The chicken and the duck are friends. They live on a 1They often walk around together and talk about many things. One morning, they play and 2near the pool together. The chicken and the duck 3talk about the cat. They think the cat is not 4 because he always looks at them with eyes wide open. “The cat is dangerous, so we must always keep our eyes 5when he is around.”

    Then they talk about the 6The dog is very friendly. The dog has lots of 7 It barks（狗吠） a lot and always runs 8What's more, the dog never runs after them. They both 9the dog.

    At last, they 10the farmer, a fifty-year-old old man. If they don't have the farmer, they have11to eat. He also feeds the cow, the pig, the sheep and many other12 on the farm. They like the farmer because he takes good care of everyone. “He is a 13 man and it's lucky of us to have such a farmer,” the chicken says to the duck 14 “We need the farmer and look forward to living with him forever 15 he can take good care of us all” says the duck. “I hope so” Answers the chicken.

    One day, the students of Class 6 were reading in the classroom. Mrs. Brown came in and told the whole class they would have to change the1the next week. All of the students disagreed2Mrs. Brown, so they shouted when Mrs. Brown said it was because a new student would3 the class.“Why must we move to another classroom just because someone new is coming?” One of them asked 4. Mrs. Brown stood there without saying anything. After a few minutes, she told them to be5to their new classmate and then she left.

    The following week, the head teacher, Mr. White himself brought the new student to their class.6he pushed the new student to the class because the student was in a wheelchair（轮椅）. Mr. White introduced the new student Jeff to the class. He said that Jeff now was a7 of the class and they should work together. He added, “Helping each other is very important.”8could fully understand what. Mr. White meant at first.

    Over time, they began to understand the reason. Jeff was a9student and often helped the students who didn't understand their work. The c lass felt very thankful to him. They took care of him because they knew that when someone did something for you, you should do something10in return.

A food delivery driver (送餐员) from Hangzhou has been a champion of the third season of CCTV's Chinese Poetry Competition (《中国诗词大会》) show.

Lei Haiwei won in the TV contest's final on 4th, April 2018, remaining calm as he answered a lot of difficult questions on ancient Chinese poetry.

More than ten years ago, he didn't have enough money to buy books. In order to read poetry, he would go to the bookstore and memorize poems, then return home and write them down from memory. In this way, he learned over 800 poems.

These days, he reads ancient poetry when waiting for food to be prepared or when he has a moment to rest. Like most delivery drivers, Lei Haiwei's work is hard and he often has to deliver more than 50 meals in one day. While delivering food to others, he's often hungry himself, but he hardly spends more than half an hour a day in eating and won't spend over 25 RMB.

Lei was born in 1981, in Hunan, but moved to Hangzhou ten years ago to find work. He lives in an 80-square-metre apartment with several other delivery drivers and usually works 10-hour days.

" Wake up, everybody." Robin shouted." It is time for us to find another rich guest to pay for our feast." Little John woke up slowly.

" You go west, and I go east. We try to find the richest man and bring him here!"

 Robin walked for miles and saw many people but none of them were rich. But when he was eating, he saw a knight.

 Robin said hello to him. The knight stopped, but said nothing. His face was full of sadness." You need a good feast to cheer you up!" said Robin."I have no reason to be happy," said the knight" My name is Robin Hood. Who are you?" For a moment, the knight's eyes grew wide. He knew all about Robin Hood's feasts."I am Sir Richard Lea," he said," but I have no money to give you for your feast." Robin asked," You are a knight, and knights are rich men."

 Sir Richard sighed." My son killed another knight by accident and I had to pay a huge fine. To get the money, I had to borrow from the Priory of Emmet. Now I must return that money to the Priory or lose my land and my castle." Robin felt sorry for the knight." Come with me and perhaps I can help you." he said. Sir Richard agreed and followed Robin back to Sherwood Forest.

 When they arrived at the camp, Robin told him to enjoy himself. Then Robin asked Little John." Did you find a rich guest?" Little John laughed." Yes, I did." and brought forward his guest and Robin recognized(认出) him at once. It was" The Bishop of Hereford!" Robin said." We meet again. Welcome to our feast." The bishop was furious(愤怒的), but he didn't say anything. He was too afraid of Robin.

 Just then Robin saw there was a box tightly held in his hands.

 Robin shot the box with his sword. The box hit the ground and thousands of gold coins fell out of it. Sir Richard came forward and Robin pointed to him," Do you know this man?" Robin asked the bishop" Yes," replied the bishop." Does he owe you money?"" He owes money to the Priory of Emmet and I am the bishop for the Priory."

 Robin said," Many people say you are the richest bishop in England." Robin started to count the coins and said,"I think you have plenty of money and you want to help Sir Richard." When there were five hundred gold coins in Robin's hands, he gave them to Sir Richard." Take this," he said," and pay your fine."

 Soon, Sir Richard left with the five hundred gold coins. He thanked Robin Hood and said," One day, I hope I can repay your great favour."

 After that, Robin freed the bishop. The bishop left the camp quietly without all his money but when he was far away and no one could hear him, he said:" One day, I am going to make Robin Hood very, very sorry for stealing all my money. Wait and see."

Reading an English newspaper is a good way to improve a student's language ability. As there are many useful words in an English newspaper, it may help students increase their vocabulary as well as improve their reading skills. They can learn new knowledge from the newspaper. But what is the right way to read an English newspaper? Do students need to look over all the words of the newspaper?

The first step is to choose a right newspaper with good language. Then turn to the front page and read the headlines to know what has happened. As the most important things are on the front page, it's easy to find out the article you're interested in and then turn to the page to read the whole of it. There is no need to go through all the articles. 

Secondly, read newspapers every day. Remember words through context(上下文). Once they appear several times, you will remember them easily. Don't look up every new word in your dictionary. You can try to guess the meaning between sentences. If you are wrong, don't give up. Keep reading and you will know the words better after reading them several times in different texts. 

Reading English newspapers makes us learn more. It can not only help us know what is happening in the world but also improve our language.