Today is Sunday and it is 10:30 a.m. I     1     with my dog at home now. His name is Coco and he is new in my home. He     2     white and yellow hair, I like him very much because he is cute and smart. He always listens to me. When I     3     “Come here, Coco”, he will come to me     4    . He loves to learn. It is fun to teach him to walk on two     5    . Every time he does the right thing, he can get his     6     food. He is happy to do what I tell him to do. I     7     him for a walk every afternoon. He is     8     at running. He also likes playing with other     9     outside. Sometimes he fights with     10     and then I always stop him. Now he is not only my pet, but also my friend.

Creating paintings with different kinds of grain is known as grain painting (粮画). It has made a small village in Hebei Province     1     and opened the way for this village to sell products.

Shoudong Village in Hebei Province developed 11 grain painting companies     2     four workshops. “It has set up the country’s first school to teach the art,” the local government said.

According to the records, local people have been creating paintings with grain since the Tang Dynasty (618-907). They use different kinds of grain and seeds as materials in different     3    , including sticking and cutting. Their works are rich with views, characters, flowers and birds in a special way.

Many local people make more money     4     creating grain paintings. The post-80s Shi Xianqiao, who has been interested in painting since childhood, began to create paintings with grain in 2014. She also built a grain painting workshop to     5     the local people. Their products are sold at home and abroad. The grain art gives people new ideas towards nature and life.

What’s the weather like today? Is it hot or windy? Weather balloons can help scientists find it out. Every day, thousands of weather balloons fly high above the clouds. The balloons     1     wind speed and temperature. They send the information to the scientists who study it.

This kind of project is usually done     2     scientists. Nowadays more and more teenagers join the science clubs in schools. With the help of their teachers and researchers, they can finish it as well.

Li Jing and Liu Yan are two girls from Hubei. Their favorite school subject is science, and they like to try different projects in their club. One of their     3     is making a weather balloon. They have looked through many books and tried a lot.

Today, the young girls are flying their balloon for the first time. It will travel up to 23,000 meters! The girls are very excited. The balloon records the     4     for them to study.

Li Jing and Liu Yan quickly share a video of their balloon flying on the Internet and it gets more than 300,000 views (浏览). Most of them are     5     teenagers. They say the two girls have set a good example for them and they     6     a great interest in it, too.

Now, the two girls are making a much bigger team and ready for their next     7    .

Wang Yaping is a Chinese spacewoman. She has made history when she was 33 years old—she has been China’s     1     teacher in space.

Wang     2     Chinese primary and middle school students on the earth physics phenomena (现象) in space. She prepared     3     for the lecture and expressed full confidence about the lesson.

Meeting the media, she said,“We are all students facing the space. We are       4     forward to encouraging our young friends to learn and research the mystical and beautiful space. ”

Wang was born in June, 1980. She is     5     Shandong Province. She was a pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force with experience of 1,600     6     of flying.

Except the space lecture, Wang     7     responsible for monitoring (监测) the conditions of spacecraft space experiments and operation of equipment, among others.

Wang has served the People’s Liberation Army     8     August 1997. In May 2010, Wang     9     a member of the second batch of Chinese astronauts. Wang was chosen to be the member of the Shenzhou X space group in April 2013. She was China’s second woman     10     who was sent into space after Liu Yang who flew with the Shenzhou IX spacecraft.

How great Wang Yaping is!

My name is George. I’m from England. Now I’m     1     in a middle school in Xi’an. I get to school at 7: 30 every morning. Many of my classmates     2     to school by bike. But in England, my classmates don’t do that often.

This is a (n)     3     thing for me. In England, people usually drive, take a bus or walk somewhere, for example, to school. In Xi’an, I often see people, even people over eighty years old, going somewhere by bike.     4     English people too lazy or is this usual for Chinese?

My father tells     5     the answer. People here     6     in a very flat (平坦的) city. So it is easy for them to go somewhere     7     by bike. And it’s cheaper than (比……更便宜) going by car or by bus. Also, it’s good for the environment (环境) .

I like riding bikes now. A bike     8     me somewhere fast. And riding bikes is also a good way to do     9    . When I go back to England, I will ride more and ask my     10     to ride with me. I think they will like riding bikes, too.

Mary is a book lover. She could read by     1     at the age of four. Last year, she decided to     2     for a volunteer after-school reading program. She still works there once a week to help kids learn to     3    . “The kids are sitting in the library, but you can see in their eyes that they’re going on a different     4     with each new book. Volunteering here is a dream       5     for me. I can do what I love to do and help others at the same time.”

As a proverb says,“Your tongue (舌头) has the power of life and death.”This means that your words have power to finally cause things     1    , even life or death.

We may     2     the power of words in our life, even when we were very young. A child is blamed (责备) by teachers or parents, and after that, he might probably think     3     as a bad child. Most kids have that experience. They say it is     4     to praise children four times for each negative (负面的) word. Blaming will make things worse, while positive (积极的) words are helpful     5     when being in trouble or in need. When we fail the exam, encouraging words from our teachers or parents make us work     6     at our lessons.

Encouraging words can go quite a long way. They lift people up. For example, encouraging words to someone who is sad can     7     them make it through the day. Words can have a powerful effect on your brain. And it will have a great     8     on your action.

Everything you do depends on what you choose to do. It’s not your parents, your past relationships or your job,    9     you and only you that are responsible for every goal you set. If you have     10     in life, write-them-down and speak them out. Your words may bring out something amazing.