One cold winter night in Shanghai, I was walking home at one in the morning after long tiring work. I was having trouble with my job in the bank. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up living there. City life had become too much for me.

 As I walked down empty streets, I felt very small and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to keep away any possible danger. Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets（毛毯）.

 Suddenly, I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, all I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. When I reached home, I realized what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk.

 Now I wasn't cold or tired anymore. I ran back to where I'd heard the noise. Although I searched carefully for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck（垃圾车）come to me. When a voice called from the inside, “Alisa Chen?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man “Is this what you're looking for?”he asked, holding up a small square shape.

 It was nearly 3 a. m. by the time I got into bed. But I had got my wallet back. I also had got back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldn't be a bad place as long as people were willing to help each other. 

    Tom is a young man. He has a very big dog and he has a very small car, too. He likes playing tennis. Today he plays tennis for two hours at the club and then he wants to go home by car. His dog comes after him, but it does not jump into the same car. It jumps into the next car. "Come here, foolish(愚蠢的) dog!" Tom shouts at it, but the dog still stays in the next car. Tom puts his key into the lock（锁）of the car, but the key does not turn（转动）. Then he looks at the car again. It is not his car! He is in the wrong car! And the dog is in the right car!

    A girl was walking in the woods when she found two weak birds. She took them home and put them in a small cage (鸟笼). She took good care of them. The birds grew strong. Every morning, they greeted her with a beautiful song. The girl felt great love for the birds. She wanted them to sing for her forever.

    One day, the girl left their cage door open. The bigger of the two birds flew out. The girl watched as he rose high into the sky. She was afraid that he would fly away and she would never see him again. As he flew close, she caught him in her hand and held him tightly. She was happy. Suddenly, she felt the bird go limp (无力 ). She opened her hand. The bird was dead! Her love had stolen life from the beautiful songbird.

    The other bird was pushing against the bars (条) of the cage. She could see how much he wanted to be free. She took him out of the cage and gently tossed him into the air. Would the bird fly away? She could hardly bear to watch. But the bird just wanted to stretch its wings. He flew around the girl twice and then came to rest on her shoulder.

    The girl watched the bird with joy in her heart. She wasn't worried anymore. She wanted the bird to be happy. The bird sat by the girl's ear and sang the sweetest song she had ever heard.

    The best way to keep love is to give it wings.

The Lost Thing is a famous film. It's a story about a young man and a teapot(茶壶). The young man often wears a pair of glasses. He likes collecting bottle caps when he's travelling around the world. One day, he takes an old train to the beach. He finds a strange red teapot. It is about 4 metres tall. He doesn't know anything about it. But the teapot is very friendly to him. It kicks a colourful ball to the man and they play with the ball all the afternoon. When all the people on the beach leave, nobody takes the teapot away. 

When the sun goes down, the young man starts to know that his friend, the teapot, doesn't have an owner(主人). He thinks, "It might be a lost thing. "He wants to know more about the red teapot, so he picks it up and wants to help it find its owner. Will the teapot find its owner? It's a secret.

Clouds often appear in the sky, but do you really stop to look up at them? Do you wonder what their names are? {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Ji Yun, 36, is a cloud watcher in Beijing. He enjoys learning about them, like knowing their names based on their shapes.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#} He began to find out the beauty of clouds when accidentally taking some photos of a solar halo, a special light effect (效应). After that, he couldn't stop himself from researching the clouds.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} They went southeast as soon as possible because there were very special clouds in the southeast of Beijing… Another time, he heard there was special cloud in Tianjin. Without a second thought, he took a high-speed train there.

Ji Yun's story made him popular. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} There they share clouds' little surprises. Later in 2019, Ji and his friends created more groups for cloud watchers in different areas of China. There are now thousands of cloud fans in the groups, and they set up the Sky Enthusiasts Association (天空爱好者协会).

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} "Can a cloud or an evening sky make you stop and look up? If yes, then you and I share the same love for clouds," he said.

Zhu Xiangbing has been teaching at the Dongxi Primary School in the mountains of Hubei Province for 39 years. He has helped over 200 students get out of the mountains.

Back in 1984, Zhu graduated from middle school and was preparing to take the exam to enter high school. One day, the leader of his village came to visit him and asked if he would like to be the teacher at the village's primary school. It was a hard decision for Zhu to make. Accepting the job meant he would not be able to leave the village, but if he refused the offer, the students there would be left with no teacher.

After spending a whole night thinking, Zhu decided to take the offer. Then he began to work hard to learn teaching skills. Besides learning from his own teachers, he also taught himself in his spare time. Quickly, Zhu became a good teacher. Zhu often walks for several hours on mountain roads to visit his students' homes. He encourages them to study hard. With his help, more than 30 students from poor families have been able to go to school and receive education.

Because of the school's terrible working and living conditions, many teachers don't want to stay there. To get them to stay, Zhu tries his best to make them feel at home. He often invites them to live and eat in his house.

Over the years, Zhu has had many opportunities (机会) to leave the village, but he has turned all of them down. "I want to stay and help more young teachers grow and take root (扎根) here so that our kids can get a good education," he said.