Thirty engineers were working as a team in a company. They were young and eager to learn. The management decided to teach them about finding real solutions to problems

    One day, the team was called for a 1in a hall. They were quite surprised and all reached the hall holding various2. As they entered, they found a box placed in the center, full of flat balloons

    The manager asked everyone to pick a balloon and blow it up. Then they were asked to write their names on their respective(各自的)balloons 3so that the balloons wouldn't blow out. All tried, but not everyone was 4. Five balloons blew out due to pressure（压力）.

    Those who failed to mark their names on the balloons were 5 out of the game. As a result, 25 engineers came to the next level. All the balloons carrying their names were 6 and then put into a room, here and there.

    The engineers were told to pick the balloon with his or her name on. All the 25 engineers began to search for the respective balloons in a rush. It was almost 15 minutes but no one was able to 7 the right one. The second level of the game was over.

    Then came the final level, the engineers were asked to pick any balloon and give it to person named on the balloon. Within a couple of minutes, all balloons 8 the hands of the respective engineers.

    The manager announced this was the real solution to the problem. Many times in our life, sharing and helping others give us real solutions to problems.

    Before graduating college, Jackie began to look for a job. She aimed at a famous company, but the 1for such jobs was very strong. The company Jackie chose planned to employ only one person, but more than twenty people applied for the job. 2 , Jackie was one of the three people invited for the final interview. The interview was very   3. The interviewer asked just a few questions and it was all over in less than 10 minutes. Then the interviewer said to them," All of you are very good. Please go home and 4our response. "

    Three days later, Jackie received a message saying she would not be    5the job. She felt deeply disappointed. That evening, however, she received another 6. This time it said that she got the job.

    Jackie later found out that the first message sent to her phone was part of the interview--a 7 to see if she was suitable for the job. All the three people received the 8text, but only Jackie's reply 9 the company. Of the three, one did not reply. The other said "goodbye" and Jackie said "thank you". This reply showed that Jackie was a/an 10person, so the company offered her the job.

She is a young girl. She has sweet and bright smiles like 1angel's. She has short hair and a beautiful face. She is Stephanie. What makes her different from 2 singers? It's her special voice. No one else can sing3 her.

    She was born in Singapore. When she was young, her father told her 4 people should be good at something in their lives, 5they could have something to do as a hobby. She chose 6 to play the piano. She worked hard to play it7.

    She has made eleven albums and 8 many awards 9 she got into the music world. Then she felt 10 because she worked too 11. She stopped 12 for a year. She thought 13 necessary for her to have a good rest and hoped she could make better music when she 14 back. Now she has returned with better music than ever. Today, she is one of the 15singers in Asia.

I have many(许多) teachers now and I like them all, but my favorite teacher is my English teacher, Mary. Mary is from the UK. But she likes China very much. She thinks China is great. She loves Chinese food. Do you know what she likes for breakfast? Bread and milk? No, she doesn't. She only has noodles(面条). Hot pot(火锅) is her favorite and she always eats it on Saturday and Sunday.

Mary has a daughter and a son. Her daughter's name is Ella. Her son's name is Mike. They are8 years old. They go to the same school. They like hot pot, too. They are all in Chongqing now.

We have English from Monday to Friday. So Mary is very busy. But she is always nice and happy. All my classmates like her and her classes very much. She always plays English games and sings English songs(歌曲) with us. We can play games in class, too. It's great fun!

Now I think I can do well in(擅长) English because I have the best(最好的) English teacher.

Yang Weiyun, over 70 years old, is teaching pinyin on TikTok. She also 1 reading and writing. Mrs Yang used to be a Chinese teacher at a primary school for about 30 years and a kindergarten (幼儿园) head for 2 20 years. 

After retiring (退休), Mrs Yang wanted to do 3 meaningful. Then she got the  4 of using the Internet to give lessons. Soon she 5 teaching pinyin on TikTok. At first, her classes were for kindergarten kids who will go to 6 schools next year. However, she 7 found there were more and more adults (成年人) in her" class". And most of them weren't8 to read or write.

"Many adults didn't have any 9 to go to school when they were young. They were afraid to go to new places. They couldn't teach their children at all 10 they knew few characters (汉字). I wanted to give them a new starting point," Mrs Yang said. So she began to teach reading and writing. Most of the adult students are 11 during the day, so they may have no time to have the lesson at 8:30 am. Mrs Yang gives 12 lessons every day. One starts at 8:30 am and the other starts at 8:30 pm. 

Zhang Mei is one of the adult students. She was born 13 the countryside and never went to school. After moving to the city, she found the life really 14 . She often got lost and couldn't find better jobs. Now she can write her name and she 15 more than 300 Chinese characters. She also finds a nice job. 

Mrs Yang says she will keep teaching. 

Once I got lost in the forest with my father. The sky got dark and we were worried，for it was our first time walking into that forest.

We didn't have any tools to show us the direction. My father and I had no choice but to put up a tent near a river to spend the night. When night fell, the stars came out, lighting the whole sky. That was when an idea came to my mind. As a member of the Astronomy (天文学) Club in school, I was able to tell different groups of stars in the sky. If we could find the North Star, we could find out which direction was north.

After I picked out the North Star, we found the north direction. We walked north and then saw a house. We went to the owner of the house to ask for directions. With his help, we made our way out of the forest. From this experience, I learned how important it is to use the knowledge that we have got to solve the problems we meet.