A traveler came out of the airport. There were a lot of taxis. He asked every taxi driver about his name. Then he took the third one. It cost 5 dollars from the airport to the hotel. “How much does it cost for the whole day?” The man asked. “100 dollars,” said the taxi driver. This was very dear (昂贵的), but the man said it was OK.

    The taxi driver took the man everywhere. He showed him all the parks and museums in the city. In the evening they went back to the hotel. The traveler gave the taxi driver 100 dollars and said, “What about tomorrow?” The taxi driver looked at the man and said, “Tomorrow is another 100 dollars.” And the man said, “That's OK! See you tomorrow.” The taxi driver was very pleased.

    The next day the taxi driver took the traveler everywhere again. They visited all the parks and museums again. And in the evening they went back to the hotel. The man gave the taxi driver 100 dollars again and said, “I'm going home tomorrow.” The driver was sorry because he liked the traveler and 100 dollars a day was a lot of money. “So you are going home. Where do you come from?” He asked. “I come from New York.” “New York,” the taxi driver said, “I have a sister in New York. Her name is Susan. Do you know her?” “Of course I know her. She gave me 200 dollars for you!”

    17-year-old Brennan Agranoff, a colorblind boy, started his custom sock business in middle school, with a small loan(贷款)he got from his parents. Up till now, he has sold over $1 million worth of socks online in the last four years.

    Brennan thought of the idea for his custom sock company at just 13 years old. He was attending a high-school basketball game in his hometown of Sherwood, Oregon, and noticed that many kids his age were wearing the same white Nike sport socks. The boy told himself that if these white plain sacks were so popular with kids, then some cool custom designs would surely be an even greater hit.

    But the boy didn't tell his parents about the business idea immediately. He spent six months researching things like printing machines and technology and drawing up a business plan. Only when he had everything planned out did he ask his parents for a loan. "They thought the idea was a little out there," Brennan recently told CNN Money, but he kept pushing, and finally received a $3,000 loan to start his company. Then he began to work on his own designs. The fact that he was colorblind didn't stop him and he has created aver 200 designs now.

    Business was slow the first year, but then Brennan started pushing his HoopSwagg products heavily on the Internet. Orders soon started coming in in large numbers, and HoopSwagg became a popular brand among custom sock lovers. Right now, his designs can be found on HoopSwagg website, Amazon and eBay.

    Four years after starting his business, Brennan has achieved great success while balancing(平衡)school, house chores and his social life. And he says he loved every minute of it.

    Ding-dong!

    "Jason, honey? Can you answer the door?"

    "I'm busy, mom!" Jason shouted back at his mother. He'd spent three hours so far working to his point in the gate. He couldn't stop now.

    Ding-dong! Mom's footsteps approached the front door.

    "Jason, it's your friend, Todd." Mom called from the doorway.

    Todd, his best friend, stepped into the room. "Jason! I need a partner for playing basketball. He sounded excited.

    Jason snorted, "No way, Todd. I'm playing a game here."

    Todd shook his head. "You can play later. Let go."

    Jason gave his friend a dirty look, and his character in the game almost got killed while he looked away, "I almost died because of you!

    Todd looked at Jason's mother. Jason's mother looked back at him. They both looked at Jason. "Why don't you play basketball with your friend?"Jason's mother suggested.

    "Tomorrow, maybe." there were more levels to beat tomorrow, though. Maybe he'd play tomorrow. He'd have to see what mood he was in. He thought he heard footsteps walking away, but he was too busy beating the next level to care.

    An hour later, Jason's father came home. It was dinner time after his father washed up and sat down. Jason didn't even hear his name being called to the table. He didn't hear his father walk up behind him and ask him to turn the game off, either.

    When the screen suddenly went black and his father's angry face loomed in front of him, Jason finally heard. "No more game for a month." Jason's father shouted at him. "You don't play basketball, you don't come to dinner, and you don't do your chores. We'll make sure everything else gets done before you play anymore."

    Jason nodded slowly. He knew better than to argue with father, and when he thought about it, he had been playing quite a bit. It was fun, but he was letting down(使失望) his friends，his family, and himself by playing too much.

    He'd try harder in the future.

Emma was dreaming. In her dream, she was sitting on a train. A boy next to her asked her, "Excuse me, do you know {#blank#}1{#/blank#}the train will get to London?"Emma didn't have a watch so she didn't know how she {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(can) answer his question. She was about to ask her sister Annie when she heard someone waking her up. It was Annie.

"It's too late, Emma! Get up!" Then Emma had to get up.

Annie liked making plans. At the breakfast table, she asked Emma to write down what she {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(have to) do today. "The mouse problem is serious. Could you tell me {#blank#}4{#/blank#}You'll deal with(处理) it today?"

"Yes! Mousetraps(老鼠夹) can kill mice. So after breakfast I'll go and buy one,"answered Emma.

"Write it down," said Annie.

Emma took her pencil out of her pencil case, but she stopped. She forgot {#blank#}5{#/blank#}she could spell the word"mousetrap". She was sure that Annie would laugh at her. She wanted to know {#blank#}6{#/blank#}she put her dictionary last night.

"On the sofa? No,"Emma said to herself."In the bookcase?"

Annie was a little impatient. She asked Emma {#blank#}7{#/blank#}she didn't write down the word quickly.

Emma didn't hear {#blank#}8{#/blank#}Annie said. She couldn't stop yawning(打哈欠). From far away she could hear the boy say, "Your dictionary is next to your pillow (枕头)."Hearing that, Emma smiled.

For 16-year-old Ma Yifei, the violin performance of the Beijing 2022 Olympic theme song, Snowflake (雪花), was her best present for Paralympians (残奥运动员)all over the world. Even though snowflakes are related to winter, she let others feel warmth, hope and light through her performance.

Ma went blind at the age of two because of an illness. She became interested in music when she was young.

She started to learn to play the piano at five and the violin at nine, experiencing the "colorful" music through sound and emotion

Ma's mother Ha Chunyan, a former music teacher in a primary school, helped her memorize the music score (乐谱)before she played the piano. Ma could not see the keys and always played the wrong notes. It took her thousands of tries to play a piece correctly. 

Learning the violin was more challenging. Ma needed to feel the teacher hands, arms and back to learn the movements, and listen to the strings (弦) over and over again to feel the muscles(肌肉)herself.

"After three years of learning, she still could not make any sound except terrible noises, "said Ha, who advised her daughter to give up the violin. But Ma said, "As I've been practising so long, it's hard to give up I believe I will play better if I persist in practising. "

In 2018, Ma got a chance to follow Sheng Yuan and Cao Yuhan, famous musicians from the Central Conservatory of Music, to study music in Beijing. She left her home in Ningxia to follow her musical dream, though she knew there would be more challenges ahead.

Ma expressed her excitement about performing at the big event. "All my hard work has paid off. I'm proud of standing on the stage today. "

I have a good friend at school. Her name is Larry. Larry has many {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (健康的) habits. For {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(例子), he {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(几乎不) ever stays up late and he exercises a lot. He says doing sports is a great way to relax. Of all the sports, he likes swimming best. So he goes swimming three or four {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(次) a week. He often goes bike riding with friends on weekends. 

It was fine last Sunday, we {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(决定) to ride bikes to a farm. We {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(到达) at the farm early and had a picnic there. After that, we picked some oranges to take home. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (虽然) we felt tired, we enjoyed ourselves. We have made a plan for next weekend. 

We will go to a {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(电影) together. We plan to go to the Town Cinema because their seats are the biggest and we can sit the most {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(舒适地). We will watch the new comedy. My favorite actress plays an important {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(角色) in it. I'm sure we will have a great time.