My father woke up(叫醒)my brother and me early one summer morning when l was fourteen and said ''Get up! you're going with me to cut the grass in the garden”

    From Sunup to sundown，my father，my brother and l worked in the garden．By the end of the day, my brother and l were too tired to say a word but we were excited．This was our first time to help our father work．I got$6 for my work that day；and my brother got$2 more．

    Then l worked with my father and brother almost every Saturday．One day my father found some grass I had missed and said．“Cut the grass! Don't make me have to tell you to do it again．”I knew he was telling me the importance of doing a job well the first time．It really helped me a lot．

    两年后，我父亲告诉我，我年龄足够大了，可以自己割草了。Every Saturday during my last two years of high school，1 woke up early in the morning to work in the garden．Looking after the garden was neither exciting nor（既不……也不……） high—paying，but I didn't care(在乎)．My father once said，“If you're only thinking about money, maybe you won't think about how to do the job better．”

    I do many jobs for my family．In every job， from cutting the grass to washing the clothes．I've learned much．I've learned something that helps me in my next job．

    What do you know about the Northern European country of Finland（芬兰）? You may have heard of the Northern Lights(极光)and Nokia? Today Finland is also a world leader in making mobile games. The popular games Angry Birds and Clash of clans（部落冲突）are both from Finnish companies.

    Finland is not a very big country. How can it make so many world-class games?

    Innovation(改革，创新)might be the first reason. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Finland this month. He spoke very highly of the innovation of the country. Finland gives money to help start-up companies. It even builds technology bases for them. There are now around 290 game companies in Finland.

    Finnish mobile games also stand out(突出，超群) because of the country's special Northern European art style. The style is mainly about being simple. It's a tradition of Finnish design. You many also see it in clothes, furniture and even buildings. In the game Angry Birds, the birds and pigs look very simple but cute at the same time. They easily interest the players.

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    Lots of people make it as their aim to get to the top of Mount Qomolangma.Mark is one of them.The difference between Mark and other climbers is that he lost both his legs when climbing New Zealand's highest mountain,Mount Cook.He was caught in a big ice hole and he had to have his legs cut below the knees after he was saved.But that couldn't make Mark lose heart, who has become the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma.

    From the top of the world's highest mountain,Mark called his wife to say he made it.His wife,Anne,got the phone when she was sleeping.She could hardly believe it.Because she knew how hard it would be for Mark to reach the top.She said his“legs”didn't work well sometimes,so her husband was carrying a spare leg and repair tools.

    Mark was a mountain guide before his accident.He said it was not important that no one bad ever reached the 8844-neter mountain like him.“I'm not doing this to be the first.I have been climbing most of my life and I just feel Mount Qomolangma is really a great aim.I want to prove that I can do anything better.”So if you have a dream, just work hard and go for it no matter how difficult it is.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#}We must take care of it. We should keep the land, air and water clean. Pollution(污染) is a “dirty” word.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Pollution comes in many forms. We can see it, smell it and drink it. Pollution harms our health and even our life.

    People have been polluting the Earth, such as made a fire, washed his clothes in the rivers and threw his rubbish on the ground. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious, because there were not so many people.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}But now the land was used up or the river was dirty in a place, man moved to another place. So now the whole world is slowly polluted.

    When talking about pollution, we once only meant the air pollution. Air pollution is the most dangerous now.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}We are glad that the public are paying more attention to the dangers of pollution.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. There still was lots of clean air, land and water.

B. And more and more people are working hard to get rid of(消除) it

C. The Earth is our home.

D. but there still is water pollution and noise pollution and so on.

E. Pollution means making things dirty.

    Mother's Day is celebrated in the USA. It is also a holiday in some other countries. It is on the second Sunday in May. It is a day to thank mothers. On that day mothers usually receive flowers or cards. On the cards, children will write "Thanks, Mom"， "To the best mother in the world", "Best wishes for Mother's Day" and so on. We should make mothers happy on that day.

    Where does the idea for the holiday come from? We should thank Miss Anna M. Jarvis. She brought up the idea of having such a day. She lived in West Virginia. Her mother died on May 9th, 1905.She had a deep love for her mother. She wrote letters to some important persons. In her letters she asked them to decide a day for all mothers. Then Mother's Day was made on the second Sunday in May by the USA in 1913.

    In China, children give presents to their mothers on Mother's Day, or the whole family go out and try to do something nice for their mothers. Mothers always think of others more than themselves. They love their children and families very much. Everybody should show his love to his mother and help her as much as possible.

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    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(使产生) the codes, and in the end everything gets easier. "Said Mr. Guo, "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 cheek their work anywhere using my computer or telephone. "

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

    Mr. 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 Tingling, a student of Mr. Guo's.

    "The paper is not easy to keep, hut the code is easy to keep and share." Mr. 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 codes when they hand in their work, which doesn't take them too much time.  Also for teachers, it allows them to cheek the students' work at any time.  And it's also an easy way to share homework with other students.