Justin was so good at basketball that he could beat any of the older guys at the court, and the younger guys didn't have any chances. But one day everything changed. When Justin was shooting around at the local court, some guys from another neighborhood appeared before him. The biggest one said that he had heard that Justin was the best and he wanted to see if it was true. Justin didn't want to play. But his cousin begged," Come on, Justin, beat this guy!" Justin decided to do what his cousin wanted.

Just as Justin was going to win, the big guy knocked him down hard. Justin broke his right leg. The doctor said he might never play basketball again.

During the first six weeks, Justin just lay in bed with his leg in a long cast. He watched TV all day and ate one bag of potato chips after another. Justinblew up like a balloon as he watched his future fade away as a basketball player.

Then Justin's sister Kiki came home from the university, bringing exciting stories of a far away land called college During those days, they talked and studied together, and Justin felt much better. Because of that, he realized he shouldn't give himself up. Basketball used to be his favorite thing, and he was good at it. But now there was only school, so he had to get good at that.

Justin worked so hard. By the time he got to senior year in high school, his GPA was high. The last thing that Justin had to do to get into college was score well on the ACT. Well wouldn't you know it?

Using the study skills he had learned from his sister, Justin made a score of 24 on the ACT.

Every university that Justin applied to accepted him. When the fall came, Justin had his choice in colleges.

A group of boys stood around a tree. "What a tall tree!" they said to each other. "It would be exciting to climb to the top!"

The group of boys then decided to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree first. Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking on at their children as they played.

One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. Nobody thought he would win.

Then the game started. All of the boys tried their best to climb as high as they could. Although the other boys climbed faster than David in the beginning, he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end.

His mother was proud (自豪的). She asked him. "David, how did you reach the top of the tree so quickly?"

"It was easy," David said. "The other children kept looking down as they climbed. When they knew how high they were, they were afraid of falling down. I, however, looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top."

It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without looking back, we are more likely to reach our goals (目标).

I'm Victor. On my seventh birthday, my mom {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(给) me a book about stars. That was the start of my hobby.

I always went {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(外面) with my mom on clear nights and looked at the sky. In different   seasons, we saw different groups of stars. Sometimes we saw stars shooting across the sky. How{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(美丽的) they were!

Studying the stars was great fun for me. Then I learnt a lot about {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(他们). Now I host a TV show c{#blank#}5{#/blank#} The Sky at Night. I want to tell people about the stars in a great way. I am happy because my TV show started over 50 years {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (以前), and it's still {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(受欢迎的).

Now I am {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(四十) years old. I think you can turn your hobby into your work, too. You just have to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(享受) what you do! Anybody can make his dream come t{#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

It's Friday morning. The weather is cool. Lucy sees her friend Alice." Alice, I'm sorry. I can't go to play table tennis with you tomorrow. I know it's your favourite sport," Lucy says." But can you see that brown dog? It is Mrs Green's dog. Mrs Green wants me to look after(照顾) it tomorrow."

" Oh, what a cute(可爱的) dog! What's her name?" asks Alice.

" Her name is Mona. She is 2 years old."

" Let's play with her tomorrow. I like dogs, too," says Alice.

"OK. That's good!" Lucy says." It's time for school. Let's go now."

Everyone has his or her own experiences and daily routine. Here are three people talking about their daily lives．

I was playing at the front gate, trying to decide whether to walk down the street to play with Jenny, when I saw a poor man coming up the road. 

"Hello, little girl, " he said, "is your mama at home?"

I nodded and opened the gate to let him get in the yard. He looked like all the homeless men who came to my home before. His messy hair hung below a shapeless hat, and his old shirt and trousers had been rained on and slept in. He smelled bad. 

He walked to the door. When my mother appeared, he asked, "Lady, could you spare something to eat?"

"I think so. Please sit on the step. "

Later, my mother came back and handed him a sandwich made from homemade bread and generous pieces of boiled meat. She also gave him a bottle of milk. "I thank you, lady, " he said. 

I played at the gate, watching the man wolf down the sandwich and empty the cup. After finishing the food, he stood up and walked back through the gate. "▲" he told me on the way out. 

Jenny had said all the homeless men told each other who would feed them. "They never come to my house!" she had said proudly and happily. 

"So why does Mama feed the poor man?" I wondered. I walked inside. "Jenny's mama says those men are too lazy to work. Why do we feed them?"

My mother smiled. "Sweetheart, we don't know why these men don't work, " she said, "but they were babies once. And their mamas loved them, just like I love you. " She put her hands on my shoulders and drew me close to her. 

"For me, I fed them for their mothers, because if you were ever hungry and had nothing to eat, I would want others' mothers to feed you. "

I seemed to find out the answer to my question and understand that.