Hello, boys and girls, this is Lily. She's an {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  girl. She's my friend. She's 11. She is in{#blank#}2{#/blank#} 2, Grade 1. She is Number 5. And this is my friend, too. Lily and Lucy are{#blank#}3{#/blank#} sisters. They are in the same class. Miss Wang is their{#blank#}4{#/blank#} teacher. Miss Wang and Miss Wu are good  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}   in our school.

    A female swimming athlete once set a goal（目标）for herself. She decided to swim across the English Channel before she retired. If she could succeed, she would be the first person in the world {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  did it. On that day, she jumped into the sea without any hesitation（犹豫）and swam towards the opposite bank without any {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  . In the journey, she faced heavy fog, heavy rain and heavy waves. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} she was tired, she still carried on swimming. But in the end, she gave up. And she didn't know that the opposite bank was only one mile away when she gave up.

    Later she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} about the reason. And she said, “The reason why I gave up is that I could not see the place which I was going to reach {#blank#}5{#/blank#}” It was a great pity that one mile broke her dream.

    Since we were young {#blank#}6{#/blank#} too many success stories have been telling us about courage and persistence（坚持）. But they never told us where {#blank#}7{#/blank#} courage and persistence. You can only have courage when you know where your goal is. You can only manage to persist when you know where your goal is.

    And that's because when you know where your goal is, you can only prepare {#blank#}8{#/blank#} well in the mind. Courage and persistence never{#blank#}9{#/blank#} from the sky. They come from weighing between input and output.

    A life without goal is {#blank#}10{#/blank#}a ship without a compass. It goes nowhere. There is no courage or persistence in a life without goals.

    One day at Bluesea Middle School in Hong Kong, about 450 students and teachers went without water at lunchtime. They were in a meeting to learn about saving water. The school also collected about HK $ 10,000. The money would be {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to plant 1,880 trees at the heads of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

    The local director of "Friends of the Earth, Ms Wong, explained that {#blank#}2{#/blank#} of the world's population still didn't have enough water for all their {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. She thought that by the year 2020, one half of the world's population would not have enough water. Ms Wong said she had visited the heads of the two rivers three times in the past year. "I had expected them to be clean places, as they are at the top of the rivers.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, sadly I found that they were polluted seriously, even worse than a few years ago."

    Ms Wong said that if everyone helped save water, the situation would get a little {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. She hoped that everyone could do something for saving. One of the students said, "I'm pleased to come to the meeting. Now I can remember how a third of the population lives. I think I'll try and{#blank#}6{#/blank#}some of my habits. Let's save water together.'