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    During the years of game making, there have been a number of games. Many old games have gone since modern games came out.

Teachers at a primary school asked their students to write articles about games they knew and were surprised by the results. Half of the 50 children in one of the classes wrote about online games. It is easy to see that traditional games like hide-and-seek and jump rope games are unfamiliar(不熟悉的) to many of today's schoolchildren. They like to play computer games, especially in the cities, with the rising popularity of TV, the Internet, video and online games.

    An educationist said, "Traditional games used to be so popular, but over just a few years, kids have forgotten them. It's sad."

    The games that many parents once played were generally outdoor activities which were enjoyed by students during breaks or after school. They usually needed several partners and just a little space.

    Jump rope games, for example, have always been popular in many countries around the world. A kind of jump rope game, played with rubber bands(橡皮筋) which are connected together to make a long rope, is played in many countries.

    Rubber band jumping was once very popular in primary schools. Girls loved playing this game. It can help kids practise their jumping skills and develop coordination(协调性), and also help them meet lots of friends.

    It is common these days to see primary school students spending their breaks in the classroom. They are busy with their studies.

    "When we were young, we played many different outdoor games, but today's children don't know what to play or how to play," a 40-year-old mother said. "They don't know what teamwork is."

Being worried by the situation, educational officers have tried to make some programmes to educate children on traditional games.

    H. G. Wells lived from 1866 to 1946. He wrote many famous stories. He was best at writing stories about the future. One story is called The Time Machine. Here is the story.

    More than 100 years ago, there was an English scientist and inventor living in London. One day, four friends went to his house for dinner. The inventor was not there. Feeling hungry, they started dinner without him. Then they heard a sound. A few moments later, the inventor came in, looking dirty.

    He told his friends that he built a time machine. He could travel into the future.

    The inventor went thousands of years in the future. He met people called the Eloi. They were smaller than him. They had no machines. Growing fruit and vegetables was all that they did. They had no hobbies. Only one girl, Weena, spoke to him.

    Four days later, he met other people called Morlocks. They lived underground. They caught Eloi people and ate them! The inventor wanted to fight against the Morlocks. The Eloi didn't want to help him, not even the strong men. He tried to fight against the Morlocks. At last, Weena went underground with him. Unfortunately, Weena died.

    After that, he got in his time machine. He came back to his time. Seeing the future made him sad. The people in the future were worse. They were not clever.

    His friends didn't think it was a real story. But they never saw him again. Maybe he went to save the future.

    As a well-known Chinese TV hostess, Dong Qing is now hosting two cultural shows, Chinese Poetry Conference and Readers. The two shows are encouraging people to love traditional culture and find the beauty of life.

    Dong was born in a highly educated family in 1973. she had a great love for traditional literature(文学)from an early age. In 2015 when she was about to study in the U.S, Dong received an invitation from the director of Chinese Poetry Conference asking her to be the hostess. Because of her passion for traditional literature, Dong accepted the job.

    "The contest interests me very much. Hosting it is a process of learning about poetry and performing, "said Dong. To her great joy, the show has become more and more popular.

    Under the slogan(口号)"Reading touches people's hearts", the new TV show Readers has become a success. It invites famous guests from all walks of life to read something. Dong works as both hostess and producer.

    Readers became a turning point in Dong's 21 years of hosting. She said it brought her "quite a huge challenge".

    "There is no shortcut(捷径) in this world. If you want to be a good host, you need to make thorough preparations, said the beautiful hostess. "The charm of life lies in its unknown, so we just have to try and keep going.

This winter holiday, I have a wonderful trip in Jilin. We even managed to make a micro film （微电影）there. The experience was so happy that I cannot wait to1 it with you. 

We arrived in Changchun （长春）in the evening. With snow and ice everywhere, we suddenly realized that we had come to a kingdom of snow! It made us all2 . 

However, we came to Jilin not only for sightseeing. We had an important mission—to take a short film! Every one of us needed to be the host or hostess of one part of the film. 

When we visited the Rime Island, It was my turn to be the hostess. At last, I was very nervous when facing the camera. I took a deep breath and looked around. The trees covered with magic rime, white snow and crystal ice, and the happy crowd immediately made me relax. I3 finish my hosting task. 

Have this picture in your mind: you lie down on the soft snow, with the white coated trees around you. Your4 is filled with snow. It is pure and quiet. All your worries and sorrows will be gone. 

Nowadays, the pace of life in modern cities is getting faster and faster. But why not5 down and enjoy the magic of nature?

This trip brought something new to me. I learned how a film is made; I learned how important teamwork is; I6 understood how to enjoy life. 

Travelling is a good thing that can broaden our horizons and improve our abilities. When enjoying the pleasure of travelling, you are also learning something beneficial for your future life. 

Bill is a 7-year-old boy. There are 1 people in his family. They are his parents and him. He likes doing exercise. He brings a 2 to school every day because he loves it very much. After class, he often plays basketball with his classmates at school. His favorite color is 3 . So he has a blue schoolbag and some other blue stationary. 

Bill wants to have a dog, but his mother doesn't like it. One day, his friend Gina asks him to look after her dog Coco. Coco is very clever. When you 4 , "Coco, come here", it is coming. 

Bill plays with it very happily. But Coco is 5 at night. Bill looks for it everywhere, but he can't find it. He buys a new 6 . It 7 Coco. The next morning, Gina comes and 8 her dog back. When she gets to Bill's home, her Coco comes out of nowhere. Bill tells her the story. She doesn't mind and says thanks to him for his help. Then she goes 9 with Coco. "But what can I 10 the new dog? "Bill asks.

When my daughter was in primary school, one day she brought home1 tiny twigs(细枝). They were trees given to the students by the school to plant.2 of them looked strong enough, but with a hope for the future I got a tool and3 them in our back yard. Over the years, an accident with the lawnmower and poor soil brought three of them to a(n)4 . Only one tree was left.

It grew5 .It never got very tall or very straight. Then, I noticed that it was going to die. The leaves on the6 branches(树枝)had fallen off. Those on the branches a little further up had turned brown. Only the top part of the tree was 7 green. I did my best to save it by feeding it with a lot of fertilizer(肥料)8 failed.

This morning I went to the9 and looked at it again. I was thinking if it would be better to just10 .I would no longer have to watch it slowly decay(腐烂). As I walked over to take a closer look at it, however, I noticed11 moving within the leaves in the topmost branches. It was a bird patiently building a nest to live in. I12 when I saw it and thought that maybe this old tree had some life and usefulness left in it yet. It may not be healthy or pretty, but it was still giving a bird a13 .

This tree reminded me of something too. All life has14 .It doesn't matter if we are young and strong or old and weak.15 the last moment we still have things to do, love for us to give, and joy for us to share.