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    A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maiyuwa, a small village. They lived with the man's big family—his parents, his brothers, their wives and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.

    Three months later, having quarreled with her husband, the woman went back to her parents' home. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heartbroken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.

    It went to the woman's home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved by the act of the animal. So she went back to her husband's home.

Judy is from the US. She is twelve years old. She  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(study) at No. 14Middle School. She likes China. She  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(learn) Chinese now. She says Chinese is interesting but very difficult. 

Yesterday  {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(be) Sunday. She got up very early. She  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(run) for a long time. Then she cleaned her room and  {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (stay) at home. She studied maths in the morning and played sports in the afternoon. 

Barry and Ann are twins(双胞胎), but they like different sports. Barry like soccer. He is in the school soccer club,and he plays soccer every day. He has nine soccer balls in his bookcase. He always likes volleyball. He has two white volleyballs and two blue volleyballs. But Ann doesn't like soccer or volleyball. She likes tennis. Tennis is interesting. She is in the school tennis club and she plays tennis every day. She has  seven tennis balls and two  tennis  rackets in her room. She also likes baseball. She has five baseballs—two green baseballs and three yellow baseballs.

After winning the first prize at the ASICS Tennis Junior Tour in Guangzhou in late August, 2022, Wang Fa quickly became popular online. Wang was known for carrying his tennis rackets in a bamboo basket, making him get the name of "basket tennis boy".

The boy, Wang Fa, 14, is a member of the Va ethnic group（佤族） from Yunnan. "We always carry bamboo baskets when we work on the farm. This is a typical farming tool（具有代表性的农具） of the Va ethnic group. I carried my rackets this way to honor（致敬） my hometown," Wang said.

Before playing tennis, Wang was just a common boy from a village. But in 2016, he was chosen by a club as one of the first 10 children to learn to play tennis. Over the past six years, Wang has practiced hard along with other players. The children would get up at 6:30 A．m. and practice for more than six hours a day. Every day, they needed to swing a racket more than 7,000 times and run 9 kilometers.

Wang's parents didn't want him to learn tennis at first. They thought it was too expensive. But the tennis club said they would teach him for free. Wang's hometown was just lifted out of poverty （脱贫） in 2019.

For Wang, winning the competition was the beginning of a hopeful future. "I will go for the top places in the tennis world," he said.

Finn lived not far from the sea. His1 , Ryan, came for his summer vacation every year. Ryan loved2 , so he often got up early and went fishing on his grandfather's boat. 

One day, Ryan went fishing again. He spread out his fishing net (网) quickly. When he pulled it up, he was surprised to find it filled with3 —rubbish. Ryan got the same result each time he tried and his boat was soon full of rubbish. Finally, Ryan4 and rowed the boat back. At the beach, he met Finn. 

"What are you doing here?" asked Ryan. 

Finn said. "I'm cleaning the beach. I pick5 litter on the beach so that it won't end up in the ocean."

"Oh, let6 help you with these rubbish bags. Grandpa, I also found lots of rubbish in the sea when I was trying to 7 some fish," Ryan said. 

"That's no 8 !" Finn said. "Rubbish, especially plastic, is9 to wildlife like fish." He then explained10 plastic could do harm to animals. Ryan was shocked and wanted to help. "What can I do?"

Finn said, "You can recycle(回收利用) your waste11 so that it won't pollute the environment. You can repair (修理) your broken things12 find some new uses for them instead of throwing them away. And you can invite people you know to do these things and teach them how13 the environment with you."

Ryan14 the advice. He recycled his waste and repaired his broken things. He also invited his friends to pick up litter on the beach. They believed that the more they did, the15 their surroundings would be.