There are many fruit and vegetable gardens across the countryside. More students, at Madison Elementary School, are growing their own food in the gardens.

 The vegetables are washed. Then kids can eat them at a salad party. They are also sold in the school dining hall for lunch. This month, students will plant tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, broccoli(西兰花) and strawberries.

 Why are students learning how to grow food? Teachers want kids to learn healthy eating habits. Healthy food gives us energy. We need energy to grow.

 Many kids are now trying new food and learning how to grow food. Lisa is the parent volunteer of the program. She says a lot of students have told her, “I like salad. I didn't think I liked salad!” Then those students have gone home and asked their parents to buy vegetables that they have tried at school.

 Lisa's daughter, Lucy, is one of those students. She is in Grade Two.“I love the garden,”she says.“I didn't really like vegetables before we had the garden. Then we found out that gardening is cool. Now I like vegetables. My favorite vegetable is carrots.”

    Every year on my birthday since I was 11, a white gardenia (栀子花) was sent to my house. No card ever came with it. Calls to the flower shop were not helpful at all. After some time I stopped trying to find out the sender's name and was just pleased with the beautiful flower, in soft pink paper.

I couldn't stop imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments werespent daydreaming(幻想 )about the sender. My mother encouraged these daydreams. She'd ask me if I had been especially kind to someone. Perhaps it was one of my classmates Perhaps it was the old man who I once helped. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy that I had met.

    A month before my high school graduation(毕业), my father died. I was so sad that I became completely uninterested in my coming graduation dance, and I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. My mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss (过) any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved. In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect.

    My mother died ten years after I was married. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.

    Alan, a boy from India went to study in the UK two years ago. He found a part-time job in a restaurant. Many British students also worked there. Their job was washing the dishes. It was an easy job, but the boss said, "You must wash every dish seven times." At first, Alan was careful. The boss was happy with him. After one month, he found that the boss didn't check very often. He thought there was no difference between five times and seven times. So he just washed five times. He worked very fast. The boss was even happier. One day, a British student asked him why he could wash so fast. Alan told him the secret. The British student was surprised but didn't say anything. A few days later he told the boss about it. The boss fired (解雇) Alan.

    Alan went to other restaurants, but all of them said, "Go away! You are not honest. We don't need you." Alan was sad because he could do nothing.

    Johnny English is a funny spy (特工). He isn't very smart and often makes mistakes. After he retires (退休)as a spy, he teaches English at a primary school.

    One day, a hacker (黑客)attacks (攻击)the UK. The hacker reveals (公布) the names of all of Britain's spies. Only English is left, since he is retired. He is asked to find the hacker.

    English knows nothing about high—tech weapons (高科技武器). He makes a fool of himself quite often. To find the hacker, he has to work with his old friend, Bough. Soon, they find the hacker as well as a bigger plan behind him.

    English and Bough show that two heads are not always better than one. Sometimes they do silly things. But they stop the hacker's plan in the end. Do you want to meet these two silly spies? You can see them in Johnny English (《憨豆特工3》). It opened in Chinese mainland theaters on November 23rd.

You may think gymnastics is only for players in their teens and twenties. But Oksana Chusovitina has broken the unwritten rule of the sport. The 48-year-old woman made her return to the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games. This is her fifth time to take part in the Asian Games. Also she is the only woman who has competed in eight Olympics. Chusovitina was born in Uzbekistan in 1975. At the age of 17，she attended her first Olympics in Barcelona，Spain. She won a gold medal in the team event，but this was just the beginning of her long story. 

In 1999，she gave birth to her first son，Alisher. She thought the Sydney 2000 Games were meant to be the last one for her. But it was not to be. In 2002，Alisher suffered from a serious illness. In order to give Alisher the best possible treatment，the family moved to Germany. In 2003，she returned to international competitions to raise money for her son. Luckily，both her comeback and her son's treatment were successful. 

After finishing a disappointing fifth at the London 2012 Games，Chusovitina told everybody that she decided to stop her career. But gymnastics was in her blood（血）. "At night，I told everyone I had decided to stop my career. The next morning，I woke up and changed my mind，"she said. At the Tokyo 2020 Games，Chusovitina failed to reach the final event. Though she said once again that she would stop her career，she decided to return very soon. 

This year，her return to the Hangzhou Asian Games added another touch of colour to her career. Although she missed a medal，she said she would continue to train and compete for the Olympics in Paris. 

"I love gymnastics，and it brings me great joy. I'm just doing what I love. " Chusovitina said，"I can leave at any time. But I must do what I can today，so I won't regret it tomorrow. "

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