Mary was a little girl and she lived with her parents in Africa. Her parents had gotten tired of the neighbors always complaining to them about their daughter, who was naughty and disrespectful to others. To change the situation, the father told Mary a story of a thief who would come and take away the parents of a bad child to take care of a better child and leave the bad child alone.

    However Mary went on with her ways. One day she made fun of an old blind man on her way to school. On hearing this, her parents thought of a new plan.

    The next day Mary came back from school. To her surprise, nobody was at home. It was getting dark but neither of her parents showed up. The little girl started to wonder where they were. Suddenly she remembered the story. Mary began to cry, for she thought she would never see them again. While she was crying, the door opened and her parents came in. She ran to them and asked, “Where have you been? I thought the thief had taken you away.”

    “He did but he let us go and told us to come back home because he knows you are going to be a good girl. He told us that if you are still a bad girl, he will come back for us,” they told her.

    “I am a good girl now and I promise never to be bad again because I don't want him to take you away from me.” Mary's words made her parents very happy. From that day on, Mary has never misbehaved again.

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49-year-old Zhang Jianna is from a village in Hebei Province. Recently, videos of her directing foreigners have gone viral (爆红) online. Her beautiful English has deeply impressed the viewers. Zhang had worked as a restaurant server and a store seller. More than 10 years ago, she took on the role of a cleaner in the embassy (大使馆) area of Sanlitun in Beiiing's Chaovang district.

One morning, a foreigner came near to her, gently tapped her shoulder, and spoke a lot of unfamiliar words to her. Standing there, her mind going blank, Zhang didn't know how to react. The foreigner seemed to recognize her embarrassment and gestured (比划) for her to look ahead, giving a thumbs-up while repeatedly saying, "Good, good!" Zhang suddenly realized that the foreigner was praising her work in keeping the streets clean. It deeply moved Zhang and she made up her mind to learn English. "My goal is quite simple. I just want to help whenever someone is in need," said Zhang.

Thus, at the age of 40, Zhang has started a personal challenge. Without a teacher, she began learning English from her children's textbooks, starting with basic words and phrases commonly used for giving directions.

While others rested, she memorized vocabulary and practiced speaking. Upon arriving home after work, she would note down new knowledge points and review them until fully understood. Over the years, she filled over a dozen notebooks with her notes. She reviewed words at night and then repeated them one more time the next day morning. She also downloaded over a dozen English learning apps on her computer and phone, spending any possible moment learning and practicing.

"Growing up in a village without a college education, I sometimes feared being looked down upon. But every time I help a stranger in English, I feel strongly confident," said Zhang. "To serve others makes me happy and it's where I prove my self-worth. After retirement, I also want to introduce my hometown in English and help develop local tourism ."

Some people have a very poor sense （感觉） of direction （方向） , Unluckily, I am one of them, I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.

When I was a little girl, I never dared （敢） to ask strangers the way. And so I used to walk around in circles （圈） and hope that by chance （偶然地） I would get to the place I was going to.

Now, I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid（避免） giving people wrong directions. If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere, I would say, "Sorry, I am a stranger here."

Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building, I gave him my usual reply. But when I walked on only a few steps （步） , I realized that he asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing （仓促） to meet with someone at my office and I didn't want to keep him waiting. When I got to my office, the secretary( 秘书） showed in( 领 ……进来） the man who asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other.

Early one morning, a woman was {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（carry）a big bag of vegetables to the market. Life was hard and it was difficult for her to make money. She hoped to sell the vegetables to the people in the town so that she could get some money for her two little {#blank#}2{#/blank#} （child）. 

The mountain road was narrow and the woman was walking {#blank#}3{#/blank#} （careful）because she did not want to lose her vegetables. Suddenly she {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（hear）a loud bell. and a bicycle came round. It passed her {#blank#}5{#/blank#} went very fast down the hill. The woman jumped to one side of the road quickly and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} （she）vegetables fell into the valley（山谷）. She looked up, and saw a young boy {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the bicycle. He was riding on without even looking round to see if {#blank#}8{#/blank#} old woman was all right. The woman shouted, "Come back, young man! You dropped something!" After hearing this, the boy was {#blank#}9{#/blank#} （surprise）and stopped to push the bicycle back up the hill. " {#blank#}10{#/blank#} did I drop?" he asked. "Young man!" the woman answered, "You dropped your manners."

How do US kids start to talk with their new {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ? They always start with nice words. 

 For example, a US kid says, "I love {#blank#}2{#/blank#} pencil box. Where is it from?" The new classmate likes to hear this. He or she says something about the pencil box. Then the talk really {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. 

US kids also talk about their breakfast, family{#blank#}4{#/blank#} and so on. A smile can {#blank#}5{#/blank#} them start a talk, too. So just say"hi" and smile when you meet new classmates in your school.