The family had had a cat for years. Then, one day, the children finally 1 to persuade their parents to get them a dog as well. So a little Labrador（拉布拉多犬）2 .

    The dog was so3that everyone wanted to hold him and he charmed everyone by just loving them. The cat made it very clear she did not welcome another 4 in the house, but the dog just 5 the cat anyway. The little dog 6her anywhere, trying to make friends with the angry cat. No amount of 7behavior from the cat could persuade the dog not to love the cat.

    The family thought the cat would 8like the dog.

    Then one day the family heard horrible 9 from their back yard. They ran to the 10 to see what was happening. They lived in the suburbs and so they saw a real lynx（猞猁）was just planning on11 their cat for lunch. The poor cat had nowhere to run or hide. It would only be a matter of seconds and their cat would be 12.

    And then suddenly a black lightning ran to the rescue. The little dog 13the big lynx with all its strength. It did not14 or stop to think. It saw its 15 in trouble and did what had to be done. The family opened the window and started yelling and the father ran to the yard. The lynx soon disappeared into the16

    And ever since that day the cat's behavior toward the dog17totally. Now it was the cat that followed the hero dog everywhere. They 18in the same basket. The cat even let the dog eat from her bowl.

So we can19: if ever anyone is 20 towards you, don't turn your back on them. They may not rescue your life —but their kindness can certainly rescue your day!

    Not all love is said out loud. It wasn't until I went to high school that I 1this. In my memories, it was Mom who held the family together. Dad was harsh and 2. Every evening, coming back home from work, he would 3 me for what I'd done wrong during the day.

    When I broke my leg after I 4 a swing, it was Mom who5 held me in her arms all the way to the hospital. In dead 6, Dad pulled a gurney (医院的轮床) right up to the door of the emergency room and when asked to move it away, he jumped and 7 , "I need this gurney. Don't you think it's urgent?" His voice did frighten me.

    Recently, as I was 8 my family's photo album with some friends, one of them asked, "What does your father look like?" At that moment, it 9 me that few pictures of my dad could be found. He was always the one 10 pictures for us. This 11 why nearly all of the photos in the album were of my Mom and me.

    Familiar scenes ran through my head. At my birthday parties, he just 12 himself blowing up balloons, setting up tables and trying to make everything 13. It was Mom who carried the cake with candles on it for me to14. Dad was sitting in the comer, tired and 15.

    Studying in high school now, I only go home about once a month. On my 16, Dad remains silent 17 , but Mom always tells me that it was Dad who drove to other towns to buy fresh seafood and vegetables, saying that it was 18 as long as I could enjoy the dishes he'd 19.

    Perhaps Dad just doesn't know how to 20 love. Or, I don't know how to recognize it.

    Whenever my kids have a party at school, I am the mom who always signs up to bring the juice boxes. It's not because I'm 1 or that I don't care if my kids have a good party. I am just not good at making homemade bread into holiday-themed shapes like other mothers. 2, I'm happy to try, even though it'll 3 me a long time to do it.

    People say that housewives should have the 4 to make delicious meals, keep their houses clean, and 5 every minute of their child's life. Their words used to 6 me a lot. I felt that I should also be able to do those things as a housewife. So 7 I couldn't make the turkey-shaped cookies, I 8 feeling like a failure as a mom.

    After many 9 attempts at baking, and many afternoons spent crying over my inabilities as a mother, I finally accepted the 10 that my lot (命运) in life is to be the juice box mom. I worked hard to be the 11 one in the elementary school. And after one of my daughter's class parties, it 12. Her teacher stopped me as I was leaving and said, “Thank you so much for always bringing 13 drinks. Sometimes parents forget that other children will also 14 class parties, and they end up being left out because we don't have enough 15 for everyone.”

    I just accepted her appreciation（感激）, rather than telling her that I brought extra drinks because I could 16 remember how many kids were in the class. But her 17 taught me an important lesson: I'm not a failure as a mom.

    Not everyone is cut out to be a(n) 18 mom. I believe it's okay to be the juice box mom. I may not bake cookies and decorate them beautifully, but I 19 something to drink. And I think that's just as 20.

    Jake was born healthy, but his parents noticed there was something wrong when he was 5. Jake 1 about 20 pounds in just six months. He kept putting on weight 2 eating only salad. In 2015, Jake was diagnosed with ROHHAD, a 3 condition that affects the brain and causes rapid weight gain. Only 75 cases have ever been reported, and 4 of the sufferers is known to have survived twenty years.

But Jake wants to fight for 5. Although there is no way to fully 6 the weight gain, he does everything he can to slow it down, including 7 competing in triathlons (铁人三项). Triathlons help him keep fit and active. It's good for his 8 and also gives him a chance to socialize with other kids. He 9 with the Malta Youth Triathlon Association three times a week.

    “He is extremely 10. He never misses a training session without valid 11 and is constantly eager to train,” Jake's trainer said. “Jake is very lovable and steals the heart of all who know him. It's heartbreaking to see what he has to 12. I look at his family with a mixture of 13 — despite the hardship they try their best to ensure that Jake gets as 14 a life as possible.”

    Everybody is more than happy to help Jake, and they 15 change event dates and training schedules just to make it easier for him to 16. He is always very determined, but due to his condition, he can't 17 himself to push his heart rate too high.

    Jake's 18 is to meet two famous British Triathlon players, 19 due to his disease, he cannot travel. After Jake's story was made public, someone 20 that he would do everything he could to make the boy's dream a reality.

A grocery store in Ann Arbor, Michigan opened on Tuesday to the public. This is an artist's uneatable creation. The Plastic Bag Store presents shelves filled with items such as meat, eggs, cakes and so on, all of which are made from single-use plastics taken from streets and garbage.

The store at times during the day will be transformed into a stage for a series of short films in which puppetry(木偶戏表演), shadow play, and handmade sets are used to tell a story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations—and how what we value least may become our most lasting "cultural legacy (遗产)".

Theater and film director Robin Frohardt is the creative driving force behind the Plastic Bag Store. "I got the idea many years ago after watching someone bag and double-bag and triple-bag my groceries," Frohardt said on Tuesday. "I just was sort of struck by how much packaging was involved in our everyday lives. And it just seemed so unreasonable. I just thought, maybe I could set up a project to change it." Combining a real-life supermarket with film experience, Frohardt planned to use art and humor to question our culture of consumption and convenience and to show one of the greatest problems of our planet.

Plastic bags are created by fossil (化石) fuels and often end up as waste in landfills and the ocean. Americans throw away 100 billion plastic grocery bags per year. She hopes that she can continue to tour with the project and bring it to different communities. "My dream would be that this project will become unnecessary one day," said Frohardt.

 "Frohardt's work reminds us, with humor, to think not just about the next two weeks, but also about the next two decades and the next two centuries. What will remain hundreds of years later? We hope that our legacy will be plays rather than piles of plastics," said Tim Tompkins, President of Times Square Alliance.

 Lindsey Stallworth, a high school student from Alabama, is on her way to a promising career in paleontology (古生物学) due to an unexpected discovery on family property. For years, she had been collecting fossils on their land in Monroe County, unaware of significant scientific value. However, her teacher at the Alabama School of Math and Science, Dr. Andrew Gentry, a paleontologist himself, took an interest when she showed him her collection.

" Upon examining the fossil shark teeth Lindsey presented, I quickly identified one cr: became eager to learn about its origin," said Andrew.

Lindsey guided her teacher through the rural area where she had unearthed various relics, including shark teeth. Before long, they encountered an especially significant find on the. grounds:a large bone from a 34- million- year- old whale skeleton! This led the pair to launch the huge project of uncovering the rest of the bones. After two months of hard work, they' ve managed to find the animal's skull·(颅骨),

" Assuming the entire skeleton is present, it may require several years for us to have the entire animal back in the lab," Andrew explained.

 Lindsey secured a research scholarship to persist in her fossil- digging expeditions alongside her instructor. Her enthusiasm for the project was at an all- time high, though she had never imagined a childhood pastime would lead her down this road." We would go out and pick up shark teeth and fossil shells, but we never knew anyone that could tell us anything about them," she recalled." We just thought they were cool."

" The Research Fellows Program allows Lindsey to gain real- world experience in scientific research and even present that research at professional conferences," Andrew said." It's a once- in-a- lifetime opportunity for a high school student to stand out when applying to college and maybe even discover a new career path."