Joyce took part in a TV quiz (测试) show last Saturday. She was calm and relaxed, ________ she got all the answers right. Soon she was ________ the other contestants (选手). At last, she won the biggest prize—a chance to experience an educational visit to ________ for three months. Joyce is very excited about the visit and she can’t wait to get ready for ________. She wants to take some photos of China with her to show people Chinese culture. Crowing up in Fujian, Joyce enjoys ________, so she decides to take different types of tea such as black tea, green tea and Oolong tea (乌龙茶).

Joyce is going to stay with a host family in New York for the ________ two months. During the stay, she will go to school there and live just like a member of the host family. ________, she will go on sightseeing tours for the third month. She is a little ________ about communicating with her hosts, but her parents ________ encouraging her to be confident. This makes her feel much ________. Now she is looking forward to the visit.

Young Heroes for the Planet

Nowadays, people around the world are working to help our planet. Check out how the four young adults made a difference.

	Saving Pandas    When Jack was 11, he started a group to teach kids about pandas. He also sold toy pandas to raise money to protect pandas in danger. “I hope to encourage more people to care about pandas,” he says.
	Growing Right      Kathy, 14, set up an organization to educate people about growing right plant in right places. She also wrote a book to help people learn what plants are native to（本土的）their area.
	Creating Energy      At the age of 12, Linda invented a machine called Super E. It collects heat from fields to make electricity（电）. Linda says her invention creates electricity in a way that is less harmful to the environment.
	Cleaning Up      Patrick, 13, joined the Ocean Heroes Camp last year. He started a project and picked up plastic waste around nearby lakes with his friends. The goal of the project was to fight plastic pollution.

Just a few days after his 18th birthday, Beijing 2022 gold medal winner Su Yiming received a surprise gift—a letter from Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China.

In the letter, Xi expressed his congratulations to Su and other sportsmen in ice and snow sports, for their great achievements at the Beijing Winter Olympics, hoping what they had achieved would encourage young Chinese to aim high.

When Su first stepped onto a snowboard at the age of four, a future as a world–class sportsman seemed to be “a dream too big” for him. Little did he know that he would not only compete for his country but also take home gold. With the great excitement of winning an Olympic gold medal still fresh in his mind, Su wrote a letter to the president, telling him how lucky he felt to have made his dream come true.

Su still remembers what Xi wrote in the reply “The new era（纪元）is the time for young people to realize their dreams.”

“I have always kept those word in my mind,” Su said.

“When I made up my mind to be a professional snowboarder, I know there is a big gap（差距）between my performance and that of the top sportsmen in the world. But I have been working hard to realize my dream. Now my story shows the fact that hard work will pay off.” Su said.

Su believes the sky is the limit. “Find the thing you love, believe in yourself and do your very best. Finally, your dream will come true.”

Now Su has his strong wish to win all the competitions in his sporting field.

The Search-for-Lost-Birds list has come to public attention recently. It lists ten kinds of birds that have not been seen in the wild for at least fifteen years. The list is calling on people to search for the rarest birds on Earth.

There could be several reasons for the long disappearances of the birds on the list. Maybe there have been no studies in areas where they live. Maybe people don’t know where or how to find them. Maybe there are changes to their natural homes because of human activities.

This year, four expeditions （考察队） are planning to find eight kinds of birds. If any of these lost birds are found, ways can be found to protect them and help their populations grow. This has happened with birds like the Madagascar pochard（马岛浅鸭）. The number of this once-lost kind of bird is now increasing.

You have lots of things you’d like to do. But sometimes it’s hard to get to the finish line—just like your goal. How can you break your bad habits and develop good ones? And how can you try to reach your goals?     46    

●First, I can’t get away from screens.

    47     If you usually spend time lying on the sofa and watching TV programs or a video when you’re bored, go somewhere else instead. Take a book to your room or your violin to the backyard. Or ask if you can help cook in the kitchen.

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Start with “showing up”. Then take one small step or do one tiny task, followed by another and another. For example, how do I practice the piano? First sit at it. Then play one note at a time.

Staring with a supe-simple step often helps. Why? It’s easy, quick, and gets you in action.     49    

●Finally, I have no time.

Take a look at the choices you make about how you spend time. Do those choices show what’s important to you? Can you spare 10 minutes a day to work on a goal? Let’s suppose you want to be singer.     50     Talk with a parent about why your goal counts. Discuss whether you can let go of something less important to free up time to achieve it.

One day, a fisherman caught a golden fish. “Please let me go,” the golden fish said.“I will give you whatever you want.” “Thank you, but I don’t want anything”, the fisherman said. He put the golden fish back into the sea.

But the     61     wife was angry. “You should ask for a bigger wooden basin（脸盆）!” she     62    . The fisherman went to the seaside and told the golden fish.

“Don’t     63    . She has a new basin now,” the golden fish said.

The fishman went home. But his wife was even     64    . “I want a large house!” The fishman went to tell golden fish again.

But the old woman was never     65    . “I want to be the queen of the sea! And I want the golden fish to     66     me” The fisherman went to tell the golden fish again.

The golden fish swam away without     67     anything. The fishman walked back. His wife was in her old clothes. Her old and broken wooden basin was     68     her.

Do you know how many languages there are in the world? There’re about 1, 500. English is one of the most important languages because so many people use it, not only in England and America, but also in other countries of the world. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it. Millions of boys and girls an: trying to do so.

Many English children study French. French is also a very important language. Some children study German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

What is the best way to learn a language? We know that we all learned our own language well when we were children. If we learn a second language in the same way, it won’t seem so difficult. How does a small child do? He listens to what people say, tries to guess what he hears, thinks in it and talks in it all the time. If people use a second language all the time, they will learn it quickly.

80. 假如你是李军，五一假期已经过去了，你的美国笔友Aileen对你的五天假期很感兴趣。请你根据以下信息给Aileen 写一封电子邮件，向她介绍你的假期活动，并说一说中学生和父母一起旅游的好处。

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Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Jun