1 . There was a terrible earthquake in my country. Many people were killed and many houses fell down. After the earthquake, the newspapers reported many stories about families who were in trouble. One Sunday, when I was reading a newspaper, a special picture touched me. It gave the clothing sizes of each family member. I thought this would be a good chance to teach my children to help those who were less lucky. I said to my seven-year-old twins, Brad and Brett, and three-year-old daughter Meghan, “We have so much, and these poor people now have nothing. We’ll share what we have with them.”

I filled a box with some food and old clothes. While I was doing this, I encouraged the boys to donate some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched quietly as the boys took out their old toys and put them in the box. Then she walked away. A few minutes later, she came back with Ava, her favorite doll. She put it on top of the other toys “Oh, dear,” I said. “You don’t have to give Ava. You love Ava so much.” Meghan said, “Ava makes me happy, Mom. Maybe she’ll make another little girl happy, too.”

I was surprised. Meghan taught me a lesson. It’s easy to give something that we don’t want anymore, but hard to give what we love.

3 . Mr. Guo is a teacher from Xi’an. He asked his students to hand in their homework through a QR code(二维码). “We spent an hour or two in class learning how to generate (产生) the codes, and in the end everything gets easier” said Gao. “When students finish the homework, they keep it on WeChat. Then, each student makes his own QR code and gives it to me. So I can check their work everywhere using my computer or telephone.”

The QR codes can be sent to Mr. Guo by email, QQ and WeChat. When Guo scans(扫描)his students’ QR codes, their homework appears on his phone. He finds that their homework becomes more creative, with many pictures, music and even videos.

Guo’s students like the new way and think it is interesting. “We are living in the information age. Many students like to work with computers, which makes learning more fun,” said Tingting, a student of Guo’s.

“The paper is not easy to keep, but the code is easy to keep and share,” Guo said. “It is worth trying to use new technology in education. Education itself is a kind of creation. I don’t want my students to fall behind the times.”

However, some parents are worried. They are afraid that their children will spend too much time on computers and less time communicating with teachers. But in fact, it’s unnecessary. Students still need to look up information in books and write it down when they do their homework. They only use the code when they hand in their homework, which doesn’t take them too much time. Also for teachers, it allows them to check the Students’ work at any time. And it’s also an easy way to share homework with other students.

My friend Tony and I always walk hoe together after school. Last Monday, however, something happened     1     our way back.

We were walking that day when we heard     2     loud cry behind us. Looking around, we were     3     (surprise) to see a woman lying on the ground. It seemed that she was     4     (injure) badly. We hurried to her,    5     a man came over to stop us from     6     (help) the woman. Some     7     (girl) walking by even laughed at us. We got very angry with the people     8     were cold to the woman. Then the man     9     (ask) us to turn around to see a man carrying a video camera on     10     (he) shoulder. They were just making a film!

7 . Although he is one of China’s most famous scientists, Yuan Longping considers himself a farmer, for he works the land to do his research. Indeed, his sunburnt face and arms and his slim, strong body are just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he has struggled for the past five decades. Yuan Longping grows super hybrid rice. In 1973, he became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow the super hybrid rice that has a high output. This special strain of rice makes it possible to produce 20% more of the crop in the same fields. Now more than 60% of the rice is from this hybrid strain.

Born in 1930, Yuan Longping graduated from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then, finding ways to produce more rice has been his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time, hunger was a problem in many parts of China. Yuan Longping looked for a way to increase rice output without expanding the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce about 56 million tons of rice, but now nearly 200 million tons per year. Nearly 22% of the world’s people are fed from just 7% of the farmland in the world, which is due to the super hybrid rice grown by Yuan Longping.

9 . One day, a farmer lost his watch in his barn(谷仓). The watch was cheap but it was very_________ to him because it was a gift from his father.

After_________ the barn for a long time, he gave up and asked for _________ from a group of children playing nearby.

He _________ them that the child who found the watch would get a present.

Hearing this, the children went inside the barn _________. They searched everywhere but still could not find the_________. Just when the farmer was going to_________, a little boy went up to him and said he wanted to try again.

The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kid looks honest.”

So the farmer sent the little boy back into the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! The _________ farmer asked the boy how he succeeded(成功) where the rest had failed. The boy answered, “I did nothing but sit quietly and listen for the _________ of the watch.”

This shows us that sometimes peaceful(平静的) mind can think __________ than an excited one.