Steve is a middle school student, and he is fat.

Steve ________ watching sports. In his room, his sports things are everywhere. ________ he doesn’t like playing sports. He ________ says, “It is difficult ________ a fat boy like me to play sports.”

Now he is at home with his cousin Tony. He wants ________ a basketball game on TV.”

“Come here, please,” he says to Tony. “We can eat ________. And we can watch ________ interesting basketball game, too. It is fun!”

“Yeah. It’s fun,” Tony says. “But look at you, Steve! If you want to be healthy, you must ________ the right food and start to play sports. So how about ________ basketball now?”

“Er... I think you ________ right,” Steve says.

Hello! My name is Lucky. I’m a brown dog and I am 3. What’s this? It’s my jacket. What color is it? It’s blue and white.

I am in Linda’s home. Now it’s my home, too. That is my bed. You can see a yellow quilt on it.

Linda King is 9 and she is nice. We are good friends. She likes blue. She says blue is a nice color. She has a blue cup and two blue pens. They are on her desk. Oh, Linda’s phone is blue, too. She calls her friends in the evening.

Linda is nice to me. I am happy at home with her.

Libby is a black and white cat. She is 19 years old. Libby is really old, so she is not very healthy.

Libby lives in a small library in the USA for many years. People go to the library to read books. And they meet and play with Libby. Libby brings a lot of fun to them.

“These days, we get medicine (药) for Libby. It’s 900 dollars,” a librarian (图书管理员) from the library says. The librarians there are worried about Libby’s health. They love Libby and want to help her, but they don’t have much money, for that. For a small library, it’s really ________ to give Libby good care.

The library wants people to donate money (捐款) to help Libby. Many people go to the library to meet Libby and donate money. The library just wants 1,500 dollars, but now it has 2,900 dollars.

“We are thankful for their kindness (仁慈),” one librarian says. With the money, the librarians can buy medicine and healthy food for Libby. They are really happy. Libby looks happy, too.

My name is Daniel. Look, here is a picture in the bookcase. Who is he? Well, he is my cousin, Eric. The boy in yellow is me. Eric and I like the same sport, basketball. I have two basketballs. I think basketball is difficult but relaxing. Eric has four basketballs. He thinks basketball is easy. In the summer holiday, Eric and I usually stay with our grandparents. Eric and I like the same sport, but our eating habits are different. I like bananas and apples, but Eric likes oranges and pears. I like noodles and vegetables, but Eric likes rice and chicken. Grandma often says, “I don’t like summer holidays. It’s too difficult for me to cook.”

Today is Emma’s birthday. “What can I get today?” Emma thinks.

In the morning, Emma finds her breakfast on the table, but she doesn’t see her parents. “Do my parents forget (忘记) my birthday ?” Emma is not happy.     51    .

On the school bus, some students say hello to her,     52    . At school, she meets Alice, her good friend. But Alice forgets her birthday, too.

“    53    ,” Alice says. “You say it’s interesting.”

“Well, I don’t want to play it today,” Emma says. “No one remembers my birthday!” she thinks. For lunch, Emma has a hamburger and some salad at school.

After school, Emma takes her mother’s car home. On the way Emma sees a new basketball court (场地).     54    , but Mom doesn’t stop there. She stops at a ping-pong club.

“Oh, Mom. The club is not open today!” says Emma. “Why are we here?”

“Just get in!”

You know what?     55    . “Happy birthday!” Dad and Mom look at Alice and say. Her good friends are there, too.

Dale is a student in Palm Middle School. He is in Class Four, Grade Seven, and fourteen boys and twelve girls     61     in his class.

Today is Monday. But Dale and his classmates don’t have     62     in the classroom—they are on a trip to the science museum. They want to     63     some things about science.

In the museum, they see many     64     things. Dale likes the Color Room on the     65     floor (楼层) in the museum. In the room, the students learn about seven colors of the rainbow. They learn how to make a rainbow with a mirror (镜子) and water, too. It is fun and useful for     66    .

Dale’s favorite animal is the dinosaur. He knows a lot about dinosaurs in the museum. He doesn’t think it is     67     to take photos there. He     68     two small model dinosaurs at a store. They are     69     10 dollars.

Dale has a good time in the museum. He really likes     70     trips to the science museum!

Look at the man in the first photo. He is wearing a blue T-shirt and a pair of black trousers. In the photo, he’s on his way to work. Who is he? He is Wang Jibing, a 55-year-old food delivery rider (外卖骑手) from Jiangsu.

Wang has a habit of writing poems (诗). He finds inspiration (灵感) for them in his everyday life. “I like writing poems in my free time. It makes me happy,” he says.

Wang is great. In 2022, his first book Man in a Hurry came out, and we can read over 180 poems in the book. This April, his second book came out. Its name is I Love This World Clumsily and there are about 130 poems in it.

You know what? Now Wang has about 4,000 poems. They are easy to read, and many people love them. “Reading Wang’s poems can help me find peace (平静) in my busy life,” says a man.