I used to be the shyest person in the world. I hid1 my elder sister whenever I had to speak to a stranger. When asked to speak in class, I could hardly 2, much less speak. Even among the few friends I had, my high, timid (怯怯的) voice earned me jokes —about being a girl.

    Then in the seventh grade, my sister suggested I 3 voice lessons. After considering it for a short time, I did. I began a series of vocal exercises.

After exercising a lot, I finally gained 4 in my voice.

    A few months later, I was asked to sing for some retired people, I thought I would do better than before 5 the voice lessons. I opened my mouth and —nothing. I couldn't remember the 6! My face turned hot. The kind pianist whispered a prompt (提示), and I remembered just enough to keep singing.

    Then the thought struck me: I've already embarrassed (尴尬) myself enough. There's really nothing else to 7. So in my second song, I just relaxed and felt the energy of the song lift me. And I did much better.

After that, I started singing to myself as 8 as I could in my own room. That's something I would never have done before. One classmate even said that I 9be in the school's talent show.

    I am not a shy person 10. Singing has made me more outgoing. Today, I can also stand in front of the whole class and give a big speech. I am proud of myself.

During the old times, children didn't have smart phones, iPads or computers to play. They: thought of interesting games to play in their childhood.

●Stone（石头）balls

During the Qing Dynasty, kicking（踢）a stone ball around was a popular sport in the northern part of China, and it was often played in the winter to keep warm. Children made stones into small balls and kicked along with feet.

●Flying kites

Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood （木）, not paper. These days, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite, which each is very special. The swallow-shaped kite is the most popular Beijing style.

●Hide-and-seek

Hide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the country. There are two ways to play: Cover a child's eyes and ask him to catch the other kids while the other kids run around him. Or, more commonly, the children hide（躲）and one child must try to find them.

●Watching shadow plays（皮影戏）

The closest thing to watching a film or television for fun during the old times was going to see a shadow play. The artists manipulate puppets（操纵木偶）behind the screen, telling stories with music. During the Qing Dynasty, shadow play art was the most popular, and was played for every important time.

Some animals can easily find their way home after a long journey. How do they make it? Scientific research shows that they are born with certain unusual abilities for direction. 

A certain kind of ants, for example, can count their steps to avoid getting lost. They can go as far as 110 meters and bring food home. These ants live in the open desert, so they have nothing to guide them along the way. It's like someone walking six kilometers through a dark forest. 

Some fish have an unbelievable sense of smell. They can smell even a single drop of their home water in a large sea area. Some sea birds have a similar ability. They are able to make a smell map of their flying area. 

Some animals can sense the earth's magnetic field (磁场), while humans can't. This magnetic field guides a certain kind of fish when they swim a long way to a place and then back, How can this kind of fish do that? It is still a mystery. Scientists have no good answers yet. 

However, animals with such unusual abilities still have difficulty dealing with environmental changes caused by human activities. For example, many birds depend on stars for direction, but they get lost easily at night when city lights are kept on all night. To solve this problem, we can simply turn off some lights at night. Clearly, one small act of humans may mean a lot to animals.

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To me, Duke is like a teacher who has taught me how to love and to be loved.

I'm Tony. I'm an English boy, but now I'm in Wuhan. My parents came to Wuhan for work. So I came here with them. 

I like Chinese very much. It's my favourite subject, so I always ask my Chinese classmates for help. And I help them with their English. In my free time, I like watching TV and practising Chinese from it. After eight months, I can speak Chinese very well. 

I'm good at science, too. I think it's very interesting and useful. But I'm not good at maths. I don't know much about maths. Maths lessons are not easy for me. I want to thank my Chinese classmates. They always help me with it. 

At weekends, I like to play with my Chinese classmates. I know many things about China from them. And I made many Chinese friends. We always have a good time!