John is from London. He is 8 years old this year. His father is a waiter and his mother works on a farm. He is a pupil of Grade One.

     It's Monday today. Miss King is teaching them to count from one to ten. John is working hard in class. Soon he can count them. Miss King is very glad and asks him, “How many people are there in your family, John?” John stands up and says, “Two, Miss King.” “Who are they?” “My father and mother.” “Oh?” Miss King is surprised and says, “There are three people in your family.” “But now I'm not at home. I'm at school, you know!”

    Hello! I'm Scott. The old woman on the sofa is my grandmother. She is 78 years old, but she is very healthy.

    Every morning, she gets up at 6:00 o'clock. And then she does some exercise for half an hour. For breakfast, she usually has a cup of milk, some bread and an egg. After breakfast, she always goes to the art club. She teaches the people to draw pictures. In the afternoon, she often goes to the park (公园) with her friends. She likes dancing very much. She has dinner with us at 6:30 in the afternoon. After that, she likes to go for a walk with my grandfather. She goes to bed at 9 o'clock.

    THE HISTORY OF LIVING IN SPACE

    Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a human on board blasted into space In 1961. since then, people have not only been travelling to space, but many of them have also lived there for extended periods.

Food

    All the meals on space stations are put together on Earth and sent to the space station, along with the astronauts, by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be preserved by dehydration or canning.

    The space station does not have a freezer to preserve food, but It does have a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh.

Astronauts also eat many other foods such as cereals, cereal bars, nuts and dried fruit that do not need any special preparation.

    Eating

    Astronauts have a set timetable each day. This tells them when to do everything, including when to have their meals. At meal preparation time, they start getting their food ready, which often includes adding water to re-hydrate the dehydrated foods.

    Without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tricky. Astronauts sometimes have to strap themselves and their food into place. Because of lack of gravity, astronauts cannot use ground salt and pepper, and all drinks must be taken from bottles. They also have to be careful that crumbs do not fly off and get stuck in vents and instrument panels.

Later the farmer sold his horse and began to walk home. Then he met an old friend and went to his friend's house to take a rest. After drinking some wine, the farmer talked to his friend about the ring. The friends asked him to drink more wine to celebrate his good luck. The farmer drank too much and then fell asleep. The friend took the ring away and put another one in its place. After the farmer woke up and left, the man took out the ring and said, "Fill the house with gold."

    Lots of gold fell down like heavy rain and killed the man. When the farmer got home, he thought he should wait until his children grew older to decide what wish was the best. So he hid(藏) it behind his house and forgot about it after several years.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

    ①Life in the future will be different from life today.

    But what will life be like in the future? The population(人口)is growing  A  . There will be many people in the world and most of them will live to over 100 years old. Computers will be very  B  and useful, and there will be computers in every home. Traveling will be very cheap and  C  .

    And many people will go to other countries for holidays. There will be changes in our food, too. There will not be________(many)room for cows and sheep, so meat will be very expensive. ②也许没有人会每天都吃它。They will eat many fruits and vegetables. Maybe people will be quite healthy. Work in the future will be different, too. Robots will do hard work. So many people will not have enough work to do.

    Life is full of difficulties, from birth to death. When we face with problems, we often feel, "I am the only one having such problems." Or, we exaggerate (放大) our problems and regard them as most painful. But if we look around us, we will find other people may be in much worse conditions.

    Life is not always full of smiles and flowers. Every person has his own difficulties no matter who and where he is. So it's very important to have a correct attitude in your life. Only with the correct attitude can you face up all of your difficulties and finally overcome (战胜) them. First, you have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. Second don't blame others when you have difficulties, because it can neither help you avoid difficulties nor help you solve them. And the most important thing is that don't run away or give up. Use your ability to clear the difficulties that appear in your life. Third, remember how you overcome the difficulty because it may help you avoid similar trouble next time. Just take it easy, and enjoy the life even it's full of difficulties.

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