Alisa was walking around the swimming pool. Her friend Maria was waiting for her. "Come on, Alisa!" Maria said. "Let's jump off the diving board (跳水版)."

    "No way! I can never go that high," said Alisa.

    "Don't be scared," Maria said. "It's really fun."

    Alisa walked away and sat on a bench.

    "You go. I'll watch you," said Alisa.

    "You don't know what you're missing," said Maria. Then she climbed up the tall ladder (梯子). It made Alisa scared just thinking of being up there.

    Maria jumped off the board and then climbed out of the pool. She walled to Alisa. "Come on, Alisa; just try it. It's wonderful!" she said.

    Alisa looked up at the board. Maybe it was time to try something new. OK, she said. Alisa climbed up the ladder for the diving board. The water looked far, far away. She wanted to turn back to climb down the ladder， but that would be too embarrassing. There was only one thing to do.

    Alisa walked to the edge (边缘) of the board. Then she closed (闭上) her eyes and jumped. She got into the water in no time. "Wow, so wonderful! I like it!" she shouted.

    One day, a rich boy bought a magic mirror(魔镜). When he got home, he looked in the mirror. His face looked sad. He tried to smile and make funny faces. His face looked still sad. Then he did many happy things, but his face always looked sad.

    "Oh, what a terrible mirror! It doesn't work！"he said angrily.

    The next day, on his way to buying some chocolate, he saw a little girl crying sadly. The rich boy went up to her and asked what had happened. The little girl said she couldn't find her parents. "Don't worry. I'll help you，"the rich boy said. So they went to look for them together. Finally, they found her parents. They were so thankful for his help. After the rich boy arrived home, he looked in the mirror as usual. To his surprise, his face looked very happy. The boy understood the magic of the mirror. The mirror could show the true feelings of its owner.

    This was true—the rich boy had helped that little girl so he felt really happy.

    It's five o'clock in the afternoon. School1and the students from Class 3 are going to Grandma Liang's house. Grandma Liang has no2or daughters. So the children often go to help3do some housework.

    Now the children are at Grandma Liang's4. Grandma Liang is very5to see them. Look! Lily is6with Grandma Liang in the living room. Betty is cleaning the7. Jane is washing clothes outside the room.8is Ann? Oh, she is in the kitchen. She is making9for Grandma Liang, Jim is next to Ann. He is10her.

   Phil White has just returned from an 18,000-mile, around-the-world bicycle trip. White had two reasons for making thisepic journey. First of all, he wanted to use the trip to raise money for charity, which he did. He raised £70,000 for the British charity, Oxfam. White's second reason for making the trip was to break the world record and become the fastest person to cycle around the world. He is still waiting to find out whether he has broken the record or not.

   White set off from Trafalgar Square, in London, on 19th June, 2004 and was back 299 days later. He spent more than 1,300 hours in the saddle (车座) and destroyed four sets of tyres and three bike chains. He had the adventure of his life crossing Europe first, and then the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and finally the Americas. Amazingly, he did all of this with absolutely no support team. No jeep carrying food, water and medicine. No doctor. Nothing! Just a bike and a very, very long road.

   The journey was lonely and desperate at times. He also had to fight his way across deserts, through jungles and over mountains. He cycled through heavy rains and temperatures of up to 45 degrees, all to help people in need. There were other dangers along the road. In Iran, he was chased by armed robbers and was lucky to get away with the little money he had. The worst thing that had happened to him was having to cycle into a headwind on a road that crosses the south of Australia. For 1,000 kilometers he battled against the wind that was constantly pushing him. This part of the trip was slow, hard and depressing, but he made it in the end. Now Mr. White is back and wants to write a book about his adventures.

Orion Jean，a little boy in the United States，has a big goal.He wants to s {#blank#}1{#/blank#} kindness to as many people as he can.

It all started in August 2020.Jean r {#blank#}2{#/blank#} ＄500 in prize money after winning the U.S.National Kindness Speech Contest.He could have spent the money on Legos，but he quickly realized that it was not e {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to just speak about kindness.The boy set up the "Race to Kindness" project.

Jean started off by helping children in hospital.Because of the COVID﹣19 pandemic，these children were not able to see their family members very often.Jean wanted to put a s {#blank#}4{#/blank#}on their faces.He used his money to buy as many toys as he could while calling on people to do the same.In only a month，he had c {#blank#}5{#/blank#} 619 toys.The boy sent them to a local children's hospital. "It is one of the best e {#blank#}6{#/blank#} of my life，" he said at the time.

Not long after，in October 2020，Jean s {#blank#}7{#/blank#}the ambitious goal of donating 100，000 free Thanksgiving meals to poor families.With the help of a local charity，he was not only able to reach his goal but to go beyond it.As a book lover {#blank#}8{#/blank#} can change a person's life.Last May，after discovered the f {#blank#}9{#/blank#} that two out of three kids from poor family had no books of their own，they boy decided to collect 500，000 book for them.

Will he t {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a break after this？ "Who knows？Maybe something even bigger will come，" Jean says. "Maybe we'll do a 'race' to a million."

For many children, their birthday is their favorite day. They like spending it with their parents and friends. All parents want to hold (举办) wonderful birthday parties for their children.

Last Saturday was Tom's fourth birthday. His mother, Mrs. Green, helped him to invite six friends to their house. She held a very nice party for Tom.

Mrs. Green prepared for the party for a long time. She thought about their ages, the activities, the time, the food, the cake and the gifts. She said,"Don't let the party last(持续) too long. For children's party, 90 minutes or two hours is enough. "At the party, Mrs.Green chose a nice cake for the children. She also prepared some gifts for them. They were very happy.