I enjoy watching TV and Animal World is_____ favorite. When I was five, I first _____ Animal World. And I became a fan of it because of the interesting programms. It _____ animals from every part of the world and the scenery is beautiful. I hope the programme_____ for a long time and it will be more interesting.

The kids were good during PE class. Tim is much _____ than last year. So is Tina. The running team did well _____ the football team didn't. They can't _____ against with other teams. I gave them homework—practice more!

A ten-year-old girl, Tilly Smith saved many lives _____ December 26th, 2004. On that morning, Tilly and her family _____ on Maikhao Beach. Then suddenly, the water went out very far. ______ was bubbling, too. Tilly was paying attention to that, she told her dad and he warned others, everyone left the beach. What about the people in the hotel? ______ were they doing then? Many of them were still sleeping in the hotel. Because of Tilly's warning, the hotel workers quickly helped guests ______ to a safer place.

Learn to rise again

It is not always easy to discover yourself. From a young age, I had a strong sense of who I would become-but an accident changed everything.

To me, skating was more important than anything else in the world. Nothing else filled my heart with so much _______. I spent 24 hours a week developing my skills. I had no social life or interests other than _______. But I was rewarded(回报)with first place medals in nearly every competition.

Unfortunately, during one competition, I fell and hurt my _______ badly. The doctor told me that I couldn't skate anymore. The pain in my back was hard to bear and even basic daily tasks became _______.

My passion(激情) had been taken away. I lost heart and had no idea what I would become. After eight months of suffering, something had to _______. Instead of sitting around and wasting my days, I began to work with local community service projects. By volunteering as a swimming teacher and summer reading assistant(助教)for kids, I got an idea of who I wanted to become. After a few months, I found a new interest. Little by little, I _______ out of the shadow and rebuilt my confidence.

Sometimes, challenges in life will get in our way. We can choose to stay _______ or try to get past these challenges. My accident was a challenge that failed to stop me from _______ success. Today, I'm a very confident and optimistic(乐观的) person.

One day, 50 people were attending a speech. The speaker was delivering a speech about happiness. However, after a few hours, people gradually lost their attention. The speaker came up with an idea. He stopped his speech and asked all of the people to participate in a group activity.

He gave a single balloon to each person in the room. Each person was asked to write his or her name on the balloon with a black marker. Then, all of the balloons were collected and moved to another room.

The 50 people were then let into the room and told to find the balloon that had their names written on it. Everyone rushed around, frantically(疯狂地) searching for their balloon. People were bumping into and tripping(绊倒) over each other.

But even after five minutes of searching, no one could find their own balloon.

After seeing this, the speaker asked each person to collect a balloon and try to find the person whose name was written on it. Everyone started talking to each other and asking each other for their names. Within minutes, everyone had his or her own balloon.

“Can you see what happened?” the speaker said. “The balloons are like the happiness we search in our own lives. Everyone is busy looking for their own happiness, not caring what happens to others. But sometimes the best way to find happiness is to help others. Help them find happiness and you can find your own.”

Fun Facts about Our Moon

Have you ever noticed the ways the moon changes? The moon can be bright or dull. Sometimes, we don't see the moon in the sky at all! Other times, the moon shows up even when the sun is out.

When the moon looks bright, it's partly because of the sun. The moon has no light of its own. It only reflects the sun's light. But how?

Think about daytime. The sun makes everything around you bright with light. During daytime, sunlight hits Earth's surface and makes it bright. During nighttime, the sun is near another part of Earth's surface, making that part bright, so you see darkness. At night, you also see the moon.

In the same way that sunlight shines on Earth's surface and makes it bright, sunlight shines on the moon's surface and makes that bright. Even though you can't see the sun at night, sunlight reaches the moon's surface. The sun acts like a giant flashlight in the sky that's pointed at the moon.

Other things can make the moon look brighter or duller, too. Sometimes, the moon looks brighter because it's closer to Earth. Fog and clouds in the sky can make the moon look dimmer.

The moon is always in the sky, but we don't usually see it during daytime. One reason for this is that the sun is so powerful that it makes the sky very bright. The brightness makes the moon hard to see. Imagine turning on a flashlight in a darkroom and aiming it at a wall. You would see the flashlight's bright light clearly. Now, imagine turning on a flashlight in a room that already has all the lights on. You would hardly see the light from the flashlight because the other lights are more powerful. The moon becomes difficult to see in daytime for the same reason.

The next time you see the big, bright moon in the sky, think of the sun shining its light onto it.