A 17-year-old boy, Ma Jiajun, has set a new world record for “the most consecutive jump rope triple (连续三摇跳绳)” just now.

Ma is     1     (tall) than most teenagers of the same age now. However, he was short     2     weak in primary school.     3     (build) a stronger (更强壮的) body, he joined the school’s jump rope team. At 9 years old, he joined in a national competition and     4     (luck) got the first prize. Later, he joined     5     jump rope club and kept training for six more years.

“The training     6     (be) so hard that I needed to practice every day for at least four to five     7     (hour).” But a strong wish to break the record kept him going. “My favorite TV show is Guinness China Night. I always dreamed     8     being successful like the performers in the show. That would be proof of my efforts and persistence (坚持). I made it and I’m proud of     9     (me).” he said.

After     10     (break) the record, Ma won lots of attention from the public. “I hope more people can enjoy jump rope, for it is good for your health and full of fun.” Ma said.

【推荐1】How long does it take to build a new house? It usually takes about six months or more. B    1     each year, thousands of people work together to build new homes in just four months! Who does this w    2     work? There is a group that builds homes for families around the country. This group works all over the world, too. Volunteers help build the homes. People don't n    3     to pay for it. Volunteers can be builders and painters. They can be teachers or drivers. Some are c    4     students. This group has built more than 300，000 houses. There are more than 1. 5 million people l    5     in these houses.

Building a home is hard work. Volunteers learn h    6     to put up walls. They use many m    7    , materials and tools（工具）. These volunteers work with the family that will live in the house. Everyone works together to make the family's d    8     come true.

Suruchi Srikanth is one of these group members Volunteers know i    9     they don't help, homes may not get built. They are h    10     to help people without homes. They think the world should be full of love.

Brian’s school life is very busy. Recently Jenny, Danny and he     1     (raise) some money for their school basketball team. Brian baked cookies and sold     2     of them in l    3     than an hour. Danny invented a new desk but everyone thought it was t    4     dangerous t    5     do homework on a bicycle. Li Ming thought that     6     (sell) cookies was a great idea to help others. His teacher, Ms. Liu wanted     7     (open) a shop to raise money for school     8     (activity). Li Ming     9     (think) his classmates would     10     (support) the idea.

【推荐3】I went by a yard sale (庭院拍卖会)     1     a sunny morning. I was happy just like the weather. When I arrived, an old lady was     2     (sell) things in the yard. It was clear that she was     3     (serious) ill. Of all her things on the table, I only wanted to buy the model plane. My son would     4     (love) it. She told me I could buy anything except (除……之外) the model plane. I asked her     5     .

"Because that is my son's     6     (five) birthday gift," She said.

"Your son's birthday gift?" I was so     7     (surprise) at her words.

"But how old is he now?" "He should be 50 this year, but he     8     (die) 10 years ago. He enjoyed it when he was a kid." At that moment, I knew I had to do all I could     9     (help) her. I asked her how much all of her things would cost and she told me they cost $75. I gave her $100. Before she could give me back $25, I had left with my things. It truly got a strong feeling of s    10     to help her out.

Basketball is     1     of the most popular sports in the United States and other parts of the world. It has a history of over a century. The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, came from Canada. He invented basketball     2     his students in 1891. At first, it was an indoor game so that students could play in bad weather.

Basketball is both an indoor     3     outdoor game. It is a team sport     4     two teams of five players each. The goal is to throw the ball through the other side’s basket, and to stop the other team from doing so. You can throw it from any part of the court with one hand or both hands. You can also pass the ball     5     your teammates. But you must follow the rules.

In a small village, there was a wise old man named Ryan. One day his young nephew (侄子) Keith came to visit him. Keith was sad and upset about his little progress in learning the guitar. However hard he tried, he just couldn’t     1    .

Keith asked his uncle for advice. “Follow me,” said Ryan, and he led Keith up to the high hills around the village.     2     this road was long and difficult, Keith still followed the old man. As they got higher, Ryan said that he needed to go to the     3     of the highest hill where he had never been to. Keith was surprised but decided to help his uncle.

With great difficulty, Keith     4     his uncle climb the hill. Sometimes he even carried the old man on his back. At the top, sweating, he put his uncle back on the ground and laughed with joy.

Keith looked around and nodded. He recalled that as a child, he often played on the hills with other children.     5     called this hill Mount Impossible, because small children couldn’t reach its top. “At that time I wasn’t     6     to get here,” said Keith. “The bigger kids had no problem.”

“And today,” said Ryan, “you not only climbed here, but also helped me arrive here.”

“I became bigger and stronger.”

“    7     of climbing Mount Impossible every day, you played on the smaller hills and became better at climbing. You became stronger,” said Ryan. “Mount Impossible became possible for you to climb while you weren’t even thinking about it.”

【推荐3】Funmi Ilori is a former primary school teacher from Nigeria (尼日利亚). In 2003, she started       1     program called “Books in a Basket” and went door to door to ask people if they wanted to borrow a book. She met some     2    (child) who had never read a book and decided to do something     3    (help) them develop a love for reading.

Years after she started the program, Funmi Ilori came up     4    the idea of building a mobile library. She bought a minibus and filled it with books. She drove to one of the     5    (poor) areas in Nigeria and lent kids books for free.

Five years has passed     6    Funmi Ilori started the mobile library. She now has four minibuses filled with 1,900 books. She    7    (visit) four to six primary schools every day. Students can choose a book     8    (free) to read at home and bring it back the following week. They are also     9    (ask) to write a book review after reading the book.

The kind lady also sets up reading clubs in the evenings and at weekends for children     10    have never been to school or have dropped out of school.