Once upon a time there lived a wise king who wanted to marry off his favorite daughter. He 1 how he could find the right person. Finally, the king had an 2. He decided to hold a contest(比赛) to decided which gentleman would achieve this great honor. The king ordered that anyone 3 wanted to marry the princess must report to the palace. To win his daughter, a man must fill up a whole room with a(an) 4 thing very quickly.

    The first brave man anived at the palace. He brought bags full of feathers. With great 5, he started to fill the large room with feathers, but time ran out and he failed.

    The next day, 6 young man tried to quickly fill the room, this time with beautiful silk. Time ran out again, and he left the palace 7.

    The contest went on day afterday, 8 contestants hoped to pass the test but no one 9. The king began to lose heart. Wasn't anyone in the kingdom qualified(有资格的)to many the beautiful princess?

    One day, a young man arrived at the palace empty-handed. The king wondered how this man planned to win the contest. Entering the room, the young man 10 the lights. He reached into his pocket, got a small 11 and lit it. In no time, the light filled the whole room.

    The king was very happy because he had found the perfect match for his lovely daughter.

    To get through a problem, sometimes we must 12 the way we're thinking about it. We need to re-educate ourselves by looking at the problem in a different way.

    A businessman, who was very fond of music, was asked by a poor woman to give her some help. Her husband, a great1, who was talented in music, had died, and left her very poor indeed.

    The businessman saw that the woman and her2, who was with her, were in great sadness. He looked with pity into their pale faces, and3that their sad story was true.

    "How much do you want, my good woman?" said the businessman.

    "4dollars will save us, " said the poor woman. With some hesitation（迟疑）. The businessman sat down at his desk, took a piece of paper, wrote a few lines on5, and gave it to the woman with the words," Take it to the6you see on the other side of the street."

    The grateful woman and her daughter, without stopping to read the note, ran to the bank 7. The banker at once counted out8 dollars instead of five. And then he passed them to the woman.

    She was9 when she saw so much money. "Sir, there is a mistake here," she said. "You have given me fifty dollars,10I asked for only five."

    The banker11the note once more, and said, "The check calls for fifty dollars."

    "It is a mistake-indeed it is," said the woman.

    The banker then asked her to wait for a few12, while he went to see the businessman who gave her the13.

    "Yes," said the businessman, since he had heard the banker's story," I did make a14.I wrote fifty instead of five hundred. Give the poor woman five hundred dollars, because she is such a(an)15woman that she should get even more." At that time, the banker understood why the woman could get much more than she asked for.

    One day, a monster (怪兽) from outer space attacks (攻击) Earth. It even beats Superman. 1 world leaders call on people to make a super robot to drive the monster away.

    McDull is an ordinary (寻常的) piglet growing 2 in a fishing village. His 3 is to be an inventor(发明家). He wants to 4 the Earth. What can he do?

    Finally, McDull gets a good 5. He makes 6 rice cooker (电饭煲) into a 7 and calls it Rizo. Everyone in the 8 helps to make it. The robot wins the competition!

    Now, the task of saving the 9 falls on McDull and Rizo. Will they be able to do it? Go and 10 the movie McDull, Rise of the Rice Cooker (《麦兜：饭宝奇兵》).

"I killed the wrong goose (鹅), " a man complained in his letter about the Xinhua Dictionary. It was the 1970s. The man wanted to kill a male goose. He didn't know the difference between male and female goose, so he turned to the dictionary for help. It read, "The male geese have a yellow bump on their head."

The man chose a goose that matched the description. But when he opened its stomach, many eggs poured out, and the man was angry. 

The dictionary wasn't totally wrong. However, it didn't make it clear that all geese have a yellow bump on their head. Males have just bigger ones. The dictionary's editors corrected it in the next edition (版本) . 

Since its birth in 1953, the Xinhua Dictionary has been used as an encyclopedia (百科全书) by people across China. More than 600 million copies have been sold. 

In 1949, about 80 percent of China's population was uneducated. Xinhua Dictionary succeeded in opening up knowledge to millions of Chinese people. "I had no education when I was little. The dictionary helped me get into high school. " Said a woman in her 50s. 

Over the past 50 years, the dictionary has been improved in each edition. "鲟"was once explained as"can be eaten". Later editions made it clear that it was "an animal in danger". The meaning of "豹"is no longer "wild animals whose fur can be made into clothes". New editions have included many new meanings. The character "晒" (to dry something under the sun) , for example, now has a second meaning: to share. Popular expressions like "初心"have also been added to dictionary. 

In a way, Xinhua hasn't just explained words; it has shaped the way Chinese people think. According to an article in Southern Weekly, "When children write about a spring outing, the sky is always ‘cloudless for ten thousand miles'. They will always ‘sing and dance' on the way. " "Both sentences, " the editor added, " are from examples in the Xinhua Dictionary."

Henry is a tall and strong man. But he used to be very thin when he was in middle school. Because of this, he 1 by some schoolboys. They made fun of him. His parents were worried 2 him. So he decided to do something 3 this situation in college.

Henry joined a sports club in his college. He stayed in 4 sports club from 6:00p. m. to 8:00  p. m. every day. He lifted light weights (哑铃) at first and then moved on to heavier ones. Every three weeks, he increased the weight he lifted by five 5 . He swam, ran or played basketball every morning. 6 he took exercise, he always drank some milk. It helped him get a lot of energy.

Henry also changed his eating habits. He 7 eating foods such as beef, chicken, eggs and brown rice. Eating these foods made him become healthy and worked 8 .

One year later, Henry wasn't thin any longer. He was strong and 9 laughed at him in college. He felt much 10 than he used to be.

Henry's change encouraged him a lot. He created a program teaching middle school students how to get stronger. He also joined talk shows and wrote books about his experience.

 From voluntarily collecting historical materials related to the Great Wall in his Shanxi hometown in Province to becoming an official cultural heritage protector, Yuan Xuerui has spent over twenty years safeguarding the ancient wonder.

 China's Great Wall is one of the great wonders of the world and also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built from 3 BC to the 1800s on the north of the country, the Great Wall has a total length of more than 20,000 kilometers.

 Yuan, 55, was born in Qingxibao at the foot of the ancient wall in Shanxi' s Daixian county, which is part of the city of Xinzhou. His love for the ancient wall motivated(激励) him to protect it, and when not engaged (从事) in farm work, he spent most of his time walking along the wall to collect bricks that had fallen off due to the long time and prepare for repairs. "What others think as a difficult and dull task of cultural heritage protection often brings me unexpected discoveries," Yuan said.

 He officially became a cultural heritage worker in 2018, and since then his duties have expanded from collecting bricks to organizing ancient documents related to the wall to better tell stories about it. As a heritage worker, Yuan has come to understand the meaning of the Great Wall."Each brick has endured(忍受) the test of time over hundreds of years — in some cases more than a thousand— carrying rich historical memories," he said.

 This summer, Yuan organized a campaign to call for people to collect bricks for the future repair of the wall. Many bricks were taken away from the Great Wall by local villagers to build their houses in the 1960s and 1970s. "As villagers' awareness of the need to protect the wall has grown, nowadays, when locals find fallen bricks along the Great Wall, they will pick them up," he said. "If they see garbage, they will also pick it up and throw it into bins."