Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the most famous and most successful children's book writers around the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.

    In 1954, Life magazine published a report about school children who could not read well. The report said many children's books were not interesting at all. Doctor Seuss read it and strongly wanted to help the children and decided to write books that were full of fun and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like bike and like. He did not receive any training in art. However, he drew wonderful pictures for most of his books.

    In 1957, Doctor Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a 6-year-old kid could read it. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it very much. Their parents loved it as well. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him really want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.

    In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize. He was honoured for the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents. He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold all over the world. People say his books helped change the way American children learnt to read. Up till now, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, "I do not write for children. I write for people."

    A company wanted to get the best employee(雇员). After the competition, only three people were left.

    In the last competition, the three people entered a room with a monitor(监视器). Inside the room, there was everything they needed but no telephone and they couldn't surf the Internet. The three people just waited patiently for the exam questions.

    The first day, three people were very excited, watching TV, reading books and listening to music.

    The next day, because they still didn't know the exam questions, two of them were worried and often changed TV channels.

    Five days later, the winner was the one who could keep a happy life. The leader of the company thinks happiness is a kind of ability(能力). If you keep a happy heart, you will succeed finally!

A gift in a wrong place brings unexpected happiness. 

Since 1cameto my new neighborhood，1 have been glad to meet a few neighbors. They seem to be quite1 people. For Christmas, I thought I would do2 nice for each of the neighbors that I know. I sat down and counted. 

There were nine neighbors, and I also knew which houses they lived in.

However, I decided to3 one more person to my list, the lady I met every morning walking to work as I drove down the street. She always smiled at me,4 I had no idea which house she lived in.

My gift idea was to make small5 baskets and leave them on each of my neighbors' front porches (门廊) on the night of Christmas Eve. I kept the last one for the friendly lady, since I was still not sure where she lived — 6 the house where I met her each morning. Finally, I decided to put it there. My neighbors really enjoyed the baskets and a couple even came by to7 me.

This morning 8 my way to work, I put my mail in the mailbox and noticed a Thank You card. I opened it and read the 9 which really made me surprised.

The card said, "Thank you for those lovely apples and strawberries you left on the porch of Tod. He 10 on January 19th, but he never stopped11 how nice it was that someone remembered him in his time of illness. He really enjoyed it." I was very surprised. I didn't know who Tod was or that 12 had been seriously ill. I left that nice lady's basket on Tod's porch by accident. I believe that Tod never expected to have that basket. I feel13 that the nice lady did not get a basket from me this Christmas, but I believe that if she knew what happened, she would 14 me.

I feel lucky to have helped Tod be more cheerful in his last days. This just makes me further believe that sometimes 15 in life are beautiful.

My name is Zhao Nan. I'm {#blank#}1{#/blank#} eleven-year-old schoolgirl. I'm from Zhejiang Province. I'm in Class 2, Grade 7 in Sunshine School. 

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Leonardo da Vinci is famous as an Italian painter. He showed great {#blank#}1{#/blank#}and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} ability when he was young. Besides, he also had many {#blank#}3{#/blank#} ,for example, his notebooks with interesting drawings of flying machines. 

Dinosaurs lived {#blank#}4{#/blank#}on Earth before human beings and had different shapes. Some were small, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} were big. Today, we can {#blank#}6{#/blank#} about them from their fossils. 

Once upon a time, a king challenged {#blank#}7{#/blank#}old man to a chess game and finally lost. He {#blank#}8{#/blank#} his men to collect a bag of rice to give the wise man. However, there wasn't{#blank#}9{#/blank#} rice to put {#blank#}10{#/blank#}all the squares. 

Xia Boyu who is 70 years old is the first Chinese double amputee ( 被 截 肢 者 ) to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma, the highest mountain in the world. He will continue1 on the high slopes (坡 度) of life. 

"2 I lost my legs, I don't think I am worse than the others, " he says. "I fight with my fate and challenge myself. "People often talk about dreams, but Xia is the kind of person who takes action to3 them. On May 14 last year, Xia made his4 come true by reaching the top of Mount Qomolangma. 5 didn't come easy. He had failed in reaching the top of the mountain four times before becoming a double amputee. 

Xia's first try was in 1975 when he lost his legs. Then he made other three tries in 2014, 2015 and 2016 but didn't succeed6 bad weather or an earthquake. 

"When I finally stood on the top of the mountain, I was pretty7 , not as excited as I had expected, " he recalls. "In the earlier years, I often dreamed about reaching the top. However, when it8 came true, it seemed that my heart found peace. "

Xia stayed at the9 for around 10 minutes. He took some pictures with others and looked 10 the mountain. At that moment, he felt it was all worth it.