One midnight, a little girl woke up to pass water. She by herself got up and down her bed, walked to the bedroom door and opened it. She looked outside and walked back, for it was so dark in the hall that she feared.
Her mother said, “Don't be afraid, honey. Take courage!”
“What's courage?” she asked, running to her mother's bed.
“Courage is the brave breath,” her mother answered.
“Mum, do you have courage?”
“Certainly.”
The girl held out her little hands, saying, “Mum, blow some of your breath of courage to me.”
After her mother blew out two mouthfuls of breath into her little cold hands, the little girl clenched her fists(握拳) nervously, afraid that the “breath of courage” would run away. Then with her fists clenched, she walked out of the bedroom towards the bathroom with nothing to fear.
Her mother said to herself, “It will be nice if someone can blow some kind of ‘breath' to me. Then I can hold it in my hands too when I feel terrified or lost.”
In fact, mostly, what we are terrified of is nothing but the fear in our mind. Who we should defeat(战胜) is nobody but ourselves.

    "Listen carefully to what I say,"  the time traveler said, "I shall tell you something that you will not agree."

    "Why will we not agree?" I asked.

    "Because the science and mathematics you know are not correct," he said. "You believe there are only three dimensions(三维空间)-length, breadth(宽) and thickness."

    "There is nothing to argue with that, "  the youngest member of our little group said.

    "Exactly!"  the time traveler answered, "But there is also a fourth dimension - time."

    "We all know about time, " another member of the group said. "Time passed."

    "I do not agree,"  the time traveler said, "Length, breadth and thickness do not pass. They stay in the same place in space.  We move about them. I can prove that time is the same. It does not pass. We move in time the same way that we move in breadth, length and thickness."

    None of us believed the time traveler, and we argued with him for many hours.

    "If we could travel back in time,"  the scientist said, "We could do things to change the future."

    "If we could travel forward in time," the doctor(博士) said, "we could do things that change our present."

    The time traveler smiled, "It is clear," he said, "that there is only one way I can show you that I am right. We must do an experiment. Please wait here."

    He left the room and soon returned, carrying what looked like a clock.

    "This is a model of a time machine. It took me two years to make it," the time traveler said. "I want all of you to understand that when I start the machine, it will immediately travel in time and disappear from the present."

    He turned to the youngest of all. "Give me your hand," he said.

    The young man put out his hand. The time traveler took it and placed it on the machine. Immediately, there was a sudden wind, and the little machine disappeared.

    I was certain this was not a trick, but the doctor was not so sure.

    "Are you asking us to believe," he said, "that the machine is now in a different time?"

    "Certainly! In my laboratory, a full-size machine is almost complete. As soon as it is complete, I shall send myself on a journey through time. Would you like to see my machine?"

    "Are you serious about this?" the doctor asked.

    "I have never been more serious about anything," the time traveler said, "Come."

    We followed him to his laboratory. There, we saw the actual machine, not quite complete, but large enough for a man to sit in.

This spring, the most eye-catching movie might be YOLO(《热辣滚烫》). By Feb 26, it had made over 3.3 billion yuan at the box office, reported The Paper.

Directed by Jia Ling, the movie t {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the story of a woman tired of the world, finding herself and learning to love life through boxing. The name YOLO is short for the movie's main idea--you only live once.

Before making YOLO, Jia was often seen as an overweight comedian. She often made j {#blank#}2{#/blank#} about herself to make people laugh. For this movie, Jia l {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 50kg and looked very d {#blank#}4{#/blank#} from what she was before. Some people online said even her voice became softer, and they call this a "rebirth" for Jia.

In Jia's eyes, her change in identity and look is her way of staying true to herself. "I'm just following my heart I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of looking for changes on purpose. Movies arenow the best way to show myself, so I put all my energy into them," Jia told Xinhua.

I'm Lin Peng. I'm a student in Guangming Middle School. When I was in Grade Seven, I always did badly in English. And I even got poor grades {#blank#}1{#/blank#} English tests. That made me feel very sad. I wanted to give up at that time, but my parents and my teacher encouraged me to work hard. I was told by {#blank#}2{#/blank#} not to lose hope. My teacher gave me some suggestions. She asked me to speak as much as possible. She said, "The more you speak it, the{#blank#}3{#/blank#} your English will become. Don't be shy and don't be afraid of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} mistakes. " Now I am interested in English. And I put my heart into English study all the time. Last week, I took part in an English {#blank#}5{#/blank#} held by our school, and I won the first prize. How proud I was! Hope is always there, in our hearts. So just keep it in mind and our dreams will come true one day. 

Once there was a very helpful man. He would help anyone 1 wanting anything in return. 

One day, when walking along a dusty road, the man saw a wallet, so he 2 the wallet. But he found it was 3 Suddenly a woman and a policeman appeared and caught him. The woman kept on asking where her wallet was, but the man answered, "It was empty 4 I found it. " The woman shouted at him, "Please give it back to me, and it's my son's tuition（学费）. "The woman felt sad so he handed over all his money. Then she left and the policeman asked him more 5 . 

One day while the woman was going to her son's school, she noticed that 6 was walking behind her. She thought that he 7 rob（抢劫） her, so she walked to a policeman. He was the same policeman that helped her before. The woman told him the man following her. They ran to him, and found that he was the same man that they caught a few days ago. 

He looked very weak and the woman was 8 . The policeman said to the woman, "He wasn't the thief that day, but having heard about your situation（情况） he gave you his money."

Then the man told the woman, "Please go ahead and pay your son's tuition. I saw you and 9 you to make sure that nobody would steal your money again." The woman was too moved to say anything. 

Life may give you a strange experience: sometimes it shocks you, 10 sometimes it may also surprise you. Be kind and learn to appreciate what you are given. 

19- year- old Guo Wei comes from Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province. Now she is 1 in London as an exchange (交换) student. She lives with the Smiths. Mr and Mrs Smith are 2 to Guo Wei. Mr Smith is a teacher. He likes to tell her about 3 history and culture after dinner. Mrs Smith is good at 4 . She can also make some Chinese food for Guo Wei.5 , Guo Wei couldn't get used to (习惯) the English way of life. Now she gets to 6 the differences. She finds British people also have the 7 of drinking tea— afternoon tea. 

In fact, the tradition of afternoon tea is8 of British culture. Drinking tea became popular in England 9 the1660s. In the early 19th century, the idea of "afternoon tea" first 410 . By the1880s, afternoon tea became very popular with rich ladies in Britain. Afternoon tea is in the mid- afternoon, between 11 and dinner. It is not just a drink but a light meal. To her 12 , British people usually drink tea with milk. Guo Wei,13 , doesn't like drinking tea in that way. Now she is telling Mr and Mrs Smith about tea culture in her home town. 

"Chinese people began drinking tea over5, 000 years ago. And Hangzhou is 14 as the capital of tea. As one of China's top 10 famous teas, the West Lake Longjing tea from Hangzhou 15 a history of more than 1, 200 years. To most people in Hangzhou, tea is an important part of their way of life."

After hearing what Guo said, the Smiths hope to visit Hangzhou some day.