Hello! My 1 Bill. I 213. I have two friends. One is 3girl. 4 name is Jenny. She 512. The other(另个) is a boy. 6 is Frank. He is 12. 7 Look! That 8a bird.9 name is Polly. We all like 10 .

Lisa has always been overweight. She wanted to lose weight, not just because she wanted to 1 more beautiful and healthier, but also because it would make life easier. For example, it was 2 for Lisa to find ready-made clothes that would fit. She had to ask a tailor(裁缝) to make clothes that were large enough. At school, she needed a special chair which was bigger and 3 than the other chairs. If she went for a walk, she got tired very quickly. She was also unhappy about the way people 4 her sometimes. "People look at me and even make fun of me. That's5 ! It's true that I'm overweight, but I don't think people should treat me differently because I'm big. I can't enjoy having dinner with my friends because I'm afraid of getting fatter. " Her friends and family 6 made fun of her. They tried to help her 7 . They wanted her to be happy and healthy. Sometimes when Lisa was feeling sad, she didn't want to speak to anyone.

But now things are quite different. Last month her classmates were preparing for the School 8  Week. Someone advised Lisa to play the lead role of the proud Queen(女王) who was tall and fat. Lisa 9  it and practiced a lot. 

Soon after the play, Lisa became the 10 ! She did so well that everybody remembered the proud Queen. They stood around her and said"Congratulations!"to her. She even won the School Best Actress Award for her wonderful performance.

Now Lisa doesn't worry about being fat any more. She believes in the English saying"Every dog has its day. "

Haili Smith, 16, says she and her sister, Brooke, "have very different tastes in books." Haili likes horror stories. Brooke, 13, prefers fantasy. What they share is the belief that kids are more likely to read if they are connected with a book's characters. That's why, in 2020, they started Books Like Me. The nonprofit group donates (捐赠) culturally different children's books to schools.

"We didn't really like reading a few years ago", Haili told TIME for Kids. "[Then] we started to look for books that had characters we saw ourselves in. It made us want to read more. We thought we could share that with students, because we knew that this wasn't something that changed us only."

Haili and Brooke started with an Amazon Wish List of books they liked. They shared the list on social media, asking for donations of these titles. Soon, they began receiving boxes of new books to give away to schools. As word about their organization has spread, requests have come in from schools nationwide. So far, Haili and Brooke have given away more than 16, 000 books.

Anitra Carter teaches fourth grade at a primary school in Florida. She says donations from Books Like Me have gotten her students more interested in reading. "It excites them when seeing a character that may represent (代表；象征) them or look similar to them," Carter says.

Over the years, Haili and Brooke have been invited to speak with educators about the importance of culturally diverse books. They've also taken books directly to students. At a book fair in Florida, "I was at a table showing kids the books and they were picking them out," Haili recalls. "They all looked so happy when they found a book that really resonated (共鸣) with them."

That, of course, is the goal. "I hope, and I think," Haili says, "that all kids should ____ so that they enjoy reading."

Luke Hayes-Alexander, 32 years old, looks like a typical eighteen-year-old boy. He speaks slowly and is quite shy. However, when he talks about food, he is different! "My life is about food shopping, preparing food and serving." Luke was the executive chef(行政主厨)of Luke's Gastronomy in Kingston, Canada, started by his parents in 1993. When he was a kid, he liked reading cookbooks. Soon, he started helping his father with cooking in the kitchen. At the age of fourteen, Luke left school and decided to learn more about food. Then, at the age of sixteen, he became the chef and started changing the small family restaurant into a center of creative dishes.

Luke cares about his ingredients(原料)a lot:  they all come from local(当地的): arms and he chooses them carefully. Everything in the restaurant is home-made. Even the wine in his restaurant is from his own vineyard(葡萄园)."I enjoy cooking. I hope every ingredient in my dishes is beautiful and fresh and that the customers will enjoy the taste of my food, "he said.

Luke is happy in Toronto. He has many plans and is already working on a new cookbook. And then he would also like to go to Europe in the future to find out more about cooking and talk with some famous cooks. What words does Luke have for other teenagers interested in cooking?" Have fun, get dirty, listen to some good music and cook!"

Johnny is an {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(Australia) boy. He plays basketball very {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(good). And his favorite color is white.

It's Sunday today. He needn't go to school. He {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(want) to buy a jacket for school. His mother is busy at work, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he goes to the clothes store with his father. They buy a white jacket there. He likes it very much, so he wears {#blank#}5{#/blank#} jacket to school every day.

Johnny has a very good friend, Alan. From Monday to Friday, they always go to school together. One day, the two {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(friend) are going to school. Alan asks,"Where is your jacket, John?" "Oh, it's in {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(I) room. I just don't want to wear it today."Alan asks,"Why? Your jacket looks very nice."John says,"A button* of my jacket is lost. My mother can't {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(find) the same one in the shop. Do you have any ideas?""How about {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(change) all the buttons on thejacket?"says Alan."Sounds great,"says John. He tells his mother and now he is looking forward{#blank#}10{#/blank#} wearing the white jacket the next day.

Young scientist Li Yuehua works at Zhejiang Lab(之江实验室) in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. There is something special about the lab— as Li enters it, she feels out of this world. It brings her to one of the earth's closest neighbors: Mars.

The lab simulates(模拟) the environment, such as the ground and light, on the red planet. In the lab, Li and her team develop and test AI technology to make future Mars rovers(火星车) smarter.

Zhurong, China's first Mars rover, got to Mars in 2021. As Zhurong moves on Mars, it sends information back to the earth. The ground team checks the information before it can move on. The process can take up to 40 minutes.

" Today's rovers are like babies. They can perceive what's around them but they're not able to understand them. Scientists on the earth must tell them how to communicate with the environment," said Li." We hope our AI technology will help Mars rovers learn about the environment and decide where to go on their own."

Li's team needed a better place to do that. Is there anywhere similar to Mars on the earth? The answer was found in the deep desert of Dunhuang, Gansu Province. The team went there in summer and soon started to work. However, it was so hot that several machines stopped working and some team members got sick. Although it was really hard, they didn't give up. Finally, the team developed a better technology.

" An important part of science is facing failure(失败)," Li said." It is like climbing. You face difficulties and try to solve them time after time."