Miss Bailey taught me English in Junior school. She cycled to school, and then when entering the school gate, she would gave her bicycle to anyone of us to park it for her. It was a privilege（特别恩典）when Miss Bailey gave her bicycle to you. One day Shankar stood at the gate, Shankar was a hunchback（驼背的人）.

    We laughed and said, “Move out of the way, Shankar! Miss Bailey is going to enter!” Miss Bailey drove in and we all rushed to offer our hands to her. But Miss Bailey looked past us all. “Will you park it for me?” she asked. We looked back to see who it was and were surprised to see it was towards Shankar. “I don't think so, Miss Bailey!” stammered （结结巴巴地说）Shankar. “Why! You lazy fellow!” said Miss Bailey playfully. “You don't want to help your teacher, do you?” “ Of course I want to, Miss Bailey!” whispered Shankar. “But I might drop your cycle!” “ If you drop it ,you pick it up!” said the teacher with a smile.

    With that she gave her cycle to Shankar and didn't look to see how he'd manage. Pretending she had confidence in his abilities, Miss Bailey turned and walked to class. We watched Shankar as he held her bike, we held our breath as we thought it was going to fall. Dines rushed to help. “Leave it!” Shankar said, and we all stopped. It seemed that his hump（驼背）disappeared as he drew himself up to his full height, and then with growing confidence, he pushed Miss Bailey's cycle to the parking lot. The school bell rang, and we rushed to class. Shankar was the last to enter, but we were surprised; it was a different boy who walked in.

    Miss Bailey didn't even look at him as he walked to her and handed her the key. From that day on, Shankar was ready to answer the questions in class, his grades went up and a smile appeared on his face.

    Sammy looked out of the classroom window at a bird in a tree. He saw a worm (小虫) in the bird's mouth. "Wow!" he whispered as he looked at the bird eating the worm.

    "Sammy!" his teacher Mr. Maxwell said loudly.

    Sammy jumped and knocked his science book off his desk. Everyone in the class laughed and Sammy blushed. This was the third time today he had been caught not paying attention to the science lesson. It was just so easy to get distracted (分心的) when people read aloud from the science textbook!

    It wasn't that Sammy didn't like science. He loved to learn about machines, Earth and animals. He even thought bugs and plants were great. He wanted to go outside and see how a snake lived. He wanted to watch plants growing from the ground as they did last month. He just didn't want to read about these things.

    Sammy thought Mr. Maxwell would surely understand. "There was a bird with a worm in its mouth..." Sammy began. Then he saw the furious look on his teacher's face. Sammy decided that he had better stop talking before Mr. Maxwell became any angrier.

Different people have different colors of skin*. Some have black skin, some have yellow skin, and some have white skin. There is a woman in Alaska. Her skin is an orange color, It is almost the color of orange juice. 

How does this woman become orange? She eats lots of tomatoes, carrots and squashes. She eats too many orange things. That's why she turns orange. 

The woman doesn't want to be orange. She goes to the doctor. The doctor says, "Stop eating orange things; eat some green things. " The woman does so, and she is not orange now. 

Today, as I was shopping at Woolworths, a kind worker surprised me with a beautiful bunch of flowers. It was my unexpected act of1 that let me know the power of simple words.

2 year(s) earlier, I was going through chemo treatment(化疗) and felt3 and down. My husband and children were also bearing a lot. They were busy on weekdays, 4 I always stayed at home alone. One thing I could do to help was to order things for daily use 5 online click- and- collect services. Before checking out, I would 6 notes for the person who packed(打包) our order- things like" Hope you' re having a good day!" or" Thank you for your hard work."

Fast forward to today, and I found myself 7 with one of the workers who had 8 our orders in the past. I walked up to her and said," Thank you so much for what you did! You usually did our orders. You guys are fantastic!" She stopped for a few 9 and then asked my name at once. When I told her, she said," Oh, you are the lady who wrote notes for 10 !" She told me that those little notes truly made their day bright, especially during the 11 times of the epidemic. It was surprising to hear that such12 acts of kindness could make such a big difference.

After finishing my shopping, she ran up to me with a bunch of flowers,13 me for brightening their day with my kind words. I 14 thought that my simple acts could make a world of difference in someone's day. Even15 as simple as saying" thank you" or leaving a kind note can lift someone's spirits. Three years has passed and it still makes them feel valued and thankful.

"Stay-at home" Astronaut's Dream

Deng Qingming is a Chinese astronaut. He finally entered Tiangong Space Station by Shenzhou-15 in November, 2022 after 25 years' hard work. He is working with his teammates to carry out {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (task) in space. 

The hard-working student {#blank#}2{#/blank#}was born in a poor village has become an astronaut finally. When he was young, he used every minute {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (study) in his daily life. As a hard-working student, Deng joined the PLA Air Force in June 1984 and started to train {#blank#}4{#/blank#}a pilot(飞行员) at a flight college in Hebei Province. At the age of 31, Deng {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (choose) as one of the 14 first members of the PLA Astronaut Division. Deng kept {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (train) hard for a chance to fly into space until he had kidney stones(肾结石) in 2013. It was serious for astronauts because the standard for their health is high. He had to stop training to have operations. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} he suffered from the illness, he continued working for his dream. Whatever happened to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (he), he never gave up. 

In 2022, Deng's dream finally came true. At the time, he was 56 years old and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}last person of China's first astronauts to be sent into space. He had fought for his space dream all the time. He is a hero and so far, his story {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (influence) many Chinese people.