Reading an English newspaper is a good way to improve a student's language ability. As there are many useful and common words in an English newspaper, it may help students increase their vocabulary（词汇量）as well as improve their reading skills. （1）他们可以从报纸上学到新的知识。 But what is theproper way to read an English newspaper? Do students need to look over all the content（内容）of the newspaper?

   The first step is to choose a right newspaper with good language. Then turn to the front page and read the headlines（标题）to know what has happened. As the most important things are put on the front page, it's easy to find out what you're interested in and then turn to the page to read it completely.（2）There is no need to go through all the articles.

    Secondly, read newspapers every day. Remember words through context（上下文）, in which these words may appear repeatedly. （3）Once they appear several times, you will remember them easily. Don't look up every unknown word in your dictionary. You can try to guess the meaning between sentences. （4）如果你的猜测错了，不要放弃。 Keep reading, and you will become familiar with the words after reading them several times in different texts.

    Reading English newspapers makes us knowledgeable.（5）It can not only help us know what is happening in the world but also improve our language.

    As a first grader, the last thing on Kylie' s mind was to be an inventor (发明家) . When she made a board game (棋类游戏) about Ladybug (瓢虫) for her science class, the student from Pleasanton, California, thought it would just make her homework fun. Now her board game the Ladybug Game goes into many stores in America. Kylie is happy to talk to WR News about her invention.

(WR=WR News; K=Kylie)

WR: How did you get the idea for the Ladybug Game?

K: I just did it for Mrs. Ditto's science class. We had to make something to tell our classmates about insects (昆虫). I really like board games and I play them a lot. So I made a board game myself.

WR: Why ladybugs?

K: I like their colors. Ladybugs come in many different colors. And I think they have a cool life cycle (生命周期).

WR: Your dad took your game to a friend and the friend helped more people know it. How did you feel when you heard that going to sell your board game?

K: It was really cool. When I got into some stores sometimes the people said "You're the girl on the box!"

WR： Do you think you will invent some other things someday?

K: I don't know, but I'm sure that it will be fun.

    Thirty years ago, I walked into a bakery（面包房）and asked for some bread to sell. At that time, I was only 12 years old. Nobody took me seriously but {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  she gave me five loaves of bread and wished me good luck.

    I took the bread and went out to sell them. It took me all day, but I sold them all. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}I was the happiest boy in the world as I walked home that evening.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} I paid a deposit（定金）on a new bicycle. And then I started my job as a newspaper delivery boy. Soon I could pay the rest of the money for the bicycle {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  I was so proud of（骄傲的）myself.

    Today I still work in the delivery business. I have a truck to send goods all over the country. I live in a beautiful house, but I don't ride a bicycle these days. I drive a large nice car.

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    Jia Meng used to keep a diary in Chinese. But one year ago, the 14-year-old girl from Heilongjiang began to write her diaries in English, because Jia found her mother was reading her diary secretly. She changed the language because her mother can't read English. "It's like killing two birds with one stone," said Jia. "My privacy(隐私) becomes safe and my English improves a lot."

    Jia's mother is not the only mom who reads her child's diary. Recently, Renmin University of China had a national survey among over 2,300 parents. The results show that about 40% of parents read their children's secrets.

That's why many teenagers try to find ways to protect their privacy.

    Wu Lei, 15, from Shanxi, keeps a diary, too. But he doesn't write it on paper. He writes online, which he thinks is perfectly safe because his parents "know nothing about the Internet".

    Lu Huan, 13, from Guangdong, said her parents always secretly listened to the talk between her friends and her on the telephone in their room. To solve this problem, Lu asked her parents to buy her a cell phone.

    "Parents want to know what is going on in their children's lives," said Shao Xiaozhen, a teenage expert in Beijing. "But sometimes they go about it the wrong way." Shao suggested the teenagers that instead of hiding their secrets, talking with parents is a better solution. "If your parents know that you are safe, they'll let you keep your secrets."

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    Once upon a time there was a poor woodcutter who worked very hard every day. He had a son and his name was Herman. The old man saved some money and sent his son to university.

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    But the money that the father gave his son ran out after two years and Herman had to come back home. The old man had no more money. Herman said he would stay and work with his father.

    The next day Herman went to the forest with his father. Though he had never done such work before, he worked well. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Herman took his bread and said he would go a little farther into the forest.

    Herman was so happy with the bright sunshine that he walked and walked. Suddenly he heard a voice, "Let me out! Let me out!"{#blank#}3{#/blank#}There was something in the bottle that looked like a small budworm（青虫）. It jumped up and down shouting, "Let me out!"

    As soon as Herman opened the bottle, it jumped out of the bottle and began to grow. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}"Thank you, young man," he said. "Now it's my turn to help you. "

    The giant gave Herman a piece of cloth（布）. "It is unusual," said the giant. "Put it on a stone, and it will turn the stone into gold. "

    Herman ran back to his father with the unusual cloth. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Also, Herman went back to university to learn more. Years later, he became a famous doctor in town.