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It is easy for many people to catch a cold in the springtime or fall. It makes us wonder if scientists can send a man to the moon, why can't they find a cure for the common cold? The answer is easy. There are actually different cold viruses out there. You never know which one you will get, so there isn't a cure for each one.

When a virus attacks your body, your body works hard to get rid of it Blood rushes to your nose and causes a block in it. You feel terrible because you can't breathe well, but your body is actually eating the virus. Your temperature goes up and you get a fever, but the heat of your body is killing the virus. You also have a runny nose to stop the virus from getting into your cells. You may feel very uncomfortable, but actually your wonderful body is doing everything it can to kill the cold.

Different people do different things to deal with colds. In the United States and some other countries, for example, people might have chicken soup to help them get over the cold. Some people take hot baths. Other people take medicine to stop different symptoms(症状)of colds.

There is one interesting thing to note一some scientists say taking medicine when you have a cold is actually bad for you. The virus stays in you longer because your body doesn't have a way to fight it and kill it Bodies can do an amazing job on their own. There is a joke, however, on taking medicine when you have a cold. It goes like this:

It takes about one week to get over a cold if you don't take medicine, but it takes only seven days to get over a cold if you take medicine.

Veronica Cabrera Moreno comes from Houston, USA．With the help of her family, she made an art classroom out of an old school bus.

Veronica, a mother of four, likes painting a lot. She always uses art to make her neighborhood better. One day, she thought, "Why not ask kids to paint on a school bus?" She wanted to make an art bus and began to ask for some donations online.

Soon, Veronica got everything she needed. And her art bus looks very beautiful. There are some desks and chairs in it. All the art supplies in it are free. Children can use colored pens, paper, etc. without paying money. Parents can get on the bus and paint with their children, too. They can have lots of fun there.

"I think art is very important to children," Veronica says. "It is a nice way to express (表达) themselves. And art can help children grow into great persons of tomorrow."

Barry and Ann are twins(双胞胎), but they like different sports. Barry like soccer. He is in the school soccer club,and he plays soccer every day. He has nine soccer balls in his bookcase. He always likes volleyball. He has two white volleyballs and two blue volleyballs. But Ann doesn't like soccer or volleyball. She likes tennis. Tennis is interesting. She is in the school tennis club and she plays tennis every day. She has  seven tennis balls and two  tennis  rackets in her room. She also likes baseball. She has five baseballs—two green baseballs and three yellow baseballs.

I stood nervously behind the red curtain and looked out across the stage (舞台). A girl about my age sat at a piano; I could see her fingertips 1 over the black and white keys in front of her. 

My body froze when the girl stood up from the bench. It was finally my turn. I could hear my heart beating 2 . The girl passed by me with a smile, I heard her say "Good luck"! 

"Well, here goes nothing." I said to3 , 

Then I stepped onto the stage and walked slowly toward the piano. The 4 lights nearly blinded me, making it difficult to see the audience. When I reached the piano, the sounds of whispering soon turned into complete 5 . I stared at my 6 fingers and for a moment my mind went blank! Closing my eyes, I imagined the music sitting in front of me and tried to recall (回忆) every detail. 

Finally, I took a deep breath and began to play Beethoven's Moonlight sonata (协奏曲). My fingers began to 7 over the keys. The rich tones of the piano rang out. One by one, each muscle (肌肉) in my body loosened and 8 . 

All the practice and effort put in for six months showed this was 9 my teacher was pushing for. "Keep your wrists up, relax your arms, don't raise your shoulders. . ." I remembered feeling a bit 10 when hearing these things over and over. But I never realized until now how it really 11 . 

When I reached the end of the piano a great 12 went up from the audience. I rose from the bench and gave a deep bow. A 13 smile lit up my face. As the applause (鼓掌声) 14 I turned and walked to the other side of the stage. I saw a young boy standing nervously behind the red curtains staring fearfully out at the stage. When I walked by, I passed to him the two words that were 15 to me for encouragement: Good luck! 

The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in a town of Seattle, Washington, in the United States. It was a small coffee shop that cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop's business did well, and by 1981 there were three more Starbucks stores in Seattle and they joined into a small company. 

Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year. Howard Schultz met the three men who run （经营） Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen instrument. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, and he was interested in the company. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did and he liked what he saw. He wanted to become part of the company. In 1982, the original (原先的)Starbucks owners chose Schultz as the company's head of marketing. 

In 1983, Schultz travelled to Italy. The special atmosphere(氛围) of the coffee bars there caught his eye. To Schultz, it seemed that Italians spent their daily lives in three places: home, work, and coffee bars. His experience in Italy gave Schultz a new idea for Starbucks back in Seattle. 

Schultz created an atmosphere for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Between 1987 and 1992, Starbucks opened 150 new stores - and that was only the beginning. In fact, by the year 2000, three new Starbucks stores opened somewhere around the world every day!

Today, Starbucks has thousands of stores, including stores in twenty - six countries. One thing that helps make Starbucks succeed in cities outside the United States is the way Starbucks works with local stores and restaurants. By working together with a store already in the city, Starbucks gets an understanding of customers in the city. This understanding helps Starbucks open stores in the right places for their customers.