Jack was a hard-working student when he was young, but he had some big problems. He used to be shy before his classmates. So he had 1 friends at school. Bob was a new student in his class. All the students were soon familiar with him and got on well with him 2 Jack.

    One day, some boys put some money into Jack's bag and another boy pretended to have 3 his money. Of course, they found the money in 4 bag at last.

    Jack felt shameful (可耻的) 5 he could not say anything about it. Soon his classmates called him a thief and 6 him in the school. His teachers also 7 that and called his parents to the school, too. Just then, Bob stood out and helped Jack make everything 8.

    From that day, Jack and Bob 9 good friends. Bob often took Jack to take part in many activities and Jack became outgoing. Bob was weak in English and Jack often helped him 10 it. Now Jack became the monitor in his class, and he had more friends. He enjoyed the nice friendship and the school life.

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Yu Chuanya is a ballet（芭蕾舞）dancer from Shenyang. She began learning ballet at the age of 4. With a strong interest in it, she took dance classes three times a week. "In fact, my physical condition was not good. But I loved ballet, and I never thought of giving up. My mother always supports（支持）me. She encourages me to face challenges and have confidence in myself. My father is also supportive of me," Yu says.

In 2005, Yu went to study at Beijing Dance Academy. She put a lot of hard work into learning and practicing ballet. After she graduated（毕业）, she returned to Shenyang and joined Liaoning Ballet Troupe.

Since then, ballet dancing has become an important part of Yu's life. She has performed the lead roles in many ballets. She has also been invited to perform in Russia, Canada and South Africa.

Eight Heroines is one of Yu's favorite ballets. It is a story of eight women soldiers（士兵）who gave up their lives to protect our country. Yu performed the lead role, Leng Yun. To do her best to show the feelings of the character, Yu read lots of information to learn about the story of Leng. Eight Heroines has been staged（上演）many times since 2014. In 2017, it was staged in Russia and people there said it was great.

"Performers are the communicators of culture. I believe we Chinese ballet dancers will perform more ballets in the future to better tell the stories of China on the world stage," Yu says hopefully.

My favourite athlete (运动员) is Ma Long. He's one of the 1 table tennis players in the world.

Just like many other 2 athletes, Ma Long has made great achievements (成就) in table tennis through hard work. Born in 1988, Ma Long 3 to play table tennis at 5. When he was 13, his ability in table tennis was noticed by a coach. Therefore, he had to leave 4 hometown for Beijing so that he 5 continue to train for table tennis. In 2003, Ma Long joined the national team. He trained very hard, 6 he became a great player later.

So far Ma long has won many gold medals. In the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, he became the champion of both men's singles and men's team. It was his third time 7 part in it. In the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in 2023, he won the gold medal of men's team with his teammates. 8 he does, he never gives up. In my heart, Ma Long is a symbol of courage and success. He is 9 amazing table tennis player! As a Chinese, I am so proud 10 him.

School was out, and the Johnson family were getting ready to take their summer trip to Lake Horizon. Betsy and her brother Bruce were excited, but their parents were not.

"I wonder why Mom and Dad are not excited," Betsy said to Bruce. "I heard them talking last night. They said repairing (修补) the old cabin (小木屋) would need much money." said Bruce.

The next day, Bruce got up early. He said to Betsy, "It's time for us to do things for them. We can help paint the cabin. Then it won't look so bad, and we can save some money." Betsy thought it was great and they told their parents about the plan. "____" said Dad. "We can plant some flowers, too," said Mom.

That night, they bought some things they would need. The next morning, they left for the cabin early and arrived there before lunch. They painted the small kitchen first, then the bedrooms, and finally the living room. Then they planted some flowers in front of the cabin. Finally, the cabin looked so much better because of their two days' hard work.

Our parents always love us, do things for us but never complain (抱怨). When the time comes for us to help our parents, try our best.

What great news! On October 30, 2024, China successfully launched (发射) the Shenzhou-19 spaceship. There are three great astronauts in it: Cai Xuze, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze. Cai Xuze, the group leader, has spaceflight experience before. Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, the post-90s astronauts, are on their first space trips. Wang is even the first woman spaceflight engineer (工程师) in China.

The astronauts entered the Tiangong space station and met the astronaut team of Shenzhou-18 last Wednesday. They lived and worked together to finish some tasks. The newcomers will stay in the space station for 6 months. There are quite a few important things to do. They will do different experiments (实验), such as space life science and space medicine. Then they need to have spacewalks to put on new special devices (装置) for the the spaceship and plan to give space classes to young students from all over the world.

The success of the Shenzhou-19 mission shows China is doing better in space technology. And behind the success, it is the hard work of Chinese astronauts and scientists. They show us that nothing is too far if we keep reaching for it.