A Small Act of Kindness Makes a Big Difference

Hunter Adams was very unhappy during his teenage days and he spent many years in a special hospital with people who have mental health problems.

When he left the hospital, Adam decided to become a _______ .So he went to a medical school in Virginia USA. But when he was there, he did things in a _______ way. For example, he didn’t like the doctor’s white coat, so he _______ shirts with flowers on them when he visited his _______ and he tied to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams _______ he was too different.

But Adams believed that people in hospital _______ more than medicine. They had unhappy and _______ hearts, and they needed to be helped not only as patients, but also as people. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital and often _______ up like cartoon characters to make the children laugh.

When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams _______ his own hospital called “the Gesundheit Institute”, together with some other doctors.They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.

In 1988 Universal Pictures made a film about Adam’s life. It was very successful. In the film Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, “Hunter is a ________ warm person , who believes that patients need a doctor who is kind and friendly. I enjoyed playing him.”

Animal behavior is an interesting and attractive study. Scientists research the ways animals use to look for food. They study how animals protect themselves from their predators, and which animals kill other animals for food. All of this helps us understand how useful animals can be.

Each country or culture raise some animals for food. In the United States, people mainly eat meat from cows, chickens and pigs. In other countries, people might raise sheep or buffalo for meat. These differences come in part from weather and other environmental conditions. People around the world eat all kinds of fish and shellfish from oceans and rivers. In some countries, people don’t always choose some animals, such as dogs, for food while in other countries such animals may become people’s favorite food.

In West Africa, animals provide humans with more than food. They have been helping people do daily work for thousands of years. Horses, oxen, and other work animals pull heavy things. Elephants, camels, and other animals carry people and things from place to place. Carrier pigeons (信鸽) have been used to send messages.

People also receive health benefits from animals. For example, dogs and cats can help calm people down. This is helpful for people to fight illnesses. Animals can also reduce stress, helping people to draw their attention to learning new information, such as reading. When people are walking their dogs or horses, it encourages exercise.

Animals and humans share space on Earth, so keeping a healthy relationship with animals around us is in our best interest.

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Everybody has a brain, but not many people know how the brain works. Some people believe that the brain is like the hard disk of a computer. We use it to store files——pictures, languages(words, texts, sounds)and so on. Others compare the brain to a huge cupboard with lots of shelves and boxes in it. We put information into these boxes and hope to find it again later.

The brain is not a computer disk, and it isn’t a cupboard. Look at the picture here. It looks a bit like weeds(杂草) in a garden, doesn’t it? The picture actually shows a child’s neocortex—a part of the brain that controls sight and hearing. You can guess what happens—more “weeds” grow as the child gets older. Scientists call these neuronal(神经元的) networks. The networks grow around our neurons. What makes them grow? Learning! “Learning is brain change,” says Professor James Zull from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. “Without learning, nothing changes in the brain. For every new word you learn in your English lesson, every problem you solve in maths, every new song you learn to sing, a neuronal network grows in your brain and the brain changes.”

The more neuronal network we grow, the better we can think and the better we remember. You may wonder if there is anything you can do to make the networks in your brain grow better. Professor Zull says yes, there is. He says that brain change is strongest when you are interested in and like what you are learning, when you are in control of what you learn and when you get challenging tasks that make you think hard. Understanding a challenging task makes you feel good and develops your brain.

You may have seen vegetables on farmland, in greenhouses or even on balconies.     46    

Recently it was said that the Beijing Winter Olympic Village has been completed. Interestingly, a rooftop farm covering 4, 620 square meters has been created inside the Village.     47    

China has a large amount of available land for planting.     48     To live a better life, they took full advantage of their land and grew the food they needed, vegetables included. The Book of Songs(诗经) written 2, 500 years ago, records many kinds of vegetables.

    49     You may find painting and small sculptures of different vegetables in some Chinese people’s home, for example, Chinese cabbage.     50     There is also the gourd melon(葫芦). Because of its shape and pronunciation, it has many different cultural meanings, including happiness, having a large family and old age.

Until recently, Ajayi had never gone to school. Now fifty, she attends a school in Ilorin, Nigeria, wearing     61     same pink dress as two hundred other girls at the school. She studies with the students nearly forty years     62     (young) than she is.

Ajayi runs her own business making and     63     (sell) bags, but she believes it is still necessary for her to learn to read and     64     [raɪt].

Ajayi’s daughters used to feel embarrassed about their mother’s attending school with children. They choose to     69     [səˈpɔ: t] her efforts now     70     their mother was so happy about it.

Ajayi plans to continue her education for four more years, saying it will help her business.

71. 晋江是一座体育之城，充满活力、创新。为培养学生对体育运动的兴趣,，增强学生体质，你的学校上周举办了校运动会。假定你是你校英语报的小记者，请你编写一篇新闻报道，介绍这次活动。词数：80左右。

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