Last year, 13-year-old Abraham Olagbegi was seriously ill and needed a bone marrow transplant (骨髓移植).     1     (lucky), he had it and his transplant was successful. About a year later, he got better news from Make-A-Wish. The group helps children     2     serious illnesses realize their dreams.

Abraham had an idea and he shared it with his mom. “Mom, I thought about it carefully, and I really want to feed the homeless,” he said. Hearing that, his mom     3     (reply) , “Are you sure, Abraham? You could do a lot.... Are you sure you don’t want a video game?”

Different from other teenagers, Abraham didn’t have     4     (interesting) in video games. He was sure of his wish to feed the homeless. Abraham’s dad thought it was a wonderful idea so he always tried to teach his son about     5     (give). In September, Make-A-Wish helped Abraham organize a day to give out food in Jackson, Mississippi. That day, Abrabam fed about 5 people and that made him     6     (excite).

“When the homeless people get the plates, several of     7     (they) sing to us and thank us,” he said. “I get     8     special feeling when I see the look of joy     9     their     10     (face).” Abraham’s wish didn’t finish. Make-A-Wish will help Abraham keep feeding the homeless every month for a year.

【推荐3】I can’t forget that day. It was a cold snowy morning after the winter     1    （假期）. I got up early and went to a new school, which is the most famous one     2    （在……中）middle schools in New York. I was walking alone slowly and worried about lots of things because it was the first time for me to stay     3    （在国外）. It was so early that there weren’t many people on the     4    （空的）road.

Suddenly a girl who was riding her bike got into trouble. She fell down and tried hard to get up but she     5    （失败的）again. Without thinking, I went over and helped her. She said “thank you” with a smile and then rode away. Her words warmed me a lot.

Finally, I got to school. The teacher introduced me to the     6    （全部的）class. Then he asked me to sit down beside a girl. I felt so nervous that I didn’t dare to look at her. Soon the bell     7    （响铃）for the first class. Their textbooks were different from those in my old school. While I was     8    （考虑）asking the teacher for help, an English book appeared in front of me. “Let’s share.” the friendly girl next to me said. “Hi, I’m Carrie.” To my surprise, it was the girl I helped that morning. Later on, we became good friends.

From that I learned: To help others is actually to help     9    （我们自己）. What life teaches us is not only     10    （知识）but also experience. So I hope you can always help others in your life.

During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong asked the prime minister Feng Deyi to recommend talented people. Several months p    1    , but Feng didn’t recommend anyone.

“I tried my best, but there are not unusual and perfect people at all,” Feng said.

“People are like objects. W    2     we need to do is to make good use of their strengths. You should be unhappy with yourself for not noticing talented people. How could you say that there are no talented people in our time?” said the emperor.

Indeed, each object or tool has its o    3     use. A knife is made to cut things w    4     chopsticks are made to pick up food. We can’t use a knife as a chopstick. Like an object, each person has a specific strength. Nobody is perfect. We can’t e     5     a person to be good at everything.

With this idea in mind, Emperor Taizong d    6     many talented people of different backgrounds. He o    7     them important positions, which helped them make the most of their talents. His talented people helped the society develop and c    8     a “golden age”.

A good example is Ma Zhou, who grew up in a poor family. Ma gave a lot of useful a    9    , so Emperor Taizong offered him a position and promoted him many times. Ma helped the emperor d    10     with difficult matters and became a well-known person in history.

【推荐3】Stan Lee, original name Stanley Martin Lieber, was     1     (出生) in New York City in 1922. At the age of 17, he got a job at Timely Comics, the company that later developed into Marvel. There he     2     (精确地) learned writing duties and superhero stories.

Lee spent nearly 80 years of his life creating hundreds of characters and teams.

People widely     3     (传播) some of his works around the world, such as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Iron Mar the Avengers, X-Men and Thor.

Actually, Marvel’s superheroes existed long before Lee got into the     4     (商业). They were perfect in comic books. However, Lee’s heroes are quite different. They do have superpowers that common people don’t have. But they are also troubled by     5     (日常的) problems. People who like Lee’s heroes think that they can even feel sorry for these superheroes.

Lee has also played many cameo roles in Marvel movies, a     6     (传统) that continued after Walt Disney. In these films, he waters the flowers, sends     7     (邮件). Once he even worked as a safety     8     (警卫), In 2008, Lee was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

On November 12, 2018, this     9     (活跃的) old man died of illness in Los Angeles，California, at the age of 95. But we will always     10     (记住) him and his superheroes. He will live in our world forever.

This is a special class. The s    1     come from different countries. Some come from America, others come from Canada, Japan, Australia and England. They speak d    2     languages (语言). But all of t    3     can speak English. They are good f    4    . They study together, play together and live together, and they h    5     each other.

All the teachers of this class are C    6    , but they can speak English. They t    7     their students in English. They are very k    8     and friendly. They work hard.

The students in this class s    9     Chinese cooking and Chinese kung fu (功夫). All the students like China. They say China is a great country and the Chinese p    10     are friendly. And they are happy in China.

The double reduction policy was carried out on July 24, 2021. It lists requirements in areas such as     1     (reduce) the amount and the difficulty of homework and improving the quality of education and after-class services     2     (provide) by schools.

For example, homework for children below the     3     (three) grade is not allowed, while homework for     4       /ˈdʒuːniə(r)/ high school students should take no longer than 90 minutes to finish.

    5     to the guideline, tutoring institutions(辅导机构)cannot teach students content that is too advanced for the school courses. No tutoring courses can be     6     (teach) on weekends, national holidays or during winter and summer vacations.

Many parents showed their     7     /səˈpɔː(r)t/ for the new moves." Subject learning is     8     /ɪˈnʌf/ at school and we hope to improve the children’s overall quality of life during holidays,"a parent in Guangzhou told Xinhua.

    9    , there are also some concerns. A parent in Shanxi said that although she agreed     10     the new moves, she worried about what her son would do after school if both parents have no time to be with him.

In order to reduce the stress on the students, Nanjing No.1 High School has     1    （create）a “mark bank”. The bank lets students borrow marks if they can not pass exams, and then repay them in later tests.

Here’s how it works. The “mark bank” allows students     2     borrow marks if they fail the exam. But, just like     3     /'ri: əl/ banks, it requires “clients（客户）” to pay back the loan（贷款）     4     time, with interest. So students have to pay for the loan by     5    （get） extra marks in future exams. Some teachers also allow the students to repay the bank by doing lab experiments     6     giving public speeches. Students who don’t pay back their loans are blacklisted （将……列入黑名单） by the bank.

“I was sick before the midterm exams and     7    （miss） several geography classes,” one student said. “I failed the exam, so I am glad the ‘mark bank’ gave me a     8     to pass the exam.”

    9     /ɔ: l'ðəʊ/ many people think the “mark bank” is a great idea, not everyone supports the idea. Education expert Xiong Bingqi, for example, believes that the “mark bank” is not proper, but thinks that it takes stress     10     /əv/ the students. Others think that such an idea just causes students to be lazier in their studies.