— I don't like it because my mother often buys a lot of things we don't need.

—You should ________ a study group to help them.

—Ask Jimmy for help. He has lots of __________in doing it.

—Great! It will help China improve the __________with those related countries.

—__________. I watch then every week.

    Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. He wrote one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20th century. In his short life he wrote1300 songs and an opera.

    Xian was born in Panyu, Guangzhou, China in 1905. Because his father died before he was born, Xian moved from place to place with2mother. He began learning to play3violin when he was 20 years old. In the beginning, his violin was4cheap and badly made that he5not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not stop6and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he was one of the first Chinese students7studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he8, Xian became the school's best student9won several prizes for his talents.

    In 1935, he returned to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan' an10music at a collage.11there were no pianos in Yan' an at that time, Xian still wrote12of his most important music there, including The Yellow River, his most famous work.

    In May 1940, Xian13to the Soviet Union by the Chinese Communist Party to write music for movies. In the Soviet Union, life was very14. Xian got sick and later died of a lung illness15October 30,1945, aged only 40. Xian's music, however, lives on in people's hearts.

    Scientists think that there has been life on earth for millions of years. However, we haven't found life on other planets yet. The earth is a planet and it goes around the sun. And there are seven other planets that also go around the sun. The sun and its planets are called the solar system. The solar system is a small part of the universe.

    Scientists has launched many spaceships to explore other planets in the solar system. Some spaceships have gone beyond the solar system. However, no one has discovered any life in space yet.

    Why has no one from other planets sent us a message? Have they tried to send information to us? With so many stars in space, are we alone, or is there life on other planets in space?

    On March 14, one of science's brightest stars went dark. Stephen Hawking, the world-famous British scientist, died at 76 in Cambridge, UK.

    Hawking is considered to be the greatest scientist in history since Albert Einstein. He came up with the theory that the universe (宇宙) began with the Big Bang (大爆炸) and will end in black holes. He also wrote books to help common people understand the universe. His most famous book is A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 10 million copies around the world.

    Besides his scientific achievements, Hawking was also someone who had a strong will (意志) and optimistic (乐观的) attitude.

When Hawking was 21, he got a serious illness that stopped him from walking and talking. Later in life, he had to sit in a wheelchair and "speak" by using a computerized voice. But this didn't stop him from living a meaningful and colourful life. "If one is physically (身体上) disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically (心理上) disabled as well," he once said.

    Hawking travelled the globe to attend science conferences, visiting every continent. He was also a fan of pop culture and appeared on TV shows.

    He celebrated his 60th birthday by going up in a hot-air balloon. When he was65, he took part in a zero-gravity (零重力) flight to experience weightlessness. He hoped to travel into space one day.

    In 2013, Hawking spoke about how he felt life was unfair when he got ill at first. "But now, 50 years later, I can be quite satisfied with my life," he said.

    Today is December 15, 2030. Influenced by the launch of the first manned mission to Mars next month, you will most likely get a gift card for a space trip.

    The interest in trips, 100km above the surface of the Earth, has grown steadily since such a trip began. However, the market has grown much larger this year since the official announcement of the Mars mission. More low-cost spacelines have entered the market and you can now find the price for such a trip is as low as $3,495. It's very reasonable.

    Space tourism (旅游业;观光业) is one of the markets that have developed fast during the last decade, with the opening of the Starbright Hotel on the moon as well as the low orbital (轨道的) hotels that started accepting guests. However, accommodation (住宿) in space is still expensive for the average household, so the suborbital (亚轨道的) flights with thirty-minute weightlessness during the three-hour flight will for some time be the most popular trip.

    However, the spacelines might face fierce (激烈的) competition for space elevators (太空升降舱) in the future, like the one that is projected to start construction (建造) within two years. Once it is fully functional (工作的), it will

start to ship cargo (货物) to space. But it will accept passengers as soon as possible to get back the large investment. Even if the elevator (电梯) becomes successful, it will take several years before there are more elevators in the world to get in the competition for space traffic with the spacelines.

    Those who are looking for a little bit of adventure and have extra money to spend may want to consider a suborbital flight in space. While a suborbital flight may not be the space mission that you have always dreamed of, it will give you the rare opportunity to see what our planet looks like in a high-altitude (高度) flight outside our atmosphere. So before you enjoy a trip by elevator to space, enjoy a suborbital flight first.

    My father was German, but he worked in England. He married my mother, who was English. Her family name was Robinson, so when I was born in England, they called me Robinson, after her.

    My father did well in his business and I went to a good school. He wanted me to get a good job, and live a quiet, pleasant life. But I wanted adventure and an exciting life.

    "I want to be a sailor and go to sea," I told my mother and father. They were very unhappy about this.

    "Please don't go," my father said. "You won't be happy you know. Sailors have a difficult and dangerous life. "Because I love him, and he was unhappy, I tried to forget about the sea.

    But I couldn't forget, and about a year later, I saw a friend in town. His father had a ship and my friend said to me, "We are sailing to London tomorrow. Why don't you come with us?"

    On September 1st, 1651, I went to Hull. And the next day we sailed for London.

    But, a few days later, there was a strong wind. The sea was rough and dangerous, and the ship went up and down, up and down. I was very ill, and was very afraid. "Oh, I don't want to die!" I cried. "I want to live! If I live, I will go home and never go to sea again!"

    The next day the wind stopped, and the sea was quiet and beautiful again.

    "Well, Robinson," my friend laughed, "how do you feel now? The wind wasn't too bad."

    "What!" I cried. "It was a terrible storm!"

    "Oh, that wasn't a storm," my friend answered, "just a little wind. Forget it, come and have a drink."

    After a few drinks with my friend, I felt better. I forgot about the danger, and decided not to go home. I didn't want my friend to laugh at me!

    I stayed in London for some time, but I still, wanted to go to the sea. So, when the captain (船长) of a ship asked me to go with him to Guinea in Africa, I agreed. And so I went to the sea for the second time.

    It was a good ship, and everything went well at first, but I was very ill again. Then when we were near the Canary Islands, a Turkish pirate (海盗) ship came after us. They were famous thieves of the sea at that time. There was a long, hard fight, but when it finished, we and the ship were prisoners. The Turkish captain and his men took us to Sale in Morocco. They wanted to sell us as slaves (奴隶) in the market. But in the end, the Turkish captain decided to keep me for himself, and took me home with him. This was a sudden and terrible change in my life. This Turkish captain was now my master.

—He's my cousin.

Let's       this photo       that one.

The factory was              one year ago.

Lao She was              "People's Artist".

He was too tired             .

He is             to go to school.

    Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many people in the 19th century. She was named after the city of Florence in Italy.

    Florence was an        (usual) young woman for her time, because she didn't want to go to parties or get married. She wanted to be a nurse and help people. Her family        (not) want her to become a nurse because hospitals back then were dirty, horrible places.

          the age of thirty-one, Florence went to Germany and learned all about nursing. It was hard work,       she loved it.

    In 1854, lots of British soldiers went to fight in the Crimean War. Army hospitals were filled with injured people, but there        (be) no nurses and many soldiers died. Florence and a team of nurses went to help.

    Florence worked 20 hours a day to make the hospital a        (clean) and safer place. She brought fresh food, she cleaned the beds and she used clean bandages on the wounded soldiers. Soon, fewer        (man) were dying.

    At night, Florence talked to the injured soldiers and helped them        (write) letters to their families. They called her "the lady with the lamp",       she always carried a lamp.

    When Florence returned to England, people called her a hero. Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to say thanks. She        (give) the honour (荣誉)—Order of Merit, becoming the first woman to receive it.

    Sophie Chen is a 14-year-old girl from Taiwan. When she was 6 years old, she did something amazing.

    She finished a 2,100-kilometre bike journey from Xi'an, the capital city of Shaanxi, to Turpan, a city in Xinjiang, with her parents. It took them two and a half months. Sophie became the youngest child in the world to have biked along the Silk Road. Chinese novel Journey to the West inspired her to do so.

    That is not all. Sophie wrote a book about the long journey with her father Jack Chen, a professional outdoor explorer. On April 26, 2017, the book's English version (版本) Biking the Silk Road: 6-year-old Sophie's Fantasy Tour came out in Beijing.

    Now Sophie studies at Ta Hwa High School. She sees the journey as a special experience in her life. She became more hard—working and learned history and geography better because of it.

    On the way, she met many friendly local people and saw amazing things. She even picked grapes! "The grapes in Xinjiang were so big and sweet. I have never seen grapes like them in Taiwan," she said.

    Still, it was not easy. "The biggest challenge was the bad weather and road conditions," she said. She wrote in the book, "It was terribly hot in the Gobi Desert. I almost got sunstroke and could never have enough to drink."

    Sophie has biked in other countries, such as the United States and Turkey. This summer holiday, she plans to ride a bike from Greece to Portugal in Europe.

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