Last December it was very cold and it snowed a lot. One Saturday, John was playing on the hill near his house with some friends. Suddenly, he fell over and hurt his leg. His friends ran to tell his mother. His mother and brother took him to the hospital.

    The doctor said John had to stay in hospital for four to five weeks. John liked the doctors and the other children in the hospital because they were very friendly. At first he was happy because he didn't have to go to school. He laughed at all of his friends. They had to do a lot of homework. He enjoyed listening to music and watching his favourite television programmes all day.

    But soon the Christmas holidays started. John was still in hospital. He was tired of watching television and listening to his CDs and he wanted to go home. "This is ▲" he thought. He felt sad so he started to cry.

    But then a man came to his room with a bag of presents and a Christmas tree. John knew him from the television. He was a famous sports star who was visiting all the sick (生病的) children. And the man was not the only person who came that day. All the students from John's class came to visit him. And his maths teacher brought him his "favourite" present — some maths homework!

    Zhao Yishen, the 33-year-old artist, is carving a woodblock (雕刻木板) carefully, with a chisel in his right hand. To carve the woodblocks, he has to hold this position for six hours. He has been carving woodblocks since 2012. “It feels good and looks beautiful when a Chinese character slowly appears on the woodblock under your chisel," says Zhao.

    Zhao is now the only full-time carver working at a workshop that creates woodblock-printed books in Beijing. As a teenager he loved to read ancient Chinese books in the library, and the curiosity of how the books were made led him to get a job at an ancient books woodblock printing studio in Yangzhou in 2011 after graduating as a law major from university.

    Block printing was listed as a UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009. Zhao started to learn the skill from Chen Yishi, one of the skill's masters, in 2012.

    "The first step is to learn how to sharpen your chisel, "says Zhao. “After using it for a while, you need to sharpen it again." After that, the woodblock must be put at a certain angle that is deep enough to show up the characters and also to make sure the cuts are deep enough-but not too deep. Then Zhao puts the paper, face down, onto the wood after brushing oil on the paper. This helps to transfer the characters onto the block. Once the carving is finished, the woodblock is brushed with ink and paper pressed onto it. It is ready to print.

    In Zhao's mind, the inked woodblock is a work of art. After a year of learning from Chen, Zhao found a job at Zhuyu Shanfang in 2013. His carved woodblocks have been used for several books over the past six years. "I just learned the basic skills, but to master it, I still need years of practice,” says Zhao. “A good craftsman can carve an entire book with every single character aligned in order."

    Called the "Afghan Bruce Lee", Alizada looks very much like Hong Kong action film star and Chinese kung fu artist Bruce Lee.

    He became interested in Chinese kung fu at a very young age. However, he had to study it by himself as his family could not afford the training. His family was not rich to give him a good coach.

    "It was when I was around eight years old that I saw a Bruce Lee movie for the first time. I became crazy about those movies, which served as a drive for me to learn Chinese kung fu," Alizada said.

    Alizada has studied kung fu for more than 10 years. The 23­year­old had a great influence online a few years ago when he posted a video named" Bruce Lee appears in Afghanistan" on Facebook.

    Alizada has now appeared in two films，with one in Azerbaijan and the other in India. "I want to star in a film produced by Afghanistan when I am well­known all over the world," Alizada said.

    My father is seventy-five years old this year. But he looks very young. He looks like a sixty-year-old man. Now he can do everything all by himself. For example, he cooks, washes clothes, does the housework and so on.

    Every morning, my father goes out with a radio. He listens to the music or the news and goes to the park to play taijiquan. In the park, he talks and laughs with other old people. After coming back from the park, he begins to have breakfast and then he goes to the university (大学) for the old. He learns to draw there. In the afternoon, he plays on the computer for about one or two hours. After supper he watches TV and learns about the world. He goes to bed at about eight o'clock. He never stays up. He likes to share his ways of keeping healthy with others.

    Are you healthy? If not, what do you learn from my father's secret of keeping healthy?

 Tomorrow is Emma' s first day of junior high school. Her mother buys her a new schoolbag. It is red. Emma is excited to have it. She sits on the chair and packs her schoolbag.

 First, she puts her pencil case into the schoolbag. What's in the pencil case? Look. She has two pens and three pencils. She also has an eraser and a ruler. They' re all in her pencil case. She also puts her colour pencils in the pencil case. She can draw pictures with them for her art teacher Mrs Green. Next, she puts her scissors(剪刀) in it. She wants to make cards with them for her friends. Then, she puts all her textbooks in it.

 Emma puts all the school things in her schoolbag. What a great term it can be!