When people think of bullying (欺负), they sometimes think only of kids being pushed around. But being
called hurtful names is a kind of bullying too. Sometimes being called names can hurt almost as much as being
hit or shoved (推撞). Maybe the name-caller thought the names were funny, but name-calling is not funny at
all to the person who is being called those names. To help make kids realize how much name-calling can hurt,
school all over the U.S. are planning to mark No Name-Calling Week January26-30, 2009. No Name-Calling
Week started in 2004. The program was inspired by a novel for kids called The Misfits, written by James Howe.
It is about four best friends who are teased (取笑) at school about their height, their weight, what they say, and
how they look. The friends run for the school"s student union and say if they will try to stop all name-calling at
school. They lose the election but persuade their teacher to have a No Name-Calling Day to try to stop teasing.
This year, about 50 national organizations are supporting the sixth No Name-Calling Week. The project seeks
to focus national attention on the problem of name-calling in schools, and to provide students and educators
with the tools and inspiration to start a dialogue about ways to get rid of name-calling in their communities.
Many students in the U.S. report being teased at school. Last year during No Name-Calling Week, almost all of
the sixth graders at one New Jersey school said they had been bullied.
Ideas for celebrating No Name-Calling Week: Place a huge cardboard T-shirt outside the school gym or
cafeteria with a headline that reads, "Sign your name here if you"ve ever been bullied." Make bracelets (手镯)
to represent a commitment to not calling names. Create a "Kindness Chain." Each link on the chain explains
something kind that one student has done for another during No Name-Calling Week.
Every year when the Italian artist Michelangelo"s (1475-1564, 意大利文艺复兴时期著名雕刻家、画家、
建筑师) birthday comes around, computer users all over the world are filled with fear (害怕) and use their
computers with care. Some may even choose not to turn on their computers on March 3. All this fear and care
are just because a deadly computer virus is ready to cause damages (破坏) on that day.
What"s a computer virus then? Why do people get so afraid of it?
A computer virus is, in fact, a little program that is put into other programs and that does something bad.
It is called a virus because, like any real-life viruses such as AIDs virus, it reproduces itself. And when these
programs are run, the virus is brought to life. It hides itself in your computer system waiting for the right
moment to make damages. And at the same time it keeps producing itself by copying itself onto other programs.
The Michelangelo virus waits until the artist"s birthday comes around, and then it will wake up to do very
bad things like destroying you files (毁坏文档). So next time when you turn on your computer, look out for
computer viruses!
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