The programmes Sun Xiaomei hosts might be among the shortest on CCTV. On Screen Next Week is on once a week for 15 minutes, and TV You, He and I comes on for five minutes each time once a week too. “Though these programmes are short, I have many ideas to make them more lively for the audience,” she said.

   Sun was interested in music in her childhood. She played the violin since the age of five until she finished middle school. At first her father wanted her to enter a music school; however, 16-year-old Sun Xiaomei became a student in Beijing Broadcasting College.

   Sun loves her job as a hostess very much. She pays great attention to learning from her comrades(同事), especially Zhao Zhongxiang. When Zhao Zhongxiang hosted The World and The Animal World, Sun would sit beside him to learn.

 “I am sure that when I am seen by hundreds of millions of audience on the weekend, I can make friends with them through my warm and easy talk,” she said.

    Paper cutting is a special form of traditional art in China.It has has a history of over 1, 500 years. People started to do paper cutting in China in the 6th century.It has a number of special uses in Chinese culture.Almost all of them are for health, happiness or peace.Red is used the most widely of all the colors.Since long ago, Chinese people have been interested in cutting paper into traditional Chinese characters.

    Paper cutting is popular around the world, but only the Chinese paper cutting is listed in the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists (联合国教科文组织的非物质文化遗产名录) in August 2010, because it has long history and it tells people so much about Chinese history and culture.

    Paper cutting has developed fast over the past few years.It is still popular in China now.During special festivals like the Chinese Spring Festival, people cut beautiful pictures and put them on windows and doors.

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    A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held a sign which said, "I am blind. Please help me."

    There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.

    Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized(认出) his footsteps and asked, "Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way."

    What he had written was, "Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it."

    Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

    Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.

    Everyone in this world has their own favorite game. I have my own, too. My favorite game is football. I often play football with my friends in the evening. I like this game ________it is exciting and challenging. Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a grass field with a goal at each end. The objective of the game is to score by kicking the ball into the opposing goal. The winner is the team which has scored more goals at the end of the match.

    Football _______ (play) at a professional level all over the world, and millions of people regularly go to football stadiums to follow their favorite team or watch the game on television. There are many international competitions of football. One of the major international competitions in football is the World Cup. My favourite star in football is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. I wish to become a professional football player. I learnt teambuilding, discipline as well as teamwork through playing football.