One windy spring day, I noticed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Colorful creations of different shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds flying and dancing. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a string (线) kept them in control.

    Instead of blowing away with the wind, they rose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining (控制的) string and the cumbersome (笨重的) tail kept them in control, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled against the string, they seemed to say, "Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!" They rose beautifully even when they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose (松散的). "Free at last," it seemed to say. "Free to fly with the wind."

    Yet freedom (自由) simply put it in the control of an unkind wind. It fell down to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. "Free at last", free to lie powerlessly in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to stop lifelessly against the first obstacle (障碍物).

    How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us adversity (逆境) and rules, rules to follow from which we can grow and get strength. Some of us break away from the rules so hard that we never reach the heights we might get to. We keep part of the rules and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

    Let us each rise to the great heights, knowing that some of the rules that we may be angry about are in fact the strong force that helps us achieve.

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Chen Dong is my pen pal. He says that there are many popular 1  in his country, such as the Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Double Ninth Festival and so on. But 2 thinks the Double Ninth Festival is the3 important festival in China. Why does he think so? Because it encourages people to respect, love and take good care of the old. That is a 4  virtue (美德) of the Chinese nation. It's on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (阴历月). The number nine in both the month 5 the day creates the double nine. In Chinese, double nine is pronounced  6  same as the words jiu jiu meaning "forever". 7  that day, people enjoy a lot of activities like climbing a high mountain, eating Double Ninth Gao, wearing the zhuyu plant to wish to avoid evil (辟邪) and live long. People eat Double Ninth Gao to hope progress in everything. 8 interesting and meaningful festival it is! Are you also interested in it? I can9 wait to go to China to have a look on my own very soon! I am looking forward to10 him for the festival this year.

In many places on Earth the weather changes during the year. These changes are called seasons. 

Spring Spring starts when the day and night are of the same length. The weather gets warmer and sunnier. Trees and plants start to grow. Many animals have their babies in spring. 

Summer Summer begins on the longest day of the year. In the north this is on 21 June. Summer is usually the warmest and sunniest time of the year. Fruit grows on trees and plants. Young animals grow bigger and stronger. 

Autumn Autumn starts when the day and night are of the same length again. During autumn, the leaves change colour and fall from the trees. Some animals collect food before winter comes. 

Winter Winter begins on the shortest day of the year. In the north this is on 21 December. The weather is co lder and in some places there is lots of snow. Plants and trees stop growing. Some animals, like snakes and bears, find places to hide and sleep. This is called hibernation. 

Fun facts

●When it is summer in the north, it is winter in the south. 

●At the North and South Pole there are only two seasons. 

●In tropical (热带的) places near the Earth's equator (赤道) there are two seasons: a"wet" season and a"dry" season.