Mary is worried about her 16-year-old daughter，Sophia．One day，Sophia comes back from a party，upset and unhappy．From then on，she  1  nothing but how to lose weight and become beautiful．She refuses to eat and keeps on2exercise．Sophia has always been a little heavy，so Mary encourages her to go on a diet．She feels that her daughter would  3  more attractive(有吸引力的)if she lost 5 kilograms．However，Sophia has lost over 10 kilograms until now．Her eating and exercising habits are having a harmful effect(影响)on her  4 ． She is too thin and is often sick．

    Her mother is trying to prevent her from going on a diet and  5 weight，but Sophia thinks that she is still too heavy and refuses to start eating as  6 ． Sophia's mind is full of the idea of looking like a model. Every day she goes to a club to do exercise．Sometimes she 7 her time reading magazines like Fashion&Beauty．The models in these magazines are very thin and beautiful．Sophia says “If I look like these models. I will be happy and the boys will like me．”

    Mary feels sorry for having encouraged her at first，because Sophia 8 feels good or pleased with her body．She's afraid that Sophia will never be happy  9 she always compares herself with the models in the magazines．Mary tries to tell Sophia that true 10  comes from the heart．The most ordinary face becomes beautiful when the person is filled with confidence．

    There was once a young mouse that lived in a hole. One day, the young mouse looked out of the hole, a nice smell came to his1. “Cheese!” the mouse said happily to2. “I'll have it for breakfast.” But he remember his 3words,“Always wait before you go for a piece of cheese.” So the young mouse waited4. Then he heard a quiet “meow” and he knew the cat was there. “I'm glad that I listen to my parents and learned to5. ” he said.

    The next morning, the nice smell came to his nose again. This time he did not hear any cat's noises,6very quiet “woof, woof”.“It's a dog!” he thought. “If the dog is there, the cat won't be there. So I'm7.” Then the mouse ran out of the hole and started8the cheese. He didn't see the cat9the cat caught him. When the cat finished her10, he said to himself, “I'm glad that I listened to my parents and learned a second language.”

    A man feared his wife wasn't hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need some hearing aid (助听). Not quite sure how to 1 her, he called the family doctor to discuss the problem. The doctor told him there was a simple test the husband could do to give the doctor a better 2 of her hearing loss.

    "Here's what you do," said the doctor. "Stand about 40 feet away from her, and in a 3 conversational speaking tone (音调) see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then20 feet, and so on 4 you get a reply."

    That evening, the wife was in the 5, and he was in the yard. He said to himself, "I'm about 40 feet away, and let me see what will happen." Then in a usual tone he asked, "Honey, what's for dinner?"

    No 6.

    So the husband moved closer to the kitchen, about 30 feet from his wife and asked, "Honey, what's for dinner?"

    7 no reply.

    Next he moved into the dining room where he was about 20 feet from his wife and 8, "Honey, what's for dinner?"

    Again he got no reply. He walked up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet away. "Honey, what's for dinner?" Again there was no reply.

    So he 9 right up behind her. "Honey, what's for dinner?"

    "Chicken! James, for the 10 time I've said that."

A TV programme has become popular in China recently. It has made people all over China become interested in writing Chinese characters （汉字）.

The increasing use of computers and smartphones has left most young people hardly able to write by hand. Many of them are even unable to remember the 1，000 characters used in daily life without the help of electronic equipment.

CCTV started Dictation Assembly of Chinese Characters to improve the population's handwriting skills. Contestants （参与者） on the show were school pupils， but it was found that 70% of the adults in the audience were unable to remember how to write the word "chanchu".

Because computers allow people to type characters simply by entering pinyin ，  they don't need to remember how to write them. "The keyboard age has had a big influence on the handwriting of Chinese characters，" Guan Zhengwen， who designed and directed the show， said. He added that he hoped to encourage people to keep it alive as an art form.

Hao Mingjian， an editor of a magazine， putting his heart into Chinese characters， said： "Learning Chinese characters goes on throughout your life. If you stop using them for a long time， it is very likely that you will forget them."

Do you know Zhang Jiacheng? He is a 16-year-old boy from Guangdong. He has a dream to be a basketball 1 . But when he was 5, he lost his right arm. He felt so sad, because he couldn't realize (实现) his 2 any more. But to everyone's surprise, he didn't give 3 . He practiced very 4 after school everyday. Now he is good at playing basketball.

Two years ago, he 5 his videos (视频) on Douyin. In these videos, he showed his 6 in playing basketball. He soon became 7 . Yi Jianlian praised (表扬) him for his hard workings and wonderful skills. He said, "Heart is always the 8 part of the body." And Zhu Fangyu said "Zhang is a hardworking boy. I would like to ask him to visit our team and watch home games." Last year, he went to9 the basketball team of Guangdong and played basketball with the players. He did a good job and all the players were proud of him.

Zhang Jiacheng is a good 10 for us. We should learn from him.