My dad often said he knew I would be a singer. When I was young, I was always singing ________. Dad was a big sports fan, but he was happy I loved music.

After dinner, Dad would often ask me ________. He always said I sang I Will Always Love You ________ than Whitney Houston! At every school concert he ________ me on. The look of pride on his face made me ________. My life was ________ concerts, singing lessons and laughter. Though my mum and brothers helped me, they did not share our love ________ music.

Our lives changed when Dad ________ that he had cancer. We always hoped that something would happen and he would get better, but the doctors told us that they could not save him.

About a week before my dad died, he fell into a coma(昏迷). The nurses said ________ Dad could not reply, he could still hear me. The nurses said I ________ sing him a song. I sang one of our favorites. As I sang, my dad gave a big smile, and clapped. I was so ________ and I will always remember that smile. And I knew that Dad wanted to hear me sing ________ song.

My dad died ________ May 14, 2000. I love him and I don't know ________ how

Now I have all the memories of him and his beautiful smile deep inside my heart. I will always know that he is listening from his front row seat in heaven.

He ________: "Sing from your heart."

My dad has been and will always be my hero.

Are you hungry? Open an app, place your ______ and wait for your food to be delivered(递送) to your home-this is ______   many people eat in China these days. According to the latest data(数据), 421 million Chinese people use online food delivery   

Which group of people is ordering food online the ______? Unsurprising, it's mainly young people. A recent report showed that 86.3 percent of the service's users are between 20 and 34 years old.

______ families depend greatly on food delivery services. According to the National Bureau of Statistics(国家统计局), Chinese families have changed in ______ over the past ten years. In 2002, only 7.7 percent of families were single-person households. But this number increased to 15.6 percent in 2017. The percentage of two-person families rose from 18.4 in 2002 to 27.2 in 2017. For these families, cooking is relatively(相对) ______ time and resource-consuming(耗时耗材), ______ ordering food online has become more popular.

The improvement of China's food delivery services has also attracted more customers. According to Meituan's report, the average time takes to make a food delivery   ______ from 38 minutes in 2016 to 29 minutes in 2019. Many delivery platforms are also offering more services, delivering ______ such as fruit, vegetables, medicine and flowers. As its services continue to improve, it's likely that the food delivery industry will keep growing.

One day when some government officials were rebuilding a barn(谷仓), they found a mouse hole in a corner and used smoke to make the mice inside the hole come out. A while later, they indeed saw mice running out, one after another, Then, everyone thought that all the mice had escaped. But just as they began to clean up, they saw two mice squeezing(挤) out at the mouth of the hole. With some efforts, the mice finally got out. However, it was strange that after they came out of the hole, they did not run away at once. Instead, one chased after the other near the mouth of the hole. It seemed that one was trying to bite the tail of the other.

Everyone was puzzled, so they stepped nearer to take a look. They realized that one of the two mice was blind, and could not see anything, and the other was trying to allow the blind mouse to bite on his tail so that he could pull the blind one with him to escape.

After seeing what happened, everyone was speechless and lost in thought. During the meal time, the group of people sat down in a circle and started to chat about what happened to the two mice.

One serious American official said, "I think the relationship between those two mice was that of king and guard." The others thought for a while , and all felt it made sense.

A Japanese said, "I think the relationship between those two mice was that of mother and son." Once again the others thought for a while, and felt this was more reasonable. So they expressed agreement another time.

At that moment, one Chinese asked, "Why did those two mice have to have a certain relationship?"

Suddenly, the group looked back at the Chinese and remained speechless. The American official, the French and the Japanese who had spoken earlier all lowered (低下) their heads, being embarrassed, and did not dare to answer.

In fact, the true love is not built on friendship, loyalty or blood relationship. Instead, it is based on no relationship.

As one saying goes, where there are Chinese people, there are kung fu legends.

Jin Yong, also known as Louis Cha Leung-yung, was regarded as one of the greatest kung fu fiction writers in China. And for many people, Cha built a magical kung fu kingdom that they could escape into every now and then. But this kingdom is falling apart now, because Cha passed away on Oct 30, 2018, at the age of 94.

Cha wrote all of his 15 wuxia novels between 1955 and 1972. While the values and tastes of readers have changed greatly in recent decades, his books continue to attract people. His works have been filmed into movies and TV series so many times in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese mainland that the comparison of these versions (版本) is of great interest to his fans.

There is always a knight (大侠) with a spirit that is sincere in love, friendship and patriotism (爱国精神) at the center of his stories. Such characters move both men and women. For example, in The Return of the Condor Heroes (《神雕侠侣》), the young knight Yang Guo waits for his lover Xiaolongnu faithfully for 16 years, believing that she is still alive, even if she has jumped from a mountain into a valley. And in Demi-Gods and Semi- Devils (《天龙八部》), powerful Xiao Feng treats his friends with sincere feelings, ready to die for the peace of his homeland.

Cha has an excellent ability of using language, He has a theory about writing an attractive plot: "To make a lie believable, it's better to tell 10 truthful things along with it." This theory works well for Cha's writing. His stories are always full of rich history; the rules of martial arts (武术) are described in detail. As a result, he achieves a sense of realism with his martial arts heroes.

Cha's books bring readers joy, and Cha himself has equal fun creating them. "Writing gives me space for imagination, just like a director." Cha once said.

However, Cha's real aim in writing novels is to show traditional Chinese values and qualities. "Kung fu novels must describe justice and honesty. The good fight the wicked. Traditional values are shown through the charac ters and their stories, not by lecturing readers," he said.

Parrots have been known to mimic(模仿) words, but have you ever thought how they communicate? The sounds they make may sound meaningless to us,but new research has found that wild parrots are actually given names by their parents.

According to a study led by Karl Berg of Cornell University in the US, nestlings (雏鸟) are given a unique sound of their own, which stays with them for their entire lives. In the study, the team placed hidden cameras in the nests of 17 different wild parrots. After studying their sounds, the team discovered small differences in the calls parents used to communicate with each chick. And even before the nestlings had learned to communicate properly, the baby birds seemed to recognize and mimic their calls.

Sounds very similar to humans, doesn't it? The study also proved that these signature calls are acquired(获得) socially not genetically(基因上地). To do this, scientists exchange the eggs in nine of the 17 nests, so that half of the parrots were raising nestlings that weren't theirs. Using the recordings, the scientists made a conclusion that the nestlings all used names similar to those the parents(whether biological or nonbiological) called them for the first weeks of their lives.

Lucie McNeil, from National Geographic, said, "This would be the first proven example of a non-human species teaching acoustical(声学的) communication."

Lead scientist for the study, Karl Berg told National Public Radio of the US, "Most people say," Well, all those calls are just noise, but I think they're having conversations."

Fox News also asked Berg what else the parrots might be saying. He replied, "The theory is that these birds are deciding where the food is,   'Do we want to go 3 km North-Northwest?'"Do we want to go to that field?' They are kind of arguing or discussing."

Natural science author, Virginia Morell, wrote: "Very gradually, scientists are learning to decode the conversations of very different animals that live lives rich with plans, quarrels, and romance."

You never know, if the science of animal translation keeps developing, we might one day be watching a reality series about parrots.

American actress Natalie Portman is a confident and successful woman. However, few people realize that Portman had some very difficult moments in the past, and it happened during her time at Harvard University.

Portman went to Harvard at the age of 18.     46    . But on that famous campus, she lost her confidence. She thought she could never read 1,000 pages every week or write a 50-page paper. She was shocked by her classmates.     47    . "I felt like every time I opened my mouth, I would have to show that I wasn't just a dumbed (愚蠢的) actress." In 2003, Portman graduated. She said the experience taught her that one should always be confident.     48    .

She tried a lot of new things with A Tale of Love and Darkness(《爱与黑暗的故事》). She directed it. She wrote part of the script(剧本).     49    .

"All of these things were challenges I should have been feared, as I was completely unprepared." said Portman. "     50     , and my belief that I could handle these things was half the battle(成功了一半)."

64. 假如你是Simon，你的朋友李华近来非常烦恼，他在英语学习方面有困难，他很焦虑，每次英语考试都很紧张。因此，他写信向你求助，请你给他一些建议。要求包括所有的提示要点，并根据你自己的英语学习经验，进行适当的拓展，写一封回信，帮助李华解决问题。

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提示要点：

1、培养学习英语的兴趣，兴趣是最好的老师。

2、养成良好的英语学习习惯，如：多读英语，做好笔记等；

3、听英文歌曲，使自己放松，有助于睡眠；

4、向英语老师求助；

5、请补充1-2点建议。

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Simon