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    TheSoundofMusic is one of the most popular American movies. And the song DoReMi in the movie is also popular in the world.

The movie tells a story about a tutor, Maria. She is a young and outgoing woman. She goes to look after a family with seven children. Their family name is Von Trapp. Mr. Von Trapp is a captain. He and his family live in Austria.

    The family are very sad after the children's mother, Mrs. Von Trapp, died. Nobody takes care of the children. They cry and shout every day. The lonely father often becomes angry because of the noisy children.

    Maria often teaches them to sing lively songs and perform short, funny plays. At first the father is almost mad, but the children's smiling faces make him happy again. Then Mr. Von Trapp falls in love with Maria. At last they get married.

    Alan comes from New York, and now he is having a great time visiting his aunt in China. Today is Sunday. It's his eleventh birthday. He gets up early and wants to make a cake for his birthday party in the afternoon.

    When he comes out of his bedroom, he sees a big bowl of noodles on the table. It's a bowl of tomato and egg noodles. Alan usually has bread and milk for breakfast in America. Alan likes the tomato and egg noodles, but he still wants to know why his aunt cooks noodles this morning

    "It's your birthday today," his aunt says, *in China, many people eat very long noodles on their birthdays. It's a symbol of long life. We never cut up the noodles, and we call the long noodles changshou noodles.”

    "Thanks. I think it's my first special gift I get for my birthday," says Alan.

    Once there was a man traveling in a faraway village. As he was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped. He found that these huge elephants were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains(锁链), no cages. It was clear that the elephants could, at any time, break away from their ropes but for some reason, they did not.

    He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and didn't try to get away." Well,' the trainer said," when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to hold them. As they grow up, they still believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can hold them, so they never try to break free."

    How could it be? These animals could at any time break free from their ropes. But because they were always stuck right where they were, they believed they couldn't.

    Just like the elephants, how many of us go through life believing that we cannot do something, just because we failed at it once before?

           We should never give up the struggle(斗争) in life.

Four people died and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 97 were injured in a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that hit the sea area near Hualien in China's Taiwan on Wednesday morning. One driver was killed by {#blank#}2{#/blank#} rocks, while the other three lost their {#blank#}3{#/blank#} on a road inside a major tourist attraction in Hualien, according to local media. 

Taiwan's meteorological agency (气象厅) recorded the earthquake as measuring 7.3 magnitude, calling it the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} earthquake to hit the island in 25 years {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a deadly earthquake struck on Sept 21, 1999. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the earthquake, the Ministry of Natural Resources warning center sent out tsunami (海啸) warnings. 

According to Taiwan's meteorological agency, the earthquake was tracked at a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} of 15.5 km. The epicenter (震中) was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} in the south-southeast of Hualien. The maximum strength recorded was 6 magnitude in Hualien. Local authorities have announced the stoppage (罢工) of work and school classes in Hualien. 

Strong shakes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} across Taiwan. Xinhua reporters in Taipei experienced strong shakes as buildings shook continuously for over a minute. Elevators in the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} apartment building were stopped from operation (运转). Parts of some residential (居民的) buildings has fallen off in Hualien, forcing the moving out of hundreds of residents.

Hello, I'm Zhang Xia. I have a good friend. He is English and his name is Jim. Look! This is 1 bedroom. It is a 2 nice room. A clock 3 some pictures are4 the wall. 5 are on the desk. There is a schoolbag on the chair. It's not his schoolbag. It's his sister's. 6 schoolbag is on the bed. Where is7 baseball? It's behind the door. What's that? 8 a cat! Its9 Mimi. It10 a hat.

Li Shizhen, a well-known medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty, is seen as a great master of medicine in China. He put all his time and heart into 1 , only to save the dying and cure the sick.

Li was born in 1518 in Hubei. Both his grandfather and father were doctors. Li's grandfather was a country doctor who travelled from place to place with a bag of herbs (药草). Such doctors were called Lingyi (bell doctors), because they could show their arrival by 2 a bell. Li's father was also a famous doctor in their 3 area. So it was easy for the people there to find the doctor. 

From childhood, Li went to the mountains with his father to 4 herbs, gaining wide knowledge about animals, plants and medicine. Although Li's father hoped his son could get a government job, Li failed the exam three times. He then turned his 5 to medicine.

At the age of 33, Li became 6 for curing Prince Zhu Houkun's son. A few years later, he was invited to work at the Imperial Medical Institute (太医院) in Beijing. During that time, he 7 many ancient medical texts, and noticed a mess in the naming and categorization (分类) of herbs. To 8 it, he decided to leave his job to write a book about herbs.

After that, Li travelled to many places and got much first-hand experience. He also read hundreds of medical books and different kinds of herbs. After 27 years of efforts, his first draft (初稿) of Ben Cao Gang Mu was 9 in 1578. The book is highly detailed and well-organized and is considered one of the greatest scientific 10 of China.