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High school is coming with wishes and hopes! Do you want to make any changes in high school? Let's share your high school resolutions with us.

Wang Yeqing  I will learn the piano in high school. I wasn't{#blank#}1{#/blank#} in it until I saw my neighbor playing it on my {#blank#}2{#/blank#} birthday. She was so elegant (优雅的) when she was playing the piano. I want to be as elegant as her.

Zhang Chenxi  I want toget good grades in the coming high school entrance exam. My ideal school is Huang Chuan High School. Math is my{#blank#}3{#/blank#}  subject of all. I will spend two more hours{#blank#}4{#/blank#} it in the new high school every day.

Huang Wenjie  Kangaroos are my favorite animals. My parents said they{#blank#}5{#/blank#}  plan a family trip to Australia if I became one of the top ten {#blank#}6{#/blank#} of my grade. So in the high school, I will be working{#blank#}7{#/blank#} hard because the kangaroos are waiting for me on the other side of the world!

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Spring is a splendid picture in our life. Spring {#blank#}9{#/blank#} to us and we should make good use of it. We should study and work {#blank#}10{#/blank#} .

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    One million copies of the seven comic strips describing Mandela's life were published in South Africa. That was a part of events celebrating his birthday on July 18.

    South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela became a comic strip hero at once. "This project aims at encouraging young people to read," his{#blank#}1{#/blank#}foundation (基金会) said.

    "We express the{#blank#}2{#/blank#}and the values of Mr Mandela through comics," added John Samuel, chief executive(决策者) of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, "Comics are a very useful way of bringing young people into reading.”

    "Comics,{#blank#}3{#/blank#}, are a very powerful way to introduce literature(文学)，various aspects of reading to young people. And this is our purpose here," he told a news conference.

    Some people{#blank#}4{#/blank#}that Mr Mandela should not be a comic figure. "It would take a lot more than comics to demean his stature (贬低他的声望)," said Samuel.