Life is not easy, so I'd like to say,” When anything happens, believe in yourself.”

      When I was 14, I was1 nervous to talk in public. My classmates often2me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later3 happened. It affected my life. It was an English speech contest (比赛). My mother asked me to take part in it. What a/an4 idea!

It meant I had to5in front of all the teachers and students of my school! “Come on, boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to6” Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I chose the topic“Believe in yourself”. I tried my best to7all the speech and practiced it over 100 times. 8my mother's great help, I did well in the contest. I could hardly (几乎不) believe my ears when the news came —— I won the first place. I heard the cheers from the teachers and students. Those 9looked down on （瞧不起）me before, but they now all said10 to me. My mother hugged (拥抱)me and cried excitedly.

      Since then, everything changed for me. When I do anything, I try to tell myself to be confident and I will find myself. This is true not only for a person but also for a country.

    Look at this photo. It's a photo of my two good friends and me. The boy is Tom. 1 is from America. The girl 2 red is Helen. She is from England. And I'm from Australia, my name is Lucy. We3 in the same (相同的) school.

    Tom likes sports very much. He often 4Ping-pong, baseball and basketball after class. He has a great sports collection: some ping-pong balls, two ping-pong bats, eight baseballs and two 5. He thinks it's relaxing and 6 to play sports every day.

    But Helen thinks it's boring. She 7 sports every day. She likes 8. She has many books. She reads every day. I don't have a great collection. 9 I play sports every day. I also (也) 10 sports shows(  节目 ) on TV. I think sports are good for me.

    Nine-year-old Louis Pasteur rushed into the little house.With his face white. “Mother!” he cried, “A mad dog has 1 my friend Henry, and now they are burning him with red-hot irons(烙铁). It's terrible!”

    “Rabies(狂犬病), Louis. Burning the bites is the only 2of stopping Henry from catching the disease.''

    Henry did get rabies and died, in great 3 some days later. Louis Pasteur never 4“One day,” he thought, “I must do something to help people like Henry.”

    Sixteen years later Pasteur became a Doctor of 5And he began his work in this special field. Pasteur achieved great success in his life.6 the years of research he lost the use of his left arm and leg, yet he never lost heart. He worked on and on, as hard as ever,7 he had a strong will to find a way for curing rabies.

    After many dangerous experiments on mad dogs, he 8found the answer. Just then a boy who had been badly bitten by a mad dog arrived at his lab. A few days later Pasteur's treatment, the boy got9He did not catch rabies.

    The discovery gave new hope to people in many countries. People sent money to help10the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Today it is one of the world's most famous centers for the research.

As a traditional and meaningful board game, weiqi was invented in China more than 4,000 years ago and it is still played until today.

The playing pieces are called stones. One player uses the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} stones and the other, black. The players take turns to play the stones on the game board. As we know, the board surface has 361 cross {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (point). The stones are placed on them.

Weiqi is also called Go in the world. Learning it can not only improve people's logical (逻辑的) thinking ability, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} also develop their calm character. That's why it is more and more popular with modern people.

In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, weiqi {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (travel) to Japan, and then to Europe in the 19th century. Now it has {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (grow) into an international competition event. So far, people from over forty {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (country) have played it. Among them, players from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea have the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (high) level of weiqi.

On February 19, 2021, Chinese-English Dictionary of Weiqi Term (术语) came out in Beijing. It's the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (one) professional (专业的) dictionary about weiqi in China. As a symbol {#blank#}9{#/blank#} Chinese culture, weiqi has its special language. The dictionary will be used as a necessary tool and bridge for {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (spread) weiqi culture.

①Yellowknife, Whitehorse and Come By Chance — all are names of towns and cities in North America. Ottawa, Beijing, Paris, Hanoi and Tokyo — all are important world cities. But how did they get these names? And why?

②Some names sound funny, and some of them make no sense when you first hear them. But there is always a story or a tradition behind a name. People live in an area. A city begins to grow. In the beginning, it might have no name, but soon, people start calling it something. When enough people use this name, it usually sticks. And a new city name is born.

③In the tradition of East Asia, important cities are given names that tell us exactly what they are, and where they are located (位于). Nearly everyone will know that Beijing means "northern capital". But do you know that Tokyo and Hanoi mean "eastern capital"?

④Ottawa, Canada's capital city, was given its name thousands of years ago. It is located at a place where two rivers meet, and was a place where Indian nations came to trade with each other long ago. In the native (当地的) language, Adawe means "to trade". When the Europeans lived in the area, they heard the natives calling the place Adawe. This sounded like Ottawa to the European ears. Soon enough, everyone was calling the city Ottawa.

⑤When a European explorer (探险家) arrived at a place in the far northern area of Canada, he found native people carried huge knives made of copper (铜), which appeared yellow in the shining sun. The explorer decided to call them Yellow knives. He named the place where they lived Yellowknife.

⑥Next time you hear an unusual city name, see if you can discover how it got that name.

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Do you take part in the rock climbing (攀岩)? Do you know about rock climbing? Rock climbing became an independent sport in the middle of the 20th century. Now it's quite popular all over the world.

Rock climbing is not a very easy sport. Indoor and outdoor rock climbing both need lots of practice. Most people don't know that rock climbing depends on (依赖) your body and mind.

And you must know about some rules. One important rule is to always have your body on the rock face. Another important rule is that your arms only hold you close to the rock face while your legs are pushing you up. The third rule is that you should make your body close to the rock face.

Rock climbing is a wonderful sport, and you will find lots of fun. If you like playing cards or chess, you will also love rock climbing because they are nearly the same in the way of thinking. If you want to be in good shape (身材), rock climbing is a good way. If you enjoy difficult games and love sports, you can think of taking rock climbing as a new hobby.