It's difficult for you to do something well if you're not interested in it．This time {#blank#}1{#/blank#}your hobby will help you．Here are just a few of the advantages of having a hobby.

    A hobby {#blank#}2{#/blank#}you energy(能量)and excitement．It will make you take part in some activities you like．

    A hobby can help you {#blank#}3{#/blank#}something new．When you are doing something you like，some good ideas will {#blank#}4{#/blank#}appear in your mind．Then it's easy for you {#blank#}5{#/blank#}some problems．

    We all need to keep {#blank#}6{#/blank#}．No matter what your hobby is，gardening，singing or reading，you will grow from it．

We know that {#blank#}7{#/blank#}，even a machine，will stop one day after doing the same thing over and over again．If you do not take a break to enjoy {#blank#}8{#/blank#}，you will stop too．So，having a hobby is really important．

—I'm going to play football.

    This is a story about a boy who is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (call) Paul. His dream is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (be) a great artist. He makes a decision to practise {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (draw) for at least two hours a day. But his friends say that his pictures look very {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (fun). They don't think he will have any success, so one of his friends {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (try) to persuade (劝说) Paul to stop drawing. However, Paul keeps on practising. He says to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (him), "Nothing is impossible, is it?" Day by day, he draws {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (mountain) of pictures. One day, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} famous artist comes to Paul's town. He meets Paul {#blank#}9{#/blank#} Paul is drawing a picture of the sun by the roadside. He loves the picture so much that he pays 10, 000 dollars for it and makes friends with Paul. After that, Paul draws even harder. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the end, he becomes a great artist around the world.

    How does garlic(大蒜) grow? Hu Mengmeng, 13, had been thinking about this question for a while. Last term, Hu {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (get) her answer in her school's rooftop garden.

    Hu's school, Tangwai Junior High School in Shanghai, set up a small garden on its teaching building's rooftop in 2015. Each term, students {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (plant) one kind of vegetables. While taking care of them, they also do scientific experiments (实验) {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (learn) more about vegetables.

    Chen Yan, a 14-year-old girl, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (study) in this school for one year. Last year, she started to plant garlic with her teacher s help. She wondered how sunshine affected the growth of garlic. She put three pots of garlic in different places to get different amounts of sunlight. Then, she watched their growth every day. Later, she found that the garlic which got the most sunlight {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (grow) best.

    The garden {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (turn) into a fun place two years ago. The students planted different types of vegetables in shapes, such as hearts, or squares in the garden. The different kinds of vegetables made the garden more colorful.

    And that is not the end. Next year, they {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (build) a robot to help with planting. "Students will work with our robot club to build more robots to help with watering," Mr. Zhou, the school's science teacher, said.