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    Mick Polly，an owner of a toy store，lives with his teenage daughter Carolina in Kentucky．He is known as the Bike Man．Over the past five years，Mick has built hundreds of bikes for needy kids．

    One day in 2012，a 13﹣year﹣old boy with a broken bike walked by Mick's house．"I was working in my garage（车库），and he asked if I could fix it，"says Mick，now 53．

    The boy's bike had a broken wheel．Mick sent a post（帖子） on Facebook，asking his friends if they had the needed part．One friend saw the post and gave away two used bikes．Mick took parts from each to build a new set of wheels for the boy．

    Soon after，Mick repaired a bike for the boy's brother and fixed one for his sister．Word spread，and during the year，he had fixed up lots of bikes for local kids whose parents were not able to afford new ones ．

    "People are throwing away bikes day and night，"says Mick．

    Mick puts the bikes and bike parts in his garage．"I take off the good tires or the handlebars or the seats and use them，"he says．

    Up to now，the bike man has repaired hundreds of bikes and given away nearly 700newly repaired bikes．They're free，but the kids must agree to two things：They have to learn how to put waste things to good use and they have to try their best to study in school．

    If a kid's grades are low，Mick requires a teacher's note"saying that you're doing your best，"Mick says．Mick also hopes the bikes will get kids off the sofa．"When I was growing up，we all rode our bikes，"he says．"Hopefully these kids can get some exercise．"

    A well-dressed man goes into a restaurant one day. He sits down at a table near the window. A waiter comes up to him and says, “Can I help you, sir?”

    The man says, “Can I see the menu?” “Certainly.”

    The man wants a good meal and he wants a lot of nice dishes. The waiter gets them for him. The man is having his meals. At this time, a boy comes in and sits beside the man. He asks the man to give him an ice cream. The man does so.

    Now the boy is eating his ice cream. The man says, “I go out for a newspaper.” The man goes out.  After the boy eats his ice cream up, he stands up and goes to the door.

    “Excuse me. Your father doesn't give the money for the meal and your ice cream,” The waiter stops him and says.

    “Father? You are wrong. He isn't my father. I don't know him. I meet him in the street. He says he will give me an ice cream if I come here at 12 o'clock.”

    One rainy evening I went to fill up at the gas station. A poor boy came up to my car and asked me for money to help him and his mother{#blank#}1{#/blank#}in their hotel for another week. They had to leave{#blank#}2{#/blank#}they did not come up with $25. Having worked in social services before, and being a little skeptical (怀疑的) , I asked why his mother hadn't asked social{#blank#}3{#/blank#}for help. The boy said that they needed to{#blank#}4{#/blank#}in their hotel for one more week until his grandmother, who lived out of town, could take them in. I gave the boy what I had—$5. He thanked me and continued to ask{#blank#}5{#/blank#}for help. I got my gas and drove{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. Weeks before, a boy asked me for money and I told him I didn't have any though I did because I didn't believe him.{#blank#}7{#/blank#}, I knew the boy was really poor. "This time," I thought, "I'll do it{#blank#}8{#/blank#}." I went to my bank and got $20, then I returned to the gas station. The boy was {#blank#}9{#/blank#}there. I handed him the $20 bill. He reached through my car window and gave me a{#blank#}10{#/blank#}hug. His hug told me all I needed to know was that finally this kid could get out of the rain.

Eimei,a giant panda that has lived in Japan for 28 years,and his twin daughters arrived in Chengdu from Japan on Feb.22,2023.

Speaking of  Giant panda,people may think it is still a kind of 1 animals. But the good news is,populations are on the rise due to lots of efforts by Chinese conservation programs using new 2  technology.By actively guiding adult pandas to mate(交配),more and more panda babies are being 3 .

But today,there is an even bigger challenge.Baby pandas from these breeding programs are being reintroduced to the 4 ,their native home.The first thing they have to  learn  is  how  to  climb  trees.Because  in  the  forest,they  may  face  5 ,such as other bears.The ability of young pandas to survive in the wild is mainly 6 by their mothers.The most important thing he has learned is great 7 ,a natural instinct(天性)he gets from his wild panda mother.

In 2018,in the Daxiangling Nature Reserve,the Panda Returning Home Project  Pilot  Site  was launched,which  means  giant  panda  reintroduction  went  a  step 8 .This is a long yet hard journey,but no matter how 9 the path to the future is,and how many challenges we will 10 ,we will be with you and accompany you home.

My name is Jack. I'm from England. There is a blue and white building on New Street. Its name is Big Day. My home is in this building. 

In front of the building is a park. Many people are in the park with their dogs. My grandmother is there too. Her dog is brown and white. Behind the building is a hotel. And on the right of the hotel is a theatre. It is not very big. I go there with my parents on Sundays. 

From the building, I can see many shops on New Street. There is a big bookshop on the right. It's my aunt's shop. There is a flower shop on the left. I like flowers. The flowers in my room are all from that shop. 

And there is a bus station near the building. Many buses come every day. My parents take the bus to their offices and I take the bus to school too. It's very convenient to live here. 

Do you know anything about Beijing opera? It is one of the most important traditional cultures in China. In the past, young people weren't {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(感兴趣的) in it. But now, there are more and more Beijing opera {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(爱好者). 

Jack is one of them. He showed it at an important {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(汇演) a few days ago. He did a lot of {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(练习) for the show. When he was on the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(舞台), he was a little nervous but still did a great job. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(每个人) in the audience(观众席) was cheering for him, including his parents. He {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(冲) to his parents after the performance(表演) and asked them how his performance was. They {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(点头) and praised him. After hearing what they said, Jack was so excited. He felt the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(乐趣) of Beijing opera. It's a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(不同的) sound from pop music. But it can also bring happiness to people.