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, Guangdong, China in 1905. Because his father died before he was born, Xian moved from place to place with2mother. He began learning to play 3violin when he was 20 years old. In the beginning, his violin was so cheap and badly made that he 4 not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not stop practicing and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he was one of the first Chinese students 5studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he 6 , Xian became the school's best student and won several prizes for his talents.

In 1935, he returned to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan'an 7music at a college. Although there were no pianos in Yan'an at that time, Xian still wrote some of his most important music there, including The Yellow River, his most famous work.

In May 1940, Xian8to the Soviet Union by the Chinese Communist Party to write music for movies. In the Soviet Union, life was very9. Xian got sick and later died of a lung illness u 10October 30, 1945, aged only 40. Xian's music, however, lives on in the people's hearts.

    My son Tony was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. The first three years of his life was 1 in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he has a problem when you saw him 2.

    We never told him that he probably wouldn't be 3 to run like the other children. So he didn't know. In 4 grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, 5 only the top seven runners would be chosen. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.

    He ran four to five mile every day—even when he had a fever. I was 6, so I went to 7 him after school. I found him running 8. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He has two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running.

    Two weeks later, the names of the team 9 were out. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had 10 the team. He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn't do it, so he didn't know, but he made it.

    Thousands of years ago, Britain was covered by thick forests, home to many animals which no longer live in the United Kingdom. There were wolves and bears, many different kinds of deer and large wild cows. There were less than four million people. They lived in small villages protected by wooden walls from the animals outside.

    All this has changed, of course. Now the population of the United Kingdom has increased to sixty-five million. Three-quarters of Britain is covered with fields, towns or cities. Although 25 percent of land is countryside, new methods of farming mean that there are fewer birds and small animals living in fields than ever before. The United Kingdom is one of the few countries in the world that does not have a large wild animal that eats meat. In Scotland there are only 400 wildcats, but these are much smaller than wolves. Some people would like to change things, however! Some organizations and writers say that Britain needs to become more natural again. They suggest that trees and plants that grew in the UK before towns and cities were built should be allowed to grow again. They even say that large wild animals which have not lived in the UK should be helped to return and live wild. They call this "rewilding".

Not everyone agrees. In the last twenty years, over one million trees which at first grew in Scotland have been planted and there are plans for more — but wild animals? Some people ask if wolves will attack sheep or even humans. They are also angry that rewilding might mean an end to walking in the hills which so many people enjoy. So far there are no wolves or bears in Britain's forests — but soon there might be!

    In the sea there are many islands. In its warm waters there are some little ones. We call them coral(珊瑚) islands.

           coral island looks very nice. It looks        a ring of land with trees, grass, and flowers on it. One part of the ring is open to the water. There is a little round        inside the island.
    If you look into this lake, you will see beautiful coral. You may think they are flowers. If you look at a piece of coral, you will see many little holes(洞) in it. A very small sea animal        in each of these holes. These sea animals make the coral.

     They began to build under the water. Year after year, the coral grew higher and higher. At        it grew out of the water. Then the sea brought to it small trees and        else. After some years, these things        into earth. Sometimes the wind brought seeds(种子) to this earth. Sometimes        flew over it and brought seeds to the island. The little seeds grew. In a few years there were plants all        the island. In a few more years there were trees growing there.

    So you see these islands were        little by little. The workers were very small. Don't they teach us a lesson? Can you think what the lesson is?

    In late January, the Ministry of Education announced the postponement of the 2020 spring semester for schools nationwide. Early this February, many schools started the new term by using online platforms to take classes during the novel coronavirus outbreak. Will online education replace traditional schools? Student readers share their opinions.

    Simon: Online education is good for those in a short course and at an older age. For children, traditional school is still the best. Education is not all about what's in our head but also how we deal with people around us.

    Kaka: Online education is the best solution under the present situation. Seventeen years ago, when SARS was hitting China, I was a graduating senior. I still remember clearly that we had to wear masks to attend classes every day, which was very uncomfortable. Kids today are very lucky.

    Mumuzi: I think at least for now, schooling provides more for students than studying by Internet. In the long-run of their development, besides knowledge, students need to take part in different class activities to gather first-hand experience, which makes it possible for them to solve practical problems when leaving school.

    Olivia: There are both advantages and disadvantages, but during the outbreak period, schools just want to catch up with progress and provide more resources. For example, for students who will take the "gaokao"or "zhongkao", it's a different period. Most of them felt worried when they knew they couldn't go back to school as before. Schools are trying to provide high quality online courses although there are still a lot of problems to be solved.

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