Hannah Levine decided she wanted to give hugs to all of the children and families in need at local hospitals. Because she couldn’t give them one by one, Levine，then a sixth-grader, decided she would use her talents(才能) to do the next best thing. She began to knit(编织) hats, scarves, and blankets for families staying at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. Her creations also went to Bundle of Joy, a program that provides newborn baby items for families in need, and to Knitting Pals by the Bay, a local organization that provides hand-knitted caps to cancer patients.

“I love to knit, and I thought it would be a great idea to make all these handmade items for kids and adults who need them. It would be like a hug for them，”Levine explained.

  Levine started the project about a year ago.“I think it’s just really fun to do, and it keeps me busy，” said Levine, now 13

  Once she got started, Levine realized that her project could be much bigger than the goods she was able to produce with just her own two hands. So she sent emails to her school and communities(社区)，asking for knitted donations(捐赠物) to the project she named “Hannah’s Warm Hugs”．She also posted advertisements at Starbucks and other locations in her area. The warm goods began to gush in．

“It was amazing; more strangers than people she knew started dropping donations at our door，”said Levine’s mother, Laura Levine.“We ended up with this huge box of items she was donating.”

The knitted items numbered in the hundreds. Levine made her first round of donations around Hanukkah (an eight-day Jewish holiday in November or December) and later received thank-you letters from the organizations. Levine is still knitting, and she said the project will continue.

“It has turned into a bigger thing than she had thought，”her mom said.“It made her feel pretty good; it made us feel pretty good.”

Starting the day on an egg could keep your blood pressure under control, research suggests. Scientists have shown that eggs produce proteins with a function similar to that of powerful blood pressure-lowering drugs.

    The research, from the University of Alberta in Canada, showed that when eggs come in contact with stomach enzymes (酶) they produce a protein that acts in the same way as Ace inhibitors, but more work is needed to show the effects outside a lab and in the human body.

Earlier this month, British researchers declared that, contrary to popular beliefs, it is healthy to go to work on an egg. They concluded that the type of cholesterol (胆固醇) found in eggs has little effect on increasing heart disease risks.

    Researcher Professor Bruce Griffin, from the University of Surrey, said, "The wrong beliefs linking egg eating to high blood cholesterol and heart disease must be corrected. The amount of fat in our diet has an effect on blood cholesterol that is several times greater than the relatively small amounts of cholesterol found in eggs. The UK public do not need to be limiting the number of eggs they eat. They can be encouraged to include them in a healthy diet as they are one of natureˈs most nutritious foods."

    The British Heart Foundation dropped its three-egg-a-week limit in 2005. However, almost half of Britons believe the limit still applies.

What would you do if you had $5, but were limited to two hours to make as much money as possible? But a lottery ticket （彩票）. While this is the most  (1)  suggestions from people, it means a significant risk in return for a  (2)   chance.

Tina Selling, who invented the  (3)  for her students of Stanford University, has a  (4)  to tell.

Selling gave each of the fourteen teams a sealed envelope that contains five dollars of “seed funding”. They were  (5)   to spend as much time planning, but once they had  (6)  the envelope they then had two hours to make as much money as possible. The next week, each team were to   (7)  their project in a three-minute presentation.

It  (8)  that most of the 14 teams didn’t use the five dollars   (9)  . They realized that focusing on the  (10)  actually limited the problem way too tightly. They understood that five dollars is essentially  (11)  and decided to reinterpret the problem more   (12)  :what can be done if   (13)   with absolutely nothing?

The average   (14)  on the five dollar investment was 4,000 percent! So what did they   (15)  do?

One team started a stand on campus to check bike tire  (16)  for free and charged $1 to refill tires. Another team made   (17)   at busy restaurants and then sold each of them for up to twenty dollars to customers who didn’t want to   (18)   in line. The team who made the greatest  (19)  sold their presentation time to a company that wanted to employ them to advertise. They  (20)  a good business for that company in the three minutes’ presentation and brought in $ 650,000.

One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been  (1)   me to play chess(棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly   (2)  . It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could   (3)  my moves, because she  (4)  to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I   (5)  she had strict sleeping habits,   (6)   I thought she ought to be able to  (7)  some of this strictness. I said to her, “  (8)  , you can stay up late for once. We’re having   (9)  .” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked   (10)  . Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.” “No,” I replied. “If you’re going to play it   (11)  , you’re going to play it slowly.” And so we   (12)  or another ten minutes, until   (13)   my daughter burst into tears, and   (14)   that she was beaten.

    Clearly I had made   (15)  . I had started the evening wanting to have a   (16)   time with my daughter but had   (17)   my desire to win to become more  (18)  than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win   (19)  me well. As a parent, I   (20)   that it got in my way. So I had to change.

The teacher asked  (9)  , “How did you get the scar on your face?”The mother replied, “   (10)   my son was a baby, he was in a room that  (11)   fire. Everyone was  (12)  afraid to go in because the fire was  (13)  , so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself  (14)   him trying to protect him. I was knocked   (15)   but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us. ” She  (16)   the burned side of her face. “This scar will be  (17)  , but to this day, I have never  (18)   what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He  (19)  her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice that his mother had made for him. He held her hand   (20)   for the rest of the day.

In the early part of the twentieth century, racism was widespread in the United States. Many African Americans were not given equal opportunities in education or employment. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was an African American woman who gained fame as a concert singer in this climate of racism. She was born in Philadelphia and sang in church choirs during her childhood. When she applied for admission to a local music school in 1917, she was turned down because she was black. Unable to attend music school, she began her career as a singer for church gatherings. In 1929, she went to Europe to study voice and spent several years performing there. Her voice was widely praised throughout Europe. Then she returned to the US in 1935 and became a top concert singer after performing at Town Hall in New York City.

Racism again affected Anderson in 1939. When it was arranged for her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed it because of her color. She sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial for over 75 000 people. In 1955, Anderson became the first black soloist to sing win the Metropolitan Opera of New York City. The famous conductor Toscanini praised her voice as “heard only once in a hundred years”. She was a US delegate to the United Nations in 1958 and won the UN peace prize in 1977. Anderson eventually triumphed over racism.

There was once a widow(寡妇) who had two daughters. The  (1)  widow loved the elder who was like herself both in looks and personality, but didnˈt love the other, who resembled（像） her  (2)  ，although she was pretty and friendly.

The younger daughter had to   (3)   hard all day and live upon the left-overs of her elder sister. Among her other  (4)   jobs, she was forced to carry water every day   (5)  .

One day  (6)   she had just filled her pot at the fountain, an old trembling woman asked her for a drink of water. Glad to show a kindness to an old woman, she  (7)   .

Now, all of a sudden, there was no old trembling woman but a(n)  (7)  who rewarded good deeds before her. " Your face is pretty   (8)   your heart is gentle, " said she.“For your kindness, I will make you a gift. Every time you speak, from your mouth shall come a flower or a jewel.” When the girl reached home, her ill mother  (9)  her for her long absence. "Pardon me for being away so long," she replied. As she spoke some pearls and diamonds dropped from her   (11)  .

"What is this I see, child?" asked the   (10)   widow.

The poor girl was so happy to be  (11)   child by her mother that she eagerly told her mother about her   (12)   with the old woman at the fountain. The widow immediately   (13)   her favorite daughter to do as the  (14)   girl had done.

When the impatient girl was filling the pot with water at the  (15)  , a beautiful lady appeared and  (16)   a drink of water from the girl.

“l have not come here to serve you," she   (17)  replied.

The lady, who was the fairy, said,“I will make you a gift to   (18)   your rudeness. Every time you speak, from your mouth shall come a snake or a toad（蟾蜍）. "

Annie is a smart young lady who comes from a wealthy and famous family. She has been admitted to a good university and owns everything that money can buy. Well, almost everything. The trouble is that her family are too busy to afford time to be with her. In fact, Annie is so lonely that she spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes to communicate with people who know little about her famous family and life. She uses the name Betty on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.

Last year Annie made a very special friend on QQ. His name was Tonny and lived in New York. Tonny was full of stories and jokes. They had common interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. Tonny sent a picture of himself: He was a tall handsome young man with a big, happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.

When Annie’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to New York, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give Tonny a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. But when she knocked on Tonny’s door in New York, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Tim!