There was a businessman who was deep in debt (债务) and could see no way out. He sat in a(n) ________, head in his hands.

________, an old man appeared (出现) before him. “I can see that ________ is troubling you,” he said. After ________ the businessman's story, the old man wrote a check (支票), and put it in his hand, saying, “Take it and pay me back here one year from today.” Then he left ________ quickly as he had come.

The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John.D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the world! “I can pay off my debts soon!” he thought. But the businessman decided not to use the check. He just put it ________ . Then he went back and worked hard to make his business ________ . Within several months, he paid off his debts and started making more and more ________ once again.

One year later, he returned to the park with the check. Soon the old man appeared.________ the old man was a nurse. The nurse told the businessman that the old man was mentally (精神上) ill and was always telling people he was John. D. Rockefeller.

The businessman was shocked to hear this. All year long, he’d been buying and selling, believing that he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he ________that it wasn’t the money that had turned his life around. It was his new found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve (达到) anything he went after.

Teenagers are known for being full of new ideas. Let’s have a look at these teenage inventions (发明) that might change the world.

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When you brush your teeth, you might squeeze (挤) out too much toothpaste (牙膏). Can you put the toothpaste back in the tube again? Here is a story which can make you think more about it.

It was a night in July at an all-girls summer camp. The students sat around a fire and chatted a bit. Their teacher asked if any of them wanted to share something. It could be anything that happened that day and what they learned from it. One girl put up her hand. She said that another girl said something bad to her and that it hurt her feelings. She felt quite sad about it.

The teacher said nothing but went to the bathroom and got a tube (软管) of toothpaste. She held the tube high in the air so that every student could see it. Then she squeezed it just a bit so some toothpaste could come out. After that, she tried to put the toothpaste back in the tube, but it just made a mess. She squeezed the tube even more, pushing out more toothpaste and making even more of a mess. But none of it could go back into the tube.

The teacher then told the students, “This toothpaste is just like the words we say. When we say something mean, it’s hard to take it back. It only makes a mess. Think before we speak and make sure our words are kind before we let them out.”

A young art teacher from China’s Shanxi Province was recently praised (赞美) online for spending about three months working on a beautiful chalk (粉笔) picture of a traditional masterpiece (杰作).

When Zhao Wenrui, an art teacher in Fanzhi County, decided to draw a chalk version of Along the River during the Qingmins Festival (《清明上河图》), he said that he just wanted to do something interesting for his students. It’s said that he has used eight blackboards side by side, five buckets (桶) of chalk and worked on it for about three months.

Along the River during the Qingming Festival, a five-meter-long picture describing the Song Dynasty capital of Kaifeng during the festival of Qingming, is sometimes called China’s Mona Lisa (《蒙娜丽莎》), and considered as one of the most important artworks in the country’s history. The work has been copied several times, but the original (原件) is seldom shown because it is quite fragile (易损的), dating back to the 12th century.

Zhao Wenrui’s 32-meter-long chalk version draws around 550 people (farmers from the countryside, boatmen and so on), as well as dozens of animals, buildings, bridges, and the environment itself.

Unfortunately, unlike the real Along the River during the Qingming Festival, this chalk picture will not be around for a thousand years, as the blackboards will be cleaned as soon as the children come back to school.

When you hear the word “shapeshifting” (变身), you may think of science fiction movies, not the climate (气候). But that’s what animals are doing to deal with climate change.

A new study shows that some animals are gradually growing larger beaks, legs and ears. In this way they can lose heat more easily to cool themselves down as Earth gets warmer.

“A lot of the time when we talk about climate change, we ask ‘Can humans overcome this?’ or ‘What technology can solve this?’ But we should know that animals also have to adapt (适应) to these changes,” said the study’s author, Sara Ryding, from Deakin University, Australia. If animals can’t control their body temperature, they can overheat and die.

In one example, the beaks of some Australian parrot species (物种) have grown 4 to 10 percent larger since 1871. The study says it’s closely related to rising summer temperatures over the years. Similar examples include wood mice. They have longer tails. Masked shrews (假面鼩鼱) are getting longer tails and legs, and bats in warm climates have bigger wings. Although the changes are still small, Ryding said they could be more obvious as the days become hotter. “Body parts like ears are predicted to be bigger, so we might end up with a live-action Dumbo (big-eared elephant from a Disney cartoon) in the near future,” Ryding told BBC.

Sometimes the easiest way to get somewhere is on the back of a bike.

More and more people are using cars in many places in Africa today.     46       Bikes are the most popular   in this African country.

Bike riding is a way of life in Malawi. People use them to carry heavy things.     47       These years, taking   a “bicycle taxi” to travel around Malawi has become quite popular among tourists from all over the world. If you go to Malawi, you will find a lot of bike taxis waiting on the sides of the roads.     48    You can jump on a bike taxi and get around at a very low cost.

Alice is a 21-year-old student from Canada. She enjoys the special bike riding a lot. “l really like the bike taxi,” she says. “    49    ” Alice usually spends just $l going shopping in town. 28-year-old Panjira Khombe began to ride a bike taxi two years ago. The young man enjoys this job. “    50    Being a bike taxi rider is easy for me and I don’t mind carrying heavy people.” he says.

Traveling often brings us pleasure. But last summer, I had a special travel experience. I visited Mount Wuyi with my parents. Mount Wuyi is famous     61     green forests, clear water and nice tea. Every year, thousands of people go travelling there on     62     / və'keɪʃən/.

I     63     (book) three train tickets online. The train should start at 8:00, but it was late. We had to wait. When we finally got on the train, it was 9:00. What’s worse, there was something wrong     64     the air conditioner. I couldn’t stand the high temperature and the     65     /'terəbl/ smell in the carriage (车厢). As soon as the train arrived, I ran out     66     (quick).

A tour bus took us to the foot of the mountain. We rent three     67     (bicycle) to ride on. It was too hot. We had to keep drinking along the way. We were tasting delicious Wuyi Tea when it rained suddenly.     68     (ride) in the rain became more difficult. I fell down     69     I wasn’t hurt. I felt too tired to ride on. After overcoming (克服) all kinds of difficulties, we finally reached the     70     /tɒp/ of the mountain.

71. 假如你是李华，你的同学给你发邮件说她最近在学习和生活上遇到一些问题，情绪不好，作为她的好朋友，你想给她发一封邮件告诉她如何消除这些不良情绪，重获快乐。

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