I’m Sam. My hobby is playing chess. My mom _______ me how to play it when I was seven. She beat me every time for the first year, But then on _______ eighth birthday, I won for the first time. I always beat her from then on.

It’s easy to learn _______ chess. But if you want to play it well, you have to practice for _______ . You don’t need much to play chess—just a chess set（棋具）and someone to play _______ .

There is _______ chess club in our school. We meet _______ a week to play against each other. I’m the best player in the club, the captain（队长）of the school chess team. This year I won three of the school games.

I’m saving up my money to buy a chess computer. It’s very _______ for practice, but it’s expensive. _______ I have one, I’ll always have someone to play with. I dream of being ________ player in the world.

My mom works hard. She _______ me and my younger brother. Every day when she gets home from work, she makes dinner for us.

One day, I decided to cook dinner for her. I didn’t _______ a lot about cooking. But it doesn’t look so difficult. Right? Noodles are easy to cook. All I need to do is to pour and boil water in a _______. Then add the noodles and keep boiling. This was _______ I saw my mom doing it many times. I was really excited. “Today, when Mom comes back home, dinner will be _______. How happy she will be!” thought.

After school, I ran home and started cooking. I boiled the water in the pot and _______ the noodles. I was very careful. I cooked the noodles for a long time.

Just _______ Mom got home, I turned off the stove. The noodles were not like the kind my mom _______ made. They were very mushy（糊状的）. Mom was _______ when she came home. She put the noodles in the bowl and sat with me and ate her noodles. “Mmm! These are the best noodles in the world. I know you are ________ to help out. Thank you, my daughter,” she said.

My name is Sara. When I was in the fourth grade, I started playing the piano. I practiced about five hours a week. It might be easy for lots of kids, but it wasn’t easy for me. I was born (出生) without hands. When I was about one year old, I started wearing prosthetics (假肢).

This year, I could participate in the high school marching band (行进管乐队). Someone thought I wouldn’ t be able to play music in the band because my body was different. I wanted to show that I could do it. I joined the band and practiced hard.

The practicing time wasn’t difficult for me. In fact, playing music gave me energy (能量). When I felt down, music helped me say to myself, “OK, I can get through today.” It was just a way that music made me want to go on.

Li Ming is a 17-year-old boy in China. He studies in a high school in Hainan. There are 40 boy students and 20 girl students in his class. Yesterday he did a survey (调查) about what the students in his class want to be when they grow up. Here is the result.

What the boys like doing most is to become engineers and the second largest group like being doctors. That is, 30% of the boys want to be engineers and 25% want to be doctors. 20% of the boys want to be computer programmers and another 20% want to be actors. Only 5% of the boys want to be teachers.

What the girls like doing most is to become teachers and the second largest group like being engineers. That is, 40% of the girls want to be teachers and 25% want to be engineers. 15% of the girls want to be doctors and another 15% want to be pilots. Only 5% of the girls want to be basketball players.