Karan Singh is just like any other five-year-old- except for the fact that he is 5 feet 7 inches tall! When he was born, he was 15 pounds- the usual1of a newborn baby is about half of this, and he was four inches taller than the usual baby.2his height and weight at birth, his father Sanjay thought there might be something wrong with him, but doctors found he was3and really fine.

    Before he could walk or talk, Karan was made into The Guinness Book of World Records in 2008 as the tallest and heaviest newborn baby. Karan clearly4his mother, Shweatlana, who is 7 feet 3 inches tall and one of the5women in South Asia! Sanjay is also quite tall at 6 feet 7 inches.

    Being so tall isn't always a great thing for Karan and his6. Karan used to get bullied about his height, but he doesn't anymore. "But they all say that I am cheating when we7 basketball," Karan said.

    Shweatlana also had trouble finding diapers that fit him when he was8and still has trouble finding children's clothes for him sometimes. "Now I just buy him adult size9. They fit him perfectly well," she said.

    She is also10about her health and that her son might have the same condition she has. "I used to get about 1.5 inches of height every year because of too much growth hormone. I sometimes feel afraid that my son has the same disease as I have. But I know he is doing well and he will grow up to be a nice and healthy person."

Today is Saturday and eight-year-old Mona is at the city 1 with her mom. Mona looks at her favorite animal, the giraffe, and says, "Look, Mom!How cute she is!"

"Yeah!I like her, too. She's so 2 ,"says Mom.

"Mom, can I feed(喂) my apple to 3 ?"asks Mona. She takes out an apple from her bag. But Mom 4 her and says,"Dear, I know the giraffe is your favorite animal, 5 you can't feed her."

Mona doesn't know 6 . She says,"Mom, the apple is my favorite fruit and I want my favorite animal to 7 it. Is there anything wrong(错误的)?"

"Dear, it's not 8 to feed our food to the animal,"Mom says."She might (可能) be in 9 ."

"Oh, I am sorry,"Mona says.

"Well, look there! Let's buy some leaves from the zookeepers(饲养员) and 10 her. It's good for her."

"OK,"Mona says happily.

The English teacher came into the classroom with test papers in his hands. He said with a smile, "I know there are too many tests for you these days, but the test today is very1 .It is different from your other tests." The teacher started to hand out the test papers to each student.

There was only a small black " X " in the middle of the paper. The students were very 2 to see that.The teacher noticed the students' surprise.Then he said, "I want you to 3 what you see there. You must finish it by yoursclves."

All the students 4 about it hard and then wrote down their answers quietly. The next day,   the teacher said, "You only paid attention to the black ' X  ' , but nobody wrote about the white paper."

The whole class listened 5 , because they worried that they might fail the exam.

Then the tcacher said, "Don't worry. I just want you to think about your 6 .The white paper is like your whole life and the black ' X  ' is just like the problems in your daily life."7 , the students understood what the test was about.

Life is a wonderful 8  , full of love and care. If you only care about the problems, you'll never 9 that they are much smaller than everything else life gives you. So it' s better to look on the bright side, 10 each moment, and find happiness in life.

"What's your favourite sport, Nick?" Ms Green asked. 

Nick thought for a moment. Everyone in the class was looking 1 him. He was nervous. He needed a good 2 . "I like football. "

Everyone smiled. A few people said, "I like3 too!"

That was a4 answer. Nick really liked hockey (冰球), but no one else in class 5 it. He wished he could be honest (诚实的),6 he worried about what they would say. They would say things like, "Hockey? Why? What is that?" They didn't know about it. 

Nick came from Maryland. All the kids there liked hockey. However, in Florida, kids loved football. He didn't really understand7 they didn't like hockey. 

His dad said, "Their families grew up8 football. They like football. We grew up watching hockey, so we like hockey. But why don't you 9 some kids to enjoy the hockey game? We can teach them."

Nick did that. He asked his friends Dave and Tommy. They knew 10 about hockey. They had 11 been to the game before. Dave and Tommy asked Nick lots of 12 about the rules and the teams. They thought the game was13 . All of them had fun. 

The next time Ms Green asked Nick what his favourite 14 was, he said, "Hockey."

Dave and Tommy smiled, "We like hockey too!" Nick was 15 that other people liked the things he liked. It made him feel like he had friends who understood him. 

Do you know how to throw rubbish away properly (正确地)? Take a look at the rubbish bins outside your house. They come into different colors. It is not for fun- those colors tell you how to sort(分类) the rubbish. 

Not all rubbish is the same. Usually, people should sort their rubbish into four groups: recyclable(可回收的) waste, kitchen waste, harmful waste and other waste. Sorting rubbish can help us in many ways. We can try our best to reuse some rubbish, such as paper, glass and old clothes to make new things. 

There are many different ways to sort and take care of the rubbish in the world. For example, in Japan, there are strict rules for dumping (倾倒) rubbish. One has to put the right rubbish in the right place at the right time. 

Do you know where your rubbish goes after you throw it away? Most rubbish goes to landfill(填埋). Recycled rubbish goes to recycling centers. These centers use the rubbish to make new things. Finally some rubbish goes to"waste- to- energy" factories. These factories collect the rubbish and tum it into energy.