Travelling around the world is a dream for many people, and a young couple from China has made their dream come true. They drove along the ancient Silk Road, from China to the UK.

    Luo Chang and Ding Jie, a young couple from Guizhou Province, spent two months driving from their home in Shanghai all the way to London. The journey covered about 20,000 kilometres, and they crossed 14 countries and regions (地区).

    Ding Jie said, "People were excited to see two travellers driving a foreign license car, appearing on their streets. We were stopped many times to take photos with them. Sometimes, when we couldn't understand each other's language, they would express their ideas with gestures(手势).

    During their driving trip, they also spent many nights in local people's homes. Luo Chang said. "This is an amazing experience. We were driving on a highway or a country road to someone's home. Someone you've never met but was preparing dinner for you. We feel we have friends all over the world."

    During the trip, Luo and Ding took nearly 10,000 photos and kept diaries to record the beautiful scenery(风景), the friendly people and the different customs on the way.

    Qian Xuesen was born in Shanghai on December 11^th, 1911. He is known as "the father of China's space program" and "The king of the rocket".

    When he was 24 years old, Qian went to America for further study. After graduation, he worked in America for a few years, where his working conditions were better. In the early 1950s, he heard New China had been founded(成立) and decided not to stay in America any longer. He succeeded in coming back to his motherland in 1955 though the American government tried to stop him.

    In 1956, Qian Xuesen suggested setting up a special organization, which later became the leading organization for China's rocket and air travel program. In June 1964, China successfully created its first medium rocket. Qian also played an important role in developing China's first man-made satellite(卫星). On April 24, 1970, "Dongfanghong-I was successfully sent into the air."

    In 1964, a young man wrote Qian Xuesen a letter and pointed out a mistake in his published article. Qian immediately answered the letter and encouraged the young man to write an article out the mistake.

    Zhu Yilin, who was said to be the last student of Qian Xuesen, once said, "I learned a lot of professional knowledge as well as the spirit and attitude that a scientist should have from Mr. Qian, especially his deep love for the motherland. Without that, they couldn't have helped to develop science and technology when New China was badly development. Without that, he would not have made the great contribution(贡献)to industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s when conditions in China were too hard

    Mr. Qian has been dead for ten years, but he will live in the memory of Chinese people forever.

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Kobe was talented in playing basketball at a very young age. So his father made him go to the basketball club. He was interested in basketball and took it {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (serious). He entered the NBA from high school and spent twenty years {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (stay) with the Los Angeles(洛杉矶) Lakers. With his help, the LA Lakers won the first prize five {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (time). Kobe was not only a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (success) basketball player, but also was a writer. He often told stories to his daughters in his free time. That's {#blank#}6{#/blank#}he wrote a book about a basketball team.

He saw Michael Jordan as his idol {#blank#}7{#/blank#}would like to play a game with Jordan. We all know that Kobe had two different jersey(球衣) {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (number): 8 and 24. Do you know the meaning of the number 24? The meaning is—{#blank#}9{#/blank#}you want to achieve(实现) your dream, you need to work hard 24 hours a day.

Kobe Bryant set {#blank#}10{#/blank#} example for all of us and we will remember him all the time.

Tony and George were painting freely. Each of them had a bottle of blue paint(油漆) and a bottle of yellow paint. 

Suddenly George said, " Look, Tony, I made green!"

" How did you do it?" asked Tony. 

"I put yellow paint on top of my blue paint- yellow and blue put together make green!" shouted George. Other children came around to watch and wanted to do it themselves. 

This is an example of discovery learning or hands- on learning. 

People remember things better when they learn them by doing. Here is an example. How will you learn to play football?

Buy a book and read about how to play football or buy a video about football? Or go to the playground and ask a person to teach you?

Which way will help you learn the game best? Learning on the playground is the best way for most people because they try the game and learn the rules as they play. They learn in a hands- on way. 

Hands- on learning is good for children. The learner takes an active part in it instead of just sitting and listening. This is the way that we want our children to learn. In order to learn best, children must take an active part in hands- on activities every day. Some good examples of hands- on activities are working puzzles, painting, playing simple board games together and so on. 

One day, a big red hen is playing with her chickens in the garden. After some time she feels1 and she takes her chickens to2 food. When they are3 , she finds some grains of wheat（几粒麦子）. So she asks4 chickens to plant them in the back of the garden. But5 wants to do it. 6 big red hen has to do it herself. After a long time, they get a lot of wheat. 

She says to her chickens, "7 will take the wheat to the store and get flour（面粉）?" But they don't want to do it. So she8 the wheat to the store and put the flour home. 

After she gets home, she says, "Who will make some bread9 the flour?" They all say they are too busy and don't have10 to do it. 

When she11 the bread, she says to her chickens, "Who wants to eat12 ?"

"I will. " they say. 

"No, you can't. You don't want to do anything13 I make the bread. You must know ‘no pains, no gains'（没有付出就没有收获）. She doesn't14 any bread to her chickens and she eats all the bread15 . All her chickens are regretful（后悔）.