Brian's school life is very busy. Recently Jenny, Danny and he {#blank#}1{#/blank#} some money for their school basketball team. Brian baked cookies and {#blank#}2{#/blank#}them in {#blank#}3{#/blank#}an hour. Danny invented a new desk but everyone thought it was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} dangerous {#blank#}5{#/blank#} do homework on a bicycle. Li Ming thought that{#blank#}6{#/blank#} cookies was a great idea to help others. His teacher, Ms. Liu wanted {#blank#}7{#/blank#}a shop to raise money {#blank#}8{#/blank#} school activities. Li Ming {#blank#}9{#/blank#}his classmates would {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the idea.

    Lao She was{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(出生)in Beijing. His father died when he was young. Lao She studied at Beijing Normal{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(大学). After {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(完成) school in 1918, he was a head teacher of a primary school. From 1924 to 1929, Lao She {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (教)Chinese to the English in London. In 1930, Lao She returned to China and wrote many {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(小说)and short stories.{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(在…期间)the Anti-Japanese War period （1937~1945）, he united(团结)many{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(艺术家)and worked in the All China Art Cycle Anti-Japanese Aggression Association(中华全国文艺界抗敌协会). Teahouse, written in 1957, was one of his best{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(戏剧). It described the changes in Chinese {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(社会) over fifty years. Lao She died in 1966. He is one of the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(伟大的) Chinese writers in China.

    Betty started to learn English at the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}of six. She went to an after-school English class every week. But Betty thought it was{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(bored) to go to her English classes. She didn't think{#blank#}3{#/blank#}was important to learn English and she did not need to speak English in her everyday life.

    After she{#blank#}4{#/blank#}a school baseball team , she started to know more about the baseball players who joined teams in the USA. Now, she wants to know more about what happens to them. So she reads English newspaper{#blank#}5{#/blank#}the Internet. When she meets new words, she looks{#blank#}6{#/blank#}up in her dictionary and writes difficult sentences in her notebooks. When she goes to school, she asks her English teacher for{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Little by little, she finds that English is really important, and she is more and more{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(interesting) in it.

    Her parents promise to take her to New York to watch a baseball game if she gets good mark in the English exam next month.{#blank#}9{#/blank#}exciting it is! Betty is so happy that she works{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(hard) on English than before.

    Are you still doing the V for victory? It's out. The latest popular hand gesture is to curl (卷曲){#blank#}1{#/blank#}of your hands together to make a heart-shape. It's called "hand heart".

    Many young stars in the US including Justin Bieber, Blake Lively and Taylor Swift have done the move in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} [ˈrisənt] photos."The hand-heart gesture shows something between ‘I love you' and ‘thank you', "said the country {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (sing) Taylor Swift, 21."It's a sweet, simple message which you can send {#blank#}4{#/blank#} saying a word. "Taylor Swift often does it at her concerts. And she is {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(believe) to be the first to make the gesture popular.

    Last month during a charity show, Justin Bieber and his superstar friends did it to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} out three kids whose parents were killed in a car accident. After that, the gesture became{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(real) hot .

    It used to take much {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (long) for nonverbal（非语言的）culture to spread. But now ,with smart phones and the Internet, it's faster.

    In the Republic of Korea, the hand heart has been popular for a long time,{#blank#}9{#/blank#}in a different way. People put their hands {#blank#}10{#/blank#}[əˈbʌv] their heads and make a heart shape with their arms. It means "I love you."