One day a little boy asked his father, “What does the word ‘great’ mean? _________ are great people and how do they become great?”

The father asked his son to bring two plants and then told him to plant one of them inside the house and _________ outside the house. The boy did as his father said.

The father asked his son. “Which one of the two plants do you think will be _________ and bigger?”

The boy replied, “The plant inside the house will be safer, _________ it will grow bigger, while the plant outside the house is not safe at all. No one will be there to look after it. It may _________ by animals.”

The father smiled and said, “Let’s wait patiently. We _________ the answer.”

Then the boy left for study and _________ four years he came back to his house. He said to his father. “Look, _________ happens to this plant inside the house and it is safe.”

When the boy went _________, he was very surprised to see a big tree. The boy couldn’t believe his eyes. He couldn’t understand __________ the plant outside was able to grow much bigger than the plant inside the house.

“The plant outside the house faced four __________ and many difficulties!” the father __________ to his son why the plant outside was bigger. “The plant inside was safe, it didn’t face weather changes, and it didn’t get __________ sunlight, so it didn’t become big.”

Here is the __________ to the question about being great: __________ a great person, one must have failed many times, experienced many difficulties and overcome those difficulties. After that, he is able to become great.

In Canada, when you see a group of students wearing funny hats or summer T-shirts in winter, don’t get a surprise. Maybe they are enjoying their School Spirit Week.

School Spirit Week is a time for students to show their personalities and class cultures. It is a school festival. Students from primary schools to high schools can hold it in any week of a year. And students’ family and friends can go to the special festival, too.

School Spirit Week usually has a central theme. According to the theme, students wear special clothes and decorate (装饰) their classrooms. Every year, there is a different theme. And the themes for young kids are usually very simple.

Each theme has games, competitions and parties. Students can choose different activities by themselves and they always have fun.

School Spirit Week asks students to use their creativity to make their own clothes. For example, in a fashion (时装) week, students can wear different clothes made of anything on each day. Monday may be funny, followed by Shirt Day on Tuesday and Jeans Day on Wednesday. Thursday can be Sports Shoes Day, followed by School Uniform Day on Friday.

Do you want to have a look at the wonderful photos of the festival? Click (点击) “READ” you will see them.

Why do we use mahu to describe a careless person?     56     In fact, it is said that mahu came into use because of a painter in the Song Dynasty.

One day, the painter was painting a tiger at home. Just as he finished the tiger’s head, someone came to his home and asked the painter to paint a horse for him.     57    

The painter’s two sons saw the painting. When the elder son asked what animal it was, the painter told him it was a tiger.     58    

Later, when the younger son saw a tiger, he thought it was a horse and tried to ride it. Unluckily, the tiger ate him. At the same time, the elder son went hunting(打猎) for a tiger out killed a horse instead.     59    

The painter felt sorry and finally burned the painting.     60     After that, people started to use mahu to describe careless people.

Do you know how to do goose step (正步走)? Can you make your quilt look like a piece of tofu? You can learn all these skills in military raining (军训). Schools in other countries also have military training programs for students. What do they usually do? Let’s take a look.

In South Korea, men between the ages of 20 and 30 must serve in the army (服役). They usually serve for two years. Children also have military training in primary school. They have different kinds of activities, such as hiking and walking through mountains at night. Sometimes, the activities are very hard. For example, students need to exercise in the snow with no shirts on.

US schools don’t ask students to do military training. If children take an interest in the military, they can join military camps. The government also holds activities for children to experience military life. Children learn how to work in a team and work out hard problems themselves. For example, a group has to climb over a high wall. If even one person falls down, the whole group needs to do it again. So everyone must help each other and finish the task together.

In Russia, boys between the ages of 15 and 16 have to take part in a five-day military training program. They learn skills like shooting (射击), parachute jumping (跳伞) and cooking outside. Students also learn military history. Recently, Russia has encouraged all schoolchildren from 14 to 18 to try military training.

Nowadays, bikes are very popular in towns, cities as well as villages. But do you know the history of the bike? In fact, the bicycle has     76     long and interesting history. The first bicycle was invented more than 200 years ago. Early bicycles, however, didn’t look like     77     (today) bikes.

One of the first bicycles was called the hobby horse. It     78     (make) of wood! People rode by     79     (push) their feet along on the ground.

Later, a bicycle that had pedals(踏板) and metal tires(轮胎) was invented. It was not comfortable. It was called the boneshaker.     80     (invent) kept working to make bicycles more comfortable.

Then, the high wheeler was developed. It had a very big wheel in the front. This bicycle was not easy to ride     81     the rider sat high up on it. The rider was badly hurt.

Then bicycles began to have two wheels that were in the same size. More than 100 years ago, bicycles began to have rubber tires that were filled     82     air. That was a solution for the problem of a bumpy(不平的) ride. The new tires made riding become     83     (smooth) than before.

So far, riding bikes     84     (get) popular to get exercise, more and more people enjoy it. Science and technology is developing     85     (quick) these days and nobody knows what bikes will be like in the future.