Japanese table tennis Star Ai Fukuhara(福原爱)stopped playing as a professional (专业的) player on October 21, 2018.

    Fukuhara was born in Sendai, Japan, in November, 1988. She began playing table tennis at the age of three. She became a professional player at the age of ten. In 2000, she became a member of the Japanese national(国家的) team. She was the first person to be in the Japanese national team at such an early age. Because of it. people called Fukuahara "Child prodigy(神童)" in table tennis in Japan, As the Japanese young players are doing very well., She said she could now leave the team but still hoped to do something helpful to table tennis.

    Fukuhara went to China for training (训练) at a very young age and can speak good Chinese, She Spoke Chinese so well that people even thought she was born in China. In 2008, Fukuhara held the national Flag for Japan at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She and her partner won the third place, after South Korea and China. Jukuhara with her team—mates won the second place at the London Olympics in 2012 and the third place at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

Tom was an eight-year-old boy. He came to a new town with his parents. His family was very rich(富有的). They lived in a big, beautiful house with a big garden. There was a driver, a cook, a gardener and a lot of servants(佣人).

Tom was going to a new school. On the first day, his mother said to him, "Tom, be modest(谦虚的) at school. Don't say we are rich. "Tom said, "All right, Mum. "Then he went to his new school.

He met his new teachers and classmates. The teacher said, "Good morning, boys and girls! This is Tom, your new classmate. Now let him introduce himself to you. "

Tom stood up and said, "My name is Tom. My family is poor. My father is poor. The gardener is very poor. The cook is poor. And all the other servants are very poor too. So I am a poor boy……"

Once a man went to the doctor in his village and said, "Sir, the thoughts in my mind are always bothering（使烦恼） me. Please1 me. "

The doctor gave him the2 of another doctor and said, "Go to his house and live with him for a month. Look carefully at his lifestyle. There you will3 how to solve your problem. "

The man went to the doctor's house and told him, "The doctor in my village asked me to4 with you and learn about your lifestyle. " The doctor5 . 

Days went by, and the man found there was nothing6 about the doctor's lifestyle. He talked to the doctor, but he didn't find anything to learn from their talks either. The only thing the man couldn't7 was that the doctor washed all his plates at night and he washed them again the next morning. 

One day, the man asked the doctor about it. 

The doctor replied, "I do this8 it's necessary to make sure the plates are not covered with dust（灰尘）. Since a little bit of dust falls again on them during the night, I wash them again in the morning. 9 is your problem. Clean your mind at night and clean it again in the morning. 10 the mind will become pure（纯净的） and not bother you anymore. Regular（有规律的） cleaning of mind is very important to a happy life. "

Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. No one knows the exact date of Christ's birth, but most Christians celebrate it on December 25th. On this day, many people go to church，they can take part in special religious services. In Britain, Christmas dinner is eaten at noon. During the Christmas season, they also exchange gifts and decorate their homes. 

One German couple tried their best to prepare for their Christmas decorations in a different way. Thomas and Susanne decorated the outside of their house with a few simple Christmas decorations. From the outside, their house looks normal. However, the inside of the house is so different from the outside. 

They started decorating in October. It took them 8 weeks to set everything up. They put 100 Christmas trees into their small house! They decorate the trees with small coloured electric lights and 16, 000 baubles. 

They did not always have so many trees. In the beginning, they had a small Christmas collection. As time went on, they grew their collection rapidly. They started decorating in early October . It's so special even the bathroom has a Santa Claus toilet seat. 

Jenny was a student in my class. She lived in a happy family. She had three sisters and she was the youngest, She seemed to be glued(粘合) to her mother's skirts. Her three older sisters took the bus to school every morning, but she was always driven to school by her mother. 

One Friday, Jenny's mother said to me, "My husband and I have to be away to Europe on business for two weeks. I am very worried about Jenny. She is so young and weak. Will you please help me look after her while we're away?"

As a mother of a kid, I knew how worried a mother would be if she was away from her child. "Don't worry! I'll try my best to take good care of her, "I said. I even volunteered to say that I would wait for Jenny at the school gate every morning to give her a familiar(熟悉的) face. 

I waited at the school gate to meet Jenny the next Monday morning. When the bus arrived, Jenny and her three sisters got off. I was surprised to see a happy girl, not a sad, crying girl. I called Jenny over to ask her how the bus ride was going. "Very interesting!" she said. "I always wanted to take a bus with my sisters, but Mum was always together with me. You see there isn't any baby in our family now. I can take a bus without Mum. I'm no longer a kid. "