One day when Picasso was walking along a road, a woman passed by and saw him. She ran to Picasso for a painting as a gift. Picasso smiled and said {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(polite), "I'm sorry, Madam. I have nothing to paint. I am {#blank#}2{#/blank#}/ˈempti/ handed here. I may make you a painting some other time."

However, the woman didn't give up. She {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(keep) on, "Please, I am a big fan of you and I want to meet you for years." Hearing this, Picasso was moved and then took out a small {#blank#}4{#/blank#} of paper and a pen, and began to draw something. Within 10 seconds, Picasso finished {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(draw) and handed it to the woman, "Take this! It's a million-dollar painting."

But the woman thought Picasso was just playing a joke on her. How could it be {#blank#}6{#/blank#}/wɜːθ/ a million dollars just in 10 seconds? So she went to the market and was {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(surprise) to learn that it was true.

When meeting Picasso again, she wished she could be his student. She said, "Please teach me so that I can do the same thing {#blank#}8{#/blank#} such a short time."

Picasso smiled and said, "Dear, the drawing I made was not in 10 seconds {#blank#}9{#/blank#} my thirty-year efforts towards the arts!" The woman was speechless.

We fix our eyes on others' {#blank#}10{#/blank#}/səkˈses/ more often than the hard work and patience behind it. If we want to reach it, we need experience and struggle(奋斗).

It seems that environmental protection is the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(任务) of adults. Can teenagers do their parts in it? Zheng Huan, a 19-year-old girl from Sichuan gave her answer.

"Today, climate change has{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(造成) great damage to the environment around us," Zheng said. "It's time for us to make a {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(不同之处) by ourselves. She set up an organization. They worked with game {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(公司), artists and programmers and make climate change a thing that could be seen, felt and dealt with.

Zheng has been working on a game called Guardians of Earth. Players take pictures of different things in nature to get points. One teenager said, "I {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(很少) paid attention to plants or animals. But now they have all become {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(生动的) and meaningful to me because now I know them."

{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(另一个) project is digital artworks about climate change. Last year, lots of artists were {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(邀请) to create works based on the book AI 2041. The book talks about how AI will have {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(影响) on the environment in the future. "Paintings are a direct form of art and online paintings can reach more people very {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(迅速地)," Zheng said. "I want to communicate the climate change in beautiful ways to increase people's understanding of nature," she added.

Boys and girls, This term is over. Here are some words for you. Please take your note （短笺） home and let your parents know how great you are. Remember to bring it back with your parents' words next term. 

Wang Hai: You are a clever boy. You won the math competition this term in our school. Nextterm, please pay attention to （注意） your weight （体重） and keep doing sports to keep healthy. 

Han Yan:I believe you are the most popular girl in our class. You are so outgoing that everyone wants to be your friend. Listen to the teacher carefully and try to improve your English. 

Hu Fang:You sing so beautifully. We all like to listen to your singing. Don't be shy, and try to sing in front of us. Also, work hard on your math, and maybe Wang Hai can help you. 

Sun Hua:P. E. is your favorite. You're always a star at the sports meeting. But I think Chinese is also important. The more you read, the more you will learn. 

Parents should stop blaming(责备) themselves because there's not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal. I've seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors an d shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. 

Sprawling（懒散地躺） himself on the sofa in full length，he made no attempt（尝试），and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me.His mother was ashamed. "I don't know what to do with him these days，"she said."He's forgotten all the manners we taught him."

He hasn't forgotten them.He's just decided that he's not going to use them.She said that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.

Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture，reach across the table，stare at me and say

"Where did we go wrong？"her parents are now very sad.Probably nowhere much.

At least，no more than the rest of that unfortunate race，parents.

In 1992, Zhang Zhiqiang was b____ with no arms in a small village in Shandong Province. With hard ____ /'præktis/, he could do many things with his feet when he grew up. He learned to wash clothes, cook meals and do farm work. He said, "If I want to live like others, I have to try my best. (A) 每个人都有学习的能力。 No matter how many difficulties I have, I will go out of my way to face them."

(B) smartphone, him, a, brother, his, bought. He thought it was so useful and decided to learn it. He managed to press its button with his toe tips (脚尖) . The Internet connected him with the outside world. He had an idea when he knew the local farm products couldn't be sold out of mountains. 

In 2015, he opened an online store which sold farm products. (C) When his business got successful, he decided to help other villagers. At first, few of them trusted him because they didn't know what an online store was. With his effort, the products were popular online. And more villagers came to ask him for help. Later, he decided to sell their products on short videos It was a great success and he won himself many followers. He has created a good life for himself and the villagers. 

Zhang's story shows that nothing can stop us from achieving our dreams if we put our hearts into it. We can also fly even without wings because we have a brave and strong heart. 

Dear Ben,

Let's play basketball this afternoon! I know you love it. Jack and David will play with us, too. I'm in the park now. We will go to the school library in the afternoon first. Let's meet there. My basketball is under my desk. My keys are on the desk. Can you help me find them and take them to the library? If you can't find them, you can ask Mom for help.

Yours,

Mark