One day, a rich boy bought a magic mirror(魔镜). When he got home, he looked in the mirror. His face looked sad. He tried to smile and make funny faces. His face looked still sad. Then he did many happy things, but his face always looked sad.

    "Oh, what a terrible mirror! It doesn't work！"he said angrily.

    The next day, on his way to buying some chocolate, he saw a little girl crying sadly. The rich boy went up to her and asked what had happened. The little girl said she couldn't find her parents. "Don't worry. I'll help you，"the rich boy said. So they went to look for them together. Finally, they found her parents. They were so thankful for his help. After the rich boy arrived home, he looked in the mirror as usual. To his surprise, his face looked very happy. The boy understood the magic of the mirror. The mirror could show the true feelings of its owner.

    This was true—the rich boy had helped that little girl so he felt really happy.

    We go to school every day to become better people. How can we start to make big changes in our lives? Perhaps we can get tips from former US First Lady Michelle Obama. During a visit to China from March 20 to 26 in 2015, Obama shared her views on education and youth empowerment with students.

    The first lady encouraged Chinese students to aim high and get a good education. At Chengdu No 7 High School, she told students that having humble roots doesn't matter as long as you have perseverance (毅力). Obama said her family was not rich. Like many Chinese students, her parents had big dreams for her. She felt the weight of her parents' sacrifices (牺牲) on her shoulders and worked hard to make them proud. Persevering was not easy, though. Sometimes she had to wake up at 4:30 am and study late into the night. "But whenever I got tired or discouraged… I would remember something my mother always told me. She said: A good education is something that no one can take away from you.'"

    Mrs Obama also encouraged Chinese students to study abroad to broaden their horizons (开阔视野) in a speech at Peking University. "As the Chinese saying goes: It is better to travel 10,000 miles than to read 10,000 books," she said. It's not enough to get good grades in school. It's also important to have real experience with languages, cultures and societies that are different from your own, she noted. Studying overseas can also benefit future international relations. It can help young people from different countries work together to deal with shared problems like climate change, Obama said.

    It is a fine Saturday morning. Alice and her parents are in a big bus. There are many people in it, Some of them are from England and others come from the USA and Canada. They are going to the Great Wall. Alice finds there are two Chinese in the bus. One is Mr Li, the bus driver. The other is a young man about twenty. He speaks English very well. He is now talking about the Great Wall. People in the bus are all listening to him. They like to see the Great Wall. They want to see it very much.

Can you imagine going to university at age 14? This year, Jia Zijun, from Henan, did that. He became the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (young) freshman at Beihang University. 

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Ben was a boss. When he was young, he didn't work hard. So he knew {#blank#}1{#/blank#} about the world, and he was often laughed at in public and sometimes he got into trouble. So he {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a lot of books and shelves and put them in his sitting room so that the visitors could see them as soon as they went in. He often went to the parties and listened to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} other men said carefully. He hoped to make friends with them.

Once Ben was told that it was a famous professor's birthday that day. He hurried there with his {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. He gave the professor (教授)some expensive presents and the old man {#blank#}5{#/blank#} him very much. After dinner they began to talk {#blank#}6{#/blank#} some famous books. He could hardly answer {#blank#}7{#/blank#} questions. The professor asked him the easiest one, "What was Shakespeare" "It was a {#blank#}8{#/blank#} of drink," answered Ben. "But people do not like it now. " The professor had a smile and soon he stopped talking with Ben. On {#blank#}9{#/blank#}way home, Ben's wife said, "You {#blank#}10{#/blank#}a mistake just now. Shakespeare is a kind of cake, like the Chinese mooncake." 

Hello! Boys and girls! 1 to my school. My 2 is Zhang Dong. I am 13 years old. I'm 3 new student at this school. In the morning, I 4 my teacher Mr. Wang and I say "Good 5 " to him. How old 6 he? He is 25 years old. He is very 7 . I like him very much. 

Look, this is 8 classroom. The desks and chairs are 9 . I like them, too. Can you 10 the boy over there? He is my new friend, Michael. He is 11 the USA．He is 12 years old, too. He likes reading 13 . He likes to make friends (交朋友), too. 

Oh! Sorry. It's time for me to 14 now. Class begins! 15 .