NO matter what happens,I'll always be there for you!

    In 1989, an8.2earthquake almost destroyed America, killing over 30,000 people in less thanfour minutes. In the midst of utter devastation and chaos, a father left hiswife safely at home and rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be,only to discover that the building was as flat as a pancake.

    After the unforgettablyscare, he remembered the promise he had made to his son: "No matter what,I'll always be there for you!" And tears began to fill his eyes. As helooked at the badly damaged building that once was the school, it lookedhopeless, but he kept remembering his promise to his son

    He began to direct hisattention to where he walked his son to class at school each morning.Remembering his son's classroom would be in the back right comer of thebuilding, he rushed there and started digging through the ruins, As he wasdigging, other helpless parents tried to pull him off what was left of theschool, saying," It's too late! They're all dead! You can't help! Co home!Come on! Face reality. Here's nothing you can do!

    To each parent hereplied with one line, "Are you going to help me now?" And then hecontinued to dig for his son, stone by stone. The firefighter leader showed upand tried to pull him off the school's ruins saying, "Fires are breakingout. Explosions are happening everywhere. You are in danger. We'll take care ofit. Go home." To which this loving, caring American father asked,"Are you going to help me now?" The police came and said, "You'reangry, worried and it's over. You're making others in danger. Go home. We'llhandle it!" To which he replied, "Are you going to help me now?"No one replied.

    He went on alone becausehe needed to know for himself "is my boy alive or is he dead?" He dugfor eight hours … 12 hours ... 24 hours … 36 hours … then, in the 38th hour, hepulled back a large stone and heard his son's voice. He screamed his son'sname, "Armand!" He heard back, "Dad? It's me, Dad! I told theother kids not to worry. I told them that if you were alive, you would save meand when you saved me, they'd be saved. You promised, no matter what happens,you'll always be there for me. You did it, Dad!" "What's going on inthere? How is it?" the father asked, "There are 14 of us left out of33, Dad. We're scared, hungry, thirsty and thankful you're here. When thebuilding fell down, it made a triangle, and it saved us."

    "Come out,boy!" "No, Dad! Let the other kids out first because I know you'llget me! No matter what happens, I know you'll always be there for me!"

Zhi Nong was born in a small town in Yunnan Province. When he was young, he moved to Kunming with his mother. Feeling like a caged (笼中的) bird in a big city, he was bored with the busy and noisy city life and looked forward to nature. 

His chance soon came. In 1983, he helped shoot (拍摄) a documentary about birds. That experience led him to learn photography and take photos of flying birds. 

In the 1980s, the Internet was not that popular in China and cameras were expensive. He managed to borrow a camera and threw himself into studying how to use it. During that time, the library became his favorite place where he first read some magazines about nature. It opened a door for him to connect with nature. 

In 1992, a research program was set up to protect a type of unusual monkeys which only live in China. Usually, the home of these monkeys has half-a-year-long winters. It created great challenges for Zhi Nong's work, but he never drew back. "I didn't see the monkeys in the wild until I went into the mountains the third time," said Zhi Nong. He went into the snow mountains six times just to get valuable photographs of monkeys. 

Three years later, his works won international prizes. People around the world began to pay attention to the protection of wild animals in China. And he is the first Chinese winner of the world Wildlife Photographer of the Year. 

In order to call up tons of people to protect wildlife with cameras, he started "China Wildlife Photography Training. Camp". He hopes that more young people will join in for the nature protection. 

 (The four kids are talking on WeChat.)

Li Lei: Hi, everyone. I'm sorry that I can't go to the history museum with you today. As you know, it started to rain heavily at 7 o'clock yesterday evening. Bad luck! At that time, I was on my way home from the supermarket. I didn't take an umbrella with me, so I got wet all over. I've got a cold. By the way, what were you doing at 7 o'clock yesterday evening?

Liu Tao: Sorry to hear that, Li Lei. You'd better lie in bed and have some rest. Be sure to drink much water. At 7:00 p.m. yesterday, I was watching a game show with my brother on TV.

Wang Qiang: I hope you are not having a fever. If so, you'd better go to see a doctor and take some medicine. Yesterday evening, I took my pet dog Pipi for a walk in the city park. But we got home at a quarter to seven. So, we didn't get wet.

Li Sui: What a pity that you can't go with us! It is a fine day today. I hope you will get better soon. You know, I like painting in my free time. At 7:00 p.m. yesterday, I was painting a tower.

Mr. Smith made a robot, but he could only say one sentence. That is "You are quite right." The robot always said the same words when someone spoke to him.

One day, Mr. Smith needed lots of money, so he took the robot to the market to sell him. There were many people in the market. "Who will buy my robot? He is very smart," he shouted (叫喊). "Nine hundred dollars for my robot!"

A man was surprised that he was asking for so much money. "Is it different?" he thought. Then he spoke to the robot, "Are you worth (值得) nine hundred dollars?" "You are quite right," answered the robot.

The man liked the robot's answer so much, and he bought him and took him home. But soon he found that the robot couldn't say anything. He was sorry he bought the robot. He stood in front of the robot and said, "How foolish (愚蠢的) I was to spend so much money on you!" "You are quite right," said the robot.

Angel and Pat are sisters. They were born on the same dry. Angel is twelve years old and Pat is eight years old. There {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a supermarket near their house. They often go shopping there. They like {#blank#}2{#/blank#}food. Pat likes salty (咸的). Angel likes sweet food.  Today is their birthday. Their parents want to give them a meal {#blank#}3{#/blank#}their birthday. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} here is the problem. The two {#blank#}5{#/blank#} like different food. Pat would like to eat salty fish. Angel {#blank#}6{#/blank#}to eat a cake. Pat asks her mother {#blank#}7{#/blank#}they can't get both things. "Because they are expensive and {#blank#}8{#/blank#}don't have enough money. "their mother says. After hearing this, Angel tells her mother to buy the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. Their parents are happy about that. Pat thanks her sister {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. Then they take a bus to the shop. 

I'm Rita. My grandmother is 80 years old. That's really old! We have a birthday party for her every year. All my uncles and aunts come to the party. Every time, my aunt Laura makes a big cake with many candles on it. We sing the birthday song and eat the cake together.

Grandma is very old, but she is doing well. Her ears are not good, but she can see very well. Watering flowers is her favorite. She often says the flowers are like her children, and she likes watching them grow. She also works on the farm every day. She gives us a lot of vegetables. We take photos when eating them, because seeing us eat her vegetables makes her happy.

I hope I live to be very old and have a big family. I want to have a birthday party every year and grow flowers and vegetables, too, just like my grandmother!