1970 was World Conservation (保护) Year. The UN wanted everyone to know that the world was in danger. They hoped something could be done.

    Here is one example of the problem. At one time there were about 1,300 kinds of plants, trees and flowers in Holland, but now only about 866 are left. The others have been destroyed by modern people and their science. We are polluting earth, air, water and everything around us. We can't live without these things. If things go on like this, we shall destroy ourselves.

    What will happen in the future? Perhaps it's more important to ask "What must we do?". More and more young people have known this. Many of them are helping to save our Earth. For example, they plant trees. In a small town in the United States, a large group of girls cleaned the banks of 11 kilometres of their river. Young people may hear about conversation through an album called "No One's Gonna Change Our World". It includes songs of Cliff Richard and other singers. The money from selling it will help to conserve tigers, elephants and pandas on Earth.

    Adam and his parents buy things in different ways. Adam likes shopping on the Internet on weekends. http: /club. 360 buy. com is his favourite website(网站). He often buys things such as mobile phones(手机)and cameras(照相机)on it He spends about two hundred yuan buying things on it each month. It often takes him three days to get his products.

    But Adam's parents never shop on the Internet. They can't see the real products (产品)and they often worry. Adam's mother likes buying clothes but she can't try them on(试穿) if she buys the clothes on the Internet. So she often goes shopping with her husband(丈夫). There are some shops near their home, so Adam's parents often go there to shop.

The Lost Thing is a famous film. It's a story about a young man and a teapot(茶壶). The young man often wears a pair of glasses. He likes collecting bottle caps when he's travelling around the world. One day, he takes an old train to the beach. He finds a strange red teapot. It is about 4 metres tall. He doesn't know anything about it. But the teapot is very friendly to him. It kicks a colourful ball to the man and they play with the ball all the afternoon. When all the people on the beach leave, nobody takes the teapot away. 

When the sun goes down, the young man starts to know that his friend, the teapot, doesn't have an owner(主人). He thinks, "It might be a lost thing. "He wants to know more about the red teapot, so he picks it up and wants to help it find its owner. Will the teapot find its owner? It's a secret.

In 2010, Justin Horner was driving down a busy freeway in Portland, when his tire(轮胎) blew out. He pulled over to the side of the road and made a(an) 1 that said he needed help.

Three 2 later, a van finally pulled up. Out came a family of 3 . They worked together to 4 Horner's car. They found a log on the side of the road, and using it to lift the car. When they finished, themom pulled out a big bottle of 5 , and they drank and washed their hands.

"I just thanked them and thanked them and thanked them,"Horner recalled."And I tried to give her money. Ionly had a $20 bill, and I just thought, you know, it's the 6 I had with me. And she just 7 take it."

But Horner was adamant(坚定的), and finally he put the money in 8 hand, and walked away. Then he 9 their small daughter call out, to ask Horner if he was 10 . Indeed he was, and she came over with abag of sandwiches. They exchanged thank you, she got into the van, and the family started to 11 .

"12 they're trying to get into traffic, I opened the bag and my money is 13 the bag,"Horner said."

Horner immediately ran over to the 14 , which was starting to pull into traffic, to get the father's attention.

"He rolls down his window. He sees me coming and he's just 15 his head. And I keep saying like, 'Porfavor, por favor'—I'm holding a bill out,"Horner remembered.

"And he just kind of puts his hand up and he just says,"‘Today you, tomorrow me.'"

Do you know that almost each Chinese dish has its own story behind it? Now read the following {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (story) about jiaozi — Chinese dumplings.

The first story of jiaozi is from the Eastern Han Dynasty(东汉). It is about Zhang Zhongjing, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} famous doctor in Chinese history. Zhang made jiaozi by {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (he) for the first time to help homeless people. Thanks to him, a lot of people became much {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (health) in cold winter.

The {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (two) story about jiaozi has to do with Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher(书法家) in ancient(古代的) China. When Wang Xizhi was young, his calligraphy was {#blank#}6{#/blank#} wonderful that many people liked it. Wang {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (think) his calligraphy was good enough and he began to spend little time practicing it. One day Wang saw an old woman making jiaozi. Her jiaozi was in good shape and tasted delicious. Wang Xizhi asked her how long it took her {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (make) such great jiaozi. She said, "Almost my life. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} someone wants to be really good at something, he needs to spend his life doing that." Hearing that, Wang Xizhi knew that he should keep studying calligraphy. He spent all his time {#blank#}10{#/blank#} it and became a great calligrapher.

On a cold winter morning, Mamothy, the lead elephant, set out with her family for breakfast. The cold weather made 1 difficult to find food in the wild. So Mamothy decided to take them to the village where humans lived. When they reached the village, they were 2 .

"Wow! Look! There are so many flowers in this place! How big and colorful they are!" the baby elephants said 3 .

"They don't look like real flowers. Let me find out 4 they are before we eat them," Mamothy told everyone. Suddenly, she saw 5 cow and went to ask her.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, but could you please tell me what 6 ? Mamothy asked when pointing to the colorful things. Is it safe7 them?"

"Oh no! Don't eat them! Humans call them plastic (塑料的) bags. They throw them in a dump nearby. But the wind spreads them all around. You may choke (窒息) to death 8 you eat them." answered the cow.

"How terrible! Thank you for 9 me this." Mamothy went back to her family and told everyone the news.

Then Mamothy said, "Humans' world is too dangerous now but it used to 10 SO safe! What a pity! Tomorrow, we shall all go to another place to look for food." All the elephants agreed and then they seldom set foot on the village.