Mr. Smith is a good teacher. He teaches English very well. He is1to his students， so they like him a lot. There are fifty students in 2 class. Mr. Smith always 3 English in class. He and his students are 4 friends， too.

    Now some of the students 5 on the playground. Bill and Mike 6. Tom and John are jumping. Mary and Lucy are 7 a kite. Are Lily and Maria flying a kite， 8? No， they are playing 9. What's Mr. Smith doing? Look! He is also playing 10them. How happy they are!

    It was a lovely spring afternoon. My classmates and I were playing happily on the playground when I let out, “Ow! Ow! Something in my shoe is biting me.”

    Everyone was shocked by the cry. They took me into a classroom and were about to take off my 1. “Which foot is it?” one asked. “Let us have a look.”

    Suddenly, I remembered the holes in 2 socks. My family was very poor during those years. I wore welfare socks, which cost only a little, but those 3 welfare socks didn't last long. They soon had 4 at the bottom.

    I refused to take off my shoes. I 5 stand others seeing the holes in my sock. I tried to hold back my tears. Yet, each time the thing 6 my shoe bit me, tears raced down my face.

    My teacher, Miss Diane, hurried into the 7. “What's wrong?” she asked.

    “Something is biting her right foot, 8 she doesn't let us take off her shoe.” one of my classmates answered.

    Miss Diane lived next door to me. She 9 everything about my family. She put both hands on my shaking shoulders and 10 into my painful and hopeless eyes.

    “Oh, yes, it must be a sock-eating ant,” she said, as if she had 11 seen the thing inside the shoe. “I had a bite from one of those ants. By the time I got my shoe off, it had 12 almost the whole bottom off my sock.” My classmates nodded while they were listening to the teacher 13, although they all looked a little puzzled.

    Miss Diane took off my right shoe and sock and shook them over the dustbin. Two red ants14it.

    “Just what I thought. The ants have eaten part of her sock.” When she stroked an alcohol cotton ball on the bites, she added,” You are such a 15 girl to take so many bites.”

    The alcohol felt cool on the bites and a little girl's pride was saved by the “sock-eating ant” story.

    Helen is a student. She usually gets up at 6:00 in the morning. Then she has 1 at 7:00. She goes to school2about 7:30. She is never late for(从不迟到) school. Helen is a clever girl,3 she doesn't have any friends.

    One morning, on her way to school, she 4 a yellow cat. She thinks,“The cat can't find 5way home.” So she 6 it to the zoo.

    Then she hurries(急忙) to 7 but she is late. All the students and her8 look at her. Her face looks red.

    After(在……之后)class, her teacher says to the students.“ Helen is a 9 girl. She finds a cat and takes it to the10”Now all her classmates like her.

    Do you know "One Belt, One Road"? We also call it the Modern Silk Road. And Zhang Qian was an early traveller of the Ancient Silk Road. He was probably the first1to bring back good information about the central Asian lands to China.

    In 139 BC, Han Wudi sent Zhang Qian to the Yue-zhi people to ask for their2against the Xiongnu people who often infringed(侵犯) them.3, on the way to the Western Regions, he was caught by the Xiongnu people. Zhang had to stay with them4about 10 years before he got away. When Zhang finally5the Yue -zhi people in the North India, he was6to find that they didn't want to fight against the Xiongnu people.

    On7return journey, Zhang Qian and his men were8again. It was not until 125 BC that they returned to China.9Zhang didn't finish his job, he learned a lot about the places, people, customs and cultures of the 36 kingdoms(王国) in the Western Regions.

    Later Han Wudi sent Zhang to West again. Zhang's journey to the West helped10international trade, especially in silk, between China and the West, That's the Ancient Silk Road.