Levi is an 11-year-old boy from Australia. Reading is difficult for him, so his life at school is very     1    . But the boy doesn’t give in to the difficulty. He even has his own business to fight the problem. Levi started the business three years ago and he began to sell reading rulers. The ruler helped him a lot when his teacher gave him one in Grade 3. “I wanted to sell them to help other kids,” Levi said.

Levi’s reading     2     can work like a highlighter (荧光笔) and make letters stand out clearly. This can help kids with reading problems read easily. There are eight rulers of different colors in each of     3     ruler packs. Kids in need can choose the color that helps them most.

Half the money that Levi makes goes back into his business. 25%of it     4     to a charity that helps people with learning difficulties and to schools. Levi keeps the last 25% for himself to buy something     5     a toy car.

Levi said starting his own business was “quite a big jump”. “I will keep on doing it,” he said.

The “pupils” are excited about their coming lunch. Will they get a big bone (骨头)? Oh, this is a     1     school. Some dogs go to this school when their owners (主人) are busy working.

The cute dog “ teacher” is Arat Montoya, a man from Mexico. At first, his father wanted him to become a baker (烘焙师), but Arat had no     2     in baking. He told his father, “Dad, I love dogs.”

When Arat grew up, he     3     a job at the Dog Club of West Linn, a dog care center. In 2016,     4     the center closed, Arat had an idea. He started his own dog care center and     5     it Doggie School Bus Inc.

Every morning, Arat drives the yellow “Doggie School Bus” to people’s homes to     6     dogs. The dogs love Arat so much that they get     7     every time they see him. Many of them even run out of their homes     8     and straight onto the bus when they hear the bus come. The dogs     9     most of the day at the dog care center, playing and having fun with Arat and other dogs. The school day comes to a(n)     10     at 2 pm. And Arat drives the dogs back to their homes. Arat loves what he does. He calls himself the happiest man in the world.

In East China’s Jiangxi province, noodles are more than just a     1     — they’re almost a way of life.

In fact, most people here     2     the day with a bowl of rice noodles in the morning. This dish is so popular that some locals have     3     compared having rice noodles to enjoying fresh sea food.       

Jiangxi is home to nearly 30,000 rice noodle restaurants. According to a report, Jiangxi produced more than 1.4 million     4     of rice noodles in 2020. More than 60% of the foreign sales of China’s rice noodles are from Jiangxi.

This dish is also     5     among people from other parts of China. The report shows that people aged between 18 and 24 make up about 33% of customers. They often     6     rice noodles and takeaway meals online. The percentage (百分比)     7     to over 65% for customers under 30 years old.

“Enjoying     8     a specialty (特产) is one way to get a real experience of local cooking culture,” said a local food expert. He added that more efforts should be made to find out the     9     behind Jiangxi rice noodles. The charm (魅力) of this common dish comes from its stories and     10     tastes—the noodles are prepared differently in each of Jiangxi’s 11 cities.

    11     these noodles are such an important part of Jiangxi culture, locals have done their best to protect its reputation (声誉) as a local specialty.