Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are verybusy trying to make money for my schooling. One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (缝被子). I silently sat beside her.

    " Mum, is there 1 between you and dad?" I asked in a very low voice.

    With surprise in her eyes, she2her work for a while. Then she said, "Susan, look at this thread (线). It can hardly be seen, 3it's really there. It makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, love should be a thread. Love is inside. "

    I couldn't understand her4 the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.

    After they were back, my mother helped my father walk5on the country road every day. They were so kind to each other and it seemed they were the happiest couple.

    After two months my father6couldn't walk by himself.

" Dad, how are you feeling now?" I asked him one day. "Susan, don't7me, " he said, "I just like walking with your mum. I like this kind of life. "8his eyes, I knew he loves my mother deeply.

     Now I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our 9. Love is inside , making life10and warm.

    Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One early morning, I1 a call for a taxi. When I arrived at the building, it was 2:30 a.m. and I found the building was dark except for the only light in a first floor window.

    Many drivers would just shout once or twice and then drove away, but I thought this 2 might need my help. So I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a3, elderly voice. After a long time, the door opened. A small old man showed up before me,4a small bag. He kept thanking me for my5. “It's nothing,” I told him.

    “Oh, you're such a good man.” He said. When we got into the taxi, he gave me a (an)6, and then asked, “Could you drive through the city center?”

    “But it wasn't the7way.” I answered quickly. “Oh, I'm in no hurry.” He said. “I'm on my way to a hospital. I don't have any family left. The 8 says I don't have much time left.

    I 9 started the taxi and shut off the meter(计程器). For the next two hours, we drove through the city center. He showed me the building where he once worked. We drove10 the church where he got married. He would never forget that happy moment. Sometimes he'd ask me to slow down in front of a building and would sit11the darkness for a long time, saying nothing. When the sun began to rise, we drove in silence to the address he had given me. When we arrived,12 without thinking, I gave him a big hug. “You gave an old man a little moment of13. Thank you!” He said with tears in his eyes.

    I was completely lost in thought for the rest of the day. What would happen if I had refused to do14 I did? We always think that there are no15 moments in our lives, but great moments are just in what others may think small and unimportant ones!

Last summer, President Xi Jinping came to Cuiyun Corridor（翠云廊 ） and personally experienced the unique beauty of the ancient cypresses （柏 树 ）, most of which are more than one thousand years old. Cuiyun corridor is a{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(history) path in Jiange County{#blank#}2{#/blank#}is also famous for Jianmen Pass（剑门关 ）. It was built in the Qin and Han dynasties. People planted more trees along the road and repaired it in the following dynasties. This effort is now {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(know) as Cuiyun corridor. 

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Cuiyun Corridor. However, they managed{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(escape)with their intelligence . According to the legend, during their escape, Liu Bei and Guan Yu used the dense（茂密的） cypress forest on both sides of Cuiyun Corrior to cover their positions from the chasers（追兵）. 

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I'm Nancy. I live in a small but nice {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. In the center of our town is a hotel. It's on Center Street. The police station is on the{#blank#}2{#/blank#}, too.

 There are all kinds of shops in town. I {#blank#}3{#/blank#} buy food in Alan's food shop. And {#blank#}4{#/blank#} from the food shop, there is a pet shop. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the pet shop is a shoe shop. We also have a bank. It's near the pet shop. People can keep their {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in it. And next to the bank, there are two {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, Their food is very delicious and we can have {#blank#}8{#/blank#} drinks there. The clothing shops and the post office are in the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} of the town.

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I love my beautiful town!

Chinese tennis player Zheng Qinwen has made Olympic history. She became the first Chinese player to win an Olympic tennis singles gold medal on August 3^rd, 2024. Now she is known as "Queen Wen" online. 

The 21-year-old tennis star was born in a sports family in Shi Yan, China. When she was a child, she liked exercising. When she went out with her father, she always walked or ran instead of taking the bus. She said, "Walking and running are good exercise. They make me healthy. And I can attend(参加) the Olympics when I'm older. "At the age of eight, her father took her to Beijing to watch the Olympics, she showed great interest in tennis. After getting back, she left home and began to train tennis in Wu Han. "My father, I didn't see him for more than one year because during my childhood I didn't have much time to spend with the family together. " Zheng Qinwen shared. 

One of her biggest inspiration(激励) was tennis legend Li Na. Li Na became the first Chinese player to win Grand Slam Singles title(大满贯单打冠军) in 2011. Zheng told the Tennis Channel how important it was for her. "Li Na won her first Grand Slam and I started thinking, ‘Oh, Asian (亚洲) players can also do something good in tennis. ' And then I think that she put a little seed(种子) in my heart that I also want to do it. I want to be like her, even better. " She was also inspired by one of the greatest tennis players Roger Federer, playing at the 2008 Beijing Games. 

Zheng made her first WTA(国际女子网球协会) debut in 2021. She broke into(闯进）the top 100 in 2022. Since then, she has made a Grand Slam final and ranked(排名) as high as No. 7 in the world. And with her winning at the Olympic, more and more Chinese begin to play tennis. 

Once upon a time, there lived a woodman(樵夫) in a village. One day, he went to the forest to cut wood. He worked very hard. At midday, his cart (马车) was full and he felt thirsty(口渴的), so he decided to go back home. On his way home, he saw a teahouse. He stopped his cart and walked into the teahouse. Before he could take a cup of water, he found his wood burning. He shouted, "Oh, no! My wood is on fire!"

"What can I do?" the man thought. Soon he took his cup, rushed out of the door, and poured the water on the fire. However, instead of being put out, the fire got bigger and bigger.

 The man was very sad. A passer-by(过路人) saw that and said, "How can you put out the fire with a cup of water? You' re just making useless efforts."

 This story is used to say that the effort is too small to solve the problem. In fact, we should choose proper ways to solve problems.