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    My family is not very big. There are only three cats. I'm a white cat. My name is Snow White. My husband is a black cat. His name is Captain Black. We have a pretty（漂亮的）daughter. Her name is Lily. She is black and white. She's two years old. We live a happy life.

    Every day we work hard to catch mice（捉老鼠）. We help people live a happy life in this house.

    Sally Ride was born in California in 1951. She was the first American woman to travel into space. She loved to play tennis and wanted to be a tennis player when she was young. But after three months' professional（专业的）training, she changed her mind. She went to Stanford University and started to study science. She studied stars and planets. She did researches at the university and got her PhD in astrophysics（天体物理学博士学位）after several years' hard work.

    In 1977, she took a test to become an astronaut. And then she was picked up from over 8, 000 people. In order to realize her dream of going into space, she had to get different kinds of special and difficult training. She learned how to fly a plane, how to jump out of a plane as well as how to operate（操作）special machines.

    Sally and four other astronauts flew a spaceship called Challenger on Jun. 18, 1983. She became the first American woman to travel into space. Later, she taught at the University of California. Then she wrote seven books on space for children, encouraging children to study science. Unfortunately, she died in 2012.

    One morning, I was driving my father-in-law to the airport when a plane flew silently over the road like a big bird, about to touch down at the airport.

    "It's magic," my father-in-law said. I looked at him, without knowing what was happening.

    He was a doctor who gave speeches at colleges and had visited more than 100 countries. He understood better than I why a plane can fly in the sky. It, really, wasn't magic. But now, I realize he was at least right in some way.

    Though flying might not be magic, it's certainly magical. What it brings to our real lives is something found in our dreams.

    But too often, we, especially I forget. I read a sentence a few months ago. It said, "You know you're growing-up when you no longer want a window seat."

    Too often in recent years, I've asked for a seat near the exit row, forgetting the wonders of traveling fast. But sometimes, when the Wi-Fi's not working or my computer has no power, I remember to look.

    I think of one time when I was leaving on a family vacation. Moments after take-off, I started working. But a passenger behind me wouldn't stop talking. "The clouds!" he kept saying, "Look at the clouds!"

I turned around, and saw two men, one who appeared to be in his seventies and the other much younger. The chat continued for 20 minutes until, not patiently, I raised my eyes from my computer screen and looked out of the window.

    The clouds!

    He was right. We were floating through big soft balls of cotton, each in different shapes. They seemed easy enough to touch. The afternoon sun provided all kinds of colors, all against a blue sky. I put away my computer and appreciated(欣赏)them for the rest of the flight.

    I don't remember the work I felt like I had to complete that afternoon. I've never forgotten those clouds.

    Japanese table tennis Star Ai Fukuhara(福原爱)stopped playing as a professional (专业的) player on October 21, 2018.

    Fukuhara was born in Sendai, Japan, in November, 1988. She began playing table tennis at the age of three. She became a professional player at the age of ten. In 2000, she became a member of the Japanese national(国家的) team. She was the first person to be in the Japanese national team at such an early age. Because of it. people called Fukuahara "Child prodigy(神童)" in table tennis in Japan, As the Japanese young players are doing very well., She said she could now leave the team but still hoped to do something helpful to table tennis.

    Fukuhara went to China for training (训练) at a very young age and can speak good Chinese, She Spoke Chinese so well that people even thought she was born in China. In 2008, Fukuhara held the national Flag for Japan at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She and her partner won the third place, after South Korea and China. Jukuhara with her team—mates won the second place at the London Olympics in 2012 and the third place at the Rio Olympics in 2016.