looking boy) is, then you'll perhaps be thought as a "Cai Niao" (a person who starts to use the Internet).

    While some language experts agree that Internet jargon is a new development in language, many teachers and parents are worried that too much use of such language may keep the students away from the "right" usages (使用) or make them fail to do well in language exams.

    Every year, many foreign students go to America to study English. Some of them will live in an American family, but others will make a different decision. They'll live with friends who come from their own country. I believe that if a foreign student thinks carefully about the two ways, he'll decide to live with an American family. Even though there are one or two disadvantages (不利之处) to the first way, there are far more advantages.

    In making his decision about how to live in the USA, the foreign student is careful to think about one or two disadvantages to live with an American family. First of all, he must know that he's going to feel homesick (想家的) at first. Living in an American family may make this feeling become stronger. Also, the American family may do too much to take care of him. They may ask him where he's going, when he leaves home, and when he'll return.

    If a foreign student lives in an American home, he'll know the country and its people much better. For example, he'll see how the parents teach their children. He'll feel better because the American family will help him get used to a new life. In an American family, he can learn English fast. Family members can help him with his homework. When he speaks English, they can help him correct the mistakes he has made. In this way, he can learn English more easily.

    Although there are some disadvantages to live in an American family, there are more advantages.

    How can you be sure that you know w you know? That may sound silly but it's really a serious question. Have you ever "thought" you knew something but when it came time to write in the exam you discovered that you r didn't "know" it, after all.

    Strategies (策略) you can use

    When that happens, it isn't because you have a bad memory, it's because the things you are trying to rhaven't been properly learned.

    Luckily, there are strategies you can use to help you learn difficult things. And scientists say that there is even a part of your brain that can "predict" whether this new knowledge has been completely u.

    Judgement of learning

    Scientists call this predicting, the "judgement of learning". It really just means looking over your own shoulder w you are studying and asking yourself, "Do I really get this?" And if you don't, it means adjusting your "strategy" until you do.

    Here's one strategy:

    ⒈Set a short-term goal to learn something.

    ⒉Study as you normally would.

    ⒊Answer some test questions to g some feedback.

    ⒋Use that feedback to work on your weak points.

    In the driver's seat

    Developing the ability to "judge" your own learning needs a lot of p. But it can be a very useful skill. It puts you in the driver's seat and in charge of your own studies. In effect, it lets you know that you really know what you think you know. You know?

Use the following points as a guide (短文须包含下列要点)

1）When you are in trouble, who helps you?

2）When someone is in trouble, how should you do?

3）What should you do if they can't pay for school things or living things?

4）What do you think to help others?

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We were excited say a word when we got the prize.

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