The first day of university our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a 1_ hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled（有皱纹的）, little old lady with a smile. She 2_ a minute and said, “Hi, handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a big one.

    We became immediate friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I always loved listening to this ‘time machine'3 she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of this year Rose became a campus role model and she 4_ made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she loved the attention from the other students.

    At the end of the term we invited Rose to speak at our football club. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the platform. As she began to deliver he prepared speech, she dropped her cards on the floor. A little upset she simply said, “I'm sorry I'm so nervous. I 5 beer for Lent（大裔节）and this wine is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order …” As we laughed, she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; wo grow old because we stop playing. There is a huge6 between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow older, but it does take talents and abilities to grow up…”

    One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. However, these words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

    One Saturday afternoon, Kate went to buy something for her sister and 1.

    As Kate was coming out of the shop, a young lady walked towards her. She said she was Miss Green—a good friend of Kate's sister's. Kate 2 her. Then she called a taxi 3 Kate home. She told the driver where he should go. Kate was 4 that it was not in the direction of her home.

    "5?" Kate asked. The lady smiled.

    When they came to a quiet road, a big strong man 6 on the road. He stopped the taxi driver, knocked him down, tied him, and threw him out of the 7. At the same time, Miss Green took out a knife and 8 it to Kate, She asked Kate to keep 9. The man then started the taxi.

    "My God, I'm kidnapped (绑架). " Kate thought to herself.

    She tried to escape (逃跑), but she didn't 10. Suddenly an 11 came to her. She took out a lipstick (口红) from her pocket, wrote "SOS" on the window, and she covered the word 12 her back.

    A few minutes later, a police car 13 and the policemen saw the sign. When the kidnappers saw the policemen, they stopped the taxi, jumped into the grass, and 14. The policemen then picked Kate up and sent her home. When her parents knew what had happened, they were greatly surprised. But they were 15 because their daughter had finally come back safely.

As a child，I was a quite active boy. I was running around and getting hurt almost every day. My mom was worried. A neighbor advised me to learn to fish. I liked the idea，but my mom said no. A few years ago，I was kept away from any body of water!

At last，my mom wanted me to read books. Every day，she made me sit on a chair and read for an hour. As a boy，my uncle，a teacher，just put it down and pick another one，" he said. 

I started off with The Enormous Crocodile（《巨大的鳄鱼》）. After twenty pages. I was lying on the floor and laughing. This crocodile wants to eat children for a change，so he makes himself lock like a seesaw（跷跷板），I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Both stories were exciting and easy to understand. 

As time went on，I started reading longer and more serious books. I was in the middle of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when my mom said I should spend more time playing outside. But the book was too interesting to put down. To this day，I make time to read every day. 

If you haven't yet experienced the fun of reading，take my uncle's advice and find the "Right" books. They'll give you enjoyment，teach you something new, and even change your life.

One hundred years ago in 1924, Rabindranath Tagore made his first trip to China. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（he） visit is still remembered by Chinese people today. Do you know this poet's story? Tagore was born on May 7, 1861, in India and {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（receive） his early education at home. He started writing poems  {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the age of eight. His first poems were published {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he was just sixteen.

Tagore was then sent to England to study law. However, he failed {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（complete） his studies.

He went back to West Bengal in 1880 and got married three years later. Then in 1901, he set up an international college .It offered many courses. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (unlucky) , between 1902 and 1907 ,Tagore lost his wife and two children. His {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (sad) is reflected in his later book of poems, Gitanjali. It {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(publish) in 1910 and made him famous around the world. Three years later he won the Nobel prize in literature. He was the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (one) non-European to win the prize. 

During his life, Tagore visited more than thirty countries. Besides poems, he created many other works {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(include) some plays, short stories and more. He was also a good painter.

A story is told of Marie Curie. Her sisters once built a pyramid(金字塔) of chairs around her. Mari e was busy reading. She didn't even notice until she stood up and knocked them all over!

 It would not be surprising if this story were true. As a child, Marie loved books and experiments(实验). Nothing could take her attention away from her studies. She did not lose this love of learning as she got older. In the 1880s, very few women went to college, and even fewer women became scientists. Marie did both.

 After she met and married another scientist, Pierre Curie, the two of them began working together. Their studies focused on the element radium(镭元素). They had discovered it during their research.

Radium is found in some rocks. It is a white metallic element with a blue glow(微弱而稳定的光片) The glow lasts for a thousand years.

 The radium glows because it produces energy. That is on c reason why the Curies were so interested in it. But studying radium is not like opening a book. Radium must be isolated(分离) from the rock around it. That is like trying to take just the chocolate out of chocolate milk.

 The couple spent their life savings on eight tons of rock. ∧n old shack(棚屋) became their workplacc. They heated the rock to remove the bits of radium from it. Days of work turned into months. Finally, they spent four years in that shack studying the mysterious clement with the blue glow.

 During their research, the Curics found that radium could help treat discase. That is when Marie and her husband became big news. They were written about often. This got the public interested. in radium. Soon. the Curies' work earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics. This award is one of the highest honors in the world. Maric had come a long way from the days of chair pyramids,