Growing up is not always easy. When we face difficulties, a spirit of depending on 1 is more useful than crying for help. That's what Hong Zhanhui's story of growing from boy to man 2 family hardship tells us.

    Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County(县), Henan Province. When he was only 11, his father became badly ill and one day he came back with an unwanted baby 3. A year later, Hong's mother 4 home. She no longer wanted to live such a poor life and face her sick husband. So everything hard fell onto the young boy's 5: to take care of his father and the younger sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.

    Although his life was hard, Hong didn't go away from his father and sister. He took several part-time jobs to 6 his family. He climbed tall trees to get birds' eggs for his sister. He walked 2 hours at weekends to the market to 7 different things to sell around his school. A few years later, he studied at a college. To take care of Chenchen, he worked hard to 8 a room near his college for her, and sent her to school.

    After Hong's story went 9, he became a hero in people's eyes. But Hong 10 offers from others. He said he felt encouraged by kind offers, but he could depend on his own work.

    Through his hard life, he has grown up from boy to man.

    Hi，everyone.My name is Dou Yang. I'm1to see you all.

    I study in Class 1 Grade 7．I work hard and2well with my classmates and teachers．There are many3in our school．I like English and I am in the English Club．Please look at the4of my school in my hand．It's a beautiful school with four buildings and a big playground．5can you get there? Let me tell you．Walk out of the building and tum left．Then go along the street and tum left at the first crossing,and then walk6two traffic lights．Our school is not far(远的)from here．You can 7there．

    Now I'd like to talk about my8this summer．I'm going to Beijing to see the Great Wall with9parents．After that，I'm going to an English summer camp．There I can not only make friends10have a rest．

    Thanks for listening．

    How would you use a radio or a telephone if you had no electricity or batteries? This 1bothered（使烦恼）British inventor Trevor Baylis. Then he made a wind-up（装有发条的）radio. It doesn't need2or batteries. You wind it up3 hand. It plays for about an hour. Then, you wind it up again. Today it's 4 in South Africa.

    Then in 1999, Baylis invented a mobile phone that is powered by5. The shoes contain（含有）a small battery that is powered when you 6. This battery is7 to a mobile phone. These two simple inventions can bring modern communication to all parts of the world.

    Baylis didn't have a university degree in engineering. In 8he left high school before graduating（毕业）. He just loved9 things to help people. He never knew10 ideas would come to him. The idea for the telephone came to him in a dream.

    One cold winter day a little girl and her father arrived in London. Sara Crewe was seven years old. She sat in the taxi next to her father and looked out of the window.

    "What are you thinking about, Sara?" Mr. Crewe asked. "You are very 1." He put his arm round his daughter. "I am thinking about our2in India," said Sara. "I don't think I like 3very much, Father." "But you must go to school in London, and I must go back to India and leave." said the father.

    "Yes, Father, I know," said Sara. "But please come to school with me! I can help you with your lessons."Mr. Crewe smiled, but he was not4. He loved his little Sara very much. Sara's mother was dead, and Sara was his only child.

    Soon they arrived at Miss Minchin's School5Girls and went into the big house. Miss Minchin was a tall woman6a black dress. She looked at Sara, and then gave a very big smile. "What a7child!" she said. Sara stood8and watched Miss Minchin. She thought. "I am not beautiful, so why does she say it?" Sara was not beautiful,9her father was rich. And Miss Minchin liked girls with rich fathers,10it was good for the school. "Sara is a good girl," Mr. Crewe said to Miss Minchin. "Her mother was French, so she speaks French well, and she reads books all the time. But she must11with the other girls and make new friends, too." "Of course," said Miss Minchin. She12again. "Sara is going to be very happy here, Mr. Crewe."

    Mr. Crewe13in London for a week. He bought many beautiful, expensive dresses for his daughter. He bought books, and flowers, and a big14with beautiful dresses, too.

    When Mr. Crewe 15from London, Sara was very sad, but she did not cry. She sat in her room and thought about her father on the ship back to India.

    "Father wants me to be happy," She said to her new doll. "I want to be a good daughter, so I must be happy." It was a very big, and beautiful doll, but of course it couldn't answer. Sara soon made new friends in the school.