A friend wrote me a letter a few weeks ago. He felt1at the time. He2his letter with this question: "We can't really change this crazy world we live in, can we?" I3to him and started my own letter with these words: "Yes, we most certainly can!"

    I can still remember someone who changed my world. She was the4teacher at my primary school. I liked her music class and I wanted to impress her.5, I didn't know how to play any instruments.

    One day, she let me try playing her guitar. I6my best, but could only stumble along(断断续续地弹奏). When I finished playing, I put my7down. "I guess I am not very good," I told her. She looked at me with her 8eyes, smiled at me and said, "We are all good at something. You just need to find out9you are good at. Then, you can share it10the world."

    11simple words changed me. They12a seed(种子)in my heart that continues to grow to this day. They made me realize that I had something good inside of me. I just had to find it and share it.

    Can you change the world? Yes, you can! You can change it13one choice, one person or one kind act at a time.14you have to do is to share your goodness. Mother Teresa once said, "God doesn't ask us to do15things, but small things with great love." So make your love great!

Li Wen is a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}15 -year-old boy from the countryside. When he was a little boy, he seldom cause any problems. However, things began to change a few years ago. His parents moved to the city to look for jobs and his grandparents came to take care of him. But he missed his parents so much and he often felt lonely and unhappy.

Li Wen's unhappiness {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to influence his schoolwork. He became less {#blank#}3{#/blank#}in studying. Sometimes he was absent from classes and failed his examinations. Finally, Li Wen's parents made the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to send him to a boarding school. However, Li Wen was shy and not {#blank#}5{#/blank#}to make friends quickly. He found life there difficult. One day he told his teacher that he wanted to leave the school. His teacher {#blank#}6{#/blank#} him and she called his parents to come here." It was exactly what I needed," he said. After that, Li Wen's parents had much more {#blank#}7{#/blank#} with their son than they used to." I'm much {#blank#}8{#/blank#} now and I work even harder than I used to." said Li Wei.

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835,in the state of Missouri. When he was four, his family moved to the town ofHannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a port on the Missippi River, and Clemensloved to watch the big steamboats going up and down the river. He said that allthe boys in his school had one ambition in life: to work on a steamboat!

    His father died when he was just 12 yearsold, and Clemens then went to work for a printer to help support his family. Hetravelled around, and worked in many different cities. But when he was 22, heachieved his ambition—he got a job working on a steamboat. He sailed up anddown the wide Missippi River until the American Civil War began.

    He then moved around America, and triedseveral jobs. He was a soldier, and a silver miner. Then he started working asa writer for a newspaper. It was at that time that he decided to use a pen namefor his stories, and he chose the name "Mark Twain".

    The name is interesting. It comes from hisdays on the steamboats. He used to throw a piece of rope into the river. Therewas a heavy weight on the end of the rope, and the rope had some marks on it.He used the rope to find how deep the river was. Then he shouted out, "MarkOne" or "Mark Twain", meaning "Mark Two". Each markwas about two metres, so when he shouted "Mark Twain", it meant thatthe river was deep enough for the big boat.

    In 1865 Clemens wrote a story about ajumping frog. The story and the writer became famous. In 1867 he toured Europe.He married when he returned, and lived for most of the rest of his in Harfort,Connecticut. He wrote many books, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, whichhe wrote in 1876. He also gave many lectures, and became a very famous andpopular man.

    Once two of his friends decided to write tohim, but they had lost his address. So on the envelope they just wrote "MarkTwain, God knows where". Several weeks later, they received a replay fromthe writer. It just said, "He does!"

    Samuel Clemens died in 1910. He isconsidered to be one of America's most important writers.

Do you like watching old movies? Maybe you will see one with Carole Lombard. She was a famous actress in the 1930s. She died when she was only 34 years old. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

Lombard's real name was Jane Alice Peters. In 1921, she was playing baseball in the street near the home. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} She was only 13 at the time. The movie was one of the last movies without sound. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} At 16, she left school to act.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} The studio gave her a new name, and she acted in several films. Then at the age of 18, she was in a bad car accident. The accident left scars on her face. The studio broke the agreement, but she did not give up. She continued to act.

It was Paramount Studio that make Lombard a star. She made many movies for the studio. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Lombard was married to actor William Powell for only 23 months. But seven years later, she married the great love of her life, actor Clark Gable. It was a great Hollywood love story.

A. She acted so well that she won the hearts of some people.

B. She also married two of their stars.

C. In her short life she made 70 movies.

D. In 1925, she had an agreement with a film studio, 20^th Century Fox.

E. She wanted to live a simple life.

F. A movie director (导演) saw her and decided to put her in a movie.

Almost every Saturday morning, Molly pulls a table into her front yard. On the table she lays out some 1 in season, such as carrots and tomatoes. They are all from her garden and free for her neighbors to 2 . "It's just lovely, like you walk by and get a beautiful gift around the corner," said a neighbor.

Molly started doing this in the summer of 2020. Earlier that year, a fire broke out in her house. Molly's 3 had a hard time. "People in the community came to 4 . They brought us food and often called to make sure we were doing fine. I was deeply 5 ," Molly said.

Then the pandemic(疫情) came. Molly and her family had much time to 6 in their garden. They decided to 7 what they grew in their garden.

 No one knew about it at first. But 8 , people got into the habit of coming around. They would stop by and leave with some vegetables. Molly's yard became a 9 place.

One thing Molly has learned from this experience is that people have to work together when days are 10 . She is glad that love has spread in this community.

Kuang Heng was born in a poor family. He liked reading books very much. He needed to work at daytime, so he had to read books during night. But he was too poor to buy candles. 

One day, he found his neighbor had candles, but the light couldn't go through his room. So he dug a small hole on the wall so that he could use the light to read books. From that day, he read books every night until the light went out. 

However, he finished reading all his books and there were no books for him to read. Then he went to a rich man's house and worked for him without payment. The rich man asked: "Why don't you want the money?"

Kuang Heng said: "Because I only want to borrow your books." The rich man agreed. Kuang Heng read the books one by one. 

Because he tried to get over difficulties and worked hard, he became a great scholar（学者）at last.