My best friend, Connie, is two years older than me. We spend a lot of time together.

    Connie has long dark brown hair and her eyes are big and round. People say she is 1 and looks like a doll. When we go out, people often 2 that I am older than her because she is shorter and slimmer (苗条的).

    Connie is positive（乐观的）even when things go 3 . Last week she got her examination 4 , which were not very good. I thought she was going to be 5 . Instead, she simply decided to do better the next time. Then, every day after class, 6 teachers are free in their offices, she will ask them for help.

    Connie gets on well with others. Everyone in my family 7 her, even my younger brother. When you hear her laugh, you will naturally（自然地）laugh 8 . When I feel unhappy, I will talk to Connie and she will make me feel 9.

    I think my 10 with Connie is very valuable, and I hope we will always be best friends.

    There was a special wedding on 15 August, 2012 in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. The groom (新郎) was Frares Abdullah, a Swiss, and the bride was Li Miao, a Chinese girl.

    Before the wedding. they spent their holidays on a Silk Road tour (丝绸之路旅行), along Kashgar, Turpan, Kanas and finally Lhasa in Tibet.

    During their tour, the couple hoped to have a special wedding in Urumqi with 25 guests, including the groom's family members and friends from Switzerland, Germany, Palestine, the US and the UK.

    On 5 August, the wedding guests flew to Urumqi. After one day's rest in the hotel, the group flew to Kashgar where they enjoyed the scenery(风景) in Dawakun Desert. On the third day, they took a 3.5-hour car ride to Karakuri Lake.

    On 8 August, the wedding group took a tour of Kashgar city. They visited the famous Id Kah Mosque. The next day, they went to Turpan to see the Jiaohe Ruins and Karez Well, two of Turpan's most famous places of interest.

    On 15 August, the special wedding began in Urumqi. All the guests sent their wishes to the groom and the bride. They were so moved and said they would be nice to each other for all their lives.

    Every year hundreds of people try to climb the world's highest mountain or walk through rainforests(雨林). Let's take a look at two of the 21st century's(世纪的) greatest adventurers(冒险家).

    A mountain climber

    Do you know that more than 4，000 people have climbed Mount Everest? Gerlinde is one of them. She is one of the world's greatest climbers and has climbed all the mountains over 8，000 meters in the world. It's difficult to climb mountains in cold weather, but Gerlinde loves it. She started climbing the mountains near her home as a teenager. When she left school, she became a nurse but always went climbing in her free time.

    An Amazon adventurer

    Ed Stafford is the first person to walk along the Amazon River from the mountains of Peru to the mouth of the river in Brazil. His journey took two years and four months. There are many dangerous animals in the rainforest. But Ed was lucky and he was only bitten(咬) by small insects(昆虫). On his trip, Ed had to look for fruit or catch fish each morning. Sometimes food was hard to find and Ed was often tired and hungry. So he used a radio to ask the people of the rainforest for food and help.

A group of children from poor families from all over China gather at a baseball camp in Beijing. They live and train together, hoping to change their life through {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (play) baseball.

This is the story of the film Tough Out(《棒！少年》). It came out on December 11, 2020 and it is one of this {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (year) best films with a score of 8.7 out of 10 on Douban.

These children are being helped by Power Baseball Angels, a charity(慈善) programme launched in 2015 by Sun Lingfeng, former captain of China's national men's baseball team.

"Baseball changed my personality, teaching me rules and how {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (live) life. Without it, I would have probably become a bad boy," Sun told China Daily. Sun wants to help poor children in{#blank#}4{#/blank#} same way.

Ma Hu is one of the stars of the film. He {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (raise) by his grandmother in a poor village. He often fights {#blank#}6{#/blank#} others and almost never follows the rules at first. But with the guidance of his coaches, he learns to comfort his teammates instead when they lose a game. "I behaved {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (bad) back then," Ma said. "I'm not like that anymore. My goal is to become a member of the national team in the future."

The film hopes to draw attention to the 40 million children who live in poor {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (condition) in China. Just like Ma, many of the kids in the movie are left-behind children. They don't have much money, education {#blank#}9{#/blank#} parents' care. How can these {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (problem) be solved? The baseball charity programme is offering hope to these kids.

Sam is a 14-year-old boy. He loves the beach and the sea, 1  he has never seen them before. He just searched for the wonderful 2  of beaches in Sanya on the Internet. So he planned to go there to enjoy the 3  sights(风景). 

First, Sam made a 4  of things to carry for his trip. He chose to go to Sanya by plane, so his bag couldn't 5  too much. He planned to stay there 6  a week, so he took some clothes with him. Sam also decided to wear 7  because the weather there was hot. The sunlight in Sanya was very strong, so he'd better take his 8  when going there. After preparing these, Sam 9  an early bird ticket on the Internet. That was because the early bird ticket would 10  less. Finally, he searched the Internet for a lot of delicious local food. 

In this way, Sam had a great time there!