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    Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts(领养) all the children she can.

    Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose patents passed away. Pinky's parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working full time because she had a baby to feed. Today, she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage.

    Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn't give her a second look. She lives in a brown mud-washed(泥刷的) house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food.

    If you ask her why she provides a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. “I know what it is to be poor and hungry.” As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favorite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless.

    Pinky feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright, Her oldest baby, Aarita Rai, is now 20 years old, Then, there is  19-year-old Nimbe who came to Pinky because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. Ten-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father's death. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and grew vegetables for sale.

    “I like children. It's not one more mouth to feed but one more soul saved,” Pinky says.

    I am a Special Agent (特工) for the FBI (美国联邦调查局)．In order to become a Special Agent, you must graduate from college and have some other skills, training, or important work experience．

    Special Agents receive training at a place called the FBI Academy, a special school for the FBI．The training is 16 weeks long．While they are at the Academy, they go to class and have homework just like you do! Special Agents take classes in science, law, and how to do investigations (调查)．New Special Agents are also taught how to use a gun safely．Once they graduate from the FBI     Academy, Agents must be treated on their shooting skills four times a year．

    You know how important it is to eat well and exercise, right? For Special Agents, it is no different．They must be healthy． If they don't pass tests that check their physical skills, they can't become Agents!

    At the FBI Academy, Special Agents learn self-defense (自卫) skills．These skills help them protect themselves from someone who tries to hurt them．They also learn how to arrest (逮捕) people without anyone getting hurt．

    The FBI has a training town called Hogans Alley． In this town, actors and actresses play bad people and new Agents are ordered to stop them from doing "bad things"．In this way, the Agents can practise the skills they learn in class．

Lin Tao is twenty-six years old. He used to work in a big company. He didn't show an {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(兴趣) in that job, so he gave it up two years ago and began to do what he had always wanted to do: writing {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(长篇小说) on the Internet. He liked to write {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(文章)when he was very young, and it has always been his dream to become a writer. It {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(看来;似乎) really hard to become a writer in the past. Now things are much {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (更容易的). You just need to put what you write on the Internet. If they are interesting enough, you will be {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(确定的;无疑的) to be successful.

In the first six months after he gave up his job, Lin Tao had to do some part-time jobs. They {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(包括) serving in the restaurants and washing cars for others. He often worked only half a day, so he could have enough time to write. Lin Tao has lots of good writing {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(技能;技巧), so many people like to read his stories and would like to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(支付;付钱) for them.

Now Lin Tao doesn't need to do any other job. He travels around to enjoy different {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(风景;名胜) in the day and writes stories at night.

Mickey was really good at basketball at a very young age. Everyone 1 he would be a star player like Yao Ming in NBA until a bad day came to him. He got a(n)

2 . At first, it didn't seem serious. All people around him simply thought he caught a cold. Yet, after Mickey took some medicine, he got 3 . Finally, the doctors found that they had to take away Mickey's two hands and two legs to save his life. There was a hard time in Mickey's life when he had to leave his teammates. To everyone's surprise, Mickey never said something 4 . He never thought about giving up 5 he was in a bad situation. Instead, he worked hard with the artificial (人造的) hands and 6 . He even won prizes in the world-famous competitions. 

On a beautiful morning, Mickey decided to start a(n) 7 —mickeys run. com—to help people with similar (相似的) experiences like him. Since then, many disabled (残疾的) people have shared 8 experiences on it, which encourages more people to be active. One day, he was 9 by a TV program about his story. He said, "Life may be hard for us sometimes, but believe that we are able to make our life meaningful. Keep smiling! Sunshine will 10 after the hard time is gone."

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A Day at the Library

During the winter break, I had a great time joining in a special social practice activity. 

Cui Chenxi, a 14-year-old girl, finished the women's skateboarding street final (滑板女子街式决赛) in fourth place at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics on July 28th. It achieves China's best result in the sport since it was 1 to the Games three years ago in Tokyo. 

Cui2 Jinan, Shandong Province. She has always been interested in sports. She tried her hand at 3 sports: football, basketball, and table tennis. But4 it was skateboarding that won her heart. 

Cui only began skateboarding in 2020. Her father 5 her to try skateboarding. Then she fell in love with it. Within a year, she began winning6 at professional-level(专业级的) events. In 2022, she got third place in the women's street event at the Shandong provincial (省级的) games. She soon joined the provincial skateboarding7 . In 2023, she made history by becoming China's 8 -- ever Asian Games medalist after winning gold in the street skateboarding event in Hangzhou. 

But it is not easy to make so much9 in such a short time. Cui has always been working hard and learning from other skateboarders. "When I started skateboarding, I thought it was great fun. Later, I 10 that most of the time, getting hurt is just part of the process. But that is where the spirit of skateboarding lies. " she added.