Yesterday Peter felt very sorry because he forgot (忘记) to say “Happy Birthday” to his uncle . So he wrote a letter to his uncle : “My dear uncle, I'm very sorry because I forgot your birthday. But to teach me a lesson, you'd better (最好) forget my birthday on Tuesday, tomorrow.”

    Lin Dan is a famous badminton player. He didn't win the gold medal this year but many people know him because he won the gold medals in 2008 and 2012. He is from Fujian. He was born on October 14, 1983. He lives with his parents, grandmother and his wife now. Lin Dan's favorite player is Jordan. Jordan is a basketball player. Lin loves Coke. He likes pets, but dog is his favorite. Many young people love him very much. They think Lin Dan is their super star. They also call him Super Dan.

    It was already the middle of April but there was not a raindrop in sight. Danny stood in his backyard alone looking at the 1 landscape(园林) in front of him. He could see nothing but sand and clear blue sky. "Even the cactus(仙人掌) is starting to 2," said Danny to himself as he bent down to take a good 3.

    All of a sudden, when he was walking back to his house, he heard the sound of thunder(打雷). He stopped and looked up 4. He was wild with joy to see that the 5 rain had finally come. Danny quickly ran towards the cabin next to his house, where he stored his rain barrels(桶). He was going to capture every single drop of rain to 6 the vegetable garden in his backyard. In the desert, rain is as 7 as gold. It had rained for almost seven days. The cactus looked much 8 than before. Snakes popped their heads from out of their holes and birds sang happily in the 9.

    Living in deserts can be very 10, especially when there is no source of water. However, life went on for Danny and all the desert creatures for another season, thanks to the spring rains.

    A six-year-old British girl, Mollie Price, is opening up her third candy store. She is said to be one of Britain's youngest bosses. Her stores are called "Mollie's." She sells both British and American candy. The girl would like to open more candy stores. "It might sound crazy, but believe me," Mollie says.

    "It was Mollie's idea to open up the shop. It is Mollie who runs the candy stores," her mother Becky, her "business partner" says.

    Her mother says all the stores are put together and stocked(进货)by Mollie. Mollie works in one of the stores every Saturday, then gets up early Sunday to go to the company's product supplier(供应商). She asks her friends to test the sweets to decide which ones are good. She's good at smart marketing. For example, if the weather is really cold, she sells the Mr Whippy ice cream cheaper than when it's hot outside.

    "Children have the best ideas. I tell my mum what I think and she always says I have good ideas. It's just because I know what other children like," Mollie says.

Sun Yingsha is a famous Chinese table tennis player. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（recent）, the ITTF（国际乒乓球联合会）awarded her "Female Player of the Year 2023". In the past year, she won seven women's singles（单打）gold medals.

Sun comes from Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. She {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（play）table tennis for 17 years since she was five. Her parents wanted her {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（have）something to do after school and be {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（health）. At the age of seventeen, she succeeded in {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（join）the national team and started to join in many games. The 23-year-old got the nickname of "Little Devil" because {#blank#}6{#/blank#} her style of play. Her competitors find it hard to get the ball back.

Sun also has a strong mind. If she is losing in a game, she never gives up. She said, "You always face ups and downs. Determination（决心）and courage（勇气）can make you be {#blank#}7{#/blank#} excellent player."

Outside of the sport, Sun is a lovely girl. One of her {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（hobby）is watching videos of the panda HuaHua. "I like to watch her rolling around," Sun said. Sometimes, Sun is a little {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（care）. She once got lost inside a gym. Another time, she nearly missed her airplane after a competition.

Sun's many different sides make {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（she）real and win her a lot of hearts.

A 70-year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 23-year-old son who had just finished college. Suddenly a crow stayed on their window. The father asked his son, "What is this? The son replied, "It is a crow." After a few minutes, the father asked for the second time. The son said, "Father, I have just told you it is a crow."

After a little while, the old father asked his expression of anger was felt in the son's tone when he said to his father, "It is a crow, a crow." A few seconds later, the father asked his son again. This time the son shouted at his father. "Why do you keep asking me again and again, although I have told you so many times IT IS A CROW?"

Later, the father went to his room and came back with an old diary, which he had kept since his was born. When the son read it, he saw the following words: Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My son asked me 23 times what it was, and I replied to him 23 times that it was a crow, I did not feel angry, but I was glad for his innocence(天真).

After reading these, the son came to know he shouldn't look on his father as a hard task when he was old, and from then on, he tried to be nice to his father.