In the dining room of my grandfather's house stood a big grandfather's clock. The table was always 1with wonderful food and 2as the main part. And always that grandfather's clock stood like a trusted old family 3, sharing our happiness.

    As I was a child, the old clock 4 me. I watched and listened to it during meals. I5how at different times of the day, even more wonderful to me was what my grandfather did each day. He never let that clock wind down and 6. He even showed us how to use the key to wind(上发条) the clock. Year after year, the clock became a part of my 7, a part of my heart. The clock stayed with my grandfather until he passed away.

    Several days after my grandfather died, I entered the dining room, with tears flowing8. My grandmother gave me the clock and the key. I opened the clock door with my 9 hand. Then slowly, gently, I entered the key and wound the clock. It began with tick – tock, tick – tock ,10 of the clock was breathed into the dining room, into house and into my 11. In the movement of the hands of the clock, my grandfather 12 again .

    There is an old saying: "Take the time to stop and smell the flowers." I think we should also take the time to 1 flowers.

    My grandmother knew just 2 to do that. She grew flowers with earth, water and love, so her back garden was filled with beautiful flowers. She would smile when she saw the 3 shine down on them. In her front garden she planted flowers,  4. You could see red, white, and yellow flowers in it. My mom and I used to walk 5 them and enjoy their smells. Beautiful butterflies (蝴蝶) flew down on them. Grandma also cared for the wild flowers. She would send 6 and my brother out to pick flowers and would then turn them into delicious wine (酒).

    Grandma not only planted flowers in the gardens 7 also planted flowers in our hearts. Her delicious dinners made with love encouraged us. Her sweet smile always made us 8. Her hugs (拥抱) and kisses were the sunshine that kept our own love 9 day after day.

    Take the time to plant a few flowers yourself today. Show your smiles, kindness and love .Plant your wishes, talents and pleasure. Make this 10 brighter and brighter with your sunshine.

43-year-old spacewoman Wang Yaping made history— she is China's first teacher in space.

Wang Yaping taught Chinese primary and middle school students on the earth physics problems in the zero-gravity environment(失重环境).  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

Wang, born in January,1980, is from east China's Shandong Province. She was a pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force with experience of about 1,600 hours of flying.

The world's first teacher in space was Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old middle school teacher from the United States in 1984 when she was selected from more than 11,000 applicants. But the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated (分裂) after 73 seconds into flight on Jan. 28,1986.  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

"Wang's lecture was a pleasant surprise," said Zhang Xiaoguang, an astronaut in the three members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft."  {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Sometimes we'd like to give her a helping hand, but she just would not accept," said Nie Haisheng.

Like many young Chinese people, Wang likes photography, music and basketball. She said,"  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}We are looking forward to joining our young friends to learn and explore the mystical(神秘的) and beautiful universe."

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Once there was a small village in the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(中心) part of a valley (山谷). An elderly lady named Mabel lived there. She had a backyard that was as beautiful as a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (花园). People from all around came to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (欣赏) the beautiful flowers that filled her backyard. Mabel was so {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (自豪) of it. She told the visitors that the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (秘诀) to her success were hard work and persistence (坚持). 

One day, a stranger came to the village. He was tall and carried a bag full of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (葡萄). He was very interested in Mabel's flowers and asked, "Pardon me, could you please let me come in and have a look?" Mabel happily said yes and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (对待) him as her guest.

All of a sudden, they found that several of her best flowers were missing. "Someone picked and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (偷) them!" She was sad. The man felt bad for Mabel and wanted to help find who took the flowers. They looked around and finally found out it was one of Mabel's {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (亲戚) who needed money, so he took the flowers to sell.

Instead of being angry, Mabel educated the "thief" kindly and patiently. The stranger who used to be a plant scientist, was so touched by Mabel's kindness that he said he would help make her backyard beautiful again. Mabel was excited to have such a helper with whom she could share the{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (知识) of growing flowers.

A hobby can help us a lot. A 58-year-old building worker was in the 2024 CCTV Spring Festival Gala (春晚) because of his 1 . 

Yi Qunlin has worked in Shenzhen for about 20 years. In the summer of 2023, he 2 became an Internet star after his son put a video of him playing the piano online. His music 3 so great that a lot of people liked it. 

At first, Yi 4 that nobody would like his music. But the fact was 5 . Actually, he got a lot of likes from the people online. He was 6 after seeing this. 

Yi took up his hobby when he was a child. At first, he tried some different 7 , like the piano, the guitar and the violin. He chose the piano at last. He did a lot of 8 at that time. His teacher said he was hard-working(勤奋的). Later, he stopped playing for some years, 9 he never lost his interest in music. In 2023, he had a chance(机会) to play it again and became famous very soon. 

Yi's music and the story behind it moved a lot of music 10 . Later, he got an invitation(邀请) to the 2024 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. With exciting hands, Yi 11 the invitation and saw his name on it. He said, "12 a worker, I never thought of having such a moment in my life!"

On 21st January, 2024, Yi played 13 at the hall of the CCTV building. 

"Almost 14 can get a lot from their hobbies, " Yi said. "I was building yesterday, and today I'm appearing on the 15 of CCTV. This is a really amazing feeling. "