A jobless man wanted very much to have the position of "office boy" at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. "You have passed the test," he said. "Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the form to fill in and the date when you may start." The man answered, "But I don't have a computer, neither an e-mail." "I'm sorry," said the HR manager. "If you don't have an e-mail, that means you are not living. And anyone who isn't living cannot have the job."

    The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only 10 dollars in his pocket. He thought and thought. Then he went to the supermarket and bought 10 kilos of tomatoes. He sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he had 20 dollars. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with 60 dollars. The man came to know that he could make money in this way, and started to go early every day, and returned home late. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles (运货车队). Five years later, the man was one of the biggest food retailers (零售商) in the US.

    One day, one of his friends asked him for his e-mail. He said, "I haven't got one." His friend couldn't believe his ears. "Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?" The man thought for a while and answered, "Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft!"

    Patrick Johnson, an artist for the Washington Post, found some treasure in his new house-35, 000 dollars in a place where no one could see it. Although he had car and house payments in his head, he still decided to return all of the money to the previous(先前的)owner of the house, Mr Williams. Would you had done the same？

    Just hours after he had bought the house, Patrick came into the small house, where he was planning to lay out his tools and hang things up. He looked up and saw a little hole in the wall. He didn't know what it was inside, so he walked towards the wall. It was very dark inside, but an old box caught his eye." I caught the thing. It was heavy. I thought it might be some pieces of wood, "he said. Actually it was not. It was filled with lots of dollar bills. But he and his wife knew they had to return the money to Mr Williams.

    "I've got two boys and we teach them to be honest and to do what is right. I knew this was a teachable moment that I would never get back again, "Patrick said to his wife." So I thought we would do something honest with it. It's been a great thing for us and our kids."

(注意: 文中不得出现具体人名、校名等个人信息，否则不予评分。)

The following is for reference only (以下表达仅供参考)1.When does he/she usually get up? 2.What does he/she do? 3.What do you think of the day in his/her life? 

 In the open field, a crowd was in front of the board, from which a piece of bad news comes-- France lost the battle to Germany.

 That morning, I started for school very late with fear of being punished(惩罚). I hurried as fast as I could to school.

 When school began, there was usually a- great noise. But now it was all so silent! I went in and sat down. I found our teacher had put on his beautiful coat that he never wore except on prize days. On the back benches that were always empty, the village people were sitting quietly like us.

 While I was wondering, M. Hamel said," My students, the order has come from Germany to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. So this is your last French lesson."

 How sorry I was for hardly knowing how to write French! Now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting here. They were sorry, too, that they had not gone to school more. It was their way of thanking our teacher for his 40 years of service and of showing their love for the country that was theirs no more.

 Then, M. Hamel talked of the French language, saying it was the most beautiful language in the world. He opened the book and read us our lesson. I was amazed to. see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy! After it, we were asked to write. Whenever I looked up from my writing, I saw M. Hamel staring first at one thing, then at another, as if he wanted to fi x everything in his mind. On the roof the pigeons(鸽子) cooed very low, and I thought to myself," Will German soldiers even make pigeons sing in German?"

 All at once the church- clock struck twelve. It was the time to dismiss(解散) the class.

M. Hamel stood up, very pale. I never saw him look so tall.

" My friends" said he,"I …I…" But something choked(哽咽) him.

 Then he returned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk, with all his strength, he wrote as large as he could:

" Vive La France!(法国万岁)"

—— Adapted from The Last Lesson

I am a music lover. I play {#blank#}1{#/blank#} electric guitar in the school band. I often write songs and share {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(they) online. There {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(be) so much fun in music. My grandpa {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(like) music, too. But what he likes is different {#blank#}5{#/blank#} mine. He enjoys {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(play) the erhu in the park with his friends. There {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(be) many fans of theirs there. An idea {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(sudden) jumps into my mind. I decide {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(put) our music together and take part in the art festival of our school with Grandpa. After a week's {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(practise), we are on the stage. Everybody moves with our music and we feel happy. 

"Milano Cortina 2026 might be my last Winter Olympics. Whatever the result will be, I have only one goal, which is to go beyond my earlier results, "33-year-old Olympic champion Xu Mengtao said at her book launch party(新书发布会). 

 Xu was born in 1990 in Liaoning Province. Her parents ran a BBQ restaurant, where Xu would help out during holidays. Xu started her sports career at the age of 4 as a gymnast, before changing to freestyle skiing aerials(自由式滑雪空中技巧) at the age of 12, when she was considered too tall to continue gymnastics. 

 Xu has won 55 freestyle skiing aerials championships so far, but they have come at a cost. 

 Xu has had four operations on her knees. When she took part in the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics, there were steel pins(钢钉) in her knees. Just as at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, she wanted to get an Olympic gold medal. Unluckily, she failed to achieve her goal, although she tried her best. 

 But failures, painful injuries and lonely months of recovery didn't stop her. Xu finally realized her dream at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, by completing three somersaults(空翻) on her final jump. 

 In her book, Xu records her true feelings about her life over the past 30 years, her memories of heart-stopping international competitions, the number of medals she won, the low points she managed to overcome and her full preparation for each competition. "Plan each jump, review each problem and look for every possibility. The real situation is unpredictable, so I have to be fully prepared, " Xu wrote in the book. 

"I hope my personal experience can encourage more people to go after their dreams, " Xu added. "Don't stop trying. It's hard to say when your efforts will pay off, but they will do surely at the most important moment. "