Debbie is a very busy woman. She has ten children. Every morning she wakes up at 6: 00. The older children get up at 6: 30 and the younger children get up an hour later. After the older children leave for school at 8: 00, Debbie spends most of the day at home with her babies, cooking and cleaning. She doesn't have time to go out to work, but she doesn't mind. Debbie's husband Bob works in a bank. He doesn't enjoy it, but he makes lots of money. Debbie spends most of it on food and clothes for the children.

    Debbie likes the evening best. After dinner, she sits down in the living room and tells the children stories before they go to bed. She doesn't read from a book. She reads her own stories. Once the children are asleep, Debbie can relax. But she doesn't sit and watch TV with Bob. She writes stories in a notebook.

    Bob sent one of Debbies' stories to a competition and it won. The organizer of the competition said Debbie should become a writer, but Debbie wasn't sure. However, the children thought it was a great idea, so she decided to try. The children like elephants best, so Debbie wrote a story about them. One book company (公司) loved it and published (出版) it. People can now buy her book in shops.

Hi, I'm Gina. In February, 2018 my mother had a yard sale. During the sale, she had a conversation with a young girl called Nancy, for they had a common interest in some books she had for sale. They enjoyed their conversation so much that they exchanged their phone numbers. Later they became friends and got together a few times. When my mom moved into her new house, she had a family dinner and invited Nancy and introduced her to my brother. Five months later Nancy married (结婚) my brother.

In 2018, there was another special "yard sale" that I'll never forget. One day, after work from school, I found one of my neighbors had a lot of things out in their front yard with cars and people everywhere. I ran to the yard at once and wanted to find some good cheap things too before everything good was gone. But then I found out it wasn't a yard sale. In fact, policemen were taking the stolen (被偷的) things out of the house. My neighbor was a thief! Luckily, I didn't ask how much the TV was.

Confidence (自信) is very important in daily life. It can help you develop a healthy attitude. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} . They may have more chances to become successful. But how can we be more confident. Here are some suggestions. 

Speak louder

When you are not confident, it's hard for you to do things well, You speak in such a low voice that people can hardly hear you. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} . Your voice can help you become more confident. 

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Write down a list of things you did during the day to see how many things you did well. Did you finish your task? Did you tell a joke that made everybody laugh? Give yourself praise for the good things you've done. 

Get rid of fear

 {#blank#}4{#/blank#} But it's easy to overcome if you understand that failure is a part of life. Don't hide in your head just because you said something stupid once. Try to start again and believe you can do better. 

Pick up a hobby

If you like singing, sing as much as you can. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} . And it will make you happy and confident. 

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 Today is our Open Day. Welcome to our school. Our school 1 very big and beautiful. There 2 two playgrounds and a football field in our school.

 Let me 3 you something about my school. We are now 4 the classroom building. My classroom is 5 the first floor. The classrooms are clean and bright. There are also some special 6 in the building and we can do many things in them. They are the Reading Room, the Drawing Room, the Singing Room ... Many of 7 like to go to these rooms. I often go to the 8 Room. 9 Monday afternoon, I go to the room to draw 10 of apples and pears.

 The new building looks very nice. It's our 11 . We can have meetings there. Look at that man 12 a white shirt. 13 is Mr Wu. He 14 us English. He often makes us 15 . We all like him.

 When Sammie was just 8, she thought about a question: What breaks your heart?"For me, it's seeing people who need a friend," the seventh grader from Indiaga, the US, told People magazine.

"I' ve been lonely {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(我自己). I don't want others to feel that way."

D{#blank#}2{#/blank#}a summer camp, Sammi e learned about buddy benches(伙伴长椅). These benches are {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(座位) at a school playground. A lonely child can sit on it, which shows that he or she is in need of a friend.

"It would be {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(有创造力的) and really cool to have one at my school," Sammie said. "And I got the idea of making benches from bottle caps(瓶盖)." She got into action as soon as she came up with the idea. She picked h{#blank#}5{#/blank#} of bottle caps and found a factory to turn them into benches. "These benches can be used again and are {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(真正) good for the environment." She {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(添加).

 To ask more people to join her, she s{#blank#}8{#/blank#} her idea online. It soon got popular around the world. She was so surprised when she even got bottle caps from other countries.

 Today, Sammie has helped to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(建造)200 benches in schools and neighborhoods.B{#blank#}10{#/blank#} she has no plans of stopping. "I just look forward to making a difference," she said.