Pat Hogan is traveling around the country in his car. One evening he is driving along a road and looking for a small hotel. When he sees an old man at the side of the road, he stops his car and says to the old man, "I want to go to Sun Hotel. Do you know it？"

    "Yes," the old man answers. "I'll show you the way."

    He gets into Pat's car, and they drive for about twelve kilometers. When they come to a small house, the old man says, "Stop here." Pat stops and looks at the house. "But this isn't a hotel," he says to the old man.

    "No," the old man answers, "this is my house. And now I'll show you the way to Sun Hotel. Turn around and go back nine kilometers. Then you'll see Sun Hotel on the left."

An old farmer lived with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was always up early to read. One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! What good does reading do?"

Grandpa quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket to the river and bring me back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out(漏出) before he got back home. Grandpa laughed, "You'll have to move a little faster next time." This time the boy ran faster, but again the same took place. It was an impossible task.

The old man said, "You're just not trying hard enough." So the boy tried a third time and failed. He said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"

"So you think it is useless? Look at the basket."

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had turned from a dirty coal basket into a clean one inside and outside.

"You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read, you will be changed, inside and outside."

Should We Help Strangers?

Recently our class had a discussion about {#blank#}1{#/blank#} we should help strangers or not. Different students have different {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (idea).

Some think {#blank#}3{#/blank#}we should try to help strangers. Helping others is a virtue (美德), and helping others is helping {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (we). We may come across some trouble and need others' help some day. If everyone isn't willing to help us just {#blank#}5{#/blank#}we are strangers to them, it's hard to imagine {#blank#}6{#/blank#} our world will be like.

However, some worry {#blank#}7{#/blank#} helping others can sometimes bring us trouble. Sometimes we are just misunderstood and even have to pay the cost of kindness.

In my opinion, we should try our best {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (help) others when they are in need of help, but we should also avoid {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (get) into trouble. If everyone tries a little kindness, our world{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(be) full of love.

I used to hate running. At secondary school I found it very tired to run around the sports field and I was always one of the 1 students to cross the finish line. Then, in 2020, my friend asked me to run with him. My 2 was, " No way!I hate running".

 During the weekend I thought about his question. " Why do I hate running?" I thought, In the end I decided to 3 it. I told my friend I would like to run with him. He was 4 to hear that. He advised me to look for a running program on the Internet to 5 me learn how to run. There were lots of running programs on the Internet. I 6 a 14- week running program. I would attend a match when I finished the program. I had to run three times a week. At first, I ran for short periods of 7 and had long breaks. Then 8 the weeks went on, I had to run far longer periods of time and the breaks got 9 . I enjoyed following the running program each week. Now I can run for 10 than 30 minutes each time!I went from 11 running to loving running.

 On the day of the 12 I was both excited and nervous. 13 was finally time to put my new skills into practice. My friends and family came to support me. It was lovely to have them there. With their support and my training. I managed to finish the 10000- metre run in 72 minutes. I was very 14 of that.

 From this experience I 15 it was a good idea to try something before saying I hated it! Because it turned out that I really enjoyed running.

Do you like traveling? You can see many different landscapes(风景)along the way. Sometimes, the landscapes is so {#blank#}1{#/blank#} （绝妙的）that you'd like to bring it home.

Kathleen Vance is a(an) {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (艺术家)and she can help you make it come true.Living in the city is great for many people. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (然而)，Vance thought differently. She often felt disconnected(脱节的) from the natural world so she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (不喜欢)the city life. Then she {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (努力) to bring the natural world into people's lives. She would put some earth(泥土),flowers and water into suitcases(手提箱)and make them into the landscape when she traveled. After her trips,she would show {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (那样的)landscapes in the suitcases to her neighbors.

If you open Vance's suitcases,you will see {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (小山),small forests and rivers.But you can't find roads or {#blank#}8{#/blank#} （建筑物）. It's Vance's special way of showing the natural world.

Now, people can see Vance's "Traveling Landscapes"in art shows around the world. But you don't need to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (等待)for them to come to your city ,because Vance often shares them on the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (互联网).

Only half of the class handed in their homework one day. The teacher got an idea while he was giving his students a lesson about weight. He walked around the classroom while holding a glass of water up in the air. He asked his students, "How heavy is this glass of water?"

The students started to shout out their answers. 

"The weight of this glass isn't hard to find out, " the teacher said. "The problem is how long I'm holding it. If I hold it for two minutes, it doesn't feel like much of a problem. If I hold it for an hour, it might feel heavier as my arm begins to tire. If I hold it for a day or a week, my arm will hurt. It'll feel painful. I will be unable to think about anything but the pain that I'm in. In all of these situations, the actual weight of the glass will be the same. But the longer I hold onto it, the heavier it feels to me and the harder it is to hold it. "

"Your homework is like this glass of water, by the way, " the teacher said. The class then understood.