Jia Meng used to keep a diary in Chinese. But one year ago, the l4-year-old girl from Heilongjiang began to write her diaries in English, because Jia found her mother was reading her diary secretly. She changed the language because her mother can’t read English. “It’s like killing two birds with one stone,” said Jia. “My privacy(隐私)becomes safe and my English improves a lot.”

Jia’s mother is not the only mom who reads her child’s diary. Recently, Renmin University of China had a national survey among over 2,300 parents. The results show that about 40% of parents read their children’s secrets.

That’s why many teenagers try to find ways to protect their privacy.

Wu Lei, 15, from Shanxi,keeps a diary, too. But he doesn’t write it on paper.He writes online, which he thinks is perfectly safe because his parents “know nothing about the Internet”.

Lu Huan, 13, from Guangdong, said her parents always secretly listened to the talk between her friends and her on the telephone in her room. To solve this problem, Lu asked her parents to buy her a cell phone.

“Parents want to know what is going on in their children’s lives,” said Shao Xiaozhen, a teenage expert in Beijing. “But sometimes they go about it the wrong way.” Shao suggested the teenagers that instead of hiding their secrets, talking to parents is a better solution.” If your parents know that you are safe, they’ll let you keep your secrets. ”

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The person who read Jia Meng’s diary

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The way that Lu Huan solved her problem

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Do you know how to properly throw garbage (垃圾) away? Into the garbage can of course, you might answer. But things are not that simple.

After you dump (扔) your trash, it doesn’t just sit in the garbage can. People have to collect the waste and move 1.______ to landfills (垃圾填埋场). There, people sort (分类) the waste and decide whether to burn, bury (埋) or recycle it. It 2._____ lots of time and work for many people. So if we can sort our garbage before 3._______ it away, we can make a big difference.

Each year, China creates around 300 million tons of garbage. Less than a quarter of the waste is recycled. Most garbage is buried in landfills or burned 4.____ being sorted. Landfills take up a lot of space in cities. It can also pollute the nearby soil and water.

Things in developed countries are much 5.___, thanks to their sorting systems.

In Japan, for example, there6.___ strict rules for dumping garbage. One 7._____ to put the right garbage in the right place at the right time. The garbage is usually sorted into eight categories (类别): burnable, non-burnable, plastic bottles, recyclable plastic, other plastic, paper, harmful rubbish and then hard rubbish 8._____ desks and old TV sets.

China has been promoting garbage sorting in recent years. Beijing, for example, 9.____ a promotion plan next year. According to the plan, people get WeChat bonus points (积分) by sorting out garbage. They can later exchange the points for shopping cards 10.____ even cash!

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