A king once went to a master. He wanted to become more   _____________ than other kings. He sat in front of the master and continued telling him the purpose of his___________ . The master listened ___________     to the king.

He then told the king to go to the___________ where a rose and a cypress( 柏 树 )were growing side by side. He told the king, “ they are your___________. They can teach you what you want to___________. ”

The king went into the garden, and saw the two plants but could not   ___________ what he could learn from them. He went back to the master and asked, “ what do you ___________ , master? I am not able to understand what and_____________ these plants will teach me.”

The master took the king to the plants and ________________ , “ The cypress has been next to the rose for so many years. Never once has it wanted to become a rose.   ________________ , the rose has never wanted to become a cypress. If man had been the cypress, he would have     ____________   himself with the rose and felt jealous( 妒 忌 的 ) .__________, if man were the rose, he would have looked at the cypress enviously( 羡 慕 的 ) and thought how______________   the cypress was without the trouble of being disturbed . Both of them grew very well because they used all their__________ for their own growth instead of using it to compete with the other.”

A boy was one day sitting on the steps of a door. He had a large piece of bread which somebody had kindly given him. While he was eating it, he saw a poor little dog not far from him. He shouted, “Come here, poor dog!”

The dog moved his tail happily after hearing the words and came to the boy. The boy held out a piece of his bread. As the dog wanted to take it, the boy quickly drew back his hand and hit him a hard knock on the nose. The poor dog ran away, barking and crying sadly. The boy sat laughing at the mischief (恶作剧）he had done.

A man saw what the boy had done. He wanted to teach him a lesson(教训). He called the boy and showed him a coin.

“Would you like this?” said the man.

“Yes, please,” said the boy, smiling. He ran over to take the money.

Just at the moment that he stretched out his hand, the man got a hard knock on his nose. The boy cried out as loudly as a bull!

“Why did you do that ?” said the boy. He had an unhappy face. “I didn’t hurt you, nor ask you for money.”

“Why did you hurt that poor dog earlier?” said the man. “He didn’t hurt you, not ask you for your bread. As you have treated him badly, I have treated you. Now, remember dogs can feel as well as you. Learn to behave kindly towards animals in the future.”

How do you feel when your teacher asks you to work on a group project with other students? Do you like to work together with others or work alone?

The program for International Student Assessment(PISA), which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students, carried out a survey of students’ ability to work together in groups. They found that students who do well on tests by themselves are also likely to be better at working with other people.

This finding was true for many countries. Students in Japan, South Korea, Finland and Canada, where test scores are high, also did well in working together to solve problems. But this was not the case for every country. Chinese students, who usually can get high scores as well, displayed just common collaborative(合作的)skills.

“One reason might be that Chinese parents and teachers focus too much on grades, said Zhao Zhongxin, former   vice   president   ( 前副经理 ) of the Chinese Family Education Association. “Students have a lot of exam pressure and they regard school as a place for competition.”

“However, collaborative skills are very important for preparing students today’s society,” he added. “Luckily, more Chinese parents and teachers are realizing the importance of this and are thinking of ways to help students improve it.”

Another interesting finding from the PISA survey was that girls are most likely to be better than boys at working together. They said girls show more positive attitude(   态 度 ) toward relationships, which means they are more willing to listen to others’ opinions.

PISA also found that the classroom environment tends to influence how well students collaborate. In classes where there are a lot of activities that require communication, such as class discussion, students would have better attitudes towards collaborating.

Have you ever had an experience where you meet someone new, learn their name and think to yourself, “Wow, they really look just like their names!” What does this mean, exactly? Scientists are suggesting that humans perhaps are able to connect people’s names with their appearance, and can even guess someone’s name based on how they look.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel collected thousands of photos of people’s faces. They provided each photo with four names. Then, they asked volunteers to guess which of the four names was correct.

The volunteers were able to guess the right name 38 percent of the time. It seems that humans are able to know certain characteristics of faces that can give them useful information about someone’s name, Reader’s Digest reported.

However, this only works when we’re looking at names within our own culture. In addition, the volunteers were not as good at guessing the real names of people who use nicknames ( 昵 称 ) more often than their real names. This shows that a person’s appearance is influenced by their name only if they use it often.

This kind of face-name matching happens “because of a process of self-fulfilling prediction, as we become what other people expect us to become,” Ruth Mayo from the university told science news website Eurek Alert.

Some scientists studies have shown that gender and race (种族) stereotypes (刻板印象) can influence a person’s appearance. The researchers believe there are also similar stereotypes about names. For example, people are able to think that men named Bob should have rounder faces because the word itself looks round. People may think that women named Rose are beautiful. They expect them to be delicate (娇弱的) and to be what women are like, just like the flower they are named for.

How’s it going? I’d like to tell you about my travel experiences.

Last month, I went to Chengdu     61     my vacation with my parents. Chengdu is in Sichuan, in the southwest of China. It’s     62     for its beautiful mountains, forests and lakes. Many people go there to enjoy their vacation every year. We had a five-day trip and took many     63    . We saw pandas and monkeys. They were    64    cute that we couldn’t help watching them.

We had an exciting trip! I felt tired but happy. Please e-mail me soon     65     tell me about your vacation.

Have you ever listened to the sound in your heart? Have you ever met an article which has the same idea as yours?

The TV program, The Reader,    66     popular since it came out on   CCTV-1 on February 18th, 2017.

It    67    the beauty of Chinese language and the power of reading. It is produced by Dong Qing, a famous hostess. The Reader invites many guests to read something that influences them most. Not only famous people but also common people can be the guests. Liu Chuanzhi, the founder of Lenovo,    68     to The Reader as a common father. He said, “As long as you are an honest man, you are my good son whatever your job is!” This program has turned reading into a new fashion. Now, a few Reading Booths(朗读亭)    69    in   many cities. Even on rainy days, people still wait in long lines to read in the booths.

Reading is helpful to us because it     70    us wise, happy and knowledgeable. What are you waiting for? Let’s start reading now.

A woman came out of her house and saw three old men sitting in her front yard.     81    

“We do not go into a house together,” they replied.

“Why is that?” she asked.

One of the old men pointed to his friends and explained: “His name is Wealth,” he said and pointed to the other man: “He is Success, and I am Love.     82    ”

The woman went in and told her husband what had happened. Her husband was very happy. “How nice!” he said. “Let us invite Wealth!”

    83     “My dear, why don’t we invite Success?”

Their daughter jumped in with her idea: “Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!”

“That’s a good idea,” said the husband to his wife. “Go out and invite Love to be our guest.”

    84     Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other two old men also got up and followed him. Surprised, the woman asked them: “I only invited Love. Why are you coming in?

The old men replied together: “If you invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would stay outside, but since you invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him.     85    ”

86. 同学们，你们已经读过很多书籍或听过很多首音乐，总有一本书或一首音乐曾经让你深 深感动过，请选择对你影响最深的一本书或一首音乐，用英语写一篇 100 词左右的短文。内容 包括：