Mr. Smith is a good teacher. He teaches English very well. He is1to his students， so they like him a lot. There are fifty students in 2 class. Mr. Smith always 3 English in class. He and his students are 4 friends， too.

    Now some of the students 5 on the playground. Bill and Mike 6. Tom and John are jumping. Mary and Lucy are 7 a kite. Are Lily and Maria flying a kite， 8? No， they are playing 9. What's Mr. Smith doing? Look! He is also playing 10them. How happy they are!

    How would you use a radio or a telephone if you had no electricity or batteries? This 1bothered（使烦恼）British inventor Trevor Baylis. Then he made a wind-up（装有发条的）radio. It doesn't need2or batteries. You wind it up3 hand. It plays for about an hour. Then, you wind it up again. Today it's 4 in South Africa.

    Then in 1999, Baylis invented a mobile phone that is powered by5. The shoes contain（含有）a small battery that is powered when you 6. This battery is7 to a mobile phone. These two simple inventions can bring modern communication to all parts of the world.

    Baylis didn't have a university degree in engineering. In 8he left high school before graduating（毕业）. He just loved9 things to help people. He never knew10 ideas would come to him. The idea for the telephone came to him in a dream.

    A girl went to her father and told him that her life was too hard. She said she couldn't work all the difficulties out 1. She just wanted to give up.

Her father said, "I think I know 2 I can help you. 3 me." They went into the 4. Her father put a potato, an egg and some coffee beans into three different bowls of water. Then, he started to boil (煮沸) the water on the stove.

After some time, he turned the stove 5 and took out the potato, the egg and the beans. He then showed each of them to his daughter.

"Look. The potato was hard before I boiled it, but now, it is 6 and weak. The egg was fragile (易碎的) until I put it in the water—now, it is hard inside. But the coffee beans were different. When they met the boiling water, they changed and became delicious 7."

Life 8 problems to us all. The potato, egg and coffee beans were all met with the same problem. But they each solve the problem in their own way. It is up to you to take the difficulties you face and find something good in 9. By making a(n) 10, the father taught his daughter a life lesson.

It was the final part of an international race. With just 700 metres to go, Mike was in third place and his younger brother, John, was in the lead. Mike pushed himself towards the finish line in the burning heat, but as he came around the comer, he saw his brother about to fall onto the ground. Mike had to choose—brotherly love, or a chance to win the race?

For Mike, the choice was clear. His brother was in trouble. He had to help. Mike ran towards John, caught him and started pulling him towards the finish line. Mike then pushed his brother over the line. The move put John in second place and Mike himself in third. It was an unexpected end to the race, so reporters quickly crowded around Mike, asking him all kinds of questions. But Mike did not want to discuss it. His younger brother was rushed to the medical area, and he, just wanted to check on his dear younger brother.

The brothers have been practising running since they were children. "Naturally, when your elder brother is doing it, you think it's a cool thing to do," says John. Mike says that they encourage each other as much as they can when they train. Although they have disagreements about "stupid things" now and then, Mike agrees that having a brother is an advantage. "Throughout my whole life, Fve had my brother trying to beat me at everything I do. It has been a great power to push me fbrward."

Watched by millions, the ending to the race has different opinions: should the brothers be highly praised for their actions, or shouldn't they get the prizes? But for Mike, his decision was easy to explain: "Mum wouldn't be happy if I left John behind." At that moment, he was no longer a sportsman trying to win a prize—he was just a brother.