Do you know the story of Nick Vujicic, an Australian man? Nick was born without arms or legs, so life was not ________ for him. At school many students played jokes on him ________ he looked different from everyone else. His classmates refused (拒绝) to be his friends, so he always felt ________. However, he faced it. He learned to read and write at the age of six, and he could ________ surf and play golf. He became very successful in college and was among the ________ students. And he ________ on what to do later in his life—to encourage(鼓励) others to work hard for their dreams.

Now Nick is one of the most popular speakers in the world. He travelled to many countries and gave speeches about his story against ________. “Living life fully is to look at what you ________, not what you don’t have,” he said. His ________ encourages millions of people.

“I tell people to keep on standing up when they ________ and to always love themselves,” he said. “If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life works.”

Traveling is a great thing to do. It helps us learn about different people and different places. Some people travel because they want to see nature. Others travel because they want to make friends and try great food. Of course, a lot of tourists are interested in traditional(传统的)culture.

Tourism can be very good for traditional cultures. This is because when people travel to another country, they often want to learn more about that country’s traditions, such as music, food, and history. Therefore, the local(当地的) people in that country will keep their traditional culture alive. They will wear traditional clothing and sell traditional food. They will also have shown for tourists. These shows can be dances, concerts, plays, or something else.

Tourism also help people respect(尊敬) each other. If you understand another culture well, you will probably respect that culture much more. You will probably want to protect that culture as well.

However, tourism isn’t always good for traditional culture. A problem is that tourists can interfere with the local people’s lives. For example, sometimes tourists come to watch local people praying in temples(庙宇). While the local people pray, tourists take photos and make noise. This often bothers the local people. Sometimes tourists also damage(破坏) local places. If 500 people enter an ancient temple every day, they might damage that temple.

There is a fairy tale as follows:

An unhappy horse went to see the God. “My God! Thanks for making me but I want to be more beautiful.” The God was very surprised. “You are already beautiful.”

“No, I am not beautiful enough,” the horse lowered her head. “I don’t know how to make you more beautiful,” the God wondered. “Tell me what you want to be like.”

The horse raised her voice, “If you can make my neck a little longer, my upper body will be more beautiful. And if you can make my legs much thinner, then I will look more beautiful in my lower body.”

Then the God made a camel appear in place of the horse. “Oh, God. I want to become more beautiful. Am I more beautiful now?” asked the horse anxiously.

The God got angry, “This is what you asked for. You have become a camel.”

The horse cried, “Oh, no, I don’t want to be a camel.”

The God said, “Never try to get more than I have given you. If you want more and more, you won’t know what the result will be.”

According to a new survey, students’ safety has become a big problem. Nearly 50% of the students say they are worried about robbery on the way to and from school. Now in big cities in China, some schools have taught an unusual lesson: self-protection.     36    . And they can learn how to save lives and knowhow to stop danger before it really happens.

Chen Haoyu, a teacher in a middle school, gives young students advice on how to deal with danger.

If you are robbed

Keep calm. If you cannot cry for help or run away, give the robber your money.     37    .

If you are in a traffic accident

    38    . If it is a bicycle, try to call your parents before you let the rider go.This is because you don’t know how seriously you are hurt.

If it is raining hard and there is lightning

Don’t stay in high places and stay away from trees.

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Get away as fast as you can. Put wet things on your body and try to find an exit(出口). Do not take the lift.

Remember that danger is never as far away as you think. Take care of yourself at all times!

A girl named Carly Butler travelled 3,755 miles from Canada to London. She wanted to retrace (重温) her grandmother’s daily life during World War II by the descriptions in old love letters.

Carly found 104 letters and telegrams between her grandmother in England and grandfather in Canada. Every week she would open seven new letters, and then she would do as described in the letters in the next week.

Her grandmother and her grandfather met at a dancing party in London in May 1943 and they stayed together just for three days, and then her grandfather married her grandmother.

Now, 67 years later, Carly left her own husband in Canada, opened her grandmother’s letters and tried to follow the letters to retrace all the things in those letters.

So far, she has visited her grandmother’s birthplace in West Hampstead. She spent a day visiting Oxford and watching a film at the Marble Arch Cinema. Carly also plans to see her grandmother’s working place. Her grandmother passed away in 1998.

Carly even hopes to come back to Canada on the Queen Mary II, because her grandmother did all those years ago.

Rhoda Breakell, head of the Genes Reunited, said, “Her trip is inspiring, unusual and it is clear that she is really enjoying retracing her grandmother’s footsteps.”

“题1梦可能比睡眠更重要。We all need to dream.” say some scientists. 题2Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time. People have several dreams each night.

Dreams are like short films. They are usually in color. Some dreams are like old films. They come up over and over again. That may be the dreamer worrying about something. 题3Dreaming may be a way of trying to find the answer.

Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They may have been thinking about their work all day. These thoughts can be carried over into dreams.

题4做梦太多不利于健康。题5The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is still at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.

55. 每个人的生活都离不开朋友。你认为朋友之间应该是互补还是相似的？请你以这个话题写一写你需要怎样的一位朋友，以身边具体的朋友为例，从外貌、个性、爱好、学习等方面进行描述。

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