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    Perhaps the only test score that I remembered is the 55 when I was in high school.

    The test was the final for a course. I remembered waiting anxiously as my teacher Mr. Right handed out our papers one by one. It was a rather 1 test. I heard my classmates groaning(叹息), and I could tell by the groans that the scores weren't looking2 .

    Mr. Right put my paper on my desk. There in big red numbers, circled to draw attention, was my score, 55!

    I lowered my head, and 3 the score up quickly. A 55 is not something that you wanted your classmates to see.

    “The scores were not very good, none of you 4” Mr. Right said. “The highest score in the class was a 55.”A 55. That's me!5 my sad look didn't look so bad. I had the highest score. I felt a lot better.

    I walked home alone that day with the low but high score. My father knew that I had a big 6 that day and asked me as soon as I got home, “7 did you do in your test?”

    “I made a 55,” I said.

    A frown(皱眉) now stood on my father's face. I knew I had to8 at once. “But Dad, I had the highest score in the class, ” I 9  said. I thought that explanation would make a difference.

    “You 10 !” my father replied.

    “But it's the highest!” I 11.

    “I don't12 what scores others had, but you failed. What 13is what you do!” my father firmly said.

    For years, my father was 14 that way. It didn't matter what others did, it only mattered what I did and that I did it excellently.

    We often don't understand the 15 of good parents until we ourselves stand in the parents' shoes. My father's words have carried me throughout life.

    J.K. Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, which is now one of the best­sellers in the world. She 1 born in Bristol on July 31st, 1965. She has one sister who is two years2than her. Both girls loved 3to their father read bedtime stories. They especially loved stories about magical worlds. Rowling wrote her first story 4the age of six.

    On a long train trip in 1990, an idea came to her. She wanted to write about a boy who had magic but he himself didn't know it. In 1992, Rowling began5 the first Harry Potter book for young 6.It appeared in June, 1997. The book was a great success. And the film came out in November, 2001. Now the Harry Potter series is 7with people of all ages and about sixty 8 books were sold in 200 countries. In this series, Harry is an ordinary boy: polite, friendly, brave and clever. So when children read about Harry, they can imagine being like him. That's 9 the Harry Potter series has been so popular.

    J.K. Rowling is very10 with the success. Now she's really enjoying life. She says she will go on writing children's books.

    Henry Bond was about seven years old when his father died. His mother found it1to support the large family. However, she tried her best to do so. Also, she2 Henry, the eldest son, to school.

    At one time, Henry needed a grammar book for his study. His family was so3that his mother could not afford one.

    One morning, Henry found that a deep snow had fallen, and the4 wind was blowing. "Ah," he said," it is an ill wind that blows nobody good." With these words, he ran to the house of a neighbour, and offered his5to move away the snow around it. The offer was accepted. When he finished the work, he received his6, Then he went to another place for the7 purpose, and then to another,8 he had earned(挣得) enough to buy a grammar book.

    From that time, Henry was9 the first in all his subjects. He knew no such word as“10”, and he succeeded in all he tried to do. Having the will, he always found the way.

    In the new sci-fi film. The Wandering Earth《流浪地球》, humans save the Earth without leaving it. In many-even most-space-themed films, whenever Earth faces a disaster(灾难), the1 is always running away from the planet in spaceships.

    But the latest Chinese sci-fi movie, The Wandering Earth, offers a different and more ambitious idea. In the film, based on a short story by Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin, Earth is in danger of being destroyed by the dying sun. In reply, humans around the world work 2 to build a huge engine system that will push Earth away from the dying sun.3 giving up Earth-again-this time we're taking it with us.

    This "ambition" didn't come from nowhere. For thousands of years," homeland" has had a soft point in 4 of Chinese people. One old idiom is "luoyeguigen", which means returning to one's homeland at the old age, like 5 leaves return to the roots of their trees. Or there is an ancient poem, "The season called the White Dew begins tonight: Nowhere as in our native place is the moon so bright". These6 show the tight link that Chinese people have had with their homeland.

    This special cultural background is probably the key 7separates The Wandering Earth from Hollywood-style space films.

    "What is Chinese sci-fi?"Guo Fan, the film's director, said in an interview. "A movie that can really 8our cultural and spiritual view can be called Chinese sci-fi. Or, we're just copying others and telling the same American stories."

    And the makers of The Wandering Earth may have chosen the best time to tell its Chinese sci-fi story. The film was released on Feb 5^th, the first day of Chinese New Year. It was a time when many people had just made the 9journey back to their hometowns.

    So to them, there is only one possible way to tell the story. Earth10wherever humans go, because it's our home forever.

    Before Father's Day, I found my father was unhappy because he was out of work. I decided to cheer him up by buying him a special Father's Day gift.

    One day after school I1to the Agins which was known for fashions and styles. I told the Agins salesperson that I was looking for a Father's Day present.

    "Do you think he'd like a2?" she asked. "Yes, I think he might, "I told her.

    She 3 a Swiss watch and I told her that he would like it.

    "How much money do you have?" she asked.

    "4dollars, "I replied.

    "You're so lucky!" she told me." It's only $11.You still have $l for the 5." She packed the watch and I thanked for my business, and I rode off home with the gift under my arm.

    When my father opened the gift, he asked 6, "Where did you get it?"

    "I bought it at the Agins. It cost me $11, "I said. My father was shocked into silence.

    Many years later, I did learn that the watch was worth several hundred dollars, 7I appreciated(感激)how wonderful the Agins sales-person had been to me. I always felt8that I never had a chance to thank her.

    "What really amazes me to this day...…my daughter, "my father said." Letting you have the watch for 11 dollars was 9 enough. But the fact that she let you leave the shop with a dollar for the card was a touch (触动)of 10.I'll never forget it."