Grandfather always tells Jane stories before she goes to bed at night. Soon, her love for reading grows. She starts borrowing books from the school library.

One day, Grandfather told Jane, "Here, my dear, your birthday is coming. This is a very special book and I want you to have it as your birthday present. I am sure that you will enjoy reading it."

    Jane was excited to get the book. She put down all the other books she had and started reading it day and night. The more she read the book, the more she liked it.

    Soon, she finished the book. She thought it was a great book so she asked Grandfather who the writer was.

    "I wrote the book, my dear," Grandfather said with a smile.

    "This is really a great present!" Jane thought. "I will take good care of it and show it to Baby John when he grows up."

    "I can't believe this is happening. " I thought as I saw Jane walk into the restaurant. She hadn't changed at all. She was still tall and beautiful, with wavy blonde hair and bright green eyes. I smiled and thought of how my life had changed since we had last met.

    It all started when I noticed her at a party in a friend's house. I followed her to the dining room and started talking to her about the food. "You seem very interested in food, " she laughed. "Well. I'm a great cook, "I told her. It was a lie, but I had to find an excuse to see her again. "Why don't I cook you dinner sometime? "

    Two days later, Jane came to my house. However, the dinner party was very embarrassing(尴尬的). I ordered food from a nearby restaurant, but I told her that I had cooked it. After dinner, she offered to wash up and found the delivery boxes in the kitchen. She laughed at me and I felt awful. Angry with myself, I decided then and there to learn how to cook.

    I never saw Jane after our terrible dinner date. I started a cookery course and found that I was good at it after all. I went on to train to be a great cook. I worked hard and saved up until I was able to open my own restaurant.

    Now. she had walked into my restaurant. Feeling very happy, I pretended I was a waiter and walked to her table. "Ready to order, madam? "I asked.

"Our teas can help protect your teeth and your heart, possibly even helping to prevent cancer," said Luo Shengkai, one of four student hosts from Sichuan University High School. They 1 introduced three self-made health teas through a livestream (直播) on Douyin 2 March 27, 2022, and they 3 for several weeks by now. The livestream got over 60 4 likes and many online orders, with all profits (收入) going to local tea farmers.

"It's 5 first time we have sold tea online. We not only need to introduce 6 tea, but we also need to interact with the audience and answer their questions," said Luo. "We've learned a lot from the process, 7 it's tiring."

Luo is one of a group of students 8 take part in a two-year course on tea research. They learn about tea planting and picking, tea making, package design and marketing through research and fieldwork.

However, 9 a new and popular tea isn't easy. Luo and his team members 10 a tea to better protect students' eyesight. They first met with a professional from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and researched the properties (特性) of local tea. Then they learned 11 functions of ingredients such as goji berries (枸杞), mangosteen (山竹果) and cassia seed (决明子) and did experiments to find what would happen if they 12 all together. They ended up with a cassia seed tea and then added 13 ingredients based on people's feedback.

"Through the tea course, students 14 learn how to be creative and improve their hands-on skills. They also learn to respect tea workers and how to contribute to rural vitalization (乡村振兴). That's 15 our educational means." said Mi Yunlin, the principal of the school.

I'm a teacup at an antique (古董) store. With the pretty look and strong body, I'm 1 . Many people want to buy me. 

2 , I haven't always been a teacup. Once I was just a piece of 3 . A man took me and rolled (翻滚) me over and over. I said, "Don't do that. I dislike it!"

But he only said with a smile, "Not yet!" Then, WHAM! I was put on a machine and turned around and around. " 4 it! I'm feeling sick," I shouted. But the man still said, "Not yet."

Later the man put me in the oven. I never felt such 5 . When I thought I couldn't 6 it another minute, the door opened. The man carefully took me out and put me on a shelf (架子), and I 7 to cool. Oh, that felt so good! After I cooled, he started brushing me. The paint smelled so terrible that I asked him to give up. He only shook his head and said, "Not yet!" An hour later he handed me a 8 and said, "Look at yourself." I did that, and I was greatly 9 . "That's not me! It's so beautiful!" I shouted. 

"The process was 10 , but if I hadn't done that, you would never meet the best of you. Now you're not common clay, but a great product," the man said.

Mr Smith looked at his watch at times. He1 to go home as soon as possible. There would be a (n)2 football match in London and he could not do anything in his office. He3 home after work. Supper was ready and he went to his4 after that. But he could not fall asleep. He was5 he would miss (错过) the match though he had told his wife to wake him up at once at night. He had to6 and began to read some evening newspapers.

Finally the match began. His team7 the half of the match. He was angry. He was so8 that he did not know when he had gone to sleep. The next9 his wife brought some bread and milk into the sitting room. She saw her husband sleeping on the sofa and called out, "Oh, dear! Get up, or you'll be10 today. It is five to seven!"

Hearing this, Mr Smith jumped off the sofa and asked, "Who won?"

Do you know the Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival? Here is a beautiful story about it.

Long long ago, there was a young man {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (name) Niulang. One day, he met a beautiful girl Zhinü, the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (seven) daughter of the Goddess. She had just run away from the boring heaven to look for fun on Earth. Zhinü soon {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (fall) in love with Niulang, and they got married without telling the Goddess. They lived a happy life and had a son and a daughter. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (unlucky), the Goddess soon found out the fact and ordered Zhinü to return to heaven. With the help of his magic cow, Niulang flew to heaven with his {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (child) to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very angry. Taking out her hairpin (发簪), the Goddess created {#blank#}6{#/blank#} wide river in the sky to separate the two lovers. From then on, Niulang and Zhinü had to live apart on the two sides of the river. However, their true love touched all the magpies (喜鹊) in the world, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} once a year tens of thousands of magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge ("the bridge of magpies") {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the couple to meet each other. At last, the Goddess allowed them {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (meet) each year on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. That's {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the Double Seventh Festival started.

Today, it is a great day for Chinese young people to express their love.