Do you know what is useful to stop a cold? It is your body working against the virus（病毒）that makes you uncomfortable when getting a cold, but not the virus Itself? So if you are strong and the virus is strong enough, too, you will feel terrible.

    Vitamin C won't stop a cold

    It is said that Vitamin C helps you beat the cold. However, many tests have shown that it does not stop colds. It only helps you feel a little bit better.

    Staying indoors won't protect you

    Cold viruses like to stay on your computer mouse or desk. A study found that 47%of the viruses Indoors are on the desks, 46%are on the computer mice, and 45%on telephones.

    Wearing more clothes won't keep you away from colds

    Colds are more common in autumn and winter. That's because the cool, wet and cold weather drives people indoors where viruses may more easily jump from one person to another. And the peak（高峰期）in colds is in September and early January, because students come back to schools after the summer and winter vacation.

    Old grandma's chicken soup is right

    Grandma's chicken soup is a traditional way to help you get well. Scientists say it is true. The chicken soup does help to beat a cold. Many canned（罐装）soups are just efficient（有效的）as homemade ones.

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A: Hello. I'm Liu Qi. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

B: Hello. My name is Mary.

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B: Yes, I am. I am a new student in Grade Seven.

A: Oh? {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

B: I am in Class Five.

A: Wow. I am in Class Five, too. We are classmates.

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A: I'm 12, too. Let's go to the classroom.

B: OK. Let's go.

After winning the first prize at the ASICS Tennis Junior Tour in Guangzhou in late August, 2022, Wang Fa quickly became popular online. Wang was known for carrying his tennis rackets in a bamboo basket, making him get the name of "basket tennis boy".

The boy, Wang Fa, 14, is a member of the Va ethnic group（佤族） from Yunnan. "We always carry bamboo baskets when we work on the farm. This is a typical farming tool（具有代表性的农具） of the Va ethnic group. I carried my rackets this way to honor（致敬） my hometown," Wang said.

Before playing tennis, Wang was just a common boy from a village. But in 2016, he was chosen by a club as one of the first 10 children to learn to play tennis. Over the past six years, Wang has practiced hard along with other players. The children would get up at 6:30 A．m. and practice for more than six hours a day. Every day, they needed to swing a racket more than 7,000 times and run 9 kilometers.

Wang's parents didn't want him to learn tennis at first. They thought it was too expensive. But the tennis club said they would teach him for free. Wang's hometown was just lifted out of poverty （脱贫） in 2019.

For Wang, winning the competition was the beginning of a hopeful future. "I will go for the top places in the tennis world," he said.

Four years ago, I began the trip to Russia to learn the language. Together with other 37 Chinese students, we went to a completely strange country. 

I always remember our first day at school. Our language teacher first asked each of us to take a Russian name. Russian is hard to learn. At that time, the most difficult thing for me to learn was grammar. I couldn't understand anything at first, but my Russian teacher was very patient(有耐心的) and taught us little by little. She only communicated with us in Russian. She said she did it so that we could learn Russian better. She made a study plan for us that day—— four months to learn the basic grammar of Russian and six months to make phone calls in

Russian. We were all surprised and thought it was impossible. 

But after a few months of study, we all improved a lot and passed the primary test. I thanked my Russian teacher for my progress. The family I lived with also provided great help for my Russian study. 

I have learned a lot from this experience, and I miss my friends in Russia very much. 

⒈阅读短文，回答问题。

How many students went to Russia to study?(不超过5个词) {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

What was the most difficult part for the writer to learn Russian? (不超过5个词) {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

When did the Russian teacher make the study plan? (不超过10个词) {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

What did the writer think of the teacher's study plan at first? (不超过5个词) {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

Who else helped the writer learn Russian except his Russian teacher? (不超过5个词) {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

⒉再次阅读以上短文，补全概要。

The writer went to Russia with other Chinese students to learn the language {#blank#}6{#/blank#} . At school, the language teacher asked them to take a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} first. Russian was hard to learn, but the teacher was patient and made a clear study plan for them:{#blank#}8{#/blank#} to learn the basic grammar and six months to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} in Russian. 

After a few months of study, the students all passed the test. The writer shows thanks to the people who have helped him.