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    Life on the earth depends on the sun.  Day after day, we see its light and feel its warmth. The sun is far away from the earth. It is ninety-three million miles away from the earth. The sun is a large star. The earth is very small among its planets. Every day the sun sends out a great deal of heat and makes us feel hot. But we receive only a small part of the heat, because the sun is so far away from us and its heat loses more of its energy(能量) when it reaches the earth. We also receive a very small part of its light. This is enough for the growth of trees, plants, and humans. On the other hand, much heat and light would do harm(危害) to them. The heat and light from the sun come in just the right quantities(数量) for life on the earth.

Life is not easy, so I'd like to say, "When anything happens, believe in yourself."

When I was a young boy, I was too to talk to anyone. My classmates often laughed at me. I was sad but could do . Later, something happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speaking contest. My mother asked me to join in it. What a idea. It meant I had to speak in front of all the teachers and students of my school!

"Come on, boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to . "Then mother and I talked about many different kinds of topics(话题). At last I the topic "Believe in yourself". I tried to practise it as many as I could.

With my mother's great love, I did well and won the prize. I heard the cheers from the teachers and students. My mother hugged me and shouted .

From then on, everything changed for me. I do anything, I will try to believe in myself and give more to myself. This is true not only for a person but also for a country.

Oregon firefighters putting out wildfires across the state have a new "force" on their team: a plush (绒毛) Baby Yoda doll. It has become a symbol of hope and joy among the firefighters. They have been tirelessly fighting the big wildfire since early September. The fire has killed at least nine firefighters.

It all began when five-year-old Carver and his grandmother found the plush toy at home while searching for something to donate (捐赠) to Oregon firefighters.

The toy, along with a note saying, "Thank you, firefighters. Here is a friend for you if you get lonely. Love, Carver," was handed to donation site on September 12, 2020. "We were all really moved that Carver wanted to give a companion to the men and women who were risking their lives to fight the wildfires." says a volunteer Tyler Eubanks.

Eubanks took the toy to a group of firefighters working to put out the fire in Colton, Oregon. At the beginning, she planned to take a few pictures of the Baby Yoda in action for Carver, and then bring back the toy to the donation site. However, the firefighters decided to hold on to the doll and share it to lift the spirits of firefighters across the state and also those fighting fires in Colorado.

"He's been a really big encouragement," said Drake, a firefighter. "It just really meant a lot to us, and it was really emotional for a lot of people."

It's not just the firefighters that are finding comfort in the doll. "Baby Yoda Fights Fires," a Facebook page Eubanks set up to record the toy's adventures as it spreads through different people, has won over 50,000 fans, many of whom look forward to the daily updates.

"Because of all these photos, people are now seeing the human faces behind the wildfires," Eubanks said in excitement. "The attention is giving firefighters a huge encouragement, which is something that's really needed right now."

George Gershwin's first song came out when he was just eighteen years old. During the next twenty years, until his death, he1more than five hundred songs.

Many of George Gershwin's songs were first written for musical2performed in theaters in New York City. These comedies, with plenty of3 ， were a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s and 1930s.

Many songs that George Gershwin wrote for musical plays and movies have been as4as ever. Over the years, they have been sung and played in5__possible way—from jazz to country music.

George Gershwin6in 1937，just days after doctors learned he had brain cancer. He was only thirty nine years old.7all over the world reported his death on8front pages. Everyone mourned(哀痛) the death of the man and all the music he had written. George Gershwin is still regarded as9of America's greatest composers (作曲家). His works are still performed by many singers and groups. They are10performed more often than any other serious American composer's.

Last Sunday the Greens went (climb) the hill. When they got

Home, it was very  (late). Mr. Green  (open) the front door and they both went into the house. Because it was too late, Mrs. Green turned on the light. Just they wanted to come into the bedroom, Mrs. Green( sudden)said," Listen, there  (be) someone in our bedroom. "They stood quietly outside the door. They could (hear) some voices(声音)in the room.

"There are two (man) in it. They are talking. "So Mr. Green began to shout. "Who is there?" no one answered. Mr. Green opened the door quickly and turned on the light. There was nobody there. Mr. Green found something and laughed.  radio was still on!" I forgot to turn it this morning, "Mr. Green said.

I have had a lot of teachers in my life and I have met many excellent teachers. I love them all because they have given me much help in my study. But the one that I'll never forget is my English teacher, Mrs. Wang. I was thankful for what she has done for me. She was the best teacher in my eyes because she gave me something exceptional.

In my junior I was considered as a silly girl, because I was silent in class, but Mrs. Wang always praised me. Her words were very important for me. With her encouragement, I began to believe in myself. As a result, In my eyes, she is not an English teacher, but also a kind mother.

but I loved and respected her. We usually played games or sang songs and did other activities in class. Mrs. Wang often helped me patiently after class, taught me important knowledge and skills, and taught me how to be an outstanding person, what she only wanted to see was my improvement.

On the voyage of life, Mrs. Wang has not only kindled the light of hope for me, but also given me a strong heart to face any difficulty.

Choose the best answer to complete the passage.

In children's eyes, mother is perfect. In my mind, my mother is good at doing everything except 1. I still remember what happened on my father's 40th birthday when I was young.

My mother made a special plan for the important day. She did some cleaning early in the morning and made the house pretty with some flowers. Then she went shopping for a big meal. She began to cook just 2 finishing a long shopping list. Three hours later, only two dishes were 3 on the table一a salad and a pancake in a strange shape. We all expected to have the roast(烤的)duck as soon as possible 4 it was our favorite. Unluckily, the duck was 5 nice in color       delicious in taste. How disappointed I fell! Feeling so sorry, my mother promised to prepare another one at once. To 6 surprise, my father didn't complain at all. Instead, he ate one more piece of the duck and smiled at my mother, "Good taste, I love it! Thank you, dear! It's the 7 roast duck I have ever had!" Mother smiled happily and said, "Happy birthday, my dear!"

I couldn't understand what my father said and did at that time. 8 has passed and my father has become a 50—year—old man. He still loves the food my mother cooks, though she hasn't become a good cook yet. As time goes by, I come to know that 9 is perfect, including my mother. Nothing is perfect, including my family. But love can 10. If there is love, home will become the sweetest place in the world.

"What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. "Have you ever said this to someone? If so, you may have ended up becoming friends with this person.

It seems that similarity often helps form friendships. The Greek philosopher (哲学家) Aristotle once said, "Some define (下定义) it 'friendship' as a matter of similarity; they say that we love those who are like ourselves."

Now, there is some science behind this idea. Scientists from University of California said friends have similar brains, Scientific American reported.

The scientists invited 42 university students to take part in an experiment. Each student watched the same set of videos, which included a comedy, a discussion and a soccer match. Meanwhile, scientists study their brains and recorded their brain activity.

According to their study, friends who watched the same video clips reacted in similar ways. Similar parts of their brains lit up while watching the videos, especially parts that are connected with motivation (动力), learning and memory.

However, people who weren't friends had different reactions to the same clips.

Having close friends whose brains read like ours "may be rewarding because it makes one's own values, opinions, and interests strength," lead scientist Carolyn Parkinson told Business Insider.

But brain similarity is not the only thing that can result in friendship. Scientists from the University of Leipzig, Germany, found that friendship is also based on how physically close you are to someone.

They did an experiment with first-year college students who met in class for the first time. In this experiment, students who sat in neighboring seats were more likely to become friends.

Fay School

Founded in 1866 and located（坐落）twenty-five miles from Boston. Fay is a boarding school（寄宿学校）for students in grades 8-12.The boarding program serves one hundred and twenty students from all over the United States and twenty foreign students, forming a truly multicultural（多种文化的）school community.

Phone: 508-485-0100 www.fayschool.org

Groton School

A boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts. There are about 370 boys and girls, forming the eighth through twelfth grades. A member of the Independent School League and one of the world's top high schools for preparing students to enter famous American universities. There are many famous graduates（毕业生） like president Franklin D. Roosevelt

Phone: 978-448-3363 www.groton.org

Belmont Hill School

An independent boys' school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school includes 440 students in grades 7-12. Members of the Class of 2015 were accepted at 42 colleges and universities. Belmont Hill is also a founding member of the International Boys Schools Coalition. Phone: 617-484-4410 www.belmontill.org

The Nobie and Greenough School

A boarding school for students in grades seven through twelve. Located near Boston, Massachusetts. Now there are 603 students. After graduation, all members of the senior class go on to allowed four-year colleges and universities. In 2015, it was given the honor of the 18th best prep school（预科学校） in America by Forbes.

Phone: 781-326-3700 www.nobles.edu.

    Mr. Teller lived in a small town. He was a  1 in a primary school.He doesn't like his work and often 2  in class, but he didn't want his  3 to know and do that. 0ne day he fell asleep again in class.  4 he woke up, one of the boys, Tom asked him, "Why did you fall asleep in class just now, dear sir?'' Mr. Teller 's face turned 5. "I…I…The Sun god (太阳神)asked me to visit him in my 6 , "he said. Tom wanted to say something, but he 7 . The next day, Tom8fell asleep in class.

    Mr. Teller asked him, "Why do you fall asleep in class and don't listen to me, Tom?"Tom answered9 a smile on his face, "The Sun god asked me to visit him, too. "The teacher became 10 when he heard this and asked, "What did he say to you, then?"

    "He told me he didn't see you yesterday. "

A father and his son went to a kite-flying festival. The son was full of joy when he saw the sky with colorful kites. He wanted to fly a , too. The father then bought a kite for him.

The son started to fly the kite, , his kite was high up in the sky. After a while, he said, "Father, it seem that the string is stopping the kite from flying higher. lf we it, the kite will be free and flu even higher. Can we cut it? "The father cut the string. The kite started to go higher. This made the little boy happy.

then, slowly, the kite started to come down. And finally it fell to the ground. The son was surprised to see this. He asked his fat her. "I thought that cutting the string, the kite would fly higher. Why did it fall down?"

The father explained. "The string was not the kite from going higher, but was helping it stay in the . You helped the kite go up in the right direction by using the string. But when you cut the string. It could no longer support the kite. "

we may feel like there are certain things that are holding us back and stopping us growing. But fact, these might be the things that support us the most.

How do we know about things that happened thousands of years ago when there were no videos or photos？One answer is written records. And the original written records of Chinese culture are known as oracle bone inscriptions(甲骨文)．

Tens of thousands of oracle bones have been found so far. They can tell us a lot of things about how people lived during the Shang Dynasty. "They help us understand the beginnings of Chinese philosophy(哲学) and thought, and find out where our culture comes from." Song Zhenhao, a leading oracle bone expert, told China Daily.

In addition to telling us about ancient Chinese culture, the oracle bones are also the key to understanding the growth and development of the written form of the Chinese language. Many of the characters we use today are similar to those oracle bone inscriptions used over 3，000 years ago. "The oracle bone inscriptions, as the earliestknown form of Chinese characters, show the beauty and uniqueness(独一无二) of a language that has been passed down from generation to generation，" said Chen Nan, a professor at Tsinghua University.

In 2017, UNESCO(联合国教科文组织) added oracle bone inscriptions to its Memory of the World Register(《世界记忆名录》). They are really a valuable memory of ancient China and important to us Chinese. That's why there are many experts who are studying oracle bone inscriptions now. As they study, people learn more things about ancient China.

Here is the charity sale (义卖) for the poor African children. We will give away the money we raise in the charity sale to them. Come and see our things.

I have some soft toys to sell. The teddy bear is my thirteen-year-old birthday present. I have had it for one year. It still looks very new. Its original price (原价) is s50: You only need to pay $15 for it now. Other toys are very new but cheap, too.

—— Nancy

I have an MP3 player. I have had it for three months. It works very well now. It stays with me whenever I feel upset. And I have downloaded (下载) some pop songs in it. I hope it can be with you when you are not happy. It cost $220. Now, you can take it with $100.

—— David

I want to sell some of my books. I began to buy fiction when I was thirteen years old. My favorite book is Alice in Wonderland. I believe anyone like me will learn a lot from this book. Each book only costs $10. You can get the second at a half price.

—— Henry

My first memories of acts of kindness are from when I was about 12 years old. When I found people in trouble, I always1them with whatever they needed as soon as possible.

At that time, l noticed that many2people had difficulty going to the shopping mall after heavy snow. 1 would spend part of a3Saturday knocking on my elderly neighbors' apartment doors to ask if they 4anything from the mall. The mall was down a huge hill and I would bring back a couple of bags of necessities (必需品)for them every time. I liked it and it made them so5, too.

My friends asked me6 l was doing and after some time some of them joined in and it became a7as time went by. I8 asked for money for these, but sometimes the old ladies would 9some in my pocket without telling me. The next time I would buy some flowers or cards for them.

When I went to college, many of these people would ask my mother about me, 10my mother didn't always know who they were. I had never told her about what I11to do for these people. And then she knew it through the12between these people and her. I started helping others when I was12 and it has 13until today. Now I'm a teacher and teaching my students the art of true14. At first I wrote this in my diary, but my mother said why not share it with15. l hope this inspires(激励)younger people and the older ones as well.

Oh, the rain! How Sara hates the rain! She cannot go outside to meet her friends for a game. Her mother says to her, "You may catch a cold if you play in the rain." But Sara shouts, "It's raining, but it's very hot outside!" her mother still doesn't let her out in the rain.

Sara goes up to her room and lies down in front of her window. In fact she has many things to do in her room. There is a TV, some books and toys. But she doesn't like any of them. She opens the window so the rain can hear her. She wishes the rain away but that doesn't work.

"Well, if you're going to be here and ruin(毁掉)my day, you can find something interesting for me to do," she shouts and again she gets no answer. So she sits back down on the window. It is still raining." Fine," she thinks, "l can go swimming, ride my bike and play with my friends when the rain stops." She thinks about her ideas again and again. How she wishes the sun to come out! Soon she falls asleep on the window. She hopes to do all she wants in her dream.

Do you remember playing stickball or jumping rope in the street? Neighborhood streets used to be children's playgrounds but traffic was the problem. Now one organization wants to bring those back to kids by temporarily closing local streets to traffic and letting kids play outside.

 Playing is important but community buildings end the fun. So here came Play Streets. Play Streets began in Bristol in 2009 with just one street. The idea grew with its success. It really took off in 2011 with support from The Funding Network and now thousands of people across the UK are taking part in the activity and playing in the streets. Later Play Streets became a global movement and it is spreading like wildfire.

"Our society has changed and communities are having higher levels of isolation and kids aren't playing outside as much as before. But Play Streets gives people a place to have street meetings and parties or simply a place to play for a few hours," Valli Morphett, the chief executive of Co Design Studios said.

You can bring Play Streets to your street in your neighborhood too. Get a group of neighbors together to organize activities and you can even ask local schools to help plan your activities. But you just can't put up a sign and close your street to traffic. Before you start you should consider the following question to make sure Play Streets will go well. Is the local government supportive? You should do the necessary paperwork with the local government so that rules are followed. The local government is likely to accept the activity and may make it easy to close the street. Once the government agreed, it's time for fun. Bring toys and supplies, get the word out and get each organizer to take action.

(A): Headaches have many causes(起因). We often say, "Take two aspirins(阿司匹林)." It is not always the best idea. First, stop and think  you have a headache.

Do you drink lots of coffee tea or cola？ These all have caffeine. People who take a lot of caffeine every day often get headaches. The cures？ Drink a little of these every day. Take a week or ten days to give it .

Do you get a headache after reading or watching TV? Some headaches happen when you make your eyes (work) too hard. Go to see  eye doctor. You may need glasses.

How much did you eat today？ (eat) nothing can also cause a headache. The cure is to eat three meals a day at right times.

(B). In the past 10 years, my hometown  (change) a lot in many ways. The (big) change is the environment. The air is fresh and the streets are clean. Many people don't live in the old houses anymore. Builders have setup (thousand) of buildings of different styles. I think my hometown is becoming more and more beautiful. I think you should think about (visit) the beautiful city. I'm sure you (love) it.

Zhang Guimei is the leader of Huaping High School. The school is the first senior high school (高中) to offer free education to girls from poor families. Many students' dreams came true with the help of her.

When she was a common teacher in a mountain school in 2002, she decided to build a free high school for girls. She wanted to give them free education. Since it opened in 2008, it has seen more than 1, 800 students progress to universities and colleges.

Zhang's husband died in 1996. She doesn't have children or a house, so she lives at school with her students. Every day, she gets up at around 5 a. m. to turn on the lights of the teaching building and wakes students up with a loudspeaker (喇叭) . She stays with students during the day and goes to sleep after senior students' study ends at midnight. She has more than 20kinds of physical(身体的) problems because of hard work.

"We always say that each child should stand on the same starting line, but these girls from mountains didn't even have a chance to get on the track(跑道) , "she said.

All her dream is to make these poor girls depend on themselves, to let them live better. She donated (捐赠) most of her money to education. She then had nothing for herself. She got the July 1 Medal (七一勋章) in 2021. Her moving stories have touched people in our country.

There was a very rich man named Jonatan. In his house, he had a very large room. "If anyone can fill(填满) my room in one day, I will give him 20,000 dollars." he said. Everyone in the town wanted to have a try.

Cruz tried to fill the room with stones. At the end of the day, he was very tired, but the room was still not full.

Rollo tried to fill the room with wood. He worked all day, but the room was not full. "That room is too big, no one can do this." he said.

Darrin said, "I can do it. It's easy." Everyone laughed. They thought he could not do it. Then, he went to the park and played all day. His friend asked him, "Why are you playing? You should be working." Darrin said, "Don't worry." At 8:00 pm, he came to the room with a small bag. The rich man said, "That bag is too small. How will you fill the room?" Darrin took a candle out of the bag. He lit(点燃) the candle and said, "You see, the whole room is filled with light!"

Hello, I'm sally. Today is Saturday. My family are all at home. My grandparents are under the tree in the garden (花园). They are reading books. My mother is in the kitchen (厨房) . She is making dinner. Look at the living room (客厅). My father is on the sofa. He is watching TV. My sister Jane is on the sofa, too. She is playing her computer games. My brother Eric is near the bookcase. He is putting some books on it. What about me? I am under my bed in my bedroom. I'm looking for my keys. I can't find them. And Coco is on my bed. She's helping me. Oh, what a nice cat!