"It looks so good on you," said my friend. I was trying on a bathing suit. Then the topic of conversation turned to going on a diet(节食).

    I wanted to become pretty and thin. So I decided to stick to the diet. I didn't eat my lunch. Some people asked me where my lunch was. I lied to them and made up excuses.

    I did the same with breakfast. I tricked(欺骗) my dad into thinking that I ate my bread, but I fed it to the cat. My weight dropped fast, but when I looked at myself in the mirror, I still thought I was not thin enough.

    Finally, dark circles formed under my eyes. I wore thick clothing in hot weather, but I was still cold. That didn't matter. I still needed to be thinner.

    About a month after I bought the bathing suit, I tried it on again, and it fell right off me. My mother told me to look in the mirror. I could see my eye sockets(眼窝). That was the day I realized how skinny I was.

    I went to see a doctor. My total weight loss was about twenty-five pounds in one month. It took one year for my body to start working normally again.

    Sometimes I want to go back to being thin, but I will never do what I did again. It's not worth it. Please don't go on a diet when you're young. You will regret it. Don't judge and compare yourself with others. Try to love yourself for who you are, not for what you look like.

    In 1996, Subaru Takaiashi sailed alone across the Pacific Ocean. Many other people did this before Subaru, but he was special. At 14, he was the youngest person to sail across the Pacific by himself.

    Subaru left Tokyo on 23 July, 1996. His boat was 30 feet (9 metres) long. In the boat, he had a two-month supply of food and water. He also had a radio and other modern equipment for sailing.

    The beginning of this trip went very well. Subaru often talked to his parents by radio. He didn't have any problems with his boat. Then on 11 August, the engine in his boat quit. This affected his navigation(导航)equipment. Then five days later, his radio quit. So he wasn't able to communicate with anyone. And he was still 2,770 miles (4,490 kilometres) away from his destination-San Francisco.

    By the end of August, many people believed that Subaru was lost. No one was able to contact him by radio. His parents expected him to arrive in San Francisco on 3 September, but he didn't. Then, on 13 September, Subaru sailed into San Francisco. After 55 days in his boat, his trip was finally over.

    Many people believe that Subaru was too young to sail alone. They say that parents shouldn't allow children to make such dangerous trips. However, other people say that children should have adventures, too.

The children stopped talking as Miss Hughes came into the classroom. Then they1 as one boy said, "Good morning. Teacher" Miss Hughes said good morning too and told the2 to sit down. All the students were watching her, waiting to3 her. 

"I think you want to know my name, " she said.4 she could tell them, someone called out, "It's Miss Hughes" Everybody laughed. Miss Hughes laughed too. 

"News travels5 , "she said. "I'm afraid it will take me a6 time to learn all your names. "Miss Hughes began to call the students' names in turn. When she came to the last name, John Young, 

she7 that he was absent(缺席的) for over a month. 

"What's the matter with John Young?" she asked. 

"He's in hospital, Miss Hughes, "said a girl in the front row. "He broke his leg. ""Does anyone see 8 in the hospital?" Miss Hughes asked. No one answered. 

It was time to start the9 , "Now let me see, "said Miss Hughes, looking at the timetable. The first lesson is English. First of all, I want you to write a letter to John Young. We will send the10 ones to cheer him up. "

All the students began writing happily. And they liked the new teacher very much. 

Why do you open a school? If you ask Nadia Lopez this question, she would simply answer: to close a prison. Lopez is the founder of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public school in Brooklyn. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

To set up the school, Lopez faced many challenges. The greatest challenge was to get in touch with children without hope. At first, Lopez only had 45 kids. She once asked some girls, "{#blank#}2{#/blank#}" The answer was, "I don't know if I'm going to live that long." or "I have a lifelong goal of working in a fast-food restaurant nearby." These students had no idea that there were great chances outsider their neighborhood.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} And they have tried their best to keep their students active an hopeful. "We call our students students 'scholars（学者）' because they are lifelong learners. I chose the colors purple and black to remind students that they are excellent. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} They can be future engineers, scientists and even leaders who can and will take over this world," Lopez said.

A popular New York blogger heard about the school and wrote a post about it, telling people how the children struggled（挣扎）, and why people must make education the most important thing. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} About 1.4 million dollars were raised for the school and its students got to take field trips to colleges and universities.

"Up to now, we have had three graduating classes（毕业班）. They have nearly 200 children," said Lopez.
 

My father was a tennis player and my sister is a high jumper at school. But I'm not interested in sports. At the beginning of this term，my PE teacher suggested that I should take part in the women's marathon（马拉松比赛）. 

I was very surprised because I was never a good runner. In order to encourage me，he said if I took part in the race，I would get the highest mark for the term's PE class. So I decided to have a try. I prepared for the race very hard. I ran every day and had the special diet（膳食）in the morning before school. 

When the day of the marathon arrived，I was very nervous. All my family wished me good luck. They knew how hard I practiced. I was worried that I would be last. However，when I started to run，I thought only about the race. I did not remember when I passed the other runners. Suddenly I realized that I had come first. I was very happy when I won the race. From this，I learned that success always comes out of hard work. 

参考词汇: Poland波兰, graduate from从……毕业, 

the radioactive element radium 放射性元素镭, Nobel Prize 诺贝尔奖

要求: 1. 80 词左右（给出部分不计入总词数）; 

2. 要点齐全, 条理清晰, 语句通顺, 意义连贯, 书写规范; 

3. 文中不得出现真实姓名和校名。

There are lots of great people in history. Today I want to introduce