Hangzhou won its bid (申办) for the 2022 Asian Games on September 16th, 2015. It will be the third time that the Games are held in a Chinese city after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010.

    The well-known capital city of Zhejiang Province in the southeast part of the country has a population of 9. 47 million. It is a beautiful city with a long history and it has been developing rapidly in recent years. Hosting the Asian Games will give the city another chance to grow.

    "We have seen here the strong wish and the great effort of Hangzhou to host the 19th Asian Games." The OCA (亚奥理事会) President praised.

    The Games are set to include 34 sports. Some venues (场馆) have already been completed, while several others are still being built and will be put into use one year before the Games. The Asian Games will be held from September 10 to 25, when the temperature is around 20℃.

    "There is no doubt that the event will attract more visitors to experience the beauty and charm of this amazing city. At the same time, more roads will be built and the underground will be added, reducing heavy traffic. But the best part is that it will give us the chance to watch world-class competitions close to our homes." Shao Lin, a local person, told the reporter excitedly.

    With the Asian Games in Hangzhou in September and the World Cup in Qatar (卡塔尔) in November, 2022 will be an exciting year for Asians, especially Chinese sports fans.

    Hangzhou is trying its best to get ready for the big sports show. Hangzhou is waiting to see you in 2022!

Alice Brown is an American school girl. She is thirteen. She has two brothers. Her brothers and her are at the same school. They go to school from Monday to Friday. They don't have classes on Saturday or Sunday. Her parents are teachers. They all like living in China now. Her parents say, "China is great. " She likes reading(阅读). Her favorite subject is Chinese. Her favorite teacher is Miss Zhao. She teaches (教)Chinese. With Miss Zhao's help, Alice's Chinese improves a lot. She can speak some Chinese now. Her favorite sport is ping-pong. Her favorite school day is Monday, because they have two Chinese classes on Monday. Look! She is reading an interesting Chinese book now!

Amy lives far from her office. Five days a week, she gets up at about 5:30in the morning. After a quick breakfast, she walks to Finsbury Park Station.From there she goes to King's Cross Station in London by train. Then she goes to Holton in a bus. After that, she takes a taxi to her office. She gets there at about 8:00. It usually takes about two hours from her home to her office.

Do you have any close friends? I'm sure you do. Everyone has a 1 friend or two. 

I recently learned an interesting lesson about the power of 2 . It was a story about two friends—a Canadian girl named Jessica Stuart and a Japanese girl named Fukue. Stuart's parents got new jobs in Japan and moved there to 3 when she was a child. After Stuart met Fukue at school, they became good friends. Stuart often 4 Fukue from bullies (欺凌弱小者). After one year, Stuart's family moved back home. Stuart and Fukue stayed in 5 by writing letters to each other. 6 , after two years, Fukue's letters stopped coming. Stuart was confused (困惑不解的). Why did the letters stop? She began a long journey to find her 7 friend again. Many years later, she found Fukue. Both girls were adults by then. It 8 that Fukue dropped out of school because she was bullied again. That happened after Stuart 9 . Luckily, they were able to find each other again, 10 after many years apart. 

Not every friendship can last forever. People come and go. But true friends can find a way to stay together forever—even if they've been far apart for a long time. 

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school's first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy's 1 , she said she would go. This 2 be the first time that his classmates and teacher 3 his mother and he felt4 of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar（疤痕）5 nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to 6 why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were 7 by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother 8 the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed（尴尬）and 9 himself from everyone. He did, however, get within 10 of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked 11 , "How did you get the scar on your face?" The mother replied, " 12 my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was 13 afraid to go in because the fire was 14 , so I went in. As I was running toward his bed. I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked 15 but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us." She 16 the burned side of her face. "This scar will be 17 , but to this day, I have never 18 what I did."

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great 19 of the sacrifice（牺牲）that his mother had made for him. He held her hand20 for the rest of the day.

Emma is a young mom and she is good at making bread. With enough eggs and flour（ 面粉），she can make all kinds of bread. In some of her bread，you can see pictures of famous paintings and many cartoon characters. For example，when you cut the Sponge Bob bread，you can see the face of Sponge Bob and some small pieces of bread. The small pieces of bread are all in the shape of the characters from the cartoon. There is a lot of fun in making bread. Emma's son gives her lots of great ideas. Once he drew a picture of happy bees（蜜蜂），and it wasn't long before they appeared in Emma's bread. Her son got a big surprise. From then on，Emma started to make such cute bread. "My little boy loves the bread，and he usually has two pieces for breakfast，"she said. From famous paintings to her son's favorite cartoon characters，Emma shows that there is no end to her imagination（想象力） when it comes to wonderful bread. What do you think of Emma's bread? Would you like to enjoy one piece of it?