"What's the matter, Mum?"

    As soon as I enter the door, I find that my mother is unhappy. It's unusual. She usually   1  the door and welcomes me with a smile!

    "She's dying," Mum says sadly. I  2 what she says. The tulip(郁金香), mother's favourite, is dying.

    A month ago, we moved 3 our new house and Mum bought a very beautiful tulip. Mum liked it very much.   4   she was free, she would sit in her armchair beside the tulip and enjoy its beautiful colour   5nice smell.

      She treated it like a baby and looked after it   6   . She put the tulip by window and moved it from one place to 7 to give the tulip enough sunshine. The first thing she did when she 8  every morning was to water the tulip. Mum also fertilized(施肥) it many times.

    She hoped that with great care, the tulip would become more and more beautiful and   9.But the tulip was dying because of too much sunshine, water and fertilizer.

    It's true that mother loved the tulip. But this kind of love 10 be harmful. Love can sometimes kill what you love.

    In China, almost everyone knows Ma Yun. Ma Yun became one of1 men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock（股票)market last year with a value of around £140 billion—the largest public offering in history.2 amazing thing it is! Here are some stories about him on the way to 3.

    Ma made his 4 trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet 5 the first time. After6 for “beer”, he saw that no results7 up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website—the seed for Alibaba was sown(播种).

    Ma said he8 many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and9 companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.

    Learning English was difficult when Ma was a teenager 10 limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around 11 hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from12 he had been taught at school and by his parents.

    Ma's hero is Forrest Gump 13 never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛)in 2015,Ma said, “Life14 a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get.”15as Ma does, never give up and you will be successful one day.

    It was more than 80 years ago, when an army quietly passed across the Yudu River in Ganzhou, Jiangxi. They were the Chinese Central Red Army. They decided to start a 1 and hard march. It was 2 known as the Long March. This year is the 83"' year of the victory of the famous march. Let's learn something about it.

    During the Long March, the Chinese Central Red Army passed many places. They 3from Jiangxi, passed through several provinces and finally arrived in Shaanxi. It is said that they 4 about 25,000 li (about 12,500 kilometers) during the Long March.

    At school, you may have learned in books that soldiers 5 many difficulties. They lived a 6 life and fought against the enemies. They crossed Chishuihe for four times, 7 many kinds of difficulties. In Sichuan, soldiers spent a hard time creeping(匍匐)across Luding Chain Bridge, which was 8 13 iron chains(铁链), in the middle of gun fire. They also climbed 9 the snowy Jiajin Mountain, which was 4,930 meters high. They didn't have enough food to eat, so they often went 10 for days. And they didn't have enough 11 to stay away from the cold. Many soldiers 12. About 86,000 people took part in the march, 13 only about 7,000 were left when they arrived in Shaanxi.

    Today, we can visit the places that they once passed through. This way, we may truly understand the 14 of the Long March：Never be 15 of difficulties and never give up hope.

    There was once a bad king. All his people hated him very much. One day in a summer he was swimming by himself in a river. The king was a 1 swimmer, but when he was in the middle of the river, suddenly he didn't feel well. He cried out "Help! Help!" At that time two farmers were working in the field near the 2. They ran over, jumped into the water and saved the king. They didn't know that he was the king 3 they pulled(拉) him out of the water.

    The king was very happy, so he said to the farmers, "You have saved my life. Now you may ask for anything, and I'll give it to you."

    One of the farmers said, "My son broke his 4 last week, and he can't walk. I'm very sad, you know. Please send him a good 5. "The king agreed. Then he said to the other farmer." And what can I do for you, old man?" The old man was very clever. He thought for a few minutes and then he answered, "You can do a very important thing for me," "What's that?" asked the king. He thought that the old man would ask for some 6 or something else.

    "Don't tell anybody that we have saved you," the old farmer answered.

David was a truck driver. Recently he was thought to be a great man.

Last Monday, he was driving along the road with his son and his friend. Suddenly he saw a car hit another truck (卡车) and catch fire. The accident was just in front of his truck. Without thinking, he stopped his truck, found a fire extinguish er (灭火器) and ran towards the broken car. But other car drivers still sat in their cars. David began to fight the fire. His action encouraged his friend. He also came and gave David a hand. Later, David's son and four other men came to help. Another five men pulled the car driver and her granddaughter, a three-year-old girl, out of the car successfully. They were all safe except that the driver's leg was hurt.

When people talked about David's brave action, David said, " I didn't think too much then. I just did what other people would do in that situation. When I first got out of the truck,I wished they wouldn't be dead. When I saw they were alive, it was really great!"