“It is better to travel 10,000 miles than to read 10,000 books,” said US First Lady Michelle Obama in Beijing on March 22. Mrs. Obama, along w  (1)   her mother and two daughters made their first trip to China from March 20-26.

In a speech at Peking University, Mrs. Obama encouraged students to study a  (2)   .  “It’s not enough to get good  g  (3)   at school,”  she said in the speech.   “Overseas (海外) e  (4)   helps make our life successful.”

“By learning each other’s languages and by showing respect (尊重) for each other’c  (5)  to so much more,” she said.

The US is the top destination (目的地) for Chinese students who go abroad. More than 200,000 Chinese students are now studying in the US.

In 2009, US President Barack Obama announced (宣布) his goal of s  (6)  100,000 students to China. S  (7)   then 68,000 US students have come to China.  What’s  m  (8)   ,many kids in the US are now studying Chinese. “It is a hard language, but it is never t  (9)   early to start learning it,” said Mason Grabowski, 14, a student from Chicago.

Zhang Lili: The most beautiful teacher in China

Zhang Lili is a teacher at No.19 Middle School in the city of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang province. These days, many people think she is the most beautiful teacher in China, because she saved her students from a traffic accident (交通事故) on May 8, 2012.

On that day,Zhang and her two students were crossing the road outside the school gate when a bus suddenly lost control (控制) and ran fast towards them. Zhang pushed both students out of the way, but she herself was hit (被撞倒) by the bus. As a result, the 29-year-old teacher lost her legs.

The principal of No. 19 Middle School, Jiamusi City, said, "Zhang is a great teacher in our school. She’s also the most popular teacher among the students. For the students, she is like a sister. They call her Beautiful Sister. After hearing about this accident, all the students in her class cried." But Zhang is more than a teacher and sister to the 53 students in her class. She cares about their studies and even their lives.

Zhang’s bravery and kindness moved (感动) a lot of people in China. Many people visited her and sent her beautiful flowers and cards. They all hope she can get better soon and live happily for the rest of her life.

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    The Eskimos(爱斯基摩人) live near the North Pole(北极)．There are only two seasons there，winter and summer．There are no springs or autumns．In winter，nights are long．You can't see the sun for more than two months，even at noon．In summer，days are long．For more than two months，the sun never goes down and there are no nights．

    Eskimos have warm clothes．They make coats，hats and shoes of animal skins(皮毛)．Near the North Pole，trees can't grow(生长)，for it is too cold there．The Eskimos have to make their houses with skins，stones and snow．

    Life is hard(困难的) for the Eskimos，but they still like to live there．

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 A. in a dictionary    B. in a math book   C. in a newspaper(报纸)   D. in a family photo

There was a lovely vegetable patch (菜园). A large tree______61_ (grow) there. Both the patch and the tree gave the place a wonderful look, and they were the____62___ (proud) of the gardener. But no one knew that the vegetables and the tree _63______(can  not) stand (忍受) each other. The vegetables hated the tree’s shadow (阴影), because it left them only just enough light _____64_（live）. The tree, on the other hand, hated the vegetables because they ____65____(drink) nearly all the water, (leave)____66__ him just enough to live.

The situation became so serious that the vegetables decided to use up all the water in the ground so that the tree___67___( die.) .The tree answered back by not (protect)_______68___ the vegetables from the hot sun, so they began to dry up. Soon the vegetables were really weak, and the tree was drying up.

The gardener ______69__(wonder) why and stopped watering them. When he did that, both the tree and the vegetables realized that it was _70_______(good) to help each other. They learned how to live in harmony with those 71________ (介词)them. So they decided________72_(work )together, using both the shade and the water _____73______( grow )well. After______74____( see)how well they were doing, the gardener gave the best care to his vegetable patch,______75_____ (water)and fertilizing (施肥) it better than any other patch for miles around. 

Bruno       76      a student. He is twelve years old. He comes from      77       (日本). Now he and      78        parents live in Shanghai. He gets      79       at six thirty every day. He has     80       at seven. Then he g      81        to school. He often f     82    kites in the afternoon. On Sundays, he often does his       83       (家庭作业) and sings some songs      84       (和) his friends. They are very h    85       .

Around the world, people have different traditional foods to celebrate different festivals. Traditional foods also show a new year of good luck and good health.

An English Christmas dinner has a meal of turkey, and it also has pies and plum puddings(李子布丁). In_____  (1)  _____(法国), Christmas is celebrated with bread, cookies and cakes. In Germany, Christmas dessert is a cake filled with___  (2)  _____(树叶).

In southern parts of Indian, there is a three-day festival in mid-January called Pongal. It____  (3)   ____(包括) rice and a dish of rice cooked with sugar that is shared with relatives and friends.

Japan celebrates New Year with a seven-day festival. It begins from _____  (4)  （一月）1st. Food is prepared before the festival so people donˈt need to cook ____  (5)  _____（在…期间）the festival. Sometimes they even go to the restaurants___  (6)   ____(在旁边) their houses. On New Yearˈs Day, various dishes called Osechi Ryori(御节料理)are served-each dish is a wish for the New Year. So people are ____  (7)  ____(不常) absent from preparing it.

In most Asian countries, the New Year begins with the first Chinese Lunar month. Each place has its ____  (8)   ___(特别的)food to welcome the coming year. They celebrate it by____  (9)  ___(出产) lots of delicious food. Foods with lucky names are popular, such as fish, which sounds like "surplus(剩余) . From the first day of Chinese Lunar calendar, they usually give others a treat. Parents always warn the children to speak____  (10)  ___（客气地）.They take an active part in celebrating the new year.