When kids in parts of the world want to play, they often make soccer balls out of trash tied together with string. “{#blank#}1{#/blank#} the areas used for playing fields are often rough and rocky, millions of real balls go flat (变瘪){#blank#}2{#/blank#} 24 hours,” says Tim Jahnigen, a California businessman. Determined to solve this problem,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} created an indestructible ball called the One World Futbol.

    The ball is made of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} special material, ethylene-vinyl acetate foam. It's lightweight, it's flexible, and—{#blank#}5{#/blank#} important—it holds its shape.

    The One World Futbol needs no pump {#blank#}6{#/blank#} won't wear out, even on rough surfaces. When tested,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} withstood (经受住) being crushed by a car, and even being chewed on by a lion.

    Although it costs more to produce {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a typical soccer ball, Jahnigen estimates the One World Futbol can last 30 years. So far, it's been given to kids in 143 countries. 

    One evening years ago in New York, I sat on a bench in a park and watched a little boy, around 2 years old,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (run) freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance away. The boy would fall to the grass,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(get) up, and without looking back {#blank#}3{#/blank#}his mother, run as fast as he could as if nothing had happened.

    When kids fall down, they don't think of the fall as a failure. Instead, they consider{#blank#}4{#/blank#}as a learning experience. They try again and again until they succeed. While I{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(touch) by the boy's strong mind, I was also touched by the way he ran. With each attempt, he looked so confident and natural. He only wanted to run{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(free) and to do it as {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(good) as he could. He was just being a child—just being himself—being completely in the moment. He never gave up. Each time he{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(fall), he got himself back up again, as if he knew that falling down was simply a part of life. He was not looking for others' smiles, or worrying about{#blank#}9{#/blank#}someone was watching or not. He only wanted to run and to feel the experience of running fully and freely.

    I learned a lot from that experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in many{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(part) of my life.

    The biggest house of cards, the longest tongue, and of course, the tallest man: these are among the thousands of records logged in the famous Guinness Book of Records. Created in 1955 after a debate {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (concern) Europe's fastest game bird, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} began as a marketing tool sold to pub landlords {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (promote) Guinness, an Irish drink, became the bestselling copyright title of all time (a category that excludes books such as the Bible and the Koran). In time, the book would sell 120 million copies in over 100 countries— quite a leap from its humble beginnings.

    In its early years, the book set its sights on {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (satisfy) man's inborn curiosity about the natural world around him. Its two principal fact finders, twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, moved wildly around the globe to collect facts. It was their task to find and document aspects of life that can be sensed or observed, things that can be quantified or measured. But not just any things. They were only interested in superlatives: the biggest and the best. It was during this period {#blank#}5{#/blank#} some of the remarkable Guinness Records were documented, answering such questions as "What is the brightest star?" and "What is the biggest spider?"

    Once aware of the public's thirst for such knowledge, the book's authors began to branch out to cover increasingly doubtful, little-known facts. They started documenting human achievements as well. A forerunner for reality television, the Guinness Book gave people {#blank#}6{#/blank#} chance to become famous for accomplishing odd, often pointless tasks. Records were set in 1955 for consuming 24 raw eggs in 14 minutes and in 1981 for the fastest solving of a Rubik's Cube (which took a mere 38 seconds). In 1979 a man yodeled(用真假嗓音交替唱) non-stop for ten and a quarter hours.

    In its latest appearance, the book has found a new home on the internet. No longer {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (restrict) to the limits of physical paper, the Guinness World Records website contains seemingly innumerable facts concerning such topics as the most powerful combustion(燃烧) engine, or the world's longest train. What is striking, however, is that such facts are found sharing a page with the record of the heaviest train to be pulled {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a beard.

    Originating as a simple bar book, the Guinness Book of Records {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (evolve) over decades to provide insight into the full range of modern life. And although one may be {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (likely) now to learn about the widest human mouth than the highest number of casualties in a single battle of the Civil War, the Guinness World Records website offers a telling glimpse into the future of fact-finding and record-recording.

    The sun was dying out, and people all around the world built giant planet thrusters (火箭助推器) to move Earth out of its orbit and to sail Earth to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} new star system. Yet the 2500 years' journey came with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (expect) dangers, and in order to save mankind, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth came out {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (brave) and fought hard for everyone's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (survive). The Wandering Earth is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo. It is based {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the novella of the same name by the Locus Award and Hugo Award {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (win) author Liu Cixin, and was released on February 5, 2019.

    In the past nine days, Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (make) $420 million at the Chinese box office alone and will soon become the second film {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (reach) three billion yuan within ten days of being released. This also makes it 2019's {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (large) grossing(总收入)film to date with some box office prophet (预言者) wondering {#blank#}10{#/blank#} it will even outperform Captain Marvel.

    Japan is a food heaven which has a unique food culture. You can find food from different countries worldwide in this island nation, and it is also very good at {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(combine) foreign food with its own traditional food. You may even find some food which {#blank#}2{#/blank#}only be found in Japan. One of them is called "Okosama Lunch," or "Kids' Lunch." In major department stores in Japan, there usually are many restaurants on the top floor of the building.' No matter what kind of food they serve, they usually have a menu for "Okosama Lunch." {#blank#}3{#/blank#}it is called a lunch, it is served at suppertime in most cases.

    It is said that "Okosama Lunch," a kid's menu was invented in 1930 by Taro Ando, a chief manager of Mitsukoshi Department, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(famous) department store in Japan founded in1673. Ando came up with an idea to have a variety of food which kids like on one plate and decorate {#blank#}5{#/blank#}nicely. The plate usually has molded rice with a tiny national flag chosen from one of many countries on top. It was during the Depression (大萧条) {#blank#}6{#/blank#}Ando thought it would be nice {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(have) something looking good for kids to enjoy. Besides a small portion of rice, an "Okosama Lunch" usually contains kid's favorite food, such as hamburger steak, deep-fried chicken, red Vienna sausages, Spaghetti Neapolitan, fried shrimp and pudding.

    The details of this special menu are different from restaurant to restaurant, resulting in different types of "Okosama Lunch" across the country. They{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(design) to attract kids with popular comic characters on the plate."

    Now you can find "Okosama Lunch" anywhere in Japan. At some restaurants, they usually serve it only to kids {#blank#}9{#/blank#}ten years old. Next time you visit Japan, you {#blank#}10{#/blank#}try this special menu and enjoy Japanese food culture.