It's the day before Christmas. Karen Hartley, 33, was skiing（滑雪）by 1 at Powder Mountain in Utah. By mistake, she began to ski off the trail. Soon she 2. She shouted for help, but no one heard her. Night came, and the temperature 3 below freezing（凝冻）. Karen was very cold and afraid of 4. But she stayed calm. She played music in her mind and danced all night long to stay 5. She danced to old disco songs, pop songs, and Christmas songs. “It was either dance 6 die,” she said. “I kept on 7. I didn't give up.”

    The next morning, a helicopter began to 8 Karen. After 18 hours in the cold, she was 9 just before it's too late. Karen was very cold but all right. She 10 Christmas Day in a hot tub（浴缸）.

I used to live in my own room alone. But one day it all changed when my brother Jack asked to share my 1. At first, my parents said "no" to him, but at last my mother agreed. I cried and asked my parents not to do this, 2 it didn't work.

    As soon as Jack entered (进来) my room, it began to become 3. To my anger, he often left his unwashed clothes and toys everywhere!

    One evening, I was doing some 4 on my computer while Jack was listening to music.5, I left my seat to get some water. A big surprise was waiting for me when I 6. He was using my computer to play games. I had forgotten to save (保存) the homework. Sadly, he had closed my program 7 saving it—all I had done had disappeared (消失)! I 8 him. He cried a lot as my mother came and beat him. My mother also asked him to leave my room at once.

Then I did my homework 9. At 10:00 pm. I finished it. When I was going to turn off the 10, I saw the photo of my 11 that he had put on my table. I looked at his lovely face and remembered how 12 he was when my mom beat him. I really felt 13. I went to see what he was doing. I found he was 14 in my parents' bed. I kissed his face. He woke up, got up and said, "I'm sorry. I won't bring you any more trouble."

I was so moved (感动的) and said, "From now on, my room is not only mine. It is 15!" That very night, Jack and I shared not only the room, but the bed.

    Now, almost every family has the television. Television makes people know a lot of things which they don't know before.

    Mike likes watching TV very much. From TV programs, he knows ships. Then Mike loves ships. When he was older, he said, "I'm going to be a soldier (士兵)." But his eyes were not very1, and he didn't get in.

    Then he said, "I'm going to2a small boat and I'm going around the world." But boats were very expensive, and Mike didn't have enough3.

    Last summer Mike found a swimming4near his house. The lessons didn't cost very5, and Mike began going to the school at weekends and having6. Now he is a good swimmer.

    Last week a little boy said to him, "You're a very good swimmer. How do7learn to swim so well?"

    "I'm not good at all," Mike said and he smiled. "8I'm in the water, I say to myself, 'There are9fishes behind me!' Then I'm very afraid, and I10quickly. "

    When Levi Strauss arrived in the United States from Bavaria, he was only seven teen, poor and knew very1English. Like most immigrants(移民) , he was looking for a better life. So, he went to California to2gold in 1849.3he planned to open a shop in San Francisco, he took many goods with him, included a large4of canvas(大量帆布), He hoped to sell it, However, business was not5he had expected. One day, when he sat in cafe in a small town, he had an idea He saw a man with a hole in the leg of his trousers and suddenly realized what Californians needed for the hard and rough work they were doing-good, 6trousers.

When Sally was a child, she went to the city park with her mom on a sunny morning. She felt very unhappy. Her mom saw that and asked why. Sally told her mother that she felt so sorry to see so much rubbish on the ground. 

Her mom looked around. There were pieces of paper, boxes, glass bottles and a lot of other rubbish everywhere. "What can we do?" asked Sally sadly. "I'm sure you will think of something," said her mom. 

As soon as Sally got home with her mom, she painted a picture of the park and wrote a sign in large black letters at the top of the picture. The sign said, "PLEASE KEEP OUR PARK CLEAN". Later, she took plenty of bags and went back to the park with her mom. Sally put up her picture on a big rubbish box. 

The children at the park ran over to see what was going on. Sally handed each of them a bag. "Let's clean up this place," said Sally. Then they began to pick up the rubbish, talking and laughing. Soon, all the bags were full. 

Then Sally's mom led them to put the rubbish into different kinds of rubbish boxes. When they looked at the clean park, they all had a strong feeling of satisfaction. 

From then on, Sally has been keeping doing the cleaning and sorting (分类) rubbish. More and more people joined her to play a part in environment protection.

Sijo Zachariah comes from India and he works in Dubai. Last year, Zachariah returned to India for a wedding ( 婚礼). However, he got stuck ( 困住) there because of COVID-19.

'There was almost no food available in stores," he said. What's going to happen? How are we going to feed ourselves?" From that thought, Zachariah and his father started planting food on the land in front of their house. They took seeds (种子) from all of the fruit and vegetables they could find. Zachariah watched helpful videos online.

In the end, the land didn't just help the father and son. It helped feed people in 20 homes nearby. We also taught our neighbors how to plant. food," Zachariah said. Soon every home was planting food. The hot, wet weather made growing easy.

Zachariah once studied and worked in Wales. One thing he really liked there was the food. It tasted better than food at home. He found the reason the food there was fresh and local. So 'he only planted food that was from his hometown. He also recorded videos to teach others.

Now Zachariah is planning to change his job. He will stop fixing (修理) planes for living. He will plant food. "It' s a big change for me. But this is what makes me happy—helping others and being in nature," he said.