As the English proverb goes, honesty is the best policy. If you want to be trusted and respected by your friends, you must be honest. A liar is always looked down upon and avoided by the people around him. Therefore, whatever your aim is, you must work honestly to attain it. However, there are people who try to get benefits by dishonest means. For example, some students copy or cheat on examinations in order to get good marks. The something may he said if a merchant who tries to get rich by deceiving customers. Those people may succeed for a time, but sooner or later, they will be caught. In the end, dishonesty will bring them nothing but troubles.
In China, primary and secondary education takes 12 years to complete, divided into primary, junior secondary and senior secondary stages. Primary education lasts for six years. At junior secondary stage, most have three-year schooling with any part of four-year. Almost 98 percent of students are enrolled in the former schools. The nine-year schooling in primary and junior secondary school belongs to compulsory education. General senior secondary education lasts for three year. Throughout the whole process of compulsory education, students are required to take final examinations at the end of each semester.
Smoking does great harm to human and its gravity should not be underestimated. Smoking pollutes air, damages health, and increases the incidence of lung cancer. "To arouse the awareness about the prevalence of tobacco in all the countries and to prevent smoking-induced diseases and deaths, the WHO has defined May 31 " in every year as World No-Tobacco Day. The tobacco addicts say that smoking is impossible to quit because they could do without meals in a day but would feel tortured without tobacco in two hours. However, when one realizes that smoking is harmful in many ways but beneficial in no way and that it is a curse to others as well as to himself, he will be determined to resist the temptation of tobacco. To quit smoking requires persistence and so long as one persists, he'll be rewarded.
The Duanwu Festival, also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan was a loyal and highly esteemed minister, who brought peace and prosperity to the state but ended up drowning himself in a river as a result of being vilified. People got to the spot by boat and cast glutinous(粘的) rice dumplings into the water, hoping that the fishes ate the dumplings instead of Qu Yuan's body. For thousands years, the festival has been marked by glutinous rice dumplings and dragon boat races, especially in the southern provinces where there are many river and lakes.
China will develop its economy further and open itself wider to the outside world, which offers more business opportunities to overseas enterprises. Since China 's reform and opening up, Chinese enterprises have been cooperating with overseas enterprises in terms of economy and technology , and have scored great achievement. Overseas enterprises have not only helped Chinese enterprises with their growth, but also benefited from the cooperation. The Chinese government will continue to offer favorable policies and conditions to promote the further cooperation between Chinese and overseas enterprises.
With a history of several thousand years, hot pot is one of the traditional Chinese diets. In the cold winter, people like to eat the hot pot that instantly warms their bodies and lifts their spirits. Today in many modern homes, the traditional coal-heated hot pots have been replaced by induction cookers (电磁炉). Hot pot styles and ingredients vary from region to region in China. Generally, the common meats used include pork, beef, chicken, duck and others, while other hot pot dishes are vegetables, mushrooms, noodles, etc.
