Shanghai is a busy and beautiful city. Now we’re   (1)   in this city. This is our first trip here. We are   (2)   in my friend’s home, not in a hotel. There   (3)  many interesting places in the city. I’m looking forward to visiting   (4)  . My friend’s home is near one.   (5)    we are going to walk to visit it tomorrow.

We are going to have dinner in a   (6)  . The food in the restaurant is delicious. The city is very beautiful, so I’m going to   (7)  . I want to stay here for a few days, and I am going to   (8)  some presents for my friends in England. Next Monday I’m going to   (9)  back to England. I am going to   (10)   my friends about my trip and show (展示) them the photos. I’m happy to have a trip in Shanghai.

Thomas Edison was a   (1)  American inventor(发明家).   (2)  he was a child, he was always trying out new things. His mother loved him very much. She called  (3)   Tom. Young Tom was   (4)   school for only three   (5)  . During those three months, he asked his teacher a lot of   (6)  . Most of the questions were not  (7)   his lessons. His teacher thought he wasn’t clever and told his mother to take him out of   (8)  .

Edison’s mother had to   (9)   him herself. Edison learned very quickly. He read a lot, and later he became very interested in Science and invented   (10)   useful things.

  People of Burlington are being disturbed(打扰) by the sound of bells. Four student from Burlington College are in the bell over of the   (1)  . And they have decided to   (2)   the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest(抗议) against heavy trucks. Because they run  (3)   through the narrow High Street. “They not only make it  (4)  to sleep at night, but they are doing damage(破坏) to our houses and shops,” said John, one of the protesters.

  “  (5)   we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,” said Jean, a biology student, “why don’t they build a new road that goes round the town? Burlington isn’t much more than a large village. Its streets were never  (6)   for heavy traffic.”

  Harry, the   (7)  student also said they wanted to make as much   (8)   as possible to force the government officials to realize what everybody was having to  (9)  . Most of them don’t   (10)   here anyway,” he said. “they only come in for meetings, so they probably don’t   (11)  . It’s high time they realized the problem.” The fourth student, Liza, said she thought the public were mostly on their side, and even if they weren’t, they soon would be.

  “I asked if they were   (12)   that the police might come to  (13)  them.” “Not really,” she said, “actually I mean we are assistant bell ringers for the church. There is no law  (14)   practicing.” I   (15)   the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.

Six people were traveling in a compartment (包厢) on a train. Five of them were quiet and well behaved, but the sixth was a rude young man who was causing a lot of trouble to the other passengers.

At last this young man got out of the station with his two heavy bags. None of the other passengers helped him, but one of them waited until the rude young man was very far away, and then opened the window to him, “ You left something behind in the compartment!” Then he closed the window again.

The young man turned around and hurried back with his two bags. He was very tired when he arrived, but he shouted through the window, “ What did I leave behind?”

As the train began to move again, the passenger who had called him back opened the window and said, “ A very bad impression!”

Mark Zuckerberg(马克·扎克伯格)is best known as CEO of Facebook. Facebook is a popular social networking website.Zuckerberg was born in a Jewish family in New York. Before he went to college, he could read and write in several languages such as French, Latin, and ancient Greek. Zuckerberg began using computers to write programs in the middle school. His father and David Newman, a program developer, taught him. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games.

During Zuckerbergˈs senior high school years, he invented a music player that could learn the userˈs listening habits. By the time he began classes at Harvard University, Zuckerberg had already been called “a programming prodigy(奇才) ”

In 2004, Zuckerberg came up with an idea. He wanted to build a website for university students to communicate with each other. He finished the work in his university a week later. Students at Harvard had their own directory(通讯录). They called it “The Photo Address Book”, thatˈs “The Facebook”. Once at college, it “The Photo Address Book”, thatˈs“The Facebook”,Once at college, it was used as a “Harvard thing”. Later, Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools. Soon Facebook became popular in most universities in America and Canada.                                                        After Zuckerberg left Harvard, he set up his own company with his roommate. He always wants to do more useful and meaningful things for the world

I’m sure you know the song “Happy Birthday”. You must sing this song to your family and your friends many times on their birthdays every year. But do you know who wrote this song? And who was it written for?

Archibald Hill from Louisville, the USA, could tell you the story.

More than one hundred years ago, two of Archibald Hill’s aunts, Miss Patty Hill and Miss Mildred J. Hill were asked to write some songs for a book. They were both kindergarten(幼儿园) teachers then. They loved children very much and wrote many beautiful songs for the book. One of them was the well-known song “Good Morning to You”. This song was very popular at that time among kindergarten children, but many adults didn’t know it. A few years later, little Archibald was born. Miss Patty sang the song “Happy Birthday” to the melody(旋律) of “Good Morning to You” to her little nephew(侄子).

Miss Patty Hill and her sister never thought that song would become so popular, but it really did. People all over the world like the song.

Kris Wu is 25 years old. He is a handsome Chinese-Canadian singer and actor. But did you know he is also a basketball super fan? “It’s been my dream to play in NBA since I was young.” he said.

On Feb.13, his dream came true. He played in the NBA all-star Celebrity game(NBA全民星赛)in Toronto, Canada.in the game ,he made 6 points and 7rebounds(篮球板). He was the first Chinese star to play in this game.

Wu is good at making friends. At the game, he got along very well with the NBA basketball players. Tracy McGrady called his “bro” and they worked well together. He even met Yao Ming and talked with his happily. Other players like Lebron James and Chris Paul were close to him ,too.

 “I am very happy. I hope that I can come again next year, and I will be even better,” he said.

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  There were three big fish in the lake．One of them，Demo，was wise；another one，Jimmy，was half-wise；Martin，the third one，was stupid．
Some fishermen came to the bank of the lake with their nets．The three fish saw them．
Demo decided at once to leave，to make the long and difficult trip to the ocean．He thought，"I won't discuss with these two about this．They love this place so much that they call it home and will stay on．How silly they are!They still haven't realized we are in great danger now．Their ignorance will cost them their lives．"
Seeing the wise fish had left，Jimmy thought，"My guide has gone and now I've lost my chance to escape．"He felt sorry for it and then thought，"What can I do to save myself from these men and their nets？Perhaps I should pretend（假装）to be already dead，giving myself totally to the water．"So he did that．He went up and down with the water，helpless，within arm's reach of the fishermen．
"Look at this!The best and biggest fish is dead．"One of the men lifted him by the tail，and threw him up on the ground．He rolled（滚动）over and over and moved secretly toward the water，and then，back in．
The third fish was aimlessly jumping about，trying to escape with his speed and cleverness．The net，of course，finally closed around him，and as he lay in the hot frying-pan bed，he thought，"If I get out of this，I'll never live again in the limits of the lake．Next time，the ocean!I'll make it my home．"