Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus.

    Finally, there was only one family between the ticket office and us. This family made a big impression on me.

    There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn't have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The children talked excitedly about the clowns. It was clearly a very important day out for them. The father and mother seemed happy as they could be.

    The tickets lady asked how many tickets the father wanted, he proudly answered, "Please let me buy eight children's tickets and two adults' tickets, so I can take my family to the circus."

    The ticket lady told him the price.

    The man's wife lowered her head. There was no longer a smile on the man's face. He quietly asked, "How much did you say?"

    The ticket lady again told him the price.

    The man obviously didn't have enough money. But how could he tell his kids the bad news?

    Seeing what was happening, my dad took a $20 note from his pocket and dropped in on the ground. (We were not rich ourselves at all!) He then tapped the man on the shoulder and said,

    "Excuse me, Sir, you dropped this."

    The man understood my father was helping him. He picked up the money, looked straight into my dad's eyes, and in tears replied, "Thank you. This really means a lot to me and my family."

    Although we did not go to the circus that night, we didn't go without.

If you are planning a trip for this summer, don't miss the grassland tour in Chifeng. The following information in the poster may help you. 

Shashiyu was once a poor village in Hebei Province, but now it has changed into a rich and livable place. 

In the 1940s, villagers in Shashiyu had little food and few clothes, but they had a strong wish for a better life. The Party secretary of Shashiyu encouraged his villagers to do their best to pull themselves out of this poor living condition. "In the ancient Chinese story, Yu Gong could move mountains with his strong will and hard work, why can't we? Nobody was born to be poor. " Hearing his words, the villagers decided to make a difference. 

Led by the Communist Party of China, the villagers carried water and soil to their village from faraway places to improve their land. From 1966 to1971, they reclaimed(开垦) lots of land and greatly improved their lives. 

However, the village faced a new problem 20 years later as the environment became heavily polluted by chemical plants and mine refineries(精炼厂) built in 1990s. The polluting factories were shut down in 2004, and villagers started grape planting, which soon became a main industry in Shashiyu. 

In 2009, the city- level government invested(投资) over 1 million yuan to change the village's exhibition hall into a museum in memory of development efforts made by earlier generations. 

After 10 years, the village was called"National Forest Village". 

The Party secretary said that the village has started a yearly tourism festival since 2015 to attract travellers to pick grapes. "The grapes could be sold at a better price once Shashiyu becomes famous through this festival. Our villagers can then live a even better life, " he said. 

①Many great scientists are left-handed, like Isaac Newton. So, some people say left-handers are smarter than right-handers. Is this true? 

②Scientific studies show that left-handers have no higher IQ(智商)than right-handers. They are just good at different things.

③Left-handers and right-handers usually use different sides of their brains(大脑). Right-handers use the left side more often, which is usually associated(有相关的)with logical thinking, language, and maths. But left-handers use both sides more evenly(均衡地). 

④Left-handers are good at thinking creatively(创造性地)in anything from art to science. But it's not all good news for them. They may easily forget names and places.

⑤Overall, left-handers and right-handers have their own unique cognitive strengths(认知优势), and we should realize and respect these differences.

Many players at the Olympics represent(代表) their countries. However, some players cannot do this because they are refugees. Refugees are people who had to leave their home countries because of war, problems, or being treated badly. There are more refugees now than before.

 To help these players, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made a special team for refugees. This team started in 2016 to let refugees take part in the Olympics. They don't represent any country, but they can still win medals.

 The refugee team first played in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. They also took part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics.

 This year, the team had 37 players from 11 countries. They showed that more than 100 million people around the world who had to leave their homes could still do great things. In Paris, they played in 12 different sports like swimming, running, badminton, boxing, and more.

 The IOC President said that even though these players didn't have a flag or a national anthem(国歌), they were welcomed at the Olympics with the Olympic flag and song. They showed that people could be strong and do well even in difficult situations. This gave hope to many people who had to leave their homes.