The Sound of Music is one of the most popular American movies.1people all over the world like it very much. And the2"Do Re Mi" in the movie is also popular in the world. It can be heard everywhere.

    The movie is a3about a tutor(家庭教师)，Maria. She was a young and outgoing（外向的）woman. She went to4for a family with seven children. Their family5was Von Trapp. Mr. Von Trapp was a captain.  He and his family lived in Austria.

    The family were very6and tired after the children's mother, Mrs. Von Trapp died.7took care of the children. They cried and shouted every day. The lonely father often became angry because of the8children.

    Maria was able to9the family by teaching them to sing lively songs and perform short, funny plays. At first the father was almost mad,10the smiling faces of the children pleased him and made him happy again. Then Mr. Von Trapp fell in love with Maria. At last they got married.

    Accept life as it is. I learned how to do it from my father. 1 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 2 and ill.

    My father was 3 a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 4 all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day.

Even talking is 5 . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started 6 about life, and I told them about one of my 7 . I said that we must very often give things up 8 we grow — our youth, our beauty, our friends — but it always 9 that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 10 up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up 11 ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn't think of anything to say. 12 , he answered his own question: “I 13 the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

    I was also 14 by his words. After that, when I began to feel angry at someone, I 15 remember his words and become 16 . If he could 17 his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be 18 to give up my small anger. In this 19 , I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

    Sometimes I 20 what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am ashamed(惭愧的) for this one word.

    It was Sunday yesterday. Steve1a relaxing weekend. 2Sunday morning, he played computer games with his friends at home. It3pretty good. In the afternoon, he4with his mother. They bought many kinds of food and vegetables. It was really relaxing and exciting. In the evening, he5a talk show with his parents and listened to some songs by a6singer. 7Ann had a busy weekend. She8stopped working. On Sunday morning, she cleaned her bedroom and did her homework. In the afternoon, she went to visit her uncle and9him do some farm work. In the evening, she cooked dinner for her parents. After dinner, she washed the dishes. Then she went out10a walk with her dog.

    What about your weekend?

    Who designed the first helicopter? Who 1 one of the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most doctors? There is an answer to all these questions-Leonardo da Vinci.

    Leonardo may have been the greatest genius(天才) people have ever known.

    He lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem still 2 to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldn't 3 a helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have worked.

    But Leonardo wasn't just an inventor. He was one of the greatest artists of his day. By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master(大师) painter, and as he got older he became even more 4. Almost everyone knew him. As a painter, he was quite careful. Sometimes he drew a hand in ten different ways 5 he was ready to paint.

    Many of Leonardo's wonderful paintings are still with 6 today. You may know one of his most famous works the smiling woman known as Mona Lisa.