Peng Jiangya, a 24-year-old girl, was born in Guizhou. She grew up in a small {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（村庄） with her grandparents. Peng didn't have an easy childhood, but things got even {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（更糟糕）.

    One day she fell into a fire stove（火炉）, and the fire burned her fingers {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（严重地）. The family was too poor to {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（承担得起）the expensive medical treatment, at last she lost all her fingers. However, her bad luck hasn't {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（影响）her. Instead, she managed to do everything on her own and she overcame those difficult times.

    As a child, Jiangya often saw others make cross-stitch（十字绣）and then she decided to learn to make it {#blank#}6{#/blank#}（她自己）. As you can imagine, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（拿住）a needle（针）without fingers is very difficult, and Jiangya failed so many times. Still, she never gave up. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（通过）many hours of practice, now she can use her arms to make good cross-stitch works and she is faster than other people. And she has the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（能力）to look after her own family. "One has to put great efforts（努力）into what she is doing," Jiangya said.

    What an {#blank#}10{#/blank#} （了不起的）girl she is!

    Soap is widely used in our lives around the world. Once soap was a dangerous-to-make hair {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(产品). But it is something that it would be difficult to live without today.

    Soap is everywhere. We use it every day and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (认为)it as something important in our lives.

    It also has an amazing{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (历史), in Babylon around 2800 B. C. the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (最早)known soap was made and used. Ancient Egyptians also made soap. At one time, soap-making was not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (安全).

    That's because lye(碱液){#blank#}6{#/blank#}(导致)chemical burns or even made people blind in the making process. Other dangerous materials were also {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (混合)with animal fats and oils. Later. soap became {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (可购得的)in stores and people gradually stopped making it in their homes.

    Originally (最初), soap was not mainly used for {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (清洁).Instead, it was used as gel(凝胶) for making hair stay in place or smell good. The Arabs first made the soap that we know today. They created colored, liquid, and hard soaps. They even had soaps which were used for shaving(刮胡子).

    Soap became people's{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (最喜欢的)in the late 1800s. Advertising in Europe and the US helped people understand the connection between cleanliness and good health. Now. Soap is something we wouldn't want to live without.

    Last Sunday I went on a school trip with my classmates. We v{#blank#}1{#/blank#} the science museum and it was r{#blank#}2{#/blank#} interesting. We g{#blank#}3{#/blank#} there by bus. We saw some farms and villages along the way. We saw farmers p{#blank#}4{#/blank#} apples on the farm.

    At the museum, I learned a lot a{#blank#}5{#/blank#} robots. I didn't know they could p{#blank#}6{#/blank#} chess with us. It was so cool! Then the guide taught us to make a model robot. I took a lot of great p{#blank#}7{#/blank#}, too. After that, I went to the c{#blank#}8{#/blank#} to see an interesting cartoon (动画片), at last I went to the shop and bought some lovely g{#blank#}9{#/blank#} for my parents. They weren't expensive. All in all, it was an e{#blank#}10{#/blank#}day.