What is happiness? To some, happiness is being surrounded by family and friends. To others, happiness means achieving success in something, such as meeting a goal. To who have been injured or struggle with a physical disability, happiness can simply mean a day without suffering, or just being alive. Here is an example.
Sang Lan was born Ningbo, China in 1981, and began learning gymnastics when she was only six years old. By the time she completed in the gymnastics tournament at the New York Goodwill Games, she had been a junior gymnast for eleven years. Sang Lan’s best event was always
vault. She started winning competitions in 1991
kept working hard. Her teammates described her
energetic, happy and hard-working. In my opinion, she is a very good example of someone
is happy with her life, a young girl who was happy and successful in her sport. She amazed the world by the way she remained cheerful
she was injured and in hospital. Now, she finds happiness by reaching much smaller goals, and through the love of the people around her.
I hope all of us have been inspired by Sang Lan! I think her courage is admirable. I know I will think about how rebuilt her life whenever my life feels unbearable.
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Gandhi, an Indian national hero, was honored ______ the father of the Indian nation. He has been respected and beloved by the Indians. He was born in India in 1869. Following the local custom, he got
______（marry）at the age of 13. In 1888 he sailed to England,
_______ he studied law for three years and became a lawyer. On his return to India, he was sent to South Africa to work on a law case. In South Africa he was
_____ （surprise）to find that the problem of racial discrimination （种族歧视）was serious. There he formed an organization and started a magazine to fight
______equal rights. Gandhi returned to India in 1915,
______ India was controlled by the British. He led the Indians to fight for an end to the British rule and independence for his country. In the political movement many Indians
_________(include) Gandhi were put in prison.
_______, the struggles never stopped. The British government had to give
______and India won its independence in 1947.
______（fortunate）Gandhi was shot by an Indian who opposed his views and died on January 30th, 1948.
There once was a goat and a donkey(驴), which lived _____ a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the ____
__ (much) food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food___
___it could eat. This made the goat so jealous ___
___ it began plotting against（谋划对付）the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend ___
____ (get) sick so you can take a day ___
____?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable（畜栏） on its side with its eyes ____
___(close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor. _
_____looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine ___
____（make）from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed ___
____goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
As a working mom with three young sons, keeping the house clean is a big challenge. ________ we clean the house every week, one hour later after cleaning our bedrooms and bathrooms are back to their __________
_(mess) look. When asked, my boys will help neaten their room, clear their plates from the table and pick up their school junk. But I need to remind them______
____ it again and again.
If I don’t remind them, I will step over all the things _________make my house look like a garbage can. This is quite _______
___ change from my pre-kid years when I never ______
___(leave) any waste in the house. ____
____seems that I cannot get these days back again at my own house.
When last week I found a program called “Share a Healthy Habit” on a newspaper, I saw a great chance to engage my sons in cleaning chores. Why not encourage these behaviors during the summer, while school is out and their life is __________ (relax)?
The goal for my boys is to clean__________own dorm room themselves when they are free. The rewards for clean habits start young and continue as they get ______
____ (old), so I need to start my plan as soon
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Number the Stars", by American author Lois Lowry, is about________ escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during World War II. The story centers_
_______ ten-year-old Annemarie, who lives with her family in Copenhagen in 1943. __
________ with her family, she is involved in an event to help local __
_______ to reach Sweden to avoid __
_______(send) to Concentration Camps. She risks her life to help her best friend, Ellen, by pretending that Ellen is Annemarie's older sister Lise. In this process, Annemarie
_________ (begin) to realize that the world they live in is a place __
______ the right thing is often hard, and sometimes dangerous. _
_______ she has to take a deep breath, take her responsibility, and make a decision. The following __
______ (content) are right there waiting for you to read, to explore and to comprehend. _
________(hope), you will enjoy and benefit a great deal from the novel.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
One day, an old monk named Wisdom, followed by two young monks, was walking from one town to another____ they caught sight of a lake. Tired and thirsty, they stopped to have a rest. __
__old monk, pointing to the lake, asked the __
__ (young) one to get him some water.
When the little monk reached the lake, a cart____ (draw) by an ox started crossing the lake, ___
___made the water very muddy. The little monk thought, “How can I give this muddy water to my master to drink!” So he came back__
___ any water, saying, “The water is very muddy. I don’t think__
__is suitable to drink.”
After a while, the same monk _____(ask)to get water again. When he went back to the lake, he found that the mud _
(settle) down already, so he collected back a pot of water. Wisdom looked at the water happily and then up at the monk, “To make the water clean, __
__you need to do is just to let it be and the mud would settle down on its own.”
It is also the same with your mind. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time and it will settle down itself.