Mickey Mouse and his good friends Donald Duck and Goofy are big fans of kung fu. They come to the Shaolin Temple in China to learn kung fu.

    Bat King is a bad guy. He has super kung fu skills. But he always makes trouble for Shaolin Temple. In Shaolin Temple, the master (师父) is very strict. The training is very hard. Donald can't put up with (忍受) it. He leaves the temple secretly. Goofy always does things in the wrong way.

    At the same time, Bat King has a plan. He wants to beat the people of Shaolin Temple. Mickey and his friends decide to save the temple. They study kung fu hard. They also have lots of adventures. In these adventures, they make much progress in kung fu.

    What adventures do they have? How will they be safe? Will they beat the Bat King and save Shaolin Temple? Find out in the storybook Kung Fu Mickey Mouse (《功夫米老鼠》).

ClothesDonation (捐赠) Box

    Have youever put your old clothes into the donation box in your neighborhood? If not,you can do it right now because the clothes donation is becoming a trend (趋势) in Urumqi.

    "Fromtime to time, my mother clears out the clothes which I no longer wear. Youknow, we teenagers are growing fast. I think it's a good way to helpothers." Lin Tao, a junior student says.

    "Ioften pick out some of my clothes which are out of style after going shopping.Then I put them into the donation box." Miss Li, a pretty young lady says.

    "Thatseems like a good idea. Some clothes in the box are quite new. People caneither wear them or usethem to make things such as handbags and pencilcases," Mrs Wang, an old woman says, "sometimes I also look throughthe box for some nice clothes."

    However,there are some problems along with the popularity of clothes donation.Recently, a UTV reporter from Focus on the City has made a survey. Here are theresults:

    Some boxesare full of clothes in a short time. There is no more room for people to giveaway clothes.

    Somepeople sell the clothes in the donation box for making money instead of wearingthem.

    Somecommunities set the boxes in unsuitable places. So there are few clothes in it.

    Manyclothes are too old and shabby (破烂的).

   "What's worse," one of the staff in a community added,"we quite often see people throw rubbish into the box when they pass by.We've tried to stop them several times but failed. It has been the most seriousproblem since we set the box."

    In orderto make the donation box work in an efficient (有效的) way, our government is taking action. Clothesdonation will be better-organized and it'll be more convenient for people inneed to take the clothes away.

The following are two pages from Sophia's diary. 

A story is told of Marie Curie. Her sisters once built a pyramid(金字塔) of chairs around her. Mari e was busy reading. She didn't even notice until she stood up and knocked them all over!

 It would not be surprising if this story were true. As a child, Marie loved books and experiments(实验). Nothing could take her attention away from her studies. She did not lose this love of learning as she got older. In the 1880s, very few women went to college, and even fewer women became scientists. Marie did both.

 After she met and married another scientist, Pierre Curie, the two of them began working together. Their studies focused on the element radium(镭元素). They had discovered it during their research.

Radium is found in some rocks. It is a white metallic element with a blue glow(微弱而稳定的光片) The glow lasts for a thousand years.

 The radium glows because it produces energy. That is on c reason why the Curies were so interested in it. But studying radium is not like opening a book. Radium must be isolated(分离) from the rock around it. That is like trying to take just the chocolate out of chocolate milk.

 The couple spent their life savings on eight tons of rock. ∧n old shack(棚屋) became their workplacc. They heated the rock to remove the bits of radium from it. Days of work turned into months. Finally, they spent four years in that shack studying the mysterious clement with the blue glow.

 During their research, the Curics found that radium could help treat discase. That is when Marie and her husband became big news. They were written about often. This got the public interested. in radium. Soon. the Curies' work earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics. This award is one of the highest honors in the world. Maric had come a long way from the days of chair pyramids,

Jennifer was born in Romania without legs. She was given up at birth by her natural parents. Later, Jennifer was taken to a loving American family, the Brickers, and raised in the small town of Hardinville, Illinois. 

Although she was born without legs, her family never let this keep her from realising her dreams. Her parents made one simple rule for her — never say"Ican't. " They helped her live an encouraging life. The Brickers raised her just like they raised their other three sons. She was taught to never consider her disability as a disadvantage. So, she grew up playing many sports, including volleyball, softball and basketball. 

But her true interest was gymnastics(体操). She liked Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu most. She watched her on TV while practising tumbling(单跳). 

As she grew older, Jennifer began competing against other players in gymnastics competitions around Illinois. Not only did she compete, but she even went on to win a gold me dal in power tumbling. And she took part in the Junior Olympics. Jennifer and her family always believed she could do whatever she wanted. Her right attitude(态度), hard work and strong will made this real. 

If her story was not amazing enough already, when Jennifer was 16, she discovered the most unbelievable news of her life. She learned that her favourite gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, was actually her biological sister! Now, Jennifer tours the country and gives encouraging speeches.