As middle school students, we should not only know how to protect  {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (我们). But we should know how to help people in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (苦恼). Zhang Qiang is just the boy who can help himself and others.

    Zhang Qiang is a  {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (有残疾的) student. There is something {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (有毛病) with his left leg. But he never gives up. He often does {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (志愿者) work on weekends.For example, he tells stories to those {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (孤独的) old people in the old people's home. Although it's difficult for him to walk to school, he kept on doing so. At school, he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (和睦相处) on well with his classmates and teachers.He always gets good {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (成绩). He says, “ I should {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (依靠) on myself and {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (尽力) my best to help others.”

    Nobody can be happy all the time. You may become {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (不高兴的) sometimes, for example, when you {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (失败) an exam. Or you may become sad when you lose one of your friends or relatives. It's {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (自然的) to have these feelings. If you don't know how to solve these problems, you may learn something from Jeff.

    Jeff almost went mad when his elder brother died young. He {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (拒绝) to play soccer or go to the movies with his friends. Instead, he just sat in his {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(卧室) and didn't talk to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (任何人), even his parents. Jeff felt that the world was unfair. After a few {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (月), Jeff began to understand it wasn't {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (有用的) to be sad. Now he still misses his brother, but he is beginning to talk to his parents and this makes them happy {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (又). He doesn't stay in his room {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (独自的) any longer. Instead, he goes to the movies or plays sports with his friends and he is feeling better now.

—No problem.

    What will happen if a family is without the Internet for a month? One {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (美国)family decides to find out. They have sent invitation to a leading US television station, expecting that it will send a film group to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (记录)their day-to-day life without technology for a month.

    When the film group meet the Smiths, they find that Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith and their two sons are so crazy about technology that they {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (几乎不)do things together. At mealtimes, no one sits at the dining table for their food. "Everyone just runs into the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (厨房), takes their food and then goes back to their screen," Mrs. Smith {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (解释). “If we always do like this, our family will become strangers to each other!”

    Getting back to the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (正常的)life without the Internet is not easy, especially when the Smiths lose {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(他们自己)in it. They have to make many {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (改变). For example, the two brothers have to go to the school library to borrow books for their scientific projects, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith need to go out shopping. As the family have picked up the new lifestyle, they find that they can spend more time talking over meals, playing sports and doing all kinds of {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(活动)together. Naturally, their life is better than before.