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Is there a hero in your heart? What did be do? Today I’ll share a story with you, which happened many years ago.

My family has always been poor, but we are a close family. In December, things got even worse. We went from being poor to being homeless, and finally we lost everything but our two beautiful dogs. However, after one week, all of our money was gone and our dog food was running out.

We called all over the town, trying to find someone to help. However, nobody would give a hand. I was worried that our dogs would die without food. I called one last place in town—a small pet food store. There, a young girl answered the phone. She checked the dog food prices and told me how much they were. I told her about what we were facing. Then, this sweet girl told me that she had some money and that she would buy the dog food for us. She didn’t even ask to be paid back.

Hearing his, my fears went away. I knew that our dogs would have food, all because this young girl paid for it out of her own pocket. She didn’t know me, but she would help my dogs. This young girl will always be an angel to me, and an angel to my dogs as well.

So try to reach out your hand next time when others need your help, just because someone has done it for you and it really makes something different. Then you will be the hero in your heart.

A smile is the best language. The truth of a smile is that it’s like a seed that can grow in a garden called “life”.

If there is one thing I have missed the most is the past 3 years, it is to see other people smile. When every face has a mask (口罩) on it, you might feel safer. But your mind might start to feel sick. Over these last months, I’ve learned to notice the “stars” in people’s eyes that they still have when they smile from behind a mask. Still, it isn’t quite the same.

Every smile is like a gift. As I grow up, my mom’s smile always warms my heart. I am so happy that it appears on the faces of my children. My grandparents’ smile always has a happy “Hello!” along with it. My dad hardly smiles to us, but I always loved seeing it.

Over the years, I have also learned a lot about smiles. I have read that “We don’t smile because we are happy. We are happy because we smile.” I also read that
“I have never seen a smiling face that wasn’t beautiful.” And I know that both of these things were true. What I remember most, though, is something from my teacher. He said, “If nobody wants us to be happy, why does smiling feel so good?”

It doesn’t matter is you are wearing a mask or not. It doesn’t matter if your teeth are white or not. Show the world your smile. Smiles share our love. Smiles spread our joy. Smilles make the world’s better place. One of the greatest, kindness and most loving things you can do is to give another person your smile.

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How many machines does your family own? What machines do you use every day? Can yow live a life without machines?

When I was a boy, we had a tiny television set. It only had one channel. Still, I would always be in my chair when cartoons came on.

The one I liked best was The Jetsons (《杰森一家》), a cartoon full of fantastic machines that could do anything. I always smiled or even laughed when I watched it and dreamed that one day I would have machines like this to do all my work, so I could just sit back and relax.

Now my life is full of machines like these, but I seem to have more to do than ever. Just today I had to spend most of the morning downloading a new copy of my word list so I could write better. When I first started out, I wrote my stories online. Last week, I spent most of another morning trying to get my new coffee maker to work right. I seem to be swimming in a sea of new rules and problems that come with “new technology”.

Now don’t get me wrong. Computers and machines have done a lot to help all of us. I just want us to be able to use them without them using us. We always seem to be busy because we’re spending most of our time using these machines.

I hope that in the future, machines can be more user-friendly so we needn’t spend all our time on them. With machines we can live an easier life, but they can never take place of the time to spend with family and friends.

Do you like the stories of Chang’e flies to the moon or Monkey King makes trouble in heaven? These ____ lit up a little girl’s space dream. She dreamt that she could fly to the moon ____ she was young. The girl’s name is Wang Yaping, the first woman astronaut (宇航员) in China.

To make her dream ____, Wang took different kinds of hard training that many people can’t imagine. Wearing a 100-kilogram training coats, she stayed underwater for 6 hours. After the training, her hands kept ____ terribly. So she was unable to ____ chopsticks.

____ even so, she never gave up. She tells people in action that ____ can do the same hard training as men and do a job as well us men, even in the space.

After Wang’s first space trip in 2013, she went to space ____ last year. That was her second trip. She ____ 195 days in space. And this is a new record for the Chinese astronauts.

On March 8, Wang sent a video message ____ women around the world. In the video, she said, “Ladies, as you know, to be an astronaut is so fantastic that I hope women all over the world have the ____ dream can work together. Our world will be better and better.” She also hopes all girls who have space dreams ____ her can always fight for their dreams. “If you ____ reach your dream, try to do so. One day, when you look up, you will know that going to ____ in the sky is not a dream for you.” Wing said.

Wang Yaping has set a good example for all of ____. Why don’t we start now?