Whenyou enter my home for the first time, you will always be impressed with a smalland white envelope（信封）. No name, no address. Ithas hung on our Christmas tree for about 10 years.

    Itall began because my husband Mike hated Christmas. He didn't hate the truemeaning of Christmas, but the commercial（商业的） way ofit, spending too much on the usual Christmas gifts, such as rushing into astore to buy a tie for Uncle Harry.

    Knowinghe felt this way, I decided not to buy the usual gifts, such as shirts andsweaters. I reached for something special for Mike. The idea came in an unusualway.

    Ourson Kevin, 12, was wrestling（摔跤） at the school. BeforeChristmas there was a match against a team helped by a city church, mostly poorkids. As the match began, I was surprised to see the other team wrestling onlywearing the old clothes because they couldn't afford the wrestling uniforms, whileour boys in their blue and gold uniforms. Of course, we ended up with beatingthem.

    Mike,seated beside me, shook his head sadly," I wish just one of them couldhave won. In fact, they could if they had worn the uniforms. They have talentfor wrestling, but losing like thiscould take the heart right out of them."

    Mikeloved kids-all kids and he knew them, having trained kids football andbaseball. At that time, I thought of the idea for the gift.

    Thatafternoon, I went to a store and bought some wrestling uniforms and sent themto the city church for the kids without leaving my name.

    OnChristmas Eve, I put the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mikewhat I had done and telling him that this was his gift from me. His smile was thegreatest thing about Christmas that year and the next years.

    Yousee, we lost Mike now. But every Christmas Eve I would put an envelope on thetree, and in the morning, three more joined it. Each of our children hadsecretly put an envelope on the tree for their dad.

    Mike'sspirit, like the Christmas spirit, will always be with us.

After winning the under-14 boys' singles (单打比赛) title at the 2022 ASICS Tennis Junior Tour in Guangzhou, Wang Fa {#blank#}1{#/blank#}became popular on the Internet. He is{#blank#}2{#/blank#} as "a basket tennis boy" now. 

Wang is a member of the Va ethnic group (佤族) in Yunnan. In 2016, he was chosen by a tennis {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to learn to play professional tennis. At first, Wang's parents didn't want him to learn tennis because they thought it was too expensive, but the tennis club offered to teach him for {#blank#}4{#/blank#} .

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When people asked him why he carried his rackets in a bamboo basket, he explained he just wanted {#blank#}10{#/blank#}his hometown. For Wang, winning the game was the beginning of a promising {#blank#}11{#/blank#} . "I will head to the top spots on the professional stage," Wang said. 

 Hi there! This is Cangshan and Erhai National Nature Reserve (苍山洱海国家自然保护区). Flowers and trees look great. My name's Li Peipei and I work with birds.

 In the afternoon, I get up at about 4:00, and then at 4:20p. m. I have breakfast. At  5:30p. m. I go into the forest(森林) and look for(寻找) birds. I write their names in my notebook. At 9:30 in the evening I have lunch. I often have hamburgers and bread. Some birds like my bread, too.

 At three o' clock in the morning I say goodbye to birds. From 3:20 a. m. to 5:00 a. m.,I write all the names on the computer. I have dinner at 5:15 a. m. At 5:45 a. m.,I go to bed and sleep.

I sleep in the day and I almost can't see the sun. But working with birds is great fun. Come to our national nature reserve and let's enjoy nature!

Lion dance is a traditional Chinese art form. It 1 during festivals and is believed to bring good luck. 

Many young people start 2 lion dance because of a strong interest in it. Liu Jianyong, born in Foshan, decided to learn lion dance at the age of 10. Now he is the 3 performer in a famous group. In order to follow 4 dream, he trains so hard that he spends almost all his time in training. Although it's easy to get hurt, he never thinks 5 giving up. Finally, his hard work paid off. He won 6 prize with his partner in a national competition. 

Li Xiaorong also 7 lion dance and runs after her dreams. She is one of the 8 of lion dance. Though she doesn't perform the difficult movements, she can still play the drums during a performance.

The young lion dancers also put short videos online to let more people know 9 lion dance is like. These videos give the world a fuller picture of lion dance. 

The young dancers are proud: of what they are doing. As they dance 10 , the young dancers themselves are writing up their own stories of bravery and growth.