1My name is Rebeca and I’m 11. I’m from beautiful Brazil! But my family live in a poor area, and life isn’t easy. My father 1.________ hard so my brother and I can go to school. And we always come straight home after school to 2.________ with the housework. But I have a dream...football! And I want to tell you how football has changed my life.My dad wanted my big brother to be 3._____ football player, but he didn’t like training. I loved football and when I played I felt happy and forgot about everything around 4._____. My mum said, “ Football isn’t for girls.” The boys at school didn’t want to play 5._____ a girl either, but when they saw I was good, I got the chance to join them.One day I was told by my teacher that there was a football team just for 6._____ and they were preparing for a competition in March. I really wanted to be part of the team and I decided to 7._____ my best.When my dad and brother knew that, they were very happy. My mum still didn’t like the idea. “ It isn’t going to be easy for you 8.________ football is a boy’s sport,” she said. But she said nothing after that, and my dad and brother trained with me every day for seven months. Finally, in February the coach showed us which players were in the team. When I 9.____________ my name, I jumped in the air.Our team traveled to Rio de Janeiro(里约热内卢)in March and we won the competition—it was amazing! Since then we’ve won a lot of matches. When I get older, I want to be a great 10.__________ player. That’s my biggest dream in life.2One day, I was so angry with my parents that I left home. I said that I would 1._______ return.I was sad because my parents refused to buy me a bike.But in my anger, I didn’t even realize that I had taken my father’s shoes and 2._______ wallet. As I walked to the bus station, I felt some pain in my foot. I noticed that the shoe 3.________ a hole in it.And when I 4._______ in my dad’s wallet, I was completely shocked. There wasn’t much money inside. I also found a note 5.____________ was from his manager. He told my father to wear nicer-looking shoes to the office.I remembered my mother asking him to buy a pair of new shoes, 6._______ he said that his current(现在的)pair of shoes was still perfect.I felt ashamed(羞愧). I started feeling weak in my legs and wanted to cry. I ran home as fast as I 7.________.When I got home, my dad was 8.________ for me there. I hugged him tightly(紧紧地)and said, “ Sorry, Dad. I don’t need a bike.”I understood how much pain and hardship(苦难)our 9.________ go through sometimes, and how 10.________ their love for us is. Everyone should do a good job of remembering this from time to time.Have you heard of the book Malory Towers(《马洛里之塔》)? It was a novel that I was reading and the novel was 1._______ by Enid Blyton. It is about the school life. It was the last school term. And Darrell who was the head girl was talking with the other girls. They were talking 2._______ what they were going to do after they left school.Their conversation 3._____________ me to think about what I wanted to become when I grew up. I got lost in thought. Some of my classmates have made a clear plan for themselves, 4.___________ my future looks uncertain. There are so many 5.__________ and how can I be sure that I will end up choosing a life that I really like?The story in Malory Towers moved on. 6._____ the head girl of the school, Darrell said to the other girls, “One day, you will 7._______ this school and go out into the world as young women. You should take with you interests to learn and kind hearts to help. With these qualities, you will have a better 8.______________ of many other things, such as responsibility to do good for the society and the ability to improve yourselves. I do hope that you will live 9._________ own happy life with love and peace.”Yes! No 10.________ what jobs I choose to do, I’m sure that I will have a bright future and I will live my own happy life. Because I have these excellent qualities!4Eat Your Greens!I have never been a fan of vegetables. But my best friend loves them. “ Eat your greens!” he always says. So I decide to learn something more about them.Plants are a very important part of our diet. Because of the 1._____ of their leaves, vegetables are often called “greens”. They 2.________ all kinds of nutrition(营养)that are very important for our bodies. For example, vitamin C gives us healthy skin, and calcium(钙)keeps our bones 3._______. Others help to keep our hearts, blood and muscles healthy. Eating vegetables does not make us fat because they are low in calories.It’s said that there are over 80,000 different kinds of plants which can be 4._____ on Earth. However, 90 percent of the foods we eat 5._____ from just 30 plants. This is not because they are the most nutritious, but 6._________ they are the easiest to grow.It is suggested to eat at least five different vegetables every day. It’s a good 7.______ to make vegetables a main part of each meal. However, some people think that vegetables are not so popular compared with meat, so when vegetables are served together with meat, they often 8.__________ meat instead of vegetables. Others think vegetables are cooked in an unskillful way, making them not 9.___________.In order to help me have a healthy diet, my friend gives me good 10.________ on how to cook tasty vegetables. I am on my way to a healthier lifestyle.Hand washing with soap(肥皂)can reduce illnesses. One of 1._____ easiest ways to stop the spread of illness is to wash your hands. But many children haven’t developed the right 2._____ of hand washing. Children do not wash 3._____ hands long enough. It’s such a simple habit, but the children aren’t doing it.Issar and his friend decided to 4._____ the problem by using a fun method. They tried many times 5._____ created a tool called Soapen. It turned hand washing 6._____ a fun activity.As the name suggests, Soapen is a pen which is 7._____ of soap. The children draw on hands with the Soapen and then 8._____ the drawing off. The colors will remain on the children’s hands 9._____ they don’t spend enough time washing them off. It is very helpful for a teacher in a classroom. After all, not all the teachers have the time to make each child wash his hands properly.“ Children wash hands much 10._______ than before now because they like drawing on hands. Soapen does help children form a good habit of hand washing,” said Issar.6I can still remember the person who has changed my world. She was my 1._______ teacher in my middle school.In my first music class, she let me try to 2._______ her guitar. 3._________________ I did my best, I couldn’t play it well. After finishing it, I put my head down. “I guess I’m not very good,”I said to her. She looked at me with her kind 4.________. Then she smiled and said, “We are all good at something. You just need to 5.________ them out.”Those simple words changed 6._____ idea. Before that, I thought I had nothing to give to others. I realized that I had something inside me that was good and could make this world 7._______. I just had to find it, bring it out and share it. And that is what I have tried to do all of the years since that fateful(决定性的)day.Can you change the world? Yes, you surely can! You can 8._______ it and make it better every single day in your life. You can change one choice, one person, and one kind act at 9._______ time. All you have to do is sharing your goodness. All you have to do is living 10._______ your love. Make your love great then! Live well! Do good! Change the world!Last Saturday afternoon, I went to the shopping center with my little daughter. While I 1._____ looking for the parking space, I saw a young woman pushing her shopping cart in front of us. The cart looked too heavy for her because it was 2._____ of food and drinks. She was also carrying three bags in 3._____ hands. She saw us and tried to move to the side so that we could 4._____. At that time, the wind blew away two of the food 5._____ and she ran to catch them. I asked if she was OK. “Yes,”she said, “I’ll be out of your way soon.”She 6.________ up the two bags but another bag fell off.I stopped my car 7._____ told my daughter to wait for a minute. I ran to the woman and she said sorry first. She told me those things were for her son’s birthday party. I helped her put the things in her car. She said, “Thank you so much.”I smiled and said,“I am a mother, 8._____. Many people helped me before. I just want to 9.________ the kindness to the people around me.”She said thanks again and got in her car.When I walked to the shopping center 10._____ my daughter, she took my hand and looked happy. I think it is the best action I have done and I believe that children are always watching what their parents do.8Shopping may be bad for your wallet but it is good for your health, say some experts. Recent studies have shown that “retail therapy ”(购物治疗法)is a good way of helping people to 1.________ with sadness. Unhappy people often believe that they cannot control the things around them. 2._________, making decisions about what to buy helps get back the feelings of control over the environment and self.Shopping can also be considered a 3._____ to help people lift spirits. Getting something 4._____ a low price, for example, can also build up one’s feelings of self-worth.Shopping for other people can also 5._____ people form healthy relationships. For example, grandparents can get close to grandchildren by getting them new toys. This connection can make 6._____ happier because they feel closer to their family.Shopping can help improve a person’s mood and it can also be 7._____ for your physical health.A recent article in Britain said that walking and carrying 8._________ bags can burn off 385 calories in a week. And one shopping center did an interesting study. It says that women walk about three miles for every two and a half 9._____ of weekly shopping. Men can walk for only 1.5 miles during their average weekly shopping. A charity known as The Heart Foundation also advises people to shop 10._______ it prevents them from sitting.Perhaps you have something that you like very much, like a toy or book. You find out that your best 1.________ also really likes it. Would you give it to him or her? Why or why not?I bought a “new”car 2.________ myself. It was actually a used car. I 3.________ about $6,000 on it. My old car was still in good condition. A dealership(经销商)would take it for $1,500.I have a co-worker(同事). He is 4._____ great worker. He has been looking at used cars. So I5._______ him how much he would spend on a car. He said $300 to $500. So I told him I would6._______ him my old one for $300.My 7._________________, who I work with, asked if I had any luck selling my car. I told her I planned to sell it to our co-worker for $300.After hearing that, she started crying. She told me 8._____ proud she was that she had brought up a selfless(无私的)kid who would help someone out so much. She told me to give it to him for free 9._____ she would pay me $1,500. I didn’t expect 10._____ to react(反应)that way at all and of course I didn’t take her money, either. I want to help more people like my kind mom does.10Jiading District, in Shanghai, has built community libraries under the “ Home Study” program since 2017. Its purpose is to encourage people to 1._____ more in the communities. It brings reading to the doorstep of communities 2._____ takes books closer to us.Community 3.________ are clean and quiet. Free drinking water is provided all day long. There is soft music, too. Community libraries 4.________ life there more attractive. More importantly, there are some experienced teachers. They can teach children to read and share 5.________ parenting knowledge with parents. Some volunteers come here to read 6.________ children. Experts from all walks of life give 7.____________ to interested people.Xu Yanjing, 35, often goes to the library on Gonghe Street, Nanxiang Town. “ I live 8._____ a neighbouring town and discovered this library by chance in 2019 when I visited Nanxiang as a tourist. I really enjoy reading there. I especially love the weekend lectures on traditional Chinese culture. Sometimes I bring my family along with me to have 9._____ cup of tea,” she said.Community libraries are wonderful places for people 10._____ want to freely read, learn and relax. Many people like them very much and they say that the community libraries have become their home away from home.As a young girl, I felt I was always letting people down. Once I brought 1._____ friend Penelope to my home. All my family 2._____________ seemed to like Penelope better than me.I felt very down. I even thought they didn’t love me. I wondered whether they would miss me3._____ I died someday. So I told my mom, “ Penelope is more patient than I have been. You must want her to be your4.__________ instead of me.”My mom explained that though Penelope 5._____ a lovely girl, nobody could replace me in the family. She said I was the 6._____ person who could fill my role. She made me realize that I had faults, but I was a beloved member of the family who could never be replaced.From then on, I tried to 7._____ out who I was and what made me special. My view of myself changed. I started to act 8._____ a positive way toward my life that I had not done before, and I was delighted by who I really was. I came to feel much 9._____ confident once I knew that no one could ever take my place.Each of us holds a special place in the world. You are 10.________ , no matter what others say or what you may think. So forget about being replaced. You can’t be.12The traditional Chinese Longtaitou Festival, or Dragon Head-Raising Festival, falls on the second day of the second lunar month every year, and recognizes the start of 1.________ and farming. In 2022, it falls on March 4.People believed that after this day, rainfall will increase 2._______ the rain-bringing Dragon King has awakened from his winter sleep. A well-known phrase, “ Er yue er, long tai tou”, means “ On the second day of the second month, the dragon 3.________ his head.”The festival celebrates ancient agrarian(农业的)culture, and while some of traditional ways to celebrate it are no longer practised, 4._______ continue to exist. The most famous tradition is getting a haircut. Some believe that going to the barber(理发店)on this day gets rid of bad luck, while others believe getting a haircut during the first month of the lunar calendar brings 5._____ luck. Another saying warns 6._____ cutting your hair in the first lunar month will cause your uncle to die. Although today few pay attention to it, it was still a tradition to line up outside barber shops 7._____ the day of Longtaitou.People eat tofu balls in East China’s Fujian Province during the festival, and often 8._______ tofu and vegetable balls to pray for family and business. Fried beans are the traditional festival food 9._____ people in parts of Shandong Province. Meanwhile, other foods are named after dragon body parts to mark the day. For example, 10._______ are dragons’ beard (long xu), dumplings are dragons’ ears (long er), and spring rolls are dragons’ scales (long lin), and popcorns are dragons’ seeds (long zi).Why did Chinese people have more than one name in ancient times?In ancient China, people’s names had three parts, their 1._____name, given name and courtesy name(字).Take the famous 2.Li Bai for example. His family name, which came 3. his father’s family name, was Li. His given name was Bai, and his courtesy name was Taibai.People used their given names when 4.were among family members.But in social life, they 5. _each other by their courtesy names to show respect. This was mostly done among people of similar age. If you were talking about yourself, 6.if your elders were talking about you, the given name would be used instead of the courtesy name.Men would get their courtesy names when they turned 20.It was a 7._____of adulthood (成年礼).Women would get their courtesy names after 8._____ married.One’s courtesy name often had something to do 9. _one’s given name. For example, the name of Mencius was Meng Ke. His courtesy name was Ziyu. Both Ke 10._ .Ziyu mean “carriage (马车)”. Zhuge Liang’s given name was Liang, which means “bright”. His courtesy name was Kongming, which means “very bright”.14One day, a baby snail found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell at any time.He asked his mother, “Why was I born with a shell?1.grows so hard and heavy.” His mother said, “2. we don’t have bones(骨头) to support us.We move slowly, so we need a shell to 3. _ us.”The baby snail asked again, “The caterpillar (毛毛虫) has no bones,4., and she can’t move quickly. Why can she live 5.______ a shell?” The mother snail answered patiently, “That’s because she will become a butterfly.She can fly high into the 6. which can protect her.”The baby snail then cried, “We are so poor! We have no protection like that!” His mother smiled 7.him, “That’s why we have a shell. My dear, imagine if we 8._ _ have the shell, what will happen to us? Our bodies will be dried out by the hot 9.__ and we’ll have nowhere to sleep. What’s 10., we’ll die in the heavy rain. We don’t depend on the sky. We should depend on ourselves.”The willow branch (柳树枝) is a part of the willow tree.In ancient China, willow branches were often used as a parting gift between friends 1.family members.Even today, willow branches are mentioned in many cases as 2.______symbol of saying goodbye.Do you know why?One 3.is that willow trees are strong. They can live 4._____in any place, wet or dry, north or south. Because of this, giving a willow branch to say goodbye to beloved ones is a 5.to tell them you hope they will get used to 6. new living environment.For another reason, the pronunciation for the willow tree “liǔ(柳)” is similar 7.___ the character “liú(留)” in Chinese, which means inviting someone to stay—only the tones are different. So offering a willow branch means asking the other party to live for a 8. time, even though we know that they must leave.It’s said that this custom 9.popular during the Han Dynasty. At that time, Baqiao, a 10.in Chang’an, today’s Xi’an, was a common place to say goodbye. People often stopped there and handed willow branches to people who were leaving.16Kevin is a special swimmer. He took risks to 1._________ in very cold places because he wanted people to pay attention 2.environmental problems.As a boy, Kevin visited national parks 3.he learned the Earth is in serious natural condition. He felt worried, and he wanted to protect the Earth. In 2009, he went to swim in water near North Pole to draw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).Kevin said that the swim was so painful that it would be 4.___last time swimming in cold water. In 2016, he heard about a lake in the Himalayas(喜马拉雅山脉).It was formed by melting glaciers.He decided to swim in cold water again.5.was difficult to swim in the lake. The air was so thin 6.________it was hard to breathe. He told people about his experiences on TV. He wanted people to know that glaciers in the Himalayas are disappearing because 7. global warming and that there’s less water for people in nearby 8.___________like China, India, and Pakistan.From Kevin’s story, we learn two lessons. We learn that people can do a lot of 9. _ to the Earth without realizing it. Also, we learn that if we change the 10._ we think, we can do something to protect our environment. 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