Mrs. Elephant, Mrs. Crocodile and Mrs. Mosquito are good friends. Now they are _______ about their children, Each of them thought her child was the most _________ to the other animals. They wanted to prove it, so they decided that their children would do something to show how good they could be.

The little elephant decided to _________ water to all the sick animals, so they didn’t need to go down to the lake to _________ . The animals thanked the little elephant very much.

The little crocodile spent the whole day near the _______ . When an animal fell into the river, he would save him. Many animals were saved by him, and they all thought that he was kind.

When other animals saw that the little elephant and the little crocodile did so well, they thought the little mosquito would _______.

The little mosquito thought he wouldn’t be able to do better than his big friends. But he didn’t want to   _______ . He spent the day talking to every animal he met, visiting friends here and there, and then he created a team of animals. They decided to spend a day improving life around the lake. They worked so hard that they solved many_______there. All the animals there were _________ .

As a result,   __________ the little mosquito was the smallest animal, he proved himself to be the winner of the game.

Are you the only child in your family? Have you heard of “ the two-child policy”?

Everyone knows the one-child policy. It is a population control method. Chinese government aimed to control the increasing population at that time. Many Chinese couples understood that and followed this policy for nearly 40 years. Everyone should be responsible for our country.

However, as time goes by, some problems appear in our society. At present, these problems are mainly about:

The number of workers changed from about 960 million in 2010 to 940 million in 2012. The number changed to 930 million in 2014 and will possibly fall by 29 million by 2020.

China is now getting into an aging(老龄化) society. There will be more old people in the following years. But the society will be short of doctors and nurses to take care of them.

The population of China will become smaller and smaller if the one-child policy continues. It’s the basic reason that leads to the two problems above.

That’s why Chinese government began the two-child policy on January 1st , 2016. It allows each family to have two children. The government expects it can help solve those social problems gradually. This policy will help offer enough workers in the future and prevent our country from entering the aging society. It is reported that there will be around 2.5 million newly-born babies each year.

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, “When can I do to save myself from these men and their nets? Perhaps I should pretend 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 is dead.” One of the men lifted him by the tail, and threw him up on the ground. He rolled over and over and moved secretly toward the water, and then, backed 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.”

February 14th is not only Valentine’s Day, but also Read to Your Child Day. It’s a great chance for you to enjoy reading with your child. Here are some ideas.

Share a childhood favorite. What’s your favorite book as a child? Why not find and share the book with your child? Come on! Let your kid know you more. If you don’t have a copy of the book, make a special trip with your child to the local library or a local bookstore. Don’t give up even if it’s hard to find. Life is full of adventure , isn’t it?

Get interactive. Reading a book with your child can be a highly interactive activity. You can create voices for the characters and act out the story. As for younger children, this works best with a book they know well. And buy your child a dictionary. If there is a word your child doesn’t know, ask him or her to look it up .

Attend an activity about reading. Why not celebrate Read to Your Child Day with others? There may be some activities about reading you can attend in your local library or bookstore. If there isn’t any on that day, you can hold your own. This is a good way to bring together your friends and neighbors to share good books.

Write a story together. Finally, one of the best ways to celebrate Read to Your Child Day is to write a story with your child. Writing a story together can be very enjoyable. By taking the time to think about what stories your child loves, he or she may remember Read to Your Child Day forever.

Do you want to have a best friend accompanying you for more than 10 years? The film Soulmate (<七月与安生>) tells such a story.

A quiet girl, Liu Qiyue, and an outgoing girl, Li Ansheng, make their friendship last a long time. Though they experience arguments and separation , they still support each other.

Chinese actress Zhou Dongyu, born in 1992, plays Li Ansheng. Her performance has won the praise of the audience. At the same time, she also played a spy in the TV drama Sparrow (<麻雀>) in 2016.

From playing an innocent (单纯的) shy girl in The Love of the Hawthorn Tree(<山楂树之恋>) to different roles later, Zhou has grown into a popular actress. But what has not changed is her strong heart.

Zhou is straightforward (直率的) and boyish.

“ I don’t like going shopping with in the mall. Most of my good friends are boys,” she told I feng. Com.

However, this attitude once brought her trouble. In the show Go Fighting(<极限挑战>), Zhou always spoke her mind. She once refused to do a photo shoot with Chinese actor Wang Xun. Many people thought she was impolite, but she didn’t mean to be rude.

She chose to move forward from these problems. “ I don’t want to show my weak side to others.”

“ That means I lose,” she told Shenyang Evening News. Later, she joined in the show We Are in Love. She got along well with her partner, Chinese actor Shawn Yue (余文乐) , very well . Many people saw her true self and changed their opinion of her.

Can you post the photos of your friends online? Some students think they can post their friends’ photos online. Others don’t agree with them. Here are the different ideas about the question.

Li Yaobo, 14, Beijing

I think people need to get the permission from their friends. Some people may not like to share their photos on social media. If their friends directly post their photos online, they will feel uncomfortable and even argue with their friends about it. It will affect their friendship.

Sun Yao, 14, Zhejiang

Photos could show their friends’ faces, the places they have been to and other information. In this case, people disclose their friends’ privacy while posting their photos online. It is impolite or even against the law to disclose one’s privacy.

Liao Chengkun, 14, Guangdong

If people directly post photos of their friends online, many people can get the photos. Some strangers might use their photos illegally (非法地).

Zhang Yingke, 14, an overseas student at Unionville High school , Canada

I believe that we don’t have to get our friends’ permission before posting their photos on social media. If that person takes photos with you and the photos are in your hands, they are yours and you have the right to do whatever you want. Second, if our friends are active on social media and like sharing, they would like their photos to be seen.

Zhang Yiyi, 14, Shanxi

I think that if my friends want to post photos of us online, they don’t need to tell me. I believe that they have no harm to me. And it is also another way to show our real friendship. It means they value friendship with me and want to share it with more friends. I can also interact (互动) with them online. Maybe someone worries that the posted photos will disclose his or her privacy. But I think real friends will not post photos that do that.

Have you ever listened to the sound in your heart? Have you ever met an article which has the same idea as yours?

The TV program, The Reader, has been popular since it came out on CCTV-1 on February 18^th, 2017. It is produced by Dong Qing , a famous hostess. The Reader invites many guests to read something that    31    (影响) them most. Not only famous people but also common people can be the guests.

Liu Chuanzhi , the founder of Lenovo, came to The Reader as a common father. He said, “ As long as you are an honest man,, you are my good son       32     (不管什么) your job is !” Xu Yuanchong, a 96-year-old translator, shared some of his personal experiences of     33     (翻译) Chinese poems into English and French. His words were simple but moving. He read a love poem with tears in his eyes.

This program has turned reading into a new fashion. It shows the beauty of Chinese language and the power of reading. Now Reading Booths (朗读亭) are set up in many cities. Though it rained, people in Hangzhou even waited in long lines to read in the booths. All kinds of reading     34    (活动) are going on in schools. Lots of students take an active part in them.

Reading is       35     (有帮助的) to us because it will make us wise, happy and knowledgeable. It can be done anytime and anywhere. What are you waiting for? Why not start reading now?

In my life, a person who has influenced me most is my father. He is a model for me. Now I’ll tell you about his story. My father is in his fifties. He never smokes or drinks. He     36     (work) in a local factory for years. You will not find anything     37     (usual) about him until you learn more. He works       38     (care) all the time, so he     39     (respect) by his colleagues. My father has always been kind and helpful. He has fun     40     (talk) with old people. He gave our TV to a family who could not afford one. He cares for the children who have lost their parents. Whenever he has some money left, he     41     (give) it to someone in need.

My father has donated blood many times since we moved here. The blood he has donated is much enough     42     (save) over 70 lives. He has also donated blood cells to people with blood cancer. To my surprise, he has decided to donate his body for medical research after his     43     (die).

When I was a little girl, I could not understand why my father always seemed to be     44    (kind) to others than to his own family and why he thinks of others more than     45     (he). Now I realize that he owns a heart full of love.

Lima was a little mean(刻薄的) bean. He went to Bean Elementary School along with other beans. No one,     46    , liked him. Full of confidence and with a big mouth, Lima used to go along the hallways of the school and     47     the same song over and over again. If someone got in his way, he would push him aside and shout loudly, “Bog off!” Nobody could do     48     but go away.

One day the     49     of Bean Elementary School were making a plan. Why ? That was because Lima was getting worse and worse. Yesterday he pushed Tina down and she ran home crying. They decided to do something.

“Let’s knock some sense into him,” little Green Bean said.

“ Let’s throw him into water,” another bean     50    .

“ Guys, if we do these things to him, what will be the difference     51     him and us? “ Tommy said.

Finally, they made a     52     to tell Mrs. Bean, headmaster of the school. The next day, they went to Mrs. Bean’s office and told her what bad things Lima had     53    . After hearing those, Mrs. Bean was angry and she asked Lima to come to her office. She asked him     54     he was really behaving in the terrible manner. Lima said yes and he felt very sorry. Everybody forgave him and asked him to play with them. Lima agreed and they played     55     after school.

Remember that as students, we should get on well with our classmates.

The Silk Road is the man of different roads that long ago linked Europe, Africa and Asia. People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists and archaeologists believe people began to travel the Silk Road about 3,000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, the Silk Road had covered almost 6,500 kilometers. It stretched from Rome to China, which is from the west the Far East.

Merchants traveling along the Silk Road carried silk, of course. They also carried and traded spices, cloth, rare jewels, slaves and gold.

During its busiest period, the Silk Road allowed people from many different cultures and countries to meet each other and mix. The Silk Road allowed the sharing of precious goods and new ideas. These included people and trading goods from Mediterranean, Persian, Magyar, Armenian, Bactrian, Indian and Chinese areas. All these peoples travelled the Silk Road, and they shared goods, stories, languages and cultures.

In modern times, the old Silk Road routes are still used, but now they are crossed by trains instead of camels and horses. There is even a Silk Route Museum in Jiuquan in China. It has over 35,000 objects from all along the Silk Road. In this way, China protects the history of many countries and peoples.

My junior high school years are coming to an end.