Boom! A clap of thunder (一声霹雳) made the old house shake. Ramon stayed under his bed. A flash of lightning (一道闪电) lit up the room."I hate this house,"Ramon thought. It was his first night in his new home.

    The house had belonged to his grandma. It was very, very old. It looked really scary at night. The trees outside his windows looked like monsters (怪物) in the dark. Their branches (树枝) looked like long arms. They waved when the wind blew. The storm made everything even scarier. Ramon hated storms, and it seemed worse in the old house.

    Later the thunder became quieter. Ramon climbed into bed and fell asleep. When he woke up, the sun was shining through his windows. Ramon climbed out of bed.

    The trees outside didn't look like monsters anymore. The branches had nice green leaves growing on them. Ramon could see a bird sitting on one of the branches. It was singing a happy song. The yard looked pretty nice in the daylight. A stream (溪) ran across the yard. A swing hung from one of the trees. Many flowers grew next to the  tree.  Butterflies  flew  around  the flowers.

    "Maybe living here won't be so bad after all," Ramon thought.

A long time ago, there were two special boys, John and Joey. They showed great talents from an early age, and they did better than others around. 

They grew up but they chose different ways. John used all of his talents to find a good job. He joined in many activities and visited the most important people and places. Everyone thought that he would be the most important person in the world. 

But the second young man, Joey, was different. He always took a heavy responsibility (责任). He thought he should help others. He was always busy looking for ways to help others. 

One day, bad things happened and they met many problems. John didn't know what to do. But Joey always tried his best to solve all kinds of problems. He thought of some good ways and didn't let the bad things affect (影响) the people in his town. From then on, he was more famous than John. 

John then knew that our best talents were not only for ourselves. He learned from Joey that we should always help other people.

Do you know Gui Haichao? He is the first astronaut with glasses. In May 2023，Gui Haichao joined the Shenzhou 16 mission （太空飞行任务）.After five months，he successfully came back from space.

Gui Haichao is from a small town in Yunnan，China. His parents are farmers. He has a dream.He likes looking at the sky. He has two idols （偶像）.They are Qian Xuesen and Yang Liwei. He wants to be an astronaut like Yang Liwei.

To make his dream come true，he always works hard and tries his best to learn.  His teachers and classmates all think he's very hard-working. Every morning，he is the first student to get to the classroom. Every evening，he is the last one to leave. He is good at Maths，and he thinks a healthy body is important，too. So he often runs and rides a bike at the weekend.

Gui Haichao is a hero（英雄）.He is the pride （骄傲） of Chinese people.

There was once a cave（岩洞）near a town. It was called"Cave of Fear" {#blank#}1{#/blank#} who tried to enter it didn't return. It's said that there might be a monster in the cave. In order to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the monster from getting out of the cave, people often left gifts and food at the mouth of the cave, and these {#blank#}3{#/blank#}things always disappeared soon. 

One day, a young man came to the town. When he heard about the cave, he decided to enter the cave and found out {#blank#}4{#/blank#}there was a monster in it. As he went deep into the cave, he heard some strange {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. So he followed them. Suddenly, he {#blank#}6{#/blank#}that something was pushing his back. He was too scared to turn around to look at it. Finally, he was pushed into a huge cavern（洞穴）. As he {#blank#}7{#/blank#}the cave, he got very surprised. He found that he was right in the middle of a big party. A lot of people were {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the party. They were all those people who had {#blank#}9{#/blank#} returned to the town. 

Then those people told him that this was the idea of an old wise man in the town. The old wise man wanted to {#blank#}10{#/blank#}people that if someone wanted to make a change, he should be brave and wanted to have a try. So the wise man made up the {#blank#}11{#/blank#} of the monster. Only brave people could enjoy big parties in the cave.