Xiao Li: Great news! The Chinese Women's Volleyball Team has won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics.
Han Mei: Yes. Everybody around me is talking about it now.
Xiao Li: Did you watch the game?
Han Mei: Of course.
Xiao Li: Me too. It was really hard for the girls to win. Do you know what impressed and touched me most?
Han Mei: I guess it's the girls' spirit of not giving up.
Xiao Li: It sure is. they had the best teamwork and fought until the last minute. Han Mei: And they make me understand success never comes easily.
Xiao Li: I totally agree. Compared with the girls, I feel kind of ashamed. I sometimes give up doing what seems difficult.
Han Mei:
Xiao Li: You are right, let's work harder from now.
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A. I'm also excited about it. B. Though they aren't the greatest players, C. I think we can also succeed if we always work hard and keep trying. D. I watched it from the beginning to the end. E. In fact, they didn't play very well last night. F. Yes, one finger can't lift a small stone. |
John loved basketball very much. One day, as he was walking to a basketball game, he dreamed about 1 basketball for the college team the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown three meters 2.
John woke up in a hospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knew his college basketball 3 was over. John did 4 the doctor told him, but it 5. When he left the hospital, John was sent to a health center.
A week 6 he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach（教练）. His legs 7 in a skating accident. 8 he couldn't move his legs, Sunny became the coach of a basketball team called the Suns. It was a wheelchair basketball team, because 9 on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited John to 10 the team. John played badly, but for the 11 time after the accident. He stopped feeling sorry for himself.
After becoming a part of Suns, John improved quickly. Basketball was like 12 for him. John was much 13 than before. When John became unhappy, Sunny was there to comfort him. The day before John 14 the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he could be so happy even with his broken legs.
Sunny 15 and said, "It's really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows (阴影) will fall behind.
Most people will rest and relax when they are old. They do not work. And most people are certainly not famous. But Grandma Moses is different. She started a new job at the age of 70.
This is her story. She was born in a poor farmer's family in 1860. Her parents named her Anna Mary Robertson. She married Thomas Moses in 1887. He was a farm worker.
In 1930, Anna Mary Moses was 70, and was a grandmother. She began to paint pictures. She drew paintings of country life. One day, her daughter took her paintings to a store in town. Her paintings were put in the window. A man from New York saw them and bought them. And he wanted more!
The man liked Grandma Moses's paintings. He wanted to help her. So he took her paintings to galleries (美术馆) in New York City. Otto Kallir had a famous gallery there. He liked the paintings. When it was 1940 and Grandma Moses' paintings were in Kallir's gallery. She was 80 years old.
Grandma Moses suddenly became famous. Everyone wanted her paintings. So she painted more and more. She won many prizes for her paintings. She became famous in the United States and Europe.
When she was 100 years old, the State of New York made her birthday "Grandma Moses' Day". After her 100th birthday, she painted 6 more paintings. She died at the age of 101 and a lot of people think she is amazing.
Mr Zhang was a sports fan. He worked in a hospital in the capital. He was busy all the time and had little time to have a rest. And one day he felt unwell and couldn't go on working. He decided to spend a week's holiday in a quiet village where he could go swimming or fishing. He got off at a small train station and soon got to a quiet village. He took a room hotel and went to sleep after he had a good meal.
At first Mr Zhang enjoyed himself there. He could do everything he wanted and went everywhere he liked. Nobody disturbed (打扰)him or knocked at the door at midnight. But on the fourth day he was in trouble. After lunch it was very hot. He went swimming in the river. Suddenly he saw a beautiful bird in a big tree. He wanted to catch it, so he walked to it, but it found him and flew away. He began to pick some flowers in the forest and before long he lost his way.
The sun had gone down and night had fallen before Mr. Zhang found a small restaurant in another village. He came in and told them to bring him some bread, two eggs and a glass of tea. After a while his food was brought. Soon he ate up all the bread and eggs. When he was going to have the tea, he found there was a fly in the glass.
"What's in my tea?" Mr. Zhang called out, "A fly."
"It's impossible, sir," said the owner of the restaurant, "I had told the waiters to pick all the flies out of your tea before they brought it to you!"
Although it was only autumn, everything outside was colored white. Unexpectedly, we were hit by a big snow storm and no one was prepared.
We have two apple trees in our backyard. Prana, our dog, loves apples. When she goes outside, she usually digs out a dirty apple from the ground and then quickly eats it.
On the day that it snowed too early in the season, Prana went outside and I watched her from the window. I noticed that she was digging lots of holes and bringing out the apples buried (掩埋) under the snow. She seemed to be glad to dig out as many apples as she could.
But when she came back inside, she brought back only one. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The yard was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for her bird friends to eat. She knew that they hadn't prepared enough food for the early ''winter".
This beautiful act of unselfish (无私的)love from an animal taught me what real kindness was.
How to beat sadness?
That's OK. You need days like this, or how would you know you are happy? You'll enjoy your good days even more when you have a few bad days. Even if sadness is a part of life, let's try to make it small. Here are a few simple ways to help you feel better when you are feeling sad.
⒈Stand up straight and this helps your energy flow (流动). When your energy is flowing freely, you can flow too.
⒉Smile! It's easy to do and have good results.
⒊Listen to music. Some kinds of music work better than others, so try and find out what kind of music works the best for you.
⒋Take some time. You can find pleasure in reading a book, watching a sunrise or having a hot bath, or something like that.
⒌ Even something as simple as taking a walk will get your blood flowing. It's a great way to clear your mind of anything that makes you sad.
These ways will cheer you up when you are down, but don't just use them when you are sad. You will be surprised to learn that these simple ways will keep your sadness away. But if you are in a deep depression (沮丧), go to see a doctor.
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A. Try and practice them every day to make them a habit. B. It can be your favorite music. C. Exercise. D. We all have days when we are down, tired and unhappy. E. This way can not only leave you in a good mood (情绪) but also bring others a good mood. |
On 7 October, 36 students in Linyi, Shandong wore beautiful clothes in a show. Their clothes were made of all kinds of things.
The show gave the students a chance to make things with their own hands. It also helped them learn to make good use of wastes.
Students had lots of good ideas. Some found things like old clothes to make the dresses.
"We hope to save energy (能源). Our world is short of energy. So I don't want to just throw old things away," said Xie Jing, 13, at Linyi Art School. She had more than 20 CDs on her nice blue dress. She got them from her family and friends.
Song Dandan, a Junior 2 student from the same school, looked like a farmer in her straw coat and hat. She picked the straw from the fields and put it all together. "I want to show what people wore in the past," she said.
Du Yue, 14, even made clothes for astronauts. When she walked, she tried to be slow. It looked like she was walking on the moon. "I wish to be the first woman from China to walk on the moon!" she said.
A new survey shows us almost percent of the students use the Internet every day. Others use it at three or four times a week. Most of the time they do good things through the Internet. , their parents are still about their health and study. So please don't use the Internet before your homework.
