Plenty of people dream of going to Mars（火星）．{#blank#}1{#/blank#} different from those people, 13-year-old Alyssa Carson has been working {#blank#}2{#/blank#} 　(happy) for that dream since the age of 4，according to a new report which {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 　(make) by the BBC not long ago.

    Alytsa tells the BBC,“I hope{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (go) to Mars because it is a place that no one has been to before. I want to take that first step.” According to the BBC, she{#blank#}5{#/blank#}  (attend) USA's three world space camps so far.

    Her father, Bert Carson, tells the BBC that Alyssa plans to be on the first long journey to Mars which is expected to take place in{#blank#}6{#/blank#} year of 2033.“We are proud {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  her,”he says.“We have the next eighteen{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (year) planned out.”One of those plans is Alyssa attending the International Space University.

Of course，Alyssa's dream could come with{#blank#}9{#/blank#}  (big) sacrifices（牺牲）than others.[If Alyssa goes to mars，maybe {#blank#}10{#/blank#} is very difficult for her to return to Earth. Still，her father says，"If that's the only choice she has，she still wants to go.”Alyssa agrees.

    These days, it is found that school students hardly have any sports. Is it because they have no interest {#blank#}1{#/blank#} sports? It may not be the fact. School students often say they have much more important things to do.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} are these important things? Exams! School students have to get {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (they) ready for all kinds of exams and tests in school. So many of them almost become bookworms (书呆子). In {#blank#}4{#/blank#} past, they could do anything that they liked in the summer holidays, but now they have to spend all their time preparing for the exams. So studies have kept them away from {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (go) in for sports.

    Because of the pressure from born their parents and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (teacher), school students have to work harder and spend most of their time on books. As for the students themselves, they don't want to fail the lessons {#blank#}7{#/blank#} they want to go further with their studies in good universities. So it is necessary {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (give) all of their spare time to their studies and give up their sports.

    Actually, sports should always come {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (one). A good education cannot go without physical training. It's also true that a quick mind hardly goes along with a weak body. Without a strong body, it's hard to do things {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (good). Then how can you make great success in life?

    Why not take a breath out of your study? Go out and take sports!

Japanese woman—Junko Tabei

    Mount Qomolangma is the highest mountain in the world. It is in the Himalaya(喜马拉雅)Mountains between Nepal(尼泊尔)and China, and it is about 8, 844 meters high. Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal were the first people ever{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(climb)Mount Everest in 1953. Men from several different countries climbed it after that.

    Junko Tabei, a Japanese, was the first woman{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(make)this difficult climb. A Japanese newspaper-television company{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(choose)fifteen women from mountaineering clubs to climb Mount Qomolangma in 1975. The group climbed for several days. Then there was an accident. The heavy ice and snow{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(hurt)ten of the women. They had to stop climbing. The other five went on climbing.

    Only Ms. Tabei was able to climb the last 70 meters. She{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(stand)on the top of the world. She was the first woman there. Ms. Tabei was 35 years old at that time. She started climbing mountains in 1960. She still climbs mountains now. She is not an ordinary{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(Japan)housewife. Ms. Tabei makes money for her trips by{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(teach)English and piano to children. She climbs a mountain about every three years. She has climbed some of{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(high)mountains in six countries. Finally, she wants to climb the highest mountain in every country in the world. When she reaches the top of a mountain, she thinks, "I'm glad that I'm at the top."