Zhang Ming and Zhang Peng are twin brothers. When they were young, they were interested in ________ Chinese culture like Chinese clay art and Beijing Opera. In these art forms, they could ________ something to learn. One day, they met an old man ________ is good at shadow puppet play (皮影戏). ________ they saw the play, they fell in love with it. So they decided to ________ the old man.

After 5 years’ study, they could ________ by themselves. When they acted in the village, the villagers sat in front of a white screen and watched the plays happily. Zhang Ming usually stood ________ the white screen and held different kinds of characters. Zhang Peng did the voices of the different characters. ________ of the villagers liked their performances and hoped they could ________ performing. “It’s not easy” Zhang Ming said. “We can’t get much money from it. Sometimes we even have ________ money to buy tools we need. But we want to keep this art form alive. So we will stick to it no matter how hard it is!”

Known as the ________ Chinese man, Su Bingtian made history. On August 1st of 2021, Su set a new record of 9.83 seconds in the Tokyo Olympics Men’s 100m semifinals(半决赛). He was the first Chinese ________ to enter the final in the event and brought an unforgettable moment for the world in the summer of that year.

For a long time, there was a(an) ________ that Asian people couldn’t get great achievements in such kinds of competitions. Su’s success broke this idea. He became well known and many people wanted to be as famous as him, ________ the way to success was never easy for Su. Once he was badly hurt in a training course. Su had to stop running after the accident. He even planned to ________ running in 2017. But the spirit to do something for our country brought Su back to the running team. He realized that finishing the semifinal in ________ 10 seconds would win the chance to enter the final competition. It was ________ to get the goal. Su trained much harder than before to improve the speed. To encourage ________, he set a personal goal—9.89 seconds. He even made the ________ as his personal password(密码) for his phone and computer. ________ he succeeded! His spirit encourages many young people to try to achieve their dreams.

Happy Shopping Center will be open! Everything is on sale! You can buy whatever you need. And you can park your car for free if you pay more than￥100 in our shopping center.

April 22nd is World Earth Day—a day to remind people to protect the earth. So on that day, our family held an activity “bottle of trash challenge”. That means the trash needs to be put in a 600ml bottle. We decided to challenge ourselves and produce as little trash as possible.

My father worked online all day, so he didn’t produce any paper waste except paper napkins. He made the least trash in our family.

My mother cooked and produced plenty of kitchen waste, such as vegetable leaves, eggshells and food bags. What’s worse, we couldn’t eat up all the food of the dinner that day. So leftovers couldn’t be avoided. It was not easy for mom to deal with all the trash, but she found a way to put it all into the bottle. How amazing!

My sister, a 16-year-old student, was busy preparing for her exams. She had to use paper to work out math or physics problems. She used only one side of the paper in the past. But that day, she tried to use both sides of the paper because she realized we were challenging ourselves. She did a good job!

I was different from my sister. I love snacks and drinks. So my trash was almost from them. I was highly alert(警觉的) that I must produce less waste. I hardly ever had snacks or drinks. It was too difficult, but I did it!

I’ve learnt a lot from this activity. I realize that everyone can produce less trash. We should start with small actions to protect the earth!

Have you ever thought of what life is like for old people? Have you ever helped old people who live alone? Can they get help when they need it?

Six students from Beijing 101 Middle School looked deeper at this question and wrote a proposal (提案) to the China Youth Model Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (全国青少年模拟政协活动). They advised to build more old people’s service stations in the neighborhood. They also gave suggestions about how governments, neighborhoods and hospitals can work together to make this happen.

An old people’s service station is different from a nursing home. It offers things like daytime care, cooking, cleaning and friendship to old people who live in their own homes. The students surveyed more than 1,100 people, about 90 percent of them said they would prefer using the stations’ services to moving into a nursing home. However, there are not enough of these stations, and many are not run very well.

The six students came up with a solution after reading more than 60 surveys, interviewing 108 people and visiting 25 different organizations. Their proposal beat out almost 100 others to win the Best Proposal award (奖项) in 2021.

“This experience helps me to better understand the importance of caring old people. Also I see the light and abilities in us,” said Xu Wanqing, one of the students.

“Taking part in the China Youth Model CPPCC has been good for students,” agreed their teacher Li Jie. “They’ve developed a sense of caring old people, as well as gotten more confidence about themselves since they’ve seen how much they can do for others.”

The World Health Organization(WHO) was
61． in 1948. In the past 74 years, the WHO has greatly improved health conditions of the world,
62． in developing countries. It cures, prevents and controls serious diseases (疾病), and educates people about
63． to protect their health. It has helped
64． people by training doctors and nurses, and by teaching mothers how to take better care of their children. China is one of the first members. It offers help to the countries in need. So China has played an important
65． in dealing with the health problems.

In Sunday morning, a terrible accident happened to my best friend Tom While he is riding a bike to the supermarket, the car suddenly came out. Tom was listening music on his bike and he didn’t pay attention to the car. Luckily, the driver in the car was such careless that he didn’t stop in time and hit Tom. Tom was badly hurt. When I saw he in the hospital, he regretted what he did in the morning. “Because there are much cars in the street and not every driver follows the rules, so you must be careful when you cross the road.” He said to me. “Safety is the more important thing in life.”

向世界传递中国文化，让世界倾听中国声音。近期，我市将面向全体中小学生举办“用英语讲好中国故事”的爱国主义主题展示活动。假如你是李华，你想参加此次活动，请根据下面的提示信息，向负责本次活动的英语老师Mr. Yang写一封80词左右的自荐信。

I’m excited to hear that our school will hold the activity “telling Chinese stories in English”. I really want to take part in it.

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I expect that you can give me this chance to show myself and I’m looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua