Joe was an old man. The 75-year-old lived very happily in a village and had a beautiful family. Joe had four grandchildren, and they visited him during their holidays.

During one vacation, Joe was preparing his home for the kids: cleaning and buying their favorite foods. After he finished working, he realized he lost his favorite watch. The watch was a gift from his wife when their first child was born. Joe loved the watch very much, especially after his wife's death. He was very upset about losing it.

    Once his grandchildren came, they promised him they would find the watch.

    One granddaughter asked: "Grandpa, do you remember when you saw the watch last before it went missing?"

    "I guess when I was cleaning the barn(谷仓)!" Joe replied.

    The children looked for more than two hours with Joe, but they could not find it. The kids were now also sad, but they tried to comfort(安慰) their grandfather.

    One grandson went back to the barn to search again. Joe asked why he was going there a second time. But the little boy just asked the others not to follow him and to remain silent.

    He was there for about fifteen minutes and then rushed to his grandfather. He found the watch and happily gave it to Joe.

    Joe was surprised and asked how he was able to find it. The little boy replied: "I sat there without making a noise, and the barn was so silent. After a few minutes, I heard the ‘tick, tick' sound and found the watch."

    Joe hugged and thanked the little boy.

    Mary was afraid of the dark. She thought there were terrible monsters（怪物） in the dark. One day her aunt Valerie came to visit. Valerie was a brave woman. Mary wanted to be like her. So Mary asked her aunt, "Are you afraid of the dark?"

    "A lot of times" answered her aunt. "When I was small, I was afraid of staying in the dark."

    Hearing this, Mary felt better.

    "I know a secret not to be afraid of the dark. Some blind children told it to me."

    "Can you tell me?" asked Mary.

    "Of course! The secret is to change your eyes. Because blind children can't see, and their hands are their eyes. At night, if anything makes you afraid, close your eyes, get out of bed, and try to see what it is. But use your hands as eyes..."

    That night when Mary felt afraid of something in the bedroom, she closed the eyes of her face and opened the eyes of her hands. She went to touch it with her hands...

    The next morning, Mary ran into the kitchen.

There was a big smile on her face. "The monster is so lovely," she cried. "It's my toy dog!"

A kind of Happiness in Rongjiang—Watching "Cun Chao"

Li Na is a middle school student. Last term, while she was watching a clothing show on TV, a kind of traditional clothes called hanfu 1 her eye . How she wished to have her own hanfu!

She told her 2 that she wanted one. Her mom thought for a while and said," You can have one if you make 3 by the end of this term." She felt disappointed(失望的) but decided to make it. After that , she studied 4 than before. Whenever she faced difficulties, she tried her best to 5 them. Sometimes she 6 giving up, but she fought on. Then, in the final 7 , she made great progress. And her mom was 8 with her. 9 , the" big" day came. When she got home one afternoon, she saw a beautiful big box on the table:" Wow, hanfu!" Her wish 10 .

On a sunny Saturday, Li Na wore her own hanfu to a park with her family. There,a lot of people were attracted by her 11 including some foreign children. Li Na introduced hanfu to them 12 . She told them that hanfu—a13 of Chinese culture, is getting more and more popular. That day, she enjoyed the beauty of hanfu and experienced the traditional culture.

Looking back at the 14 days, she thinks she has got a lot more than the new clothes. Whenever she sees hanfu, it 15 her that hard work can help people get what they want.

In the final of the men's 100m freestyle at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Chinese athlete Pan Zhanle achieved an unbelievable time of 46.40 seconds, breaking the world record and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}( success) winning the gold medal. This is the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}( nine) gold medal for the Chinese delegation(代表团) {#blank#}3{#/blank#} this Olympics. It's also the first time that a Chinese athlete has won {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Olympic championship(冠军) in the men's 100m freestyle event.

 Foreign reporters {#blank#}5{#/blank#} ( give) high praise to Pan Zhanle since he won the first place. He has become {#blank#}6{#/blank#} ( fast) man in the world now and the most shining Asian star in the swimming pool. After the competition, Pan Zhanle was very proud of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} ( he). He said that this gold medal was of great importance to the country {#blank#}8{#/blank#} it was the first time that a Chinese had created history in this event. Facing the disregard(漠视) of foreign athletes, he responded(回应) with result of breaking the world record {#blank#}9{#/blank#}( answer) everything and winning the recognition (认可) of foreign audiences and athletes. His great achievement {#blank#}10{#/blank#} ( encourage) more and more Chinese kids to learn swimming in the future.

Hi, my name is Jim. I'm 13 years old. And I'm a middle school student. My school is very{#blank#}1{#/blank#} There are two teaching buildings. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} teaching building has 18 classrooms. We have lessons there. And there is also a music room, a reading room{#blank#}3{#/blank#} five labs in the buildings.

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The big sports {#blank#}5{#/blank#} is behind the teaching buildings. We do {#blank#}6{#/blank#}on the sports field every day. On the sports field, we can run, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} basketball and play table tennis and so on.

The {#blank#}8{#/blank#} building is next to the teaching buildings. Teachers plan their lessons (备课) there.

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