Poor Jennie sat at her window. She wasn’t able to go to school because an illness made it difficult for her to walk. She ______ out at the street with a look of tiredness on her face.

“Oh, dear, what a long and ______ day it will be!” She looked sad and bored. She put her pale face against the______ of the window, he took off his hat and gave her a bright and friendly smile.

“What a nice boy he is !” Jennie said to ______, as he ran out of her eyes. “I am so glad he goes down this road on his way to school every day. When he smiles, it seems like having the sunshine.”

The boy didn’t know how much ______ he had done in making a pleasant day out of a lonely one for a sick little girl.

“Mother,” said the boy, George West, ______ he came home from school the other day, “I can’t help thinking about that poor little girl that I told you about. She looks so tired. I smiled at her again and talked with her today. I wish I could do something for her.”

“She told me they used to live on a farm. But her father died, and her mother was ill for so long that the ______ was all gone. Then her mother had to sell the farm and ______ to our city.”

“ ______ didn’t the girl go to school?” Mother asked in surprise.

“Because she can’t walk.” said the boy, ______, “My father must give them some money, so they can go back to their ______.”

“No,” said the mother, “he cannot do that, and they would not want him to. But maybe we can find some other ways to ______ them.”

“Tomorrow I am going to take Jennie some grapes.” the boy said.

“I will put some of pears into your basket, and go with you. But there is one thing we can ______ give, and sometimes it does more good than nice things to eat, or ______money.”

“What is that, Mom?” Then he guessed, “ Smiles!” “Yes ,”answered his mother, ”and it is a good plan to throw in a kind word or two with those______when you can.”

I’m a girl, Myra. Racing on the 1,500-meter track(跑道), I’m so tired. I want to stop but a voice repeating in my head, “No one knows what the result will be. Everything is still possible.” Today, I have to fight with myself.

Nine years ago, when I was a 6-year-old girl, my mother took me on a trip. We went to the foot of a high mountain which she told me that we would climb. I have never done this before and the thought of it made me very happy.

At the beginning, I was so excited, and climbed fast. But half an hour later, when I was thirsty and tired, I just stopped and sat upon the ground, completely silent. My mom came and sat next to me.She said, ”Get up and go on!” Crying, I almost shouted, “Never! It’s too tiring and I am thirsty. I want to go back home now.”

Patiently she explained, “Listen, my dear. If you try your best, anything is possible. If you don’t try, your dream will never come true. You will never know how beautiful the scenery looks unless you reach the top of the mountain.”

Hearing her words, I stopped crying and started to climb again. Finally I did reach the top of the mountain and enjoyed the fantastic view.

Today I’m on the racing track. I’m going to keep running because I know it’s always worth. And in the end I made it; I got through the finish line. Although it was really difficult and I did not win, I did finish it. “Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined(命定的) place—— that is, the unique you.”

Nine-year-old Regina, from Scotland, has always loved taking photos. When she was just three, she picked up her father, Kevin’s camera, and asked him how it worked. But rather than just being a curious(好奇的) child or a girl with an inability to leave anything alone, Regina is in fact a professional wedding photographer.

“Regina became interested in photography at a very young age, ” her father, and fellow professional photographer, Kevin, tells Daily Mail Australia. “She first started asking questions about how to use my cameras.

Regina has never been on a training course,” He goes to explain that he has never forced his daughter to take photos like her dad does for his job. “I just answer questions when she asks them, and when she wants to do some shooting she can. Over the years she tagged along to quite a lot of shoots, so her skills just grew through experience.”

These skills reached the highest point on April 15 this year, when Regina shot over 400 photos at her first wedding. “She completely love it,” Kevin said. “She is quite a quiet girl, but when she has that camera in her hands she is super-confident, and had no problem dealing with people or setting up shots throughout the day. Regina’s next wedding is on July 1 and several of my other brides have called to ask if she can come along as they love her work. I honestly don’t have words to describe how proud I feel,” he concluded.

“In the past, Regina said a few times that she just wants to keep it as a hobby,” said Kevin. “But over the past few days, upon seeing some of the response her work has got and some of the nice messages she’s received from people all over the world, she has said she might like doing this when she’s older.”

Bees have very small brains. Still, they are very intelligent. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London did an experiment with bees. It shows that bees can learn something new to gain reward(奖励). Then they can teach other bees to do the same. And that’s not all they can do. Olli Luokola was one of the scientists who worded on the study. He said that the bees did not just copy what they saw. They actually improved on what they were learning. “This is of course amazing for small-brained insects,” he said. He added that it is even harder for humans to improve on something they learned by copying others.

For the experiment, the bees had to move a yellow ball into the center of a platform(平台). First, the scientists showed the bees how to do it. When the ball got into the center, the scientists added sugar water to reward the subjects. The bees learned that the rewards came when the ball was put in the right place. They got better and better at moving the balls. Then, they got more of the reward. After a while, they began to move the balls by themselves.

The scientists tried something else. They put the trained bees on a platform with bees that were not trained.

After watching the trained bees once, the untrained bees learned how to do it too. They didn’t just copy the behavior, though. The new bees also improved on the action；They chose balls closer to themselves. All brains-in people and people-have neurons(神经元) let you think. Scientist Reese Halter says bees are “highly intelligent creatures,” even though they have far fewer neutrons than humans. Halter explained that bees talk to each other with their bodies, but not like what we do. They use their bodies instead of words. They butt heads, bump into each other and they even dance. Luokola said scientists used to think that the smaller the brain, the less intelligent the animal! But this study proves(证明)that is not true.

Daniel goes to the library. He needs to borrow books on giraffes. The library has     61     kinds of books. The library has movies and CDs, too. Daniel doesn’t have books on giraffes. He actually doesn’t buy so many books. He thinks reading is     62    but buying books is a waste of money. Why do you buy books if you can borrow them     63    the library? So he wants to have a library     64     . He gets a form from the library and fills in his information. There are some basic questions. He signs his name at the bottom. He borrows 10 books on giraffes. He goes to the check-out desk. The librarian scans the book. He takes the books    65     . He looks really happy.

Do you know the movie named A Dog’s Way Home? People believe that it is such a heartwarming movie for dogs and pet lovers everywhere. It    66    out around the world already.

The movie is about Bella, a cute dog who becomes the friend of Lucas Ray. As soon as they meet , Bella and Lucas become good friends. In fact, Bella     67     secretly because dogs are not allowed in his apartment building.

Bella brings happiness to all around her. The movie really begins when Bella finds herself separated from her owner. While Bella    68    for Lucas one day, she was distracted(分心) by a squirrel(松鼠). Before she knew it, she was lost, and worse than that, lost hundreds of miles from home. But Bella used her smartness     69     herself back to Lucas. Along the way she started a friendship with a mountain lion and looked after a homeless man. She brought the same joy to everyone she met on her travels.

This spring,    70    this movie with your family and friends. It is really a classic feel-good tale of friendship and the beautiful feelings between people and pets.

Have you ever been to Venice. Around the world, no city is quite like Venice, Italy. Tourists love its beautiful old buildings and squares. But What makes Venice a really special place is the water. The beautiful city is built on a group of islands in a large lagoon(泻湖）beside the ocean.     81    

However, it’s said that Venice is in danger from this water. What is happening?     82    At high tides(涨潮时), the water in the lagoon rises. Sometimes it rises higher than usual and floods the city. Because Venice is lower than it was the past, the flooding is happening more often. This is taking down the city’s ancient buildings.

A    83    The name of project is MOSE. Marco Armillis, an engineer, explains how it will work. “We are putting seventy-eight big floodgates(防洪水闸）at the places where the lagoon meets the ocean. The floodgates will close when there are high tides, to stop seawater from coming into the lagoon.     84     It hasn’t been an easy project for us because we are working under water.”

The MOSE project will cost about seven billion dollars and has already taken many years to build. If everything goes well, then in few years ‘time the seawater will not flood into Venice’s lagoon. Venice’s beautiful buildings will be safe for a long time.    85