Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some{#blank#}1{#/blank#} read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning; others read newspapers when they have {#blank#}2{#/blank#}time. They can learn what is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in the world.

    Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a {#blank#}4{#/blank#} look at the front page or the names of the passages.

    Newspapers are {#blank#}5{#/blank#} in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} in some mountain villages we can see fewer (更少的) newspapers.

    Some newspapers are published(出版) once a{#blank#}7{#/blank#}but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and {#blank#}8{#/blank#}enjoy short stories. They just choose what they are interested {#blank#}9{#/blank#}.

    Today newspapers in English have the most (最多的){#blank#}10{#/blank#}in the world. Many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as ChinaDaily and  21stCentury. They bring us more messages together with the Internet.

    Do you often throw away things you don't need anymore? Have you ever thought about how these things can actually be put to good use? Nothing is a waste if you have a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} mind.

    You have probably never heard of Amy Hayes, but she is a most {#blank#}2{#/blank#} woman. She lives in a house in the UK that she built herself out of rubbish. The windows and doors come from old buildings around her town that were pulled down. The top of the house is an old boat {#blank#}3{#/blank#} upside down. And the gate in front of her house is made of rocks and old glass bottles. Amy recently won a prize {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the Help Save Our Planet {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. The president said, "Amy is an inspiration to us all."

    Amy isn't the only one who is good at {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. Jessica Wong from Hong Kong uses old clothes that people don't wear anymore to make bags. She has been {#blank#}7{#/blank#} this for a few years now. She opened a small shop where she sells her bags, and she has {#blank#}8{#/blank#} set up a website to sell them online. She {#blank#}9{#/blank#} likes to use old jeans to make handbags. Her bags are cute and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. "I plan to write a book about new ways to use old clothes," she said. "I hope people can read my book and enjoy it!"

    Can you climb trees? Maybe your parents ever told you, "Don't climb trees. It's {#blank#}1{#/blank#}." But Xiamen University is going to have a new class: Tree-climbing.

    Zhu Chongshi, the president of Xiamen University, once visited Cornell University in New York, and he was surprised {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the course there. In Tree-climbing class, the teachers do not just let the students {#blank#}3{#/blank#} only with their hands. They teach the safety skills like {#blank#}4{#/blank#} used in rock-climbing. Students wear special caps and clothes to protect {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. And they use ropes so that they cannot {#blank#}6{#/blank#} or get hurt. The class is very useful. Students are {#blank#}7{#/blank#} to learn the skills, like swimming. In a time of disasters such as floods, earthquakes, etc., such knowledge may make a {#blank#}8{#/blank#} between life and death.

    No classroom subject could ever give them these skills. Students should find and develop their own inborn (与生俱来的) skills and talents. A teacher should no longer see the child as an {#blank#}9{#/blank#} cup and only pour knowledge into it. I hope climbing trees will {#blank#}10{#/blank#} up the potential (潜力) in many students.