As we all know there are all kinds of clubs in US middle schools, such as music club, sports club, chess club, swimming club. But do you know homework club? It is a popular club in many US middle schools. More and more students spend(花费) their afternoons at homework clubs. The US middle school students need a quiet place to study. But games, computers and TVs are all around kids at home. So the homework club is just for them to do their homework. The club is quiet and it's good for students to study. Some teachers are there, too. They can answer students' questions and help with their homework.

    After the students finish their homework, they can go home. Then they can play games or watch TV happily.

    Mike lived in a small village near New York two years ago. He had a big brown dog. He liked the dog very much because once it saved a boy.

    One day, his dog stood next to an old well(井)." It stayed there for about half an hour," Bow-wow-wow," barked the dog. It barked and barked. Mike heard it and ran over to the well." Why do you stay here, my dear?" Mike asked. "And why are you barking?" The dog looked at him and looked at the well. "Bow-wow- wow ,”he barked even louder. Mike asked his friend Jim for help." Come here, Jim," he said." The dog wants to tell us something.”

    They looked down in to the well .They saw a. boy there. The boy couldn't speak. He was too scared(惊恐)。Mike went to get a rope( 绳)at once. He climbed down to save the boy with the help of the rope. The dog was really clever.

Even though I have lived in Taiwan， English has always been {#blank#}1{#/blank#} important part of my life. 

When I was a little girl， my family {#blank#}2{#/blank#} （move） to Houston， USA， because some of our close relatives（亲戚） lived there. English made its way into my life. It connected me {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the outside world. 

After entering a local school， I didn't really know how to have {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（conversation） with my foreign classmates at first. And I felt sad and nervous. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（lucky）， my classmates were very friendly and patient with me. They taught me {#blank#}6{#/blank#} （pronounce） all the time. Very soon， English became a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} （two） language to me. When I couldn't 
show correct {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（express） in Chinese， I had another useful tool. 

After I learned some English， I read many English books. They helped to open up  {#blank#}9{#/blank#} （I） eyes and made my life full of fun. 

All in all， English has given me another tool to communicate with others. I find myself very lucky to have learned English，{#blank#}10{#/blank#} it has helped me shape（塑造） my view of the world. 

 From voluntarily collecting historical materials related to the Great Wall in his Shanxi hometown in Province to becoming an official cultural heritage protector, Yuan Xuerui has spent over twenty years safeguarding the ancient wonder.

 China's Great Wall is one of the great wonders of the world and also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built from 3 BC to the 1800s on the north of the country, the Great Wall has a total length of more than 20,000 kilometers.

 Yuan, 55, was born in Qingxibao at the foot of the ancient wall in Shanxi' s Daixian county, which is part of the city of Xinzhou. His love for the ancient wall motivated(激励) him to protect it, and when not engaged (从事) in farm work, he spent most of his time walking along the wall to collect bricks that had fallen off due to the long time and prepare for repairs. "What others think as a difficult and dull task of cultural heritage protection often brings me unexpected discoveries," Yuan said.

 He officially became a cultural heritage worker in 2018, and since then his duties have expanded from collecting bricks to organizing ancient documents related to the wall to better tell stories about it. As a heritage worker, Yuan has come to understand the meaning of the Great Wall."Each brick has endured(忍受) the test of time over hundreds of years — in some cases more than a thousand— carrying rich historical memories," he said.

 This summer, Yuan organized a campaign to call for people to collect bricks for the future repair of the wall. Many bricks were taken away from the Great Wall by local villagers to build their houses in the 1960s and 1970s. "As villagers' awareness of the need to protect the wall has grown, nowadays, when locals find fallen bricks along the Great Wall, they will pick them up," he said. "If they see garbage, they will also pick it up and throw it into bins."

I'm Noah, and I'm 28 years old. I grew up in Germany. When I was little, I always enjoyed playing football with my friends. I joined my first football club when I was about 4 or 5 years old, and I've never stopped playing football since then. 

Something important in my football journey happened after my second year at a football training school, when I had the chance to come to the US. I thought that I could receive a good education there and fought for my dream of a football career(事业) at the same time. After that, I started my career. If there is a night match, a football player needs to stay calm. However, I don't do anything special about it. I spend my day as usual. I may read a book, watch a movie, or study. 

One of the most important moments in my career was in 2022, when our team won first place in a game. Everyone was surprised at it. But no team can win all the time. When you lose a game, you don't need to be sad but turn to do something harder. When you grow older, you may find playing games much more difficult. The key is to enjoy every moment on the football field. 

My name is Bob. My parents {#blank#}1{#/blank#} me to my uncle's home last week. My uncle was happy to see us. My father {#blank#}2{#/blank#}a box on his back, and it was a gift for my uncle. My uncle thanked us for {#blank#}3{#/blank#}a gift to him. It was a good day. But on our way home, my mother said, "I forgot my phone." So we returned my uncle's home and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} it.