I was the youngest of the three sons in my family. My ________ were five and seven years older than me. They did most of the housework in my family. I rode my bike around our town, played basketball or walked in the woods. I did these things ________ fun during my childhood. I had no housework or farm work to do.

When I was sixteen, however, both of my brothers moved away. My dad was ________ ill that he couldn’t do any work. So I had to do a lot of work. I grew vegetables in ________ and I fed sheep in summer. In autumn I ________ wood to keep us warm in the winter. And all year round I carried water from a mountain spring（泉水）back to our house so we had water to drink and cook with. Every day, I was very busy and I felt very ________.

At first, I was very unhappy. But ________, I began to find happiness in helping my parents that I loved so much. I sang to myself while collecting wood, and I ________ while carrying water. I even found myself ________ my mum with the dinner dishes and cleaning, I started to realize something that I would carry with me the rest of my life: ________ you do your work with love, it isn’t work.

Tony is a 15-year-old student. He and his parent are going to Beijing this October. Here is some information that they have got.

The Palace Museum Opening hours: Tuesday—Sunday 8:30—17:00 (Monday Closed) Ticket: adult 60 yuan student 20 yuan child (under 6) free	The Summer Palace . Opening hours: Monday—Sunday 6:30—18:00 Ticket: adult 30 yuan student 15 yuan child (under 6) free
The Badaling Great Wall Opening hours: Monday—Sunday 6:00—19:30 Ticket: adult 40 yuan student 20 yuan child (under 6) free	The Universal Studio Opening hours: Monday—Sunday 9:00—19:00 Ticket: adult 638 yuan child (under 11) 479 yuan

The story is about a young student called Tina. She worked very hard at her lessons and kept thinking of her exams. Every time when she closed her eyes, her brain was full of the homework and exams, and this made it difficult for her to sleep. When she got up the next morning, she felt very tired. Soon she became ill.

Then she decided to see a doctor. Hearing the student’s words, the doctor said, “You are too stressed out. You must eat more yin foods like vegetables and tofu. Do more exercise and relax. Besides（此外）, you can try to count numbers when you are lying in bed. By the time you count one thousand, you will be asleep. I’m sure of it.”

The next day, Tina came to see the doctor again. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you feeling today?” The student still looked tired. “Not very well,” she said. “I tried to count one, two, three, four, up to one thousand. But when I counted five hundred and sixty, I felt sleepy. I had to get up and drink some coffee so that I could keep on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t be asleep.”

① Do you often run outdoors to keep healthy? Do you know how running helps to clean up the earth? Sometimes a creative mind can bring us a win-win (双赢) result.

② Plogging, a new trend (趋势) to exercise, began in Sweden (瑞典). The name “plogging” comes from two Swedish words. One is “ploeka”, which means “to pick up”, and the other word is “jogging”, which means “to run slowly”.

③ A Swedish man called Erik started the movement. He saw rubbish here and there when riding to work each day. He became worried about the dirty environment and decided not to go to work by bike any more. Instead, he began to run to work and pick up the rubbish at the same time. To his surprise, more and more people followed him and soon plogging became popular.

④ Many people choose plogging instead of just jogging because they think plogging is a good way to help clean up the earth. Lydia runs four or five times a week. While running, she picks up rubbish along the way. “It just takes a moment to stop and pick something up off the ground. But it makes a big difference to my neighborhood. Now my husband also joins me.” Lydia says proudly. “It doesn’t matter how much rubbish I pick up. It’s a good way to save our earth.”

⑤ Another reason for plogging’s popularity is that plogging burns more calories (卡路里). According to scientists, plogging for 10 minutes burns 48 calories. While jogging for 10 minutes burns about 39 calories.

⑥ Everyone on the earth should play a part in cleaning it up! It’s time for us to take an action together. So ready? Let’s plog tomorrow!

Kites are made from bamboo and decorated with traditional Chinese paintings. Weifang in Shandong Province has a long history of making kites. Weifang kite-making was included in the national-level intangible cultural heritage（国家级非物质文化遗产）lists in 2006. The International Kite Festival has been held in Weifang every year since 1984.

Yang Hongwei, 56, is an inheritor（传承人）of Weifang kite-making skill. She was born in a kite-making family. Yang often saw different kinds of kites in her grandfather’s workshop. Having a special connection with kites, Yang learned the skill from her grandfather at the age of 16. After practicing the skill for 10 years, she started her own shop in 1992.

In her free time, she also travels to different countries including Germany, Australia, the US and New Zealand to teach people how to make kites. Also, she wants to tell people about Chinese stories seen on kites.

In fact, Yang Hongwei is not alone. There are many inheritors of the culture. It is their important job to spread（传播）the Chinese culture around the world.