When I was seven years old, I got the greatest Christmas gift ever.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Now I realize I actually have the power to be a superhero. I may not able to fly, but I make a difference to someone's life. We all have the power to be a superhero to someone. Here are four ways you can be a real life superhero.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Think about what it is. It could be your support, time, advice, a small gift or a thank-you card. Sometimes, even just the most harmless message can bring someone out of darkness and into the light. It's something that you have to give that can help others.

    Keep yourself healthy.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Look after your body and helping people will be easier. You'll have a clear mind and energy to achieve any task in your way.

    Pick your fight. Every superhero has a battle. It's something that drives them to be the person they are.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}It could be anything such as working towards helping reduce the number of homeless people on the street. The fight does not need to be big, but it needs to be powerful.

    Make someone's day. Real life superheroes try to improve the lives of all the people they meet.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}You can also try your best to absolutely make someone's day every once in a while. The people who get your help will thank you for it.

A. What's your fight?

B. Stay happy all the time.

C. It was a Batman costume, complete with bell and shoes.

D. Use the things you have to help someone without them.

E. You can't be a superhero if you don't take care of your body.

F. They try their best to turn someone's bad day into a good one.

G. They just want to get up, save the world and forget it ever happened.

    In the world today, hunger is still the biggest threat to health. Hunger holds back children's growth and their dreams. Around 67 million of the world's hungriest children do not attend school. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Even if they do make it into the classroom, hunger will affect their ability to learn.

    Mary's Meals is a Scottish charity that was started in 1992. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} It sets up school feeding projects in some of the world's poorest countries. The charity provides one daily meal in schools to attract hungry children to the classroom, where they receive education to get out of poverty. Thanks to the supporters and volunteers around the world, Mary s Meals is now providing life-changing meals to 1,257,278 poorest children in 15 countries.

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    It has reduced hunger among children at school. Many children, teachers and volunteers observed the positive physical effects that the school feeding programmer is making. The percentage of teachers saying “children in my class never complain of hunger” increased from 7% to 87%.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} 98% of teachers said that children pay more attention in class since Mary's Meals started feeding at their school.

    It has reduced levels of children quitting school! Teachers reported a reduction in the number of children dropping out of school due to hunger.

    It has increased children's feelings of happiness at school. The percentage of children saying “I feel happy at school” increased from 60% to 81%.

    By one meal at a time and one child at a time, Mary's Meals fills hungry children's empty stomachs so they have the energy and opportunity to learn. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

A. Most of them hate to go to school.

B. It has improved children's concentration in class.

C. In order to survive, they have to work or beg.

D. Research has proved Mary's Meals has many positive effects.

E. This offers the children a life free from hunger and full of hope.

F. Since then it's grown from a small organization to a global movement.

G. They are reaching out to more hungry children waiting for Mary's Meals.

    Earth is home to around 7,000 languages, around half of which are expected to disappear by 2100.

    Languages disappear for many reasons. Sometimes younger generations stop learning a language because parents want children to fit in. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Native American children of the late-19th century were required to attend boarding schools where educators forbade them from speaking their native languages.

    The United Nations ranks endangered languages according to their risk level. For example, a "critically endangered" language is one that even grandparents don't speak often. New York's Onondaga language is an example with only 50 speakers left. An "extinct" language has no speakers. It is gone forever. Alaska's Eyak language is one example. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}In the same way, different languages contribute to cultural diversity. Saving these languages benefits our understanding of other cultures. Languages can show how a society looks at the world and what it values. A language may describe something in a way that is funny, too. In Welsh, it rains not cats and dogs, but old wives and walking sticks.

    The Endangered Language Alliance wants to save languages from disappearing. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} However, its efforts are limited. If an endangered language is going to make a real comeback, it'll probably get its start in schools. For nearly 100 years, public schools in Hawaii did not teach the Hawaiian language. Now students can keep learning in Hawaiian from elementary schools to college and beyond.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} At least one did. In 1881, a Jewish linguist named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda brought the 3,000-year-old language Hebrew back to life. Today it is one of the official languages of the country of Israel, with more than 4 million speakers.

A. The last person who spoke it died in 2008.

B. Why should we save endangered languages?

C. Various animals and plants benefit our environment.

D. With just 5 speakers left, it is absolutely endangered.

E. Can a language with zero native speakers come back to life?

F. Sometimes societies force minorities to give up their language.

G. The nonprofit group finds native speakers and records their stories.

    No one likes to fail. Whether it's at work, at home, or in another area of your life, failure is painful and it can also be costly in terms of time, money, or both.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} If you never suffer a failure, then you're probably not pushing yourself to your full potential. The following are some tips on how to pick yourself up after you've failed.

    Remember that other people fail too. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} They'll tell you about that great new contract(合同) they signed, not the deal that failed eventually though they worked on it for months. But failure is normal, and lots of people fail time and time again before meeting with success.

Remind yourself of your past successes. Failing doesn't mean that you're worthless, or that you'll never achieve the things you want.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} Maybe you had high marks last term, or you lost weight, or you learned to play a musical instrument. You might want to write down a list of successes—things that you've accomplished over the past few years, whether big or small. If you ever lack confidence, you can go back and read over that list.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Your past successes are important, but so are your past failures. You've made mistakes before, and you've survived them. Perhaps you did badly in an exam, or lost your temper and had to apologize. It's not fun to think about the times when things went wrong, but by acknowledging your failures, you can remind yourself that today is no different. Just as you recovered in the past, you can recover from your recent failure too.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Whatever goes wrong, you're probably facing some sort of decision. Don't rush into making a hasty decision, but do look for a forward path. That might require some deep thinking.

A. Make a decision.

B. Limit the damage caused.

C. Remind yourself of your past failures.

D. However, failure is a normal part of life.

E. Get some advice and support from others.

F. Most people don't talk openly about their failures.

G. Think of all the times in the past when you've succeeded.

    Sometimes we fall in love with something at once and sometimes it takes time. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} If were lucky, we come across a poem that immediately attracts us. But usually we need to spend a little time or make a little effort to truly understand a poem. Today I'd like to share some tips for reading poetry in ways that make the experience better with the goal of improving your own poetry writing.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Sometimes a poem that seems boring on first reading becomes clear with more readings. A poem that feels meaningless becomes deeper and more meaningful. And sometimes you're just not in the right mood the first time you read a poem, but later it touches your heart. Keep a dictionary and a poetry reference book at hand when you are reading poetry. Poets are fond of using unusual words. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

Read aloud and listen to the poem. Some poems have unclear structures and hearing a poet's reading will make the poem's rhythm clear. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    After you finish reading a poem, take a few moments to consider what it is saying. Sometimes its meaning are better understood through repeated readings. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

It is hard to say that there's a right and wrong way to read poetry, but there is an argument to be made for reading practices that will enrich your experience, increase your enjoyment, and deepen your understanding of any poem.

A. Besides, a poet's reading can even help understand the poem's meaning.

B. Keep a record to track the poets you've studied and the poems you've read.

C. Other times they are grasped through reflection on a poem.

D. The same is true with poetry.

E. Reading a poem repeatedly will deepen your understanding of it.

F. Study the poet's life and read some of his other works to gain deeper understanding.

G. Instead of skipping over these words or trying to guess their meanings, look them up.

    It is an old expression about some people who are highly motivated about work in itself with the opposite view of someone who works to live. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} But answering it honestly and accurately is critical to making intelligent career choices, and to your ultimate happiness in life. Unfortunately, many people lack the self-knowledge and realistic expectations necessary to address this vital issue properly.

    Certain people, it is said, live to work. Their lives center on their work or careers and that achievement in their professions is a major source of satisfaction and meaning in their lives {#blank#}2{#/blank#} In some cases, achieving huge levels of pay is considered more as a means of proving your worth than it is for the money itself.

    By contrast, other people work to live. These people view their work or careers largely as toil whose purpose is to earn the money necessary to support themselves and their dependents. Their real interests lie elsewhere. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Some of these people try to cut comers, to gain the maximum pay for the minimum amount of effort. Others do indeed take great pride in their work and put great effort into doing their jobs well, but their jobs simply are not the centers of their lives.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Examples abound of individuals who lose their native passion for work because they cannot find an adequate position or pay in their preferred fields of endeavor. When they settle for jobs in other fields, they often do so strictly for benefits, such as compensation (补偿). {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. It's critical to understand it.

B. Money may not be a motivation.

C. They may develop-a same attitude.

D. And their work or careers are only means to an end, not an end in itself.

E. There is no right or wrong answer to the question of which attitude is better.

F. The answer for a given individual may differ based on his or her circumstances.

G. Many individuals used to work to live but after a change of career start living to work.