My relationship with my mother changed after I went to college. When I was at home, we     16     about many things, for example, wearing makeup and talking on the phone. One time, before a big party, she     17     to let me leave the house. She thought my makeup was too heavy. I had to wash my face before I went to the party. I was the only girl without makeup, and I was so     18    . And when I talked to my friends on the phone, my mum always shouted to tell me to hang up, and the person I was talking to could hear her. Her     19     always made me upset.

But after a few months at college, I changed myself     20    . I met new people. I started learning about history, politics, and the world. I didn’t have the time or     21     for long phone conversations. I stopped caring so much about things like makeup. I once went to a party with no makeup on, but I felt fine. I just laughed about it. My new way of thinking brought me     22     my mother. Now, I talk to my mother almost every day. We get along quite well. We go to movies together and read the same books. I tell her about my problems and she gives me good     23    . Last month, my mother helped me through a bad time. She is an amazing person. I know that now.

Daniel Olin was 11 years old when his parents moved to Canada. He liked his new school and made friends there, but then things at home started to change. His mum and dad began to argue and the arguments got worse and worse until one day, Daniel’s mum left. With his father working long hours, Daniel felt very lonely and very unhappy. He wanted to escape, to run away. And that’s what he did.

Very early one terribly cold morning when the snow was deep on the ground, he packed a bag with some clothes, some chocolate and a map of Canada and set off to a forest. He ran and ran until he could hardly breathe. His feet were heavy with the snow but he still walked on through deep snow, not even watching where he was going.

Then, disaster struck. A rock hidden by the deep snow caught his feet and Daniel fell to the ground. He had broken the bone. He was very cold and was starting to feel tired, but he knew that if he fell asleep in the snow, he would certainly die from the cold.

A tree shook ahead. From within the branches, a pair of yellow eyes watched Daniel. The puma had been following him. A puma is a large wild cat with claws that could tear Daniel into pieces. But instead of moving in for the kill, the puma walked up to Daniel and lay across his chest, arms and legs. Daniel was too frightened to move, but soon the warmth of the animal reached Daniel and he began to feel better. From time to time, the puma pressed his muzzle (口鼻) against Daniel and shook his head gently. Clearly, the puma knew that Daniel must not fall asleep. This animal should have been a real danger to Daniel and yet the boy began to feel safe.

They remained like that for several hours until Daniel and the puma heard voices. The rescue team had found them.

I didn’t cry when I learned I was the parent of a disabled child.

“Go ahead and cry,” the doctor advised kindly, but I couldn’t cry then, nor during the days that followed.

When Jenny was old enough, I sent her to a kindergarten. On the first morning, Jenny spent hours playing by herself. It seemed that she felt very l    51    .

However, to my joy, Jenny’s classmates always encouraged her, “you got all your spelling words right today!” In fact, her spelling list was the e    52    . Later she faced a very painful problem—at the end of the term, there was a game which had something to do with physical education. But Jenny was way behind in it.

My husband and I were anxious about the day. I wanted to keep her home. Why let Jenny fail in a gym filled with parents, students and teachers? But my heart wouldn’t let me off that easily. So I pushed a pale, unwilling Jenny onto the school bus.

At the kindergarten, I was quite worried because of her slow action. Jenny would probably hold up (阻碍) her team. The game went on well u    53     it was time for the sack (麻袋) race. Surely Jenny would find it difficult. Now each child had to climb into a sack, jump to the finishing line, return and climb out of the sack. I noticed Jenny standing near the end of her line of players.

But as it was her turn to join, a c    54     took place in her team. The tallest boy behind Jenny placed his hands on her waist (腰). Two other boys stood ahead of her. The moment the player before Jenny stepped out from the sack, those two boys picked up the sack quickly and held it o    55     while the tall boy lifted Jenny and dropped her into it. A girl in front of Jenny took her hand and supported her, making sure Jenny gained her balance. Then she jumped f    56    , smiling and proud.

In the cheers of teachers, schoolmates and parents, I silently thanked Heaven for the warm, understanding people in life who make it p    57     for my disabled daughter to be like her fellow human beings. Then I finally cried.

While carrying your schoolbag on the way to school or home, does the heavy weight of your books make you less interested to learn knowledge? Don’t worry. E-readers may help you say goodbye to your heavy schoolbag.

An e-reader has the memory space to hold hundreds of books. So people want to replace heavy schoolbags with small, light e-readers. For example, Cushing Academy, a high school in Massachusetts, US, got rid of most of the 20,000 books in its library last summer. The head of the library said that the school was going to replace printed books with e-books. Teachers and students will use e-readers instead.

Most e-readers are thin and weigh less than 500g. They can download an e-book within 60 seconds. “It’s so convenient. You can have so many books right at your fingertips!” said Meghan Chenausky, 16.

Chinese schoolchildren are also trying e-readers. At the 2020 Shanghai Book Fair, an e-schoolbag was on show. It is a special e-reader that students can use to download textbooks from the school servers. It can also send and receive homework.

Some schools in Beijing and Shanghai have tried this e-schoolbag for a few years. “It’s excellent. I don’t have to carry a heavy schoolbag anymore,” said Xiao Qi, 15, Beijing. “And it’s eco-friendly because it saves paper.”

New generation e-readers have many functions (功能) besides reading, such as Wi-Fi and multimedia. However, some parents worry that these functions may have a bad influence on their children’s study habits. “I think Wi-Fi is not necessary for kids,” says Zeng Wenwen, 43, Beijing.

64. Write at least 60 words according to the given situation (根据以下情景写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格)

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