About 10 years ago, I started a job as a trainer. In one of my first classes, the head trainer told us a story.

    He began by drawing a man standing in the middle of a circle. To make it more interesting, he drew things like a house, a car, and a few friends inside the circle.

    He asked the question," Can anyone tell me what this is？"In a long silence, one guy decided to speak out," The world?" The trainer said, "That's close. Actually, this is your Comfort Area. Inside your circle, you feel very comfortable. You have all the things that are important to your home, your family, your friends and your job. People feel that inside this circle they are safe from any danger."

    " Can anyone tell me what happens when you step out of this circle？"A strong silence came over the room. At last, the same guy started," You are afraid." Another guy said," You make mistakes." The silence continued and the trainer smiled and said," When you make mistakes, what can the result be?" The first guy shouted," You learn something."

    "Quite right, you are learning." The trainer turned to the board and drew an arrow（箭头）pointing from the man to the outside of the circle.  He continued to say," When you leave your Comfort Area you put yourself out there, in front of the world to be in situations that you are not comfortable with. The end result is that you have learned something that you did not know and you slowly become a better person." He turned again to the board and drew a bigger circle around the first one, and added a few new things like more friends, a bigger house, etc.

    The moral of the story is that if you stay inside your Comfort Area, you will never be able to expand your horizons（开阔视野）and learn. When you step out of your Comfort Area you will finally make your circle bigger and your mind grow stronger, and all in all a better person."

Hi! My name is Peter. I am from Class 2. Here is a photo of my1  . This woman is my mother. She is an English. 2  . in our school. The students like her classes very much and she likes singing. The man is my father. 3  is a doctor(医生). I think my father is a hero (英雄) because he can. 4  a lot of people every day. Look at that girl. She is my little. 5  . And she is my uncle's daughter. She is a 6  . girl. Her books and tapes are in the bookcase. Her pens are in the pencil box. She likes 7  too. She wants to be a singer. Can you see the girl in white in the middle? That's me! White is my favorite 8  , I like pink and yellow, too. 9  . my cousin's favorite color is blue. Oh, . 10  is my cat Coco? It's sleeping under the chair. I have a happy family and I love it so much. 

Peng Jingxuan, a 29-year-old Chinese girl, is now studying in a music university in Paris. Peng began to study the guzheng when she was 7 years old. In 2017, she went to France to study music. She was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to find that very few people in France knew about the guzheng. "I wanted to make this instrument known to more people, "Peng said. She made her {#blank#}2{#/blank#} performance in front of a theater in October, 2018. Later, she {#blank#}3{#/blank#} on French streets, wearing a silk Han Dynasty-style dress and playing the guzheng to passers-by. The more Peng played on the streets, the{#blank#}4{#/blank#} pride she felt in sharing Chinese music and culture. 

The videos of Peng playing the guzheng in Paris spread {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and got many likes. They made Peng a very popular guzheng artist. She has {#blank#}6{#/blank#} of fans on the Internet now. "That's just amazing! I {#blank#}7{#/blank#} this kind of music in Chinese films before. But the pieces Peng plays fill my soul with energy. "A foreign fan commented. 

More and more people become {#blank#}8{#/blank#} in the guzheng after watching Peng's performances. "People come to me and praise me for the beauty of the instrument and the music. Every time they ask me which country the guzheng comes from, I am very happy to tell them it's from China. "Peng feels she has more responsibility {#blank#}9{#/blank#} traditional culture. "Music has no borders(边界). I hope more people around the world {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the chance to experience the beauty of guzheng, and Chinese music. I also hope to play a bigger role in making Chinese music known by the world, "Peng said. 

Li Yuaner runs a vegetable stall （摊位） in Changsha, Hunan. Many people like her because she sells her vegetables in a special way.

Li found that her son did not often cook at home because he was always busy working. He would like to order take-out food, although he thought it was bad for his health. After talking with her son, Li decided to provide （提供）a "one-week-menu" service for buyers at her vegetable stall.

After buyers order, Li washes and cuts up vegetables, and also tells them how to cook. "Nowadays young people dislike spending time in wandering （游荡） in the vegetable market. I make weekly menus and help them prepare ingredients （配料） so that they can just buy and cook directly at home." she said. So a lot of people like Li's thoughtful preparation.