When you wake up every day, once again to see this beautiful world, when your parents, teachers and friends give you help, will you know how to be grateful? And when you feel unlucky and make mistakes, will you still be thankful?

    Yu Dan, a professor at the Beijing Normal University, made a report about Gratitude Education（感恩教育）. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Nowadays, some teenagers only care about things outside. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}For example, they fight each other, use phones in class, be rude to their parents and teachers and so on. Most of them don't know love, respect and gratefulness.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}It is impossible for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time as long as he lives in the world. We should learn how to face failure or bad luck bravely and to try to deal with it. As we know, "Life is a mirror. When you smile in front of it, it will also smile and so will it when you cry to it. " {#blank#}4{#/blank#} If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end.

    I think the teenagers should be grateful to life even when we are unsuccessful or unlucky. We have many reasons for being grateful. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} And it is also a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope.

    If each of us has an attitude of being grateful, we'll lead a better and more beautiful life. So remember, being grateful forever.

A. It will affect Chinese people, especially the teenagers.

B. They don't care about others.

C. If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight.

D. For example, being grateful is a way to communicate with adults.

E. They often behave badly.

F. Being grateful or thankful is very important.

G. Some students love and respect others.

    Last year I was very lucky to have a week's holiday. So I wanted to spend 1 in the best hotel I could find. That was 2 I chose The Haven in a country park. I thought I would be able to escape problems and pressures of daily life. But, just 24 hours after arriving there, my wife and I 3 problems with the restaurant and security.

    We were ready to return to our room when we saw two policemen 4  closely at the building outside. One of them showed us how 5 in through the windows into our room. It seems that the hotel has no locks on the windows. 6 we were a little worried, our concerns were forgotten 7 when we saw a good-sized bed, a flat-screen TV, a spa bath which more suggested a comfortable stay.

    Things started to go from bad to worse the following morning when I found the restaurant only served low-fat meals: six days of rabbit food and only 8 meat and fruit. What had I let myself in for? Nobody had told us what the food 9 like before we booked. I ordered my breakfast 10 my will anyway, but I had waited forty-five minutes for it to arrive. This was not the service 11 I had expected.

    That afternoon, when we returned from a tour around 12 university nearby, we found that nearly £200 13 from our room. The Haven refused to pay back the money. They claimed that they 14 not be responsible for any loss if our window was not locked.

    My holiday was then a total failure. I thought a "haven" was sure to be a quiet and peaceful place. But in fact, I have experienced 15 stress and worry in that one day than I usually do working in the office for a week.

Do you know Kobe Bryant? He was one of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(popular) NBA players. But he passed away on January 26th, 2020. And the bad news made people feel sad and shocked.

Kobe was talented in playing basketball at a very young age. So his father made him go to the basketball club. He was interested in basketball and took it {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (serious). He entered the NBA from high school and spent twenty years {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (stay) with the Los Angeles(洛杉矶) Lakers. With his help, the LA Lakers won the first prize five {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (time). Kobe was not only a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (success) basketball player, but also was a writer. He often told stories to his daughters in his free time. That's {#blank#}6{#/blank#}he wrote a book about a basketball team.

He saw Michael Jordan as his idol {#blank#}7{#/blank#}would like to play a game with Jordan. We all know that Kobe had two different jersey(球衣) {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (number): 8 and 24. Do you know the meaning of the number 24? The meaning is—{#blank#}9{#/blank#}you want to achieve(实现) your dream, you need to work hard 24 hours a day.

Kobe Bryant set {#blank#}10{#/blank#} example for all of us and we will remember him all the time.

It was my first English lesson. The teacher wrote some words and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(句子) on the blackboard and asked us to write them down. Suddenly, I stopped writing. " That's wrong. Is it OK to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(指) out the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(错误)? Is it polite?" Questions like these jumped into my {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(头脑 ). I got nervous and my mouth felt {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(干燥的). After thinking for a while, I put up my hand and looked at Ms Chen. My eyes met {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(她的). " Ms Chen, there is a mistake in your spelling, "I said. " The word 'writing' has only one‘t', but you write a double ‘t'. " " Well done!" Ms Chen praised me and told us, " In {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(事实), it's a lesson for you. It's really {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(重要的) for all of you to think more and question(质疑) in your learning. Learning {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(没有) thinking is of no use. As junior high school students, you should always {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(记住) this and try to think more in your study. "

Yang Le Ge Yang is an interesting matching(配对) game. Many people like to play the game on the computer. But can we use it to learn English?

Xu Yanglan is an English teacher in a high school in Wuhan. She has a good idea about it. She changes the game into Ying Le Ge Yu. It has the same music as that famous game. But the pictures are English words. Students need to remember the English words in the new game. 

"Playing is our favourite way of learning, " Xu said. "When students play games, they are more active in their learning. Some students can learn English words more easily by joining in the game. "

"Now I ask and answer questions actively in the English class because I want to win the game, " Yuan Ruxin says, a student at the school. 

"Teachers usually use games in teaching so they can help students learn better. " Zhong Ruhui, a teacher of the high school, says, "Behind the games, there is always strong love from a teacher for his or her students. "