In Paris, one freezing winter evening, I was having dinner with my friend, Mr. Dupin, the famous detective. We had just finished our meal, when there was a loud knocking at the door. Dupin opened it. There stood Mr. Germain, the chief警长）of the Paris Police.

      We welcomed him warmly, for he was an old acquaintance（熟人）whom we hadn't seen for a great time.

      "I need your assistance," said Germain. "I met a case（案件）that has been giving me a great deal of trouble. It is very simple but very strange."

      “Also, please keep this secret. If anyone found out that I told you this. I would certainly lose my job.”

      “Well, then,” said the Chief,” I have learned that a very important letter has been stolen from the king. We are sure who stole it and that the letter is in his house."

      "But who would dare do such a thing" I cried.

      "The thief," said Germain softly, "He's a man who darers do many dangerous things. He is one of the most powerful and important ministers in the government. He is Minister Danton.”

      "A lot of times, while Minister Danton was out, a lot of well-trained police officers carefully searched the entire house, room by room. In fact, we examined everything in the house but found nothing."…

       A month later, Dupin asked Germain and me to his house. There he took out a letter and handed it to the Chief. We were both very surprised.

      Dupin explained, "I know Minister Danton very well. He could not hide the letter in any of the usual hiding places. I realized that he might have left the letter out in the open, right under everyone's nose, where no one would search for it."

      "Then I visited him with my dark glasses on to help me observe（观察）better. While we were chatting, a dirty, torn letter in the letter holder suddenly caught my eyes-unusual for the Minister, who is careful and neat."

      "I was sure it was the letter."

      "Then I purposely left my gloves behind so I could come back again."

"The next morning, I hired a man to fire a gun on the street, while the Minister went to see what happened, I stole the letter by replacing it with a similar one, On it Dupin wrote these words:

             Your plan was good, but mine was better

             As you can see, I took the letter.

—-Based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe

    Henry Smith taught science at the City School. One day, he went to a bookstore and bought some books. Most of them were expensive. He left them in his Car in a quiet street. Then he went and bought some other things at other shops. At 6 o'clock he came back to the car. One window was open and the books were gone. Henry drove back to his home in Lake Street.

    That night he wrote a letter to a newspaper. The next day he went to the police station.

    On Friday people read an advertisement(广告) in the newspaper.

BOOKS WANTED

DO YOU HAVE ANY BOOKS THAT YOU NO LONGER WANTED? I BUY OLD AND MODERN BOOKS. OPEN ALL DAY ON SATURDAY. HENRY SMITH, 18 LAKE STREET.

    Henry stayed at home on Saturday. His first visitor came at 8 o'clock.

    Henry took him to the kitchen. At half past nine another man arrived. He had a bag under his arm.

    "Mr. Smith?" the man asked.

    "That's right," Henry said, "Can I help you?"

    "I have some good books. You buy books, don't you?"

    "Yes, bring them in. I'll have a look at them."

    Soon the books were on the dining-table.

    "Come in now, " Henry called out, "And bring the list."

    A policeman came into the dining-room. He read the titles(书名) on the books and those on the list in his hand. They were the same.

    "Come with me, Sir," the policeman said to the man.

A video of a girl dancing at a pork shop gets popular on the Internet. In the video, her mother is busy cutting up pork while the girl is dancing.

The girl is Wu Gangyun. She lives in Naduo Village of Yanshan County (县) in Yunnan. Wu's father is a train driver and her mother has a pork shop. Wu loves dancing and she dreams to be a dancer. She starts to learn to dance at the age of six. She just teaches herself by watching online videos. Every day after school, Wu goes to her mother's shop practice dancing.

Seeing their daughter's love of dance, Wu's parents want her to go to dance classes. But they can't pay for them. Luckily, Zhang Ping and Guan Yu, two teachers from a dance school, see Wu's video. They have a program (项目)—"Colorful Cloud Program" to help children in villages change (改变) their lives. They think Wu is good at dancing and they want to teach her. Wu learns a lot from the teachers. In 2019, she gave a show on CCTV.

Steve Jobs (24 Feb. 1955-5 Oct. 2011) was 1 co- founder of Apple Inc., one of 2 companies in the world, and he invented many of the digital products that are part of everyday life for so many people today.

Steve Jobs's life was not without difficulties, however. He 3 soon after his birth and only met his birth mother and sister when he grew up. As a child, Steve was very smart but formal schooling didn't suit him. He went to college for a short time, but dropped out soon because he had no idea 4 he wanted to do. Since Steve dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, he got a chance 5 a calligraphy class. There he learned about serif and sans- serif typefaces(字体) and how to make typography beautiful. It didn't show 6 practical value at that time, but Steve designed it all into his first Macintosh computer ten years later, making it the first computer 7 beautiful typography.

In 1976, Steve founded Apple Computer Inc. with two friends. They designed a series of user- friendly personal computers and the company became famous in 8 years. However, the sales of its following products were not good. In 1985, Steve was fired from Apple. It was a huge blow to Steve at first. Later, however, the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the 9 of being a beginner again. He 10 one of his most creative stages in his life. During the next five years, Steve started 11 company named Pixar and created the world's first computer- animated feature film," Toy Story". In 1997, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO. Once again, he created Apple's success in the 1990s.

Steve Jobs was a leader who knew how to make teams 12 great results but he also had another side. He became 13 easily and was often impatient. He usually stated his opinions straight and 14 not agree with anything that he didn't think was perfect.

15 Steve wasn't a perfect man, he is recognized by many as the father of the digital revolution. His inventions and creativity have changed our way of life.

In the town of Calan Five, everyone had wings (翅膀). Flynn 1 being the best flyer in town. However, he had to wait for the day he turned nine years old because his wings would be big enough to fly that day. 

When the day 2 came, Flynn ran to the open field, moved his wings, and flew off the ground. But soon he noticed something strange. He was slowly going down until his feet hit the grass. 

Flynn 3 what was wrong. He was at the right age and should have had the4 to fly. But somehow, he failed. 

From that day on, Flynn felt a sense of 5 because he was the only one who couldn't fly apart from (除了) the little ones. He 6 to get out of his room. 

One day, his mom came in and told him a story. 

"When I was about your age, there was a kid who couldn't fly. He was like you, but he didn't 7 himself in his room. He knew that if he wanted to fly, he must keep trying. Years later, the boy8 to become the best flyer in our town. And he's your father. "

Flynn was 9 . He had no idea that his dad had experienced the same thing. The next day, Flynn went to the field and tried to fly again and again. He didn't know how long the 10 would take, but he would never give up. 

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