Do you know that the "Happy birthday to you" song is the first song sung in outer space? Apollo IX astronauts 1 it on March 8, 1969. It is one of the most popular English songs of all time. Here is the story behind it.

    The song was written by two sisters from Kentury, Mildred and patty Smith Hill. It was first published under the2of "Good morning to All" in 1893. It was used as a classroom3. Teachers sang it each day to welcome theirs students to the classroom.

    The composer, Mildred Hill, was a concert pianist. Her sister, Patty Smith Hill wrote the original(最初的) lyrics (歌词) for the song while she was a teacher in a kindgarten in Louiville, Kentury, where Mildred also 4.

    The Hill sisters copyrighted (取得版权) their song on October 16, 1893. However, it appeared5their agreement in Robert H. Coleman's songbook on March 4, 1924. Coleman changed part of the lyrics to say, "Happy Birthday to you", 6the song still had it's original title. The song was then published several times over the next ten years, often with small7in the lyrics. In 1934, when the song was sung every night in a Broadway Musical, another Hill sister, Jessica, went to court(法院) over the copyright problem of the song. She was8about the theft of the song and the failure to pay to her sister. She9her case. The Hill family owned the rights to the melody and had to be10every time the song was part of a commercial(商业的) production.

    The Hill sisters, who devoted their lives to educating children, could never imagine that the simple little song would continue to earn about $ 2 million every year.

Future of Soccer

    This summer, French soccer player Kylian Mbappe amazed the world. He "flew" across the 1, scoring goal after goal, and helped the French team become the world champion (冠军) in the 2018 World Cup. His latest achievement is also surprising.

    On Oct 14, Mbappe scored four goals in 13 minutes, which helped his team 2 the game. Then the 19-year-old rising superstar made the cover of Time magazine. It says Mbappe is the future of soccer.

    As a striker (前锋), Mbappe was once 3 to Thierry. Henry, another famous French soccer player. "He is the guy who is like Thierry was, can dribble (运球), can 4 and shoot," said Arsene Wenger, the manager of Mbappe's team.

    5 Mbappe has risen to fame at a young age, he still tries to stay calm. After the World Cup, the famous club Real Madrid invited him to join, but he 6. "I know where I come from," he said and 7 some advice that his father gave him.

    Mbappe 8 in the small French town of Bony. His father, a soccer coach, found he was quite 9, and started to train his son. Knowing how hard life can be, Mbappe donated all the money he earned (挣得的) from the World Cup to charity (慈善机构). "I think it is important to help those who are in 10" he told Yahoo! News.

    Whitney didn't have many friends. She was shy and1. She never wanted to be popular, but she did want to have someone to share2and laugh with.

    Then it was time for her to go to college in another town. And she had to3with someone she didn't know. She had no idea whether she could make friends in that new environment.

    But something happened during the first class. And it 4 Whitney's life. The teacher asked everyone to5a little about themselves. Whitney told everyone where she came from and some simple information. The last6for each student was-"What is your goal for this term?"7of the students said it was to get good grades, pass the tests or something similar. But Whitney said something8. She said that her goal was to make just one good friend.

    When most of the students sat quietly, one student came to Whitney. She reached out her hand and introduced herself. She asked9she could be Whitney's friend. Whitney was surprised and happy. She10and reached her hand out, too.

    Their friendship lasted all through the college.

    I try to be a good father. Give my kids love. Work nights to pay for their schooling. But1with Michael Hoyt, I am nothing.

    This love2began in Winchester, 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled (勒住) by the umbilical cord (脐带) during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to3his limbs (四肢).

    "He'll be a vegetable the4of his life," Doctors told Michael and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old.

    But the Hoyts weren't5it. Because they noticed that Rick's

6followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. But doctors told the parents that there was7going on in their son's brain.

    "Tell him a joke," Michael said to the doctors. They did and Rick8. Actually a lot was going on in his brain.

    Equipped(装备) with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor (光标)9the side of his head, Rick was10able to communicate. What is his first word? "Run!" And after a high school classmate was paralyzed (瘫痪) in a(n)11and the school organized a charity run (慈善跑) for him, Rick typed, "Dad, I want to do that."

    Yeah, right. How was Michael, a man who never ran more than a mile12going to push his son five miles?13he tried. Surprisingly, that day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't14anymore!"

    And that sentence also changed Michael 's life. He wanted to give Rick that feeling as15as he could. Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times in triathlon (铁人三项).

    "No question about it," Rick types. "My dad is the Strongest Dad in the World."