Is it safe to talk on the phone while driving? It’s reported that many accidents are caused by _______ that are driving while making phone calls. Now some people want to _______ if driving while talking on the phone is dangerous. _______ a car accident happens, the police will ask whether the driver is _______ a mobile phone. They _______ the information in a report. The information is saved, and later they can _______ it.

Why do mobile phones cause accidents? Drivers sometimes _______ to watch the road carefully when they are using their mobile phones. Not looking at the road can be _______ because drivers can’t focus on (集中注意力) _______ is going on around them. Now, the police has made rules __________ using mobile phones while driving.

Bicycles in China

Bicycles are very popular in China. In our country you can see bicycles almost everywhere. When you walk on the road, you will find a lot of people riding bicycles to school, shops and anywhere else. Therefore(因此), China is known as “the kingdom of bicycles”. In China, many families have one or two bicycles.

Compared (与……比) with cars, bicycles have many advantages. First, they are much cheaper than cars. Most Chinese can’t afford cars, but they can afford bicycles. Second, bicycles are small enough to park anywhere, while cars need a larger piece of land to park. What’s more, with lower speed, bicycles are safer than cars.

However, bicycles also bring some problems. Some riders don’t obey the traffic rules and some riders don’t think about others’ safety. So they ride too fast. During rush hours, too many bicycles may cause traffic jams. We still have a long way to go to solve the problem.

Anger is a kind of feeling. Many things can make you angry. When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, when a friend borrows your favorite thing and then breaks it, you may get really angry.

Usually, your body will tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe faster, your face turns red, and you may want to break something or hit (打) someone, but sometimes, you hide (隐藏) your anger. For example, you may hide it in your heart. The problem is that if you do this, you may get a headache or your stomach may hurt.

In fact, it’s not good to hide your anger, and it’s normal for you to get angry sometimes. But anger must be let out in the right way, without hurting others or yourself.

When you get angry, you can talk about it with other people. It’s helpful to talk about your anger with an adult, such as parents, a teacher, etc. When you talk about anger, those bad feelings can start to go away. Here are some other things you can do when your start to feel angry: talk to a good friend; count from 1 to 100; give someone a hug (拥抱); go for a bike ride; think about good things, etc.

Remember that how you act when you are angry can make everything better or worse. Don’t let your anger control you.

Quick Service

A man took a pair of shoes to a shoe repair(修理) shop and said to the shoemaker, “I’d like you to repair these shoes for me, please.”

“Certainly, sir.” the shoemaker said.

“When will they be ready?” the man asked.

“I’m a bit busy, but they will be ready for you on Thursday,” he said.

“That’s fine.” the man said and left the shop.

The next morning he received a letter, offering him a job in another country. Within 24 hours he was on an airplane to his new job.

Twenty years passed and he returned to his hometown.

He remembered his shoes.

“They were a good pair of shoes,” he thought, “I wonder if the shoemaker is still there and still has them. I’ll go and see.” The same shop, although he was an old man by now.

“Good morning.” he said to the shoe maker, “Twenty years ago, I brought in a pair of shoes. Do you still have them?”

“Name?” the old shoemaker asked.

“Smith.” the man said.

“I’ll go and see. They may be in the back.”

The shoemaker went out to the back of his shop and a few minutes later returned, carrying a pair of shoes.

“Here they are.” he said, “One pair of brown shoes. I’m a bit busy now, but they’ll be ready on Thursday.”

During the epidemic (疫情) period, while most people were staying at home in Wuhan, Wu Hui drove a new electric motorcycle across the city, delivering (送递) daily necessities and hope.

Wu, 39, returned to Wuhan to work as a food delivery driver for Meituan-Dianping, an online delivery service. During that special period, he delivered over 300 takeout orders around the city.

“In the beginning, I felt that being a driver was a low-level job. But this situation gives it new meaning, because if drivers can keep working, it means that many people are working as usual and that the city is operating (运转) normally,” he said.

Wu posted photos of the streets he rode along every day on his microblog (微博) , which attracted (吸引) more than 60, 000 fans. He even became famous among the tens of thousands of Wuhan locals (本地人) who had to stay. Many people checked his microblog every day and looked for comfort (安慰).

Wu admitted (承认) he was scared of being infected (感染). But he said that since so many people needed him, “the sense of being needed gives me the power to behave (表现) like a hero.”

Wu said he planned to start a small business after the epidemic ended. “I want to go home to see my mom,” he said, “As ordinary people, our greatest wealth is our own life experiences.”

Have you ever been ill? When you are ill you must be unhappy because your body becomes hot, and there pains all over your body. You don’t want to work, you stay in bed, feeling very sad. What makes us ill? It is germs (细菌). Germs are almost here and there. They are very small and you can’t find them with your eyes, but you can see them with a microscope (显微镜). They are very small and there could be hundreds of them on a very small thing. Germs are always found in dirty water. When we look at dirty water under the microscope, we shall see them in it. So your father and mother will not let you drink dirty water.

Germs aren’t found only in water. They are found in air and dust (灰尘). If you cut your finger, some dust from the floor may go into the cut (割开处) , then some germs would go into your finger. Your finger would become big and red, and you will have much pain (疼痛) in it. Sometimes the germs would go into your whole body, and you would have pain everywhere.

Mike was a young man. He was not very rich. One day he went into a watch shop to buy a nice-looking watch for his girlfriend, Rose. He fixed his eyes on (注意, 凝视) a nice golden watch, and decided to buy it. The shop assistant (店员, 售货员) took the watch out, and asked for three hundred pounds for it. Just then, a boy of about fifteen suddenly rushed over and grasped (抓住) the watch from the assistant’s hand. The assistant hurried out to catch the boy. But it was too late, the boy had disappeared among the street very quickly. On the way home, Mike met the boy, who would sell him the gold watch for only one hundred pounds. “The boy didn’t know that I saw him stealing (偷) the watch from the shop. And he asked for much less money than that in the shop.” Mike thought to himself. So he paid the boy and took the watch home. The next day, Mike gave the golden watch to Rose, and told her all about the watch. Rose looked at the watch for a while, then, laughed loudly, “You are really a fool!”she said, “This watch isn’t worth 100 pounds at all. The assistant and the boy must have planned the whole thing together!”

Only Mother’s love is true love. She gives you everything all her life. When you are a baby, Mother looks after you     54     (careful). When you are ill, she stops her work right away to take care of you. When you are growing up, she feels happy. She usually     55     much money buying your school things. On cold winter days, she always tells you to     56     on more clothes. When you are in     57    , she always help you     58     with the problem.

When I was a young girl, I was so shy     59     I never talked to anyone. Later, something happened and changed my life. It was an English speech. My mother asked me to take part in it. It meant I had to speak     60     public. “Come on, my kid. Believe in yourself. You can!” mother said. At last, I chose the topic “Believe in yourself”. I practiced it over 100 times. With the mother’s great love. I wasn’t nervous any longer, I won the first place. I saw the happiest     61     on her face. I will remember Mother’s love forever.