Miss Mitra didn't want to be a Sunday school teacher any longer. The students there were all rude and never listened to her. "I give up." She shouted at the students. "Cool." Rick said. He was the most impolite kid in this school. Two months later, Miss Betty Ray came to the school. She looked young. The students thought that she wouldn't stay very long.

    "Have any of you ever been out of state?" She asked in a friendly tone. A few hands went up.

    "Anyone has traveled to California?" One hand went up as the disrespectful(无礼的) laugh reduced.

    "Anyone visited outside the country?" No hands went up now. The silent kids were puzzled.

    Betty took a map of the world from her bag.

    "What else do you have there? Lunch?" Someone cracked.

    Betty smiled lightly and answered, "Cookies for later." "Cool," Rick quipped(困惑的).

    Then she pointed at a place on the map, "I was born here, and I lived here until I was about your age."

    "Is that Texas?" Someone asked.

    "No. Quite a long way from here. It is Mumbai in India."

    Betty fumbled again in her bag, this time pulling out some old wrinkled pictures along with a box of chocolate chip cookies. They passed the pictures around, viewing each with great interest.

    The kids studied them as they bit into the sweets.

    The hour quickly slid by as she told them her stories about faraway places and what the people were like there and how they lived.

    "Wow, this is as exciting as TV!" One young girl told her.

    Sunday after Sunday, Betty came to class, tying her lessons to their everyday lives. She told the kids how they could make a difference right now. The students grew to love her.

    Betty taught that Sunday school class for thirty years. At last, her hair grew into a natural gray.

    Every now and then, she received a letter from a former student. There was a doctor, a research scientist, a homemaker, a businessman, and many teachers among them. One day she pulled out a blue envelope from her mailbox. And there was a photo in it. Squinting her eyes, she smiled at the man in the photo, still seeing the boy in him. Standing in the rubble(瓦砾), in the city of Delhi, India, he came to help the homeless people in the earthquake. Some words were written in the upper part of the photo, "Because of you, I am here now."

    How nice to meet you all! Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

    My name is Li Ming. I am from Shenzhen. There are three people in my family. My father is a Maths teacher and my mother is an English teacher. We all love playing sports very much. My favorite sport is football. My parents are crazy about badminton.

    From now on we study together and live together. I think we should love and help each other. And we must love our school and teachers! Let's be good friends. Let's get to know each other better. Let's become a real family here at school.

    It's time for us to depend on(依靠) ourselves. Never let our parents down! The future belongs to us.

In February 2021, a young man in Italy posted a video on Tik Tok about his new neighbor—and their unbelievable piano talent! They 1 their friendship by two pianos separated by one wall.

One day in January, the young man 2an idea when he heard the music from his neighbor. He wrote a note to his neighbor and 3him to play a song together： the classic "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion.

The next day, hearing the music from the neighbor, the young man was both 4and moved. Their communication soon 5piano duets （二重奏）through the wall, where each of them would create great music together.

Later, the young man 6that his neighbor's name was Emil and he was 78 years old. His wife had passed away in December from COVIEM9. Emil felt so sad and the only 7 thing left to him was playing the piano. He played it for his wife at 2 pm every weekend.

8 , Emil passed away in his sleep a few weeks later. When the young man learned the news, he felt so sad. To express his feeling, the young man wrote a letter to Emil, "Dear Emil, I knew very little about you,9 you changed my life. You gave me back my passion （激情），and we shared that with the world. You'll be in my 10.keep playing, thinking of how powerful music can be. You said I was your light, but you've been mine, too. Bye, Emil. "

What do you like doing in your free time? I like1 best. Last week, l saw a movie called I, Robot. It2 us a story about the future with robots. 

lt is the year of 2035 and people can see robots everywhere. Robots can help people do a lot of things, like looking after the old people or babies, washing, cooking, cleaning or3 dogs for a walk. Robots do4 people ask them to do. But a policeman with the5 of Spooner doesn't like robots, because he doesn't think that people can get on well6 robots. One day, a scientist(科学家)dies. He leaves a robot. Some time later, Spooner7 something wrong with the robots in the world. A lot of robots have8 own thoughts and want to control(操纵)human beings. If the robots win, it will be very9 for people. Susan is another scientist working on10 Finally, Susan and Spooner decide to11 together to fight against these robots and they12 . People control the robots13 . I think the movie is very14 . lf you have interest in15 too, why not go and see it? 

It's Sunday today. Peter doesn't go to 1 . Now he is free and he wants to 2 computer games, but his mother Mrs. Smith 3 him to do his Chinese homework(家庭作业) first. Then he can do the 4 he likes. Peter isn't 5 . He asks," Mom, do you love me?"

 Mrs. Smith says," Yes, I do, my dear."

" Then why don't you 6 me play computer games?" says Peter." Why can't I do7 I want? Homework is important(重要)8 boring. I like computer games."

 Mrs. Smith puts 9 on the sofa and asks him," Dear, do you love me?" Peter says,"10 , I love you."

 Then Mrs. Smith says," Great! Dear, I don't want to do the washing(洗) because I don't like it. So I don't want to wash your socks. 11 do you always ask me to wash them? You12 play computer games after you wash them."

 Then Peter 13 at all the socks on the sofa. His face gets red and he says," Mom, I am very sorry. I should(应该) 14 you do some housework(家务劳动) at home. Let's do it together. Then I' ll 15 my homework. I love you."

 What a nice Peter! What a clever mother!