Mike is a factory worker. He works long hours every day. He is often very 1 after a day's work. His wife, Jenny, has no 2, so she stays at home to cook the meals. Every day he can have his dinner when he 3 home from his factory.

    One day, Mike came home very 4 because he was very busy in the factory. He was very 5 when he got home.

    He was not 6 when he found his dinner was not ready. He was very angry with his wife. He 7 at her, “I'm going out to eat in a 8.”

    “9 for five minutes," said his wife.

    "Why? Do you think that dinner will be ready in five minutes?" asked Mike.

    "Of course not," she answered. "But I 10 be ready to go with you in five minutes."

    "Doctor Johnson, I don't want to eat now, that's because nothing has a taste for me. It's been like this for long. In fact, I didn't have a delicious meal after I caught a terrible cold last month, What can I do?"

    "Here are some medicine, Mrs. Harris. Take three pills three times a day for seven days and come back and see me. But remember, don't eat anything during the week, or you can just drink some water."

    Next week an upset Mrs. Harris came into Dr. Johnson's office. "Doctor! I'm doing it just as you told me, but delicious food is still tasteless for me. I don't know what was in those pills, but the problem is worse! What do you have to say for yourself?"

    "But when and how do you take these pills?" asked the doctor.

    "At first, I took these pills three times a day, just before dinner," continued the woman, "but these pills are too bitter (苦). So I had to take these pills after three meals."

    "Calm down, Mrs. Harris," said the doctor soothingly. "Now that we've fixed your taste problem, It's OK now, we'll work on your hearing!"

According to the report, during the past summer vacation, a 15-year-old boy made a model plane on his own in less than a month. Then he flew it successfully, which surprised all the people around him.

The boy named Li Banghua is from Hefei, Anhui. He made the model plane by himself. It is 0.6 metres wide, has a wingspan (翼展) of 4.4 metres and weighs about 40 kilos. Li just finished his high-school entrance exam (入学考试) a year ago and got good grades. After the exam, he threw himself into the work of making the model plane at once.

Li has been interested in model planes since he was a child. And he has been studying and building model planes for years. This time the model plane is the largest he has ever built and he considers it the most successful one.

During the process (过程) of building the plane, he failed many times. "But the biggest difficulty I had was that the adults couldn't understand me well," Li said. "When I said I was going to build a model plane, a lot of adults thought it was impossible. But I decided to keep on working hard. That is because once I start something, giving up is not a choice for me."

When talking about his future, he said he dreamed of becoming a plane engineer.

Liu Ruying is a seventh﹣grade student. She has been interested in Peking Opera（京剧）for much of her young life. It is because of the1 of her grandfather，who is a fan of Peking Opera. 

Liustarted to2 Peking Opera when she was 8. It wasn't3 for a little girl to experience the tough（艰苦的）training. "Sometimes I was tired，"she said. "But I never4 giving it up. "

In 2020，to5 China's Little Plum Blossom Opera Competition（梅花奖）for children，Liu got up at 6：00 a. m. to practice singing every day. She trained for over 20 hours every week. Her hard work6 brought her the title（称号）Little Plum Blossom. 

In January this year，Liu got the7 that in her hometown there would be a cultural exchange（交流）with other countries，with young students as cultural ambassadors（大使）. She8 to introduce Peking Opera to the world in English. She made a9 with the help of her mother. "I love traditional Chinese culture very much，especially Peking Opera，"she said in the video. "Peking Opera has a long history of about 200 years. It is10 a treasure of our country. We should do our best to develop it. . . "