Mr. White is my uncle. He is 36 years old. He works in a sports club. His job is to _____ the students to play basketball. He lives far from the club. He has a car, but he doesn’t _____ it to work. Usually, he goes to work by bike. He thinks it is good exercise and he can get to the _____ early when many buses and cars are in the street.

Every morning, Mr. White gets up at 6:30. Then he takes a shower and has a good breakfast. At 7:40, he rides his bike to the club. The bike ride usually _____ an hour.

“I never feel tired. I think the ride is _____ and interesting,” says Mr. White.

A group of frogs were traveling through the forest, but unluckily two of them fell into a hole. The other frogs tried to help them. When they saw how _________ the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could not be saved. The two frogs didn’t ___________ and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other frogs _________ saying that they were sure to die. _________, one of the two frogs, who heard what the other frogs were saying, _________. Then he fell down and died.

The other frog, however, _________ to jump as hard as he could, and at last made it out. When he _________, the other frogs asked, “Didn’t you hear us?” The frog, who had a poor _________ explained, “I thought you were encouraging me all the time.”

The story teaches us a _________: There is power(力量) of live and death in the tongue. An __________ word to those who are down(低落的) can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.

Do you know how to cook, clean or grow plants? You will soon learn these skills (技能)!

From this fall, primary and middle schools have had labor education (劳动教育). Every week, students will have one class at least to learn about cooking, keeping animals and more. This can make Chinese students’s life rich. Chinese school education didn’t give a lot of thought (考虑) to this in the past. According to a 2019 report, Chinese kids only do 12 minutes of practical activity each day. So, now, how do young people feel about the new subject?

About 80% of people do not get enough vitamin (维生素) D every day. But this vitamin is very important for your health.

Vitamin D is really important for our bones (骨骼). When we are young, vitamin D builds up our bones and makes them strong. When we are older, we still need vitamin D to keep our bones strong. Our bodies keep the vitamin D in our bones and teeth. Then we lose vitamin D as we work and exercise during the day. But our bodies can’t make vitamin D. So we have to get it from outside of our bodies.

Where can a person get this very important vitamin? Vitamin D is in foods like fish and eggs. Sometimes, vitamin D is added to bread, milk, and orange juice. Food is not the only way our bodies can get vitamin D. The sun also gives us vitamin D. If we want to be healthy, we should spend some time in the sun each day. Too much sun is not good for you, but about 15 minutes a day is usually enough. And we should be sure to eat foods that are rich in vitamin D, too.

A young and successful man was driving down a street in his new Jaguar (捷豹汽车), He was going too fast. As his car passed, a brick (砖块) knocked into the Jaguar’s side door, He was very angry and drove the car back to the place where the brick had been thrown, The angry driver jumped out of the car and stopped the nearest kid, shouting, “Who are you? What are you doing? That’s a new car and that brick you threw is going 10 cost a lot of money. Why did you do that? ”

The young boy was apologetic, “I’m sorry. I didn’t know what else to do,” he said. “I threw the brick because no one else would stop.”

With tears dropping down his face, the young boy pointed to a place just around a parked car. “It’s my brother,” he said, “He fell out of his wheelchair (轮椅) and I can’t lift him up.”

Crying, the boy asked the man, “Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me.” Moved deeply, the driver hurriedly lift the disabled boy into the wheelchair.

“Thankyou and God bless you.” the thankful child told the man. And the man simply watched the little boy push his brother down the sidewalk toward their home.

It was along and slow walk back to Jaguar. The dent (凹痕) was very noticeable, but the driver didn’t want to repair the side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message: Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention.

God speaks to our hearts I everyday. Sometimes when we don’t have time to listen, he has to throw a brick at us.

Every year, millions of birds are killed or hurt when they fly into buildings. Why does this happen?     31     Birds are flying into windows and tall buildings that are all covered by glass.

Many birds fly from one place to another. Most of the time, they live in the wild, such as forests and wetlands.     32     They might see small trees and flowers inside a window and want to rest on these plants. The birds do not know there is glass between them and the plants.     33    

Some birds fly at night. They use the moon and stars to help guide them in the right direction. Tall buildings with lights on at night can confuse (迷惑) the birds.     34     The birds see the light, but they cannot tell that the light is coming from inside a building. They fly toward the light and crash into a building. On many mornings, there might be several dead birds lying on the ground.

    35     Many office buildings now turn off their lights at night. This helps reduce the number of birds that fly into buildings and it also helps save energy.

Sichuan Opera is one of China’s     47     (old) and most popular local operas. It appeared during the Ming and the Qing Dynasties (朝代).

One cannot talk about Sichuan Opera without     48     (mention) face-changing. It’s     49     special skill in the performance of Sichuan Opera. It is said that ancient people painted their faces with different looks     50     (drive) away wild animals. Sichuan Opera     51     (take) in this ancient skill and developed it into an art.

Nowadays face-changing performers prepare many masks (面罩) which     52     (paint) with different     53     (design) and colors. Artists in traditional clothes dance around, shaking their heads up or down and changing the thin masks     54     their faces. Their performances are so perfect that you must be surprised at how they can control the masks so     55     (skillful).

Today it’s not only a local opera     56     a show of music, puppetry and humor. It’s best to watch a Sichuan opera when you visit Sichuan.