My parents are busy with their work every day. You can't see there is love 1 them. They don't act in the romantic（浪漫的）2that I read in books or I see on TV.

One day, while Mom was sewing(缝) a quilt，I 3 beside her. "Mom, I have a question," I said after a while.

"What?" she asked.

"Is there love between you and Dad?" I asked her in a very low voice.

    She stopped sewing and 4 her head. Then she bowed her head and went on sewing.

I thought I had hurt her. At last I heard my mother say， "Susan, look at this thread（线）. Sometimes it appears, but most of it disappears in the quilt. It makes the quilt5. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen, but it's 6 there."

    I couldn't understand her 7 the next spring. My father suddenly got sick. Mom had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.

    After they 8, my mother helped my father walk slowly down the country road every day. My father had never been so gentle.

"Dad, how are you 9 now?" I asked him one day. "Susan, don't worry about me," he said. "I just like walking with your Mom."

     Once I thought 10 meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that it is just a thread in the quilt of our life . It is inside, making life strong and warm.

    I stood there listening to my father shout at top of his voice," 1one of you did this?" We all stared down at the step. There was child's handwriting in chalk there. Would he guess it was me? I was so 2. When he asked me, I lied, "Not me, Dad." The others denied (否认) it as well. Of course, we all knew that one of us 3 have done it. But as the youngest and smallest of the three, I just couldn't find the courage to tell the 4 .

    To find out who had written on the 5 , Father gave us each a piece of paper and a pencil. "I want 6of you to write exactly what you see on the step." I tried my best to write the words 7 . I didn't want Dad to be able to tell it was me. He gathered up our pieces of paper and looked at them. "Since none of you will admit (承认) to have done it, then I will 8 you all." I stood there and said nothing. "I did it." My sister stepped forward and said she had done 9 she hadn't. She was grounded (被罚不准出门) for a month. I didn't tell my dad it was really me 10 many years later. I always felt sorry because of it. That was the last time I let anyone take the blame (承担责任) for me.

Watermelons are one of the most popular fruits in China. It's said that Chinese people1 nearly 70% of the watermelons on the earth. As we enjoy the sweet (甜的) watermelons, we have to2 a great woman Wu Mingzhu. This 92-year-old3 has devoted (致力) her life to growing melons in China.

Wu grew up in Wuhan. In the eyes of others, Wu should have worked as a teacher after finishing university in 1953, but she4 to go to Xinjiang. She thought Xinjiang was a good place for her to do something5 . In 1955, Wu went to Xinjiang to study melons.6 it was hard to live and work there at the time, she didn't give up (放弃). She spent three years7 Xinjiang and found 44 kinds of melons.

In the 1990s, Wu and her team cultivated (培育) "8424", a great kind of watermelon in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Then Wu brought it to the north of China.8 , Wu went to more places to study melons.

Thanks to her, most places in China grow melons now. The yield (产量) is high and the9 is naturally low (低), so people can eat melons as they wish. Wu's work has made a great difference to the growing of melons in China. "My life is to grow a few melons and10 the sweetness of melons to people," Wu always says.

I have a pen pal. We1 chat (聊天) on WeChat. Now let me tell you2 about him. 

My pen pal's name is Li Kang. He3 in Beijing. He is a 4 of Grade Seven. There are 5 people in his family — his dad, his mum, his sister and him. 

Li Kang loves6 books a lot. He often reads 7 in his free time, 8 he knows a lot. Li Kang likes 9 very much. When he meets some 10 in studying English, he often asks me for help. He studies it every day. I'm 11 he will study English well. 

My Chinese is not12 . Li Kang often helps me 13 my Chinese. He teaches me to speak Chinese on WeChat. Now I can speak some Chinese. Li Kang and I often help each 14 . I'm glad to have a pen pal like Li Kang. 

I want to go to Beijing to15 Li Kang one day. I will be very happy to see him. 

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