It’s not always easy to discover oneself. From a young age, I knew who I wanted to be, _______ an accident made me look myself again. To me, skating was above all. There was _______ in this world that could take up my heart with such joy. I practiced _______ a lot. It brought me first prize in nearly every _______. Unluckily, in one show, I hurt myself badly. After several checks, the _______ told me that I couldn’t return to my sport any more.

As my passion (激情) was _______, I was not sure of who I was to become. I was afraid to speak in public. After eight months, something had to _______. I began to put my heart into local community service projects. By working _______ a swimming teacher and summer reading helper for kids in my free time, I got an idea of who I wanted to become. After a few months, I spent time on my interest in the arts. Little by little, I _______ out of the darkness and rebuilt my confidence.

Sometimes, there are some large rocks in our way. We can choose to stay behind or try to climb over. My accident was a rock but it couldn’t ________ me from reaching success. Today I’m a very confident person.

When people say “culture”, we think of art and history. But one very famous _______ in American culture is a cartoon. We all know and love the black mouse with two large round ears-Mickey Mouse. Over 80 years ago, he first appeared in the cartoon Steamboat Willie. When this cartoon _______ in New York in November, 1928, it was the first cartoon with sound and music. The _______ behind Mickey was Walt Disney. He became very rich and _______. In the 1930s, he made 87 cartoons with Mickey.

Some people might ask how this cartoon animal became so _______. One of the main reasons is that Mickey was _______ a common man, but he always tried to face any danger. In his early films, Mickey was unlucky and had many _______ such as losing his house or girlfriend, Minnie. However, he was always ready to try his best. People went to the _______ to see the “little man” win. Most of them wanted to be like Mickey.

Today’s cartoons are usually not so simple as little Mickey Mouse, but everyone still knows and loves _______. Who has a pair of __________ more famous than Mickey’s?

Nona Avery, a British woman was writing letters to her best friend in America. She has been doing for 77 years.

The hobby started in 1942. Nona, then 12, was reading a magazine. Some ads in the magazine we asking for pen pals. One of them caught Nona’s eye. It was from Alice Powers. She lived in America and was also 12. “I was very excited,” Nona said. “I sat down immediately, wrote a letter, put it in envelope—together with a picture of myself—and posted it.”

Nona spent every day waiting for the postman. Two weeks later, a reply dropped through to letterbox. “I was overjoyed,” Nona said. “There was a letter and a picture of my new friend. She was the other side of the world!”

Nona and Alice wanted to learn more about each other. They kept writing. The two found that they had a lot in common. However, both Nona and Alice were too poor to afford a plane ticket. They did meet until 1987. “I was excited to see the person I had been writing to for over forty years,” Nona said.

Now in their eighties, Nona and Alice are still writing to each other. And they still write by hand.

“Nothing is more enjoyable than writing, so why shall we change the habit of a lifetime?” Nona said.

Visiting outer space is still a far dream for anyone who isn’t an astronaut, but a day trip to the stars already open for people to order!

A new company, Space Perspective, is planning tests with passengers. It has big plans to run up to 500 flights from different places across the USA by 2024. If successful, reaching the outer side of space could be as easy as flying abroad in a few years’ time. The plan will be for spacemen and up to eight passengers to travel in Neptune, a capsule (太空舱) tied to a balloon , the size of a football field.

They will move slowly upwards right to the side of space, 30 km away from the Earth. There, spaced tourists will be able to look back at the Earth and out to dark space and the sight of millions of stars. Although the price is yet to be fixed, the expensive fight, which will take six hours, is likely to cost over ￡100,000. No special clothing or training is needed. It means that older people or those with health problems will be included.

Now Neptune faces competition from the Stratollite, a balloon being developed by a company called World View Enterprises while the super-rich Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are all pouring (倾倒) money into developing business space flying machines. The advantage of the balloon is that it will be cheaper than a space plane or rocket.

Space travel may soon be a reality (现实), but how visitors get there is still a very open question.

Disney has made many cartoon movies. The princesses (公主们) are often girls’ favorites. However, have you noticed that Disney princesses are changing?

In the early Disney cartoon movies, princesses like Snow White, Cinderella are usually good-looking and kind-hearted. But they depend on others to get out of trouble and find happiness. They end up living happily with their princes.

But now more girls know they have to fight for their own happiness. Disney has noticed the change. So the princesses in its newer movies don’t just have good looks.

Merida is a good example. She was a princess and she likes going on adventures. She spends her days practicing archery (射箭), riding her horse and experiencing the world. She loves her family, but she wants to create her own life.

Disney even put up their “new rules for being a modern princess”. The rules include: Care for others; Live healthily; Be honest; Be friendly; Believe in yourself; Try your best; Never give up.

None of the rules are about the looks of a princess. Anyway, one’s inner beauty is more valuable.

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