People around the world eat eggs. You can cook them in many different ways! My favourite way to eat eggs is sunny side up. You heat a pan (锅), add some oil and ________ an egg into it. One side of the egg cooks until the white part becomes solid (凝固), and the yellow part of the egg ________ yellow. It looks like a happy sun on a plate. That is why we call it “sunny side up”.

The adjective “sunny” is also used to describe people. A very happy person can be described as sunny. We often match “sunny” with “________ ”. It describes the ways that people behave. Let’s look at an example. My classmate Peter is ________ for being sunny. Anyone who meets him likes him. He is always smiling and energetic. Peter is always in a good ________.

We can also call a very happy person “a light of sunshine”. The light cuts ________ clouds and darkness to make the day bright. People who are lights of sunshine do the same, which means that they can ________ your spirits or make you feel happy. They bring joy into the lives of others.

But sometimes we use it in a different way. I may call someone “a light of sunshine” if he acting unhappily or even ________. In fact, there is nothing wrong with my friend when he feels like this, but nothing seems to make him happy. I can say to him, “Well, aren’t you a ray of sunshine today?”

Of course, people cannot always keep happy during their ________, because good things and bad things each have a 50 percent chance to happen. People may be influenced by different kinds of things, ________ some of them are able to think about the good things in life more than the bad. In other words, they choose to look on the sunny side of life.

According to the reports in local Argentine （阿根廷的） newspapers, the football superstar Diego Maradona died of the heart disease at the age of 60 on Dec.2, who had a brain operation earlier this month.

Maradona is widely considered as the greatest Argentine football player in history. He led La Albiceleste to the 1986 World Cup, a competition in which he scored the “hand of God” goal against England. In total, Maradona played in four FIFA World Cup competitions and won the best player 91 times in all competitions for Argentina, scoring 34 goals.

This great football player’s sudden death has brought sadness to all corners of the world. CGTN Sports Talk host Hu Zhicheng says that Maradona is what we think about when we think about football, and he has turned a game into a form of art.His achievements are too great to be forgotten.

Diego Maradona, who grew up in a poor family and became the world’s most gifted football player, has gone to play football in a better world.

The Chinese youth are quick to accept products (产品) based on traditional and popular culture. This time, some young students got a chance to design such products by themselves.

In a college design competition named “The Heart of Beijing — Young Interesting You”, players were asked to make their own designs to spread Beijing’s culture, such as the Temple of Heaven, Bell Tower and Drum Tower. Thousands of students handed in their designs.

Li Weiyu won the competition. She was a student who graduated from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. “I designed several sets of jewellery. In my work, I mixed the elements (元素) of traditional culture with people’s preferences (偏好) in modern life, which I thought most players were doing. I didn’t simply put the elements together, but chose the parts that were symbols of culture, like the wings of a kite shaped like a Chinese swallow. I thought they were really pretty and special,” she said.

Lu Xiaoyin, leader of Perfect World Games, said the meaning behind hosting the competition was getting young people to realize that they had a duty to protect Chinese traditional culture.

“Chinese traditional culture is rich and has a lasting influence. But many young people don’t think they have a relationship with it. So it is very important to create products that will attract younger people, making them understand it easily. This will create interest for them and encourage them to carry the culture forward,” said Lu.

The crash between traditional and popular culture is opening up thousands of years of Chinese history in creative and unusual ways. And the work includes the creative ideas of these young people, who are giving fresh meaning to the saying “Everything old is new again”.

The coronavirus pandemic （新冠病毒流行） made a great difference in people’s life in 2020. There is an unusual way to change the bad moods caused by it. It could be seen in letters to Father Christmas arriving at a post office in Southwest France. The post office answered mails sent to the traditional Father Christmas from around the world.

Jim, a little boy from Taiwan, put a face mask inside the letter he sent to Father Christmas and wrote “I ❤ U”. Alina, 5, in her letter, asked Father Christmas to use the front door because the back door was only used by Grandma and Grandpa to reduce their risk of catching the new coronavirus. And 10-year-old Lola wrote that she was wishing that her aunt never has cancer again and that there will be no virus any more. “My mother is a care-giver, so she has to take care of many patients or disabilities, and sometimes I am worried about her,” Lola explained. She ended with “take care of yourself, Father Christmas”. Thousands of letters arrived. They showed what children were thinking about this Christmas season after a year of illness and hard lives. Young Zoe asked only for a music player and a visit to a theme park, because “this year has been very different from others because of COVID-19”.

The earliest letters were opened on November 12. Then, it quickly became clear that the pandemic was worrying children. Thirty percent of the letters discussed the pandemic. “The kids have been very influenced by COVID, more than we think. They are very worried. What they want most of all is really to be able to have a normal life, the end of COVID, a vaccine （疫苗）, not only the presents,” she said. “We are like masters of therapy,” she added.

Emma Barron works for the health of children and teenagers at a hospital in Paris. She said important days like birthdays or Christmas could give children a sense of safety. “They are an important part of the child’s happiness,” she said. “This year, they are especially important.”

Stories speak of our dreams, hopes, and futures. Some writers have spent     51     time writing them. They should be enjoyed slowly. Long before there was TV, the Internet or even the telephone, people shared ideas, information and memory     52     stories. However, modern society is getting noisier. It moves us faster and faster beyond time and space. Sometimes it’s good with something slower. It     53     that reading slowly is a gift, because it leads to a life of looking closely at the world.

Sometimes we read to understand the future or the past. We read to forget the hard times we’re living in, to remember people in     54     times, who met something more difficult. We read slowly to respect the writer and the story’s     55     power. And reading slowly helps to get away from the noise and remember those who came before us. They were probably the earliest people who finally learned to use fire and found their new power of light and heat.

Huang Fengrong is a pioneer painting artist from Fujian Province. He began trying out creative m    66     of painting around 10 years ago. He made efforts and created a new art style with great love for art. It c    67     painting with acting and lets drawing become both beautiful and humorous. Huang uses body language when painting and sometimes dances to music.

In 2010, it was the f    68     time that he showed this new form of art on TV that people had never seen before. After that, he started to create more styles of drawing. In the beginning, many people d    69     Hung’s new style, but he found some foreigners liked it. To insist on creating new things is not e    70    , and it takes a long time to have a lot of fans. He considers art as a job testing one’s true love, because there are also many d    71     in keeping a balance between making money and making people laugh. Later his special art forms caught attention from a    72    . They introduced his works to others and recommended that he should hold a show in Paris.

To his surprise, the painting show made more people interested in his art. He is praised not only in China but also around the world. It p    73     further chances for him. He began to draw for famous people in different areas. So far, 17 countries have i    74     Huang to draw paintings for their presidents when he joined in some state visits.

In the future, he wants to play a more important role in society. To encourage children to study this form or art, he started a competition c    75     “Stars of Acting Painting” recently. It is an event of 2020 Dafen International Oil Painting Show.

76. 阳光中学校报开设了英文专栏。请根据以下调查表，用英文向校报投稿，介绍该校学生的电视节目喜好情况，并简单谈谈你的观点。

Sunshine Middle School did a survey about watching TV programmes among students.