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    Johnson is a 10-year-old girl from New York City. She likes staying up late to watch movies on her iPad. Sometimes because she does not have enough sleep, she feels tired at school next morning.

    Just like Johnson, many students feel tired at school in the morning. The kids aged between 6 and 13 need nine to eleven hours of sleep each night, but most of them get less than that.

    What takes the kids' sleep time away? Smart phones and tables (智能手机和平板电脑)! A scientist said, "The kids who have these things in their bedroom often get about half an hour less sleep than those who don't."

    Scientists think a good night's rest is important to students. "The students who sleep enough can learn much better at school than those who don't," another scientist said.

    Johnson's mother said her family decided to make some new rules for her daughter. "we are going to limit(限制) Johnson' screen time and ask her to go to bed earlier than before. We hope these rules can help Johnson to sleep well for school," she said.

    The class teachers thought that hobbies were important to children. So she encouraged all her students to have one, and sometimes she arranged hobby shows for their parents to see.

    One morning, the teacher told the class to have a holiday and get their hobby things to school before 5 pm. A hobby show would be held the following afternoon.

    So in the afternoon, the students with nothing to show did their lessons at school as usual, while the lucky ones had a holiday to go home for their hobby works.

    When the afternoon lessons began, the teacher was surprised to see that Tommy was not there. "I don't believe Tommy has a hobby, "she thought. However, at a quarter to five, Tommy arrived with a beautiful collection of butterflies（蝴蝶）in glass cases. The teacher liked the samples（标本）very much and put them on a desk in the classroom. But, to her surprise, Tommy picked them up again and began to leave.

    "What are you doing, Tommy?" she asked. "Those things must stay here until tomorrow afternoon. That's when the parents are coming to see them. "

    "I know that, "answered Tommy, "and I will bring them back tomorrow, but my big brother doesn't want them to be out of our house at night. ""

    But, aren't the butterflies yours?" asked the teacher.

    "No, "answered Tommy." They are my brother's."

    "But Tommy, you should show your own hobby here, not somebody else's!"

    "I know that, "answered Tommy. What surprises her most was the answer. "My hobby is watching my brother collecting butterflies."

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Hello! Good to see you. I'm Emma Smith. I'm {#blank#}1{#/blank#} actor. This is a photo of my {#blank#}2{#/blank#} , Look! The old woman {#blank#}3{#/blank#} my left is my grandmother. She {#blank#}4{#/blank#} from France. These are my parents. My father is a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and my mother is a nurse. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} work in the same hospital. Who is this beautiful woman? She's my {#blank#}7{#/blank#} . She's my mother's sister. She's {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to my mother. Now she lives in Beijing, the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} of China. I have a dog. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} name is Bobby. 

I love my family very much. 

People around the world work together to help our planet on Earth Day, April 22. But in fact, lots of people protect the Earth all year long. They are Earth heroes(英雄). And some kids do, too. We have four kids here, telling you that you can help even if you are a child.

Saving the frogs

John is from the USA. He always loves frogs. When John was 5, he learned their living places were in danger. So John started a group, For the Love of Frogs. They sold toy frogs to collect money to help frogs. John is now 10 and the group has more than $ 20,000 to protect frogs!

Growing right

Mandy lives in a city in India. She saw a wasteland near her house at 15. She turned it into a garden. She used native plants that lived or grew around her city. Native plants could make insects like butterflies and animals come to her area.

Mandy is now 18. She is teaching people about native plants." The way to reuse the wasteland is not just to plant any tree," she said." It is to make sure that you grow the right plants in the area."

Cleaning up

Zhang Min, 13, and Zhang Jie, 15, live in a city in China. To fight plastic pollution, they made a plan. They wanted to clean up plastic waste in the Pearl River.

Zhang Min and Zhang Jie put up posters at school to make people care more about plastic waste." You need to have people talk to one another," Zhang Jie said," Everyone can do something to help."

Lu Xun is a great {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (write) in modern Chinese history. He wrote many books in his life. In fact, Lu Xun is the pen name of Zhou Shuren. Zhou Shuren was born on September25, 1881 in Shaoxing. He was born in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} rich family. He lived a happy life at first. But several years later his family became very poor. Life was not easy for him. Zhou Shuren {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (leave) home in 1899. He {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (one) went to a school in Nanjing. Then he traveled to Japan in 1902 to study Japanese and medical science. He wanted to save people's {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (life) . But later something changed {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (he) . He thought he needed to do something to save people's thoughts. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} he decided to become a writer and started to write for newspapers and magazines. He returned to China in 1909. In 1918, Zhou Shuren {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (successful) published his famous short story A Madman's Diary. It became famous very soon. Another great book was The True Story of Ah Q {#blank#}9{#/blank#} 1921. His books influenced many young people at that time. They started to do something to change the country. Zhou Shuren {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (die) on October 19, 1936 in Shanghai. But his thoughts will never die.