When was the last time you gave or received a hug（拥抱）？ Do your parents hug you before you go to school？ In Western countries, it is quite common to greet close friends or relatives with a hug.

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{#blank#}2{#/blank#} After coming to China, I've noticed that the Chinese seem unwilling（不愿意）to hug.

My Chinese friends tell me that hugging is considered to be very intimate （亲密的） in their culture. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Chinese people don't usually hug in public. But people's attitudes towards hugging can also change.

I remember watching a video story about a "hugging party" that was held in shanghai.. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} The Chinese who took part in the party looked uncomfortable. However, after the party, several of them changed their minds. They found that hugging didn't have to be embarrassing and could actually be quite nice.So next time you see your parents, give them a hug and see how it makes you feel.

Humans are mammals (哺乳动物). Most mammals are born able to do many things.

Some can walk within a few minutes of being born. They have to be able to run away if 1 is near. But human babies are born 2. They need the care of adults to live.

In the first month of life, babies can not smile or sit up. They can not even hold up their own heads 3 some help from grown-ups.

In the next few months, babies grow a lot. They learn to roll over, support their heads, and 4 sit up while being held.

Babies also have to learn to use their 5. It takes months for them to learn to reach for objects. At around six months old many babies can 6 an object from one hand to another.

Babbling is 7 a human baby learns to speak. Babies all seem to make similar sounds by babbling. They try to imitate (模仿) the sounds they hear from adults. It will take about nine months 8 a baby can say real words.

Somewhere around a baby's first birthday he or she may stand or walk with help. Soon the baby will 9 around on his or her own!

The first year of a baby's life is a time of growing and 10. Growing sure takes a lot of work!

Dick is a middle school student. He hasn't got a good life style. He always goes to school w{#blank#}1{#/blank#} breakfast or if he is hungry, he usually has some fast food. His mum asks him to eat h{#blank#}2{#/blank#} food, but he never listens to her. For his twelfth birthday, his father bought him a computer as a present. S{#blank#}3{#/blank#} then, he hasn't done much exercise. He spends much of his free time in front of the computer. "Dick, you shouldn't play computer games too much. It's h{#blank#}4{#/blank#} to your health," his father said to him. But Dick didn't pay attention to his father's words. One day, he had a h{#blank#}5{#/blank#} and his stomach a{#blank#}6{#/blank#} so much. He went to see the doctor. The doctor took his t{#blank#}7{#/blank#}, but he didn't have a f{#blank#}8{#/blank#}. When he told the doctor that he liked fast food and spent much time on computer games, the doctor knew his P{#blank#}9{#/blank#} and gave him some a{#blank#}10{#/blank#}: Stop eating fast food and spend more time outside.

Quan Hongchan is a famous Chinese diver (跳水运动员). {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is only sixteen years old. She was born{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Zhanjiang, Guangdong. Quan Hongchan started to learn to dive {#blank#}3{#/blank#} she was seven years old. In 2018, she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the Guangdong diving team. She {#blank#}5{#/blank#} three years there before joining the national team at the end of 2020. At Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the gold medal in the 10-meter women's diving platform (平台) game. This is China's first gold {#blank#}7{#/blank#} in diving. She said "I love diving very much. My family is not very {#blank#}8{#/blank#} and my mother was ill. I want to make money to help my family, so I must work {#blank#}9{#/blank#} every day."

With her hard work, we are sure that she will do better in the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. Let's give best wishes to her!

I walk near my house，and I see a man sitting on the ground，hitting（敲打）some﹣thing with a stone. I ask him what he does. He answers he is hitting some bread. He wants to make food for the birds. The large bread is difficult for the birds to eat，so he hits it into small pieces. 

He does it every night by himself. He doesn't understand why we are interested in the thing he is doing. For him，it is just a small thing. He also leaves（留下）some water here for the birds. 

I ask him why he does this. He says， " It's just something small I do so that the bread won't become litter but food for birds. "I tell his story to my friends. I hope it can encourage（鼓励）many people to start something like this. 

If everyone does such a thing，our world may become good and beautiful. 

Are you able to hang (悬挂) clothes? Are you able to put a nail (钉子) into the wall? For many people, doing these things is quite easy. But how do people who have trouble using their hands do these things? Well, they can use artificial (人造的) hands to help them out.

In Suzhou, some engineers are busy making a special hand better. The special hand is helpful and people can control it with the electrical signals (电信号) which come from their bodies.

These engineers hope to make it much better for Xu Min, who lost her right forearm in an accident in 1992. The woman wore the hand to take part in the Cybathlon Challenges in February. She finished tasks like hanging clothes, putting a nail into the wall and taking a nail out of the wall.

"These things are common in our daily lives and people want to test if the special hand, which was created by humans, can work just like a real hand," Xu said. Because she won the competition (比赛) in February, she was more confident about entering the October global finals — Cybathlon2024 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Cybathlon is the top event in the area. The event was first held in 2016. It takes place every four years. The competition tries to create a world without difficulty for people like Xu. In October, the competition will draw many teams from across the world.

Xu was a little nervous about competing with other people and companies from her country and other places. However, she and her team wanted to show their new product and how humans and machines could work together. Xu said she couldn't wait to get the hand ready and start the training.