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Reading is an activity people enjoy a lot in their free time.

Some like reading newspapers and o__1._ enjoy books. My f_2.___ books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my o__3._ life better.

Great people are famous not because they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up w__4.__ their life was difficult. They tried to use e__5.__ chance to change their life and to make the world better.

One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers who invented the airplane. The plane has m_6.___ the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, was the r__7.__ why the Wright Brothers could invent this machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes f__8.__in the sky.

Whenever I read s__9._ about great people, I always learn a lot from them and they encourage me. This is w__10.___ I enjoy reading great people's lives.

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Chuck Wall teaches management and human relations at Bakersfield College. He walked into class one day and told his students that their h   1.    was to perform one act of random(任意的) kindness. His students did not understand the assignment(任务), but the professor would not answer their questions. He e   2.   his students to find it out for themselves.

One week later, the students entered the classroom excited to s   3.  their stories. One student told of distributing blankets to the homeless, another had contacted a long, lost friend, and another student r  4.   that he had helped a dog to find its owner. Students were energized(激励) by the homework assignment and wanted other people to be kind too. W  5. the support of local businesses, the students made stickers to put on cars that invited people to do something k 6. for others. They sold the stickers and decided to donate the money to a center for the blind –not surprising as Professor Wall is blind.

Since then, s  7.  kindness activities have been organized in schools all over the world. Many schools organize a Random Acts of Kindness Week, a  8.  November 13, to celebrate World Kindness Day. Some schools use each day of Random Acts of Kindness Week to perform d 9. kind acts, such as making a new friend, helping someone, doing community service, or raising money for a charity. Students learn to c  10.  other people and think about how small actions can make the world a better place.

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Be a potato, but be the best

A young college student thought that he chose the wrong major (专业) at a common college, so he drank every day and didn’t study at all. He b  1    more and more discouraged.

But he was never a  2    from Professor Yang’s biology (生物) class. He liked the course. Besides, Yang’s class was so i  3    that he always listened carefully, never caring about w  4    the other students were paying attention or not in class.

    Once he put a note in the homework he handed in, saying: “Professor, it is said that today’s college students are c  5    than potatoes. Do you agree?”

That day Professor Yang sent for him after class. When he came, he f  6   the professor at a table with food on it. They drank happily over their meal.

When they became half drunk, the professor took out a small potato that was sprouting (发芽的). “Do you know how much this c  7  ?” he asked the young man. “It’s soft but poisonous. N  8   will take it even if it’s free. ” He then threw the potato away.

The professor then showed him another potato. It was half the s  9   of a football and perfectly round. “This potato is organic (有机的). It is not only large and fresh but also free of pollution. People are in need of such k  10    of potatoes and they’re quite expensive.”

The young man was impressed by what he’d heard. “Be such a potato,” said the professor.

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Bill and Simon were good friends. One summer they were on h         . They wanted to sail around the Caribbean Sea in their boat for two weeks.

During their trip, they saw many whales. Bill and Simon were very e         because they had wanted to see them very much. Unluckily, w         they were watching them, the whales began to hit the side of the boat.

Suddenly, w         started coming in, and they realized that they were in trouble. They q         jumped into the lifeboat before the sank(沉没), and watched it disappear under the sea.

Luckily, they had enough food and water for about twenty d         . They also had a fishing line and a machine which could change sea water i         drinking water. These two things helped them to survive(存活) during their terrible experience.

For the next fifty days they caught about ten fish a day and a         them. They saw about twenty ships, but although they waved and shouted when the ships were passing, n         saw them. They were becoming weaker and weaker. Then, just as they were beginning to l         hope, a fishing boat saved them.

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The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is a new event. Like the Olympic Games, YOG takes place every 4 years. Only players aged between 14 and 18 can take part in it. The first Youth Olympic Games was h  1.  in Singapore last year. On February 11^th, 2011，Nanjing, the

c   2.   city of Jiangsu Province, got the right to host the 2014 Youth Olympic Games and will become the s   3.    Chinese city to welcome the Olympic flame after the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. The Games will take place in August, 2014, and l   4.   12 days. There will be up to 3,600 athletes competing in 26 sports.

The theme of YOG is ‘Green Youth Olympic Games, Dynamic Youth Olympic Games, and Cultural Youth Olympic Games.’ Green Youth Olympic Games calls on us to p  5.  the environment so that we can breathe fresh a   6.   and show visitors beautiful scenery and give people from other countries a good impression.

The government has done a lot for the Youth Games, and we are s  7.  that YOG will speed up the developing process of Nanjing. Workers are busy b  8.   new roads and new subway lines for the Youth Games. A new Olympic Village and a Youth Olympic Centre are being built in Jianye District, which will be part of the International Youth Olympic City.

 People in Nanjing are p   9.   of the big event, and their living habits are improving now. They are growing trees to make Nanjing g 10.   and more beautiful. They are very excited and looking forward to YOG. They hope the Youth Games will be a big success.