A few weeks ago, while my mom and I were shopping, we met my teacher, who mentioned the school had no ______ teacher to help our class with a performance for Winter Fair. And my mom said, “I know the perfect song and dance. I'll ______ it to the kids!”

______ I could say “Please don't”, my mom had agreed. Oh, just to be clear, she's not a ______ singer. The only singing she does is in the shower.

“Um,” I said on our way home, “are you sure this is such a ______ idea?” “Of course!” she said. “If we want your school's Winter Fair to happen, people need to go up and ______.”

“Today, a special guest is here to help us with the performance. Let's all welcome Arizona's mother.” my teacher said at 9:28 on Monday.

“I'm excited to be here ______ you!” my mom said. “I'm going to teach you a fun song and dance ______ learned a few years back. Here goes!”

Oh, please! I said over and over in my head. But clearly, my mom was not at all cared about

After a few ______, though, I uncovered one ear and peek (窥视) through a half-open eye with great courage. When I saw the expression of full ______ on my mom's face. She was having so much fun, I couldn't help ______. My classmates clapped and cheered, “Wow! Arizona's mother is ______ talented!” someone says.

Not only my mom was OK at performing, but she's also good at teaching us singing and dancing, too. I was actually ______ of her.

“I'm really glad you helped my class,” I said to my mom after Winter Fair. My mom laughed, “Thanks, dear. I also had such a great time.”

A long time ago, there was once a poor boy called Dick Whittington. The people in his village believed that the streets of London were covered with gold. So Dick decided to travel there.

When Dick arrived in London, he found there were no streets of gold! Tired and hungry, he fell asleep on the steps of a great house. It belonged to a rich businessman who gave Dick a job cleaning the kitchen. Dick had enough to eat and at night he could sleep by the fire. But at night, mice ran around and kept him awake.

So Dick went out and found the fastest mouse-catching cat in London! The cat caught all the mice that came into the house and Dick could sleep well at night.

The businessman heard about the amazing cat and asked Dick if he could take it on his ship to catch mice the next journey. Dick agreed, although he was very sad to see the cat leave.

While the businessman was away, the other servants were very unkind to Dick, so Dick decided to run away. But as he was leaving, one of the great church bells rang. It seemed to say, “Turn back, Dick Whittington! Turn back, Dick Whittington!” So Dick came back to the house and soon the businessman returned. He was very happy because Dick's cat had caught all the mice on the ship.

Dick felt so happy that he had listened to the bells on that day long ago. Then he worked hard for the businessman and learned everything he could. He started a very successful business of his own. Some years later, Dick Whittington became Lord Mayor of London.

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.

The British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) is a public company for radio and television broadcasting in the UK. Since March, BBC journalist, Zoric King has been visiting schools across the country to teach students how to find out fake news.

The visits have included up to 1,000 middle and primary schools. They follow a year-long study by BBC. The study found that nearly half of 12 to 15-year-olds find it difficult to tell fact from fiction on social media.

Fake news refers to news stories that you see on TV or the Internet that are partly or entirely false. Some of the stories may have some true facts, but still include some lies.

Fake news is sometimes created to get clicks(点击量) and increase profits(收益). Sometimes it is written to get attention or make people think in a certain way.

For example, a nuclear(原子核的) leak at the Fukushima power plant in Japan in 2011 caused an unexpected reaction in China. Fear buying of salt happened in many countries overnight after false news stories saying that iodized salt can protect against radiation(辐射). The stories added that sea salt produced in the future might not be safe to eat, as it could be polluted by the leak.

Fake news has had a bad influence on the media industry and society. It may influence public opinion and cause fear or anger. People may also lose trust in the media and become confused(令人迷惑的) about realistic topic and events, BBC said.

Do you know if it's false? Here are some tips for finding out fake news.

Check the information that comes from. If the news has no source, or the source is not a reliable one, you should be careful. Reliable sources include main stream media like CCTV and authoritative organizations like the United Nations.

Be careful about headlines. The headlines of fake news stories are often catchy. If the headline sounds unbelievable, the news may be false.

Check the data. Make sure you know where the story's figures come from. You can probably trust it if the numbers are from a national or international office report.

Hello, Mr. Billionaire is my favorite movie. It tells the story of a man named Wang Duoyu. He was poor and nameless. Luckily, he would become     61     overnight because one of his grandpas promised to give him 3,000,000,000 yuan. However, he had to use up 100,000,000 yuan in a month first, or he would get     62    . He tried many times but failed almost every time. When he was about to succeed, he found his girlfriend was kidnapped. To save her, he decided to give up the money. In fact, it was just a test. In the end, he got both the money     63     his girlfriend.

I think if you don't take the movie too     64    , it is fun to watch. We can learn something from it. For example, there is always something more important than     65     such as love and friendship.

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     70     in the booths.

Reading is helpful to us because it will make us wise, happy and knowledgeable. What are you waiting for? Why not start reading now?

What should you do when you meet a blind person? A quick Google search will turn up plenty of answers, which are quite different from each other.     81     .

There are no special rules or dos and don'ts that can deal with this situation. There is only one rule: Blind people are nothing more or less than people who happen to be blind. It's our own job to take care of ourselves. And we are thankful to no one else for special care.

    82     Don't suppose you know what we need. If we do need something, we'll politely let you know.

Forget everything you've heard about the blind, even if you consider yourself to be an expert. Blind people have plenty to say about“experts”. Especially, forget anything you've heard or read about“Ten things to Do If You Meet a Blind Person”.     83     More of it is made up by sighted people anyway, and doesn't necessarily stand for the blind's view.

There is completely no way to second-guess the situation by requiring any preformed ideas. Even if you've known other blind people, don't think you know what to do with every one of them.     84     “It's OK. My sister (cousin, friend) is blind.”

Blind people are as different from each other as any two people on the earth.     85     Even the degree of vision, hearing or touch that we use can be very different. Most blind people do have some degree of vision, and even the very few of us who are totally blind may use our touch and hearing very effectively(有效的).

86. 下面的图画描述了小明和小刚上周日参加“School Sale”活动的情景。请根据图片提示，用英语写一篇 100 词左右的短文。