Deng Qingming is one of the three Chinese astronauts carrying out China’s Shenzhou-15spaceship mission. He     44     got the chance to go to space after nearly 25 years of preparation.

Deng was born in a village in Jiangxi Province in 1966. As his     45     both worked in the fields, he had to look after his younger brothers and sisters. At that time, his dream was to go to college and find a job to     46     his family.

Deng has been a     47     of the PLA Air Force (空军) since 1984. When he left his village that year, his friends came to say goodbye to him. He was deeply touched and decided to work hard. Years of hard     48     made him an excellent pilot, and he was chosen as one of the     49    group of Chinese astronauts in 1998.

For a long time, Deng served as a backup (后备) astronaut. His road to space was     50    than that of his teammates. He spent almost all of his time preparing and waiting and he was     51     the chance to travel to space in the end.

After a long wait, he flew into space by Shenzhou-15 spaceship in November 2022 at last.Twenty-five years was quite a long time, but Deng never gave up.     54     the nation needs him, he is always waiting there, ready to take on any challenge.

If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls; and dark-colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys. Some big stores with toys may even have a pink floor for girls and a blue floor for boys. In fact, it is difficult to buy a toy for a girl that is not pink.

Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls. Sue Palmer, writer of Toxic Childhood, is very worried that most girls over the age of three are crazy about the color. According to some scientists, this happens for two reasons. Firstly, most companies offer too many products in pink. Also, many parents think their little daughter looks cute in pink. Sue Palmer says that girls at this age cannot make proper decisions by themselves, but the pink can affect (影响) the choices and the decisions they will make in the future.

Some parents are worried too, for example, Vanessa Holburn, thirty-two, who has two girls under the age of four. Their bedrooms are a sea of pink and Vanessa is not happy. “Pink says that you are soft and gentle. Blue says that you are strong and powerful. I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I’m worried that pink will not help them with that,” she says.

But not everyone thinks there’s something wrong with pink. Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn’t worried at all. “People forget that things change all the time,” he says. “My girls used to love pink when they were little, but as they get older, they change.” Turner explains that his twelve-year-old daughter never wears pink clothes any more. “This love of pink is just a fashion and all fashions change,” he adds. “It’s only since the 1940s that people have started dressing girls in pink——before that it was a color for boys.”

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Sleep plays an important role in brain development. Children should get enough sleep.

    73     A study says that because of being short of sleep, it is much harder for children to do something carefully. And also they become forgetful and easy to make mistakes. Another study shows that the right amount of night-time sleep is just as important for children’s development as healthy eating and taking exercise.

    74     In general a younger child needs more sleep than an older one. Children at the age of 5-11 will need 10-12 hours of sleep a night while children at the age of more than 11 will need less hours.

In fact, many parents don’t know how to help their children get enough sleep. Here is something you can do. For children at the age of 5-11, a 30-40 minutes’ routine (常规) before sleep is helpful.     75     In the activities, children relax and enjoy themselves a lot, and they will go to sleep more easily.

Children at the age of more than 11 may go to bed late in the evening, talking with friends online, playing games or watching TV.     76     And even they will be tired during the day. So limit (限制) your children’s use of the Internet, games and the TV before they go to bed.     77    

83. 初中三年生活转瞬即逝，如今即将毕业离开母校，此时此刻，你是否还记得升入初中第一天的情景呢？请以“My First Day in the Middle School”为题，用英语写一篇短文，描述一下你入校当天的所见所闻、经历感受，再次体验曾经的美好时光，满怀信心地去迎接新的未来！

My First Day in the Middle School

When I first walked into the middle school,

Now I will leave my school. I’m going to work hard in the future to make my school proud of me.