Gary and Gavin were twin brothers who worked in a store owned by their father. After the father had passed away, they took over the store. Everything went well until the day a twenty-dollar bill disappeared. Gary had left the bill on the cash register (收银台). But when he returned, the money was gone.

    Gary then asked his brother Gavin, "Did you see that twenty-dollar bill on the cash register?' Gavin said that he had not. But Gary did not let it go and kept asking. "Twenty-dollar bills can't walk away by themselves! Surely you must have seen it." "I said I didn't see it!" Gavin replied with anger.

   The quarrel divided the young men and they could no longer work together. Later, a wall was built in the center of the store. For twenty years, hostility (敌意) never ended.

    One day, a strange man came to the store. He walked in and asked Gary, "How long have you been here?" Gary replied that he'd been there all his life. "Then you are the person I'm looking for," the man said. "Twenty years ago, I was totally broke and hungry. I entered this store from the back door and saw a twenty-dollar bill on the cash register. And I took it. All these years I haven't been able to forget that. I had to come back and apologize for that.

    The stranger felt shocked when seeing tears well up in the eyes of the middle-aged man in front of him. "Would you please go next door and tell the same story to the man in the store?" Gary asked. Then something surprised the stranger even more--after hearing his story, the two middle-aged men hugged each other and cried together in the front of the wall of the store.

    After twenty years, the wall that separated them finally came down.

Last weekend when I was walking in the local park，I noticed a group of boys picking on（找茬） a small boy.They were calling him names.They even1 him to the ground and kicked him in the face.2 I saw that，I walked over to the group.

I stood between them and the small boy，and asked politely3 this small boy had done.One of the boys4 ，"He did nothing.He's just weird（古怪的）."Then I asked another boy if he thought the small boy was weird5 was"No."So，I asked them what the word"weird"6 .One of the boys said，"Different."

I told them that everyone is7 ，and that they all looked just as different to the small boy as he did to them.They all stood8 for a moment.And then the most 9 thing happened.One of the boys helped the small boy off the ground and said 10 to him.He even invited him to play together.

I thanked the boy for being so 11 .As I looked around，I realized that there were many other people in the park but12 else had stopped to help the small boy.I felt13 that one of the boys was strong enough to stand up against his friends to help someone in need，but I felt sad that no one else had 14 taken a second look.

I hope that I've helped the boys15 that they could have made a difference with a little effort.Maybe next time they will be the ones who choose to help.

Miguel finally sees Dad. He's just back from a working trip. "How's your chess game, Miguel?"

"Mrs. Lambert says I'm the best chess player in the school! She says you teach me well."

"We'll play after dinner," Dad says.

At night, Miguel wants to help Dad clean out his suitcase (手提箱). "Wait, Miguel. I'll take my next trip next morning." "Oh, Dad!" Miguel cries. "But you just got here!" Miguel eyes the suitcase. When he was little, he got into the suitcase, thinking Dad could take him to work as well. Sometimes Dad traveled really far and it was day there when it was night for Miguel. They couldn't even talk by phone.

"I'll miss you," Dad says. He then pets a box from his suitcase and hands it to Miguel.

Miguel opens it. A beautiful chess set!

"Thank you, Dad!" Miguel cries. "It's so nice!"

It's an exciting game of chess. When Miguel's bedtime comes, it's still not over. "Keep it. We'll continue the game when we meet again, OK?" says Dad. 

Miguel carefully takes the chessboard to his bedroom. He looks at it, wishing the game could continue.

"Oh, that'll be a great idea!"

The next morning, when Miguel wakes up, Dad's gone. After studying the chess board for a minute, Miguel calls Dad and leaves a message: "Dad, it's me…"

A short video series called Escape from the British Museum(《逃出大英博物馆》) was quite a hit(成功). It tells a story of how a Chinese cultural relic(文物) ran away from the British Museum and found its way back to China.

In the short video series, a girl played the role of an ancient Chinese jade teapot(玉壶). She escaped from the British Museum and ended up in the street in London. She came across a young man there. He was a Chinese news reporter. She thought that the young man was her family, so she asked him to take her back to China.

Why did the two main characters decide to make the short video series? They saw someone's comment(评论) online and drew their inspiration(获得灵感) from the comment. Then, they went to the UK and spent months researching and preparing. It took them around three months to finish the video series. Although the video series is less than 30 minutes, it touched millions of Chinese people's hearts.

The short video series is not only fun but also educational. It tells us Chinese that it's time to bring the long-lost Chinese cultural relics home. China lost a lot of cultural relics overseas. There are more than 23,000 pieces of Chinese cultural relics in the British Museum. There is a long way to go to bring them home.

During the National Day holiday of 2023, I had an unforgettable trip to Beijing. My family and I watched the flag-raising ceremony(升旗仪式) in Tian'anmen Square (广场).

That was a 1 important moment for us Chinese. It was 2 for us to get up very early because the ceremony started at sunrise(日出). 3 spent three days getting a chance(机会) to watch the ceremony. On the first day, 4 we got up at 5 a. m, we still missed the ceremony. The following day, we got up a little bit 5 in the morning. But when we got to the square, the street was already so 6 that we couldn't move. At last we could not get closer to the ceremony. So on the 7 day, we got up at around 3: 30 a. m. When we 8 the Tian'an Men Square,t he ceremony began. One hour later, we had a close and 9 view(看) of the flag raising ceremony. Seeing it gave me a sense of pride(自豪) and it really 10 my heart.

I was lucky to see it in Beijing because most people could only see that on TV. I am proud of being a Chinese student, and I hope our country will be stronger and stronger.