—Yes. Students can join in different kinds of activities.
65-year-old Wang Dewen, from Shandong Province, is known as Grandpa Amu. Many people call him "Lu Ban"1he has excellent carpentry（木工）skills. Wang lives in a small village. He became 2 because of a video. The video3Wang was making a fantastic wooden bridge with his great4. It got popular on the Internet in a short time. Millions of people 5the video.
In his free time, Wang likes making6for his grandson. His grandson likes these toys very much and a walking Peppa Pig is his7.
Grandpa Amu is very popular now. Many8want to interview him. But he doesn't want to 9them. He said, "I don't hope to be a star. I10want to spend my time making more things. And I plan to teach more people these skills."
During the Jin Dynasty（266-420）, a boy named Che Yin was smart and loved to read. Although he was born in a poor family, he studied very hard. He also wanted to study at night to improve himself. But his father couldn't afford lamp oil（灯油）to make him study at night. One night, when he had to go to bed early, some fireflies（萤火虫）were flying outside his house and they looked like many small lights. Che suddenly came up with an idea. He caught some fireflies and put them into a cloth bag and hung the bag up as his lamp. After that, he spent all of his summer nights reading like this.
In the same period, another child named Sun Kang also loved reading. One night in winter, Sun used up all of his lamp oil and he couldn't study at night. At midnight, it snowed heavily. When he woke up, he saw the snow reflecting（反射）the moonlight outside his house. He was very excited because he could use the reflected light to read! He took out his books and began to read without thinking twice, even though it was so cold on the snowy nights.
Both of the kids who worked hard later became successful government officials（官员）. People were touched by their hard-working spirit and their stories were spread forever.
A boy was walking at a market with his sister. But the little girl stopped in front of a toy shop. She was looking at something inside the shop's window. The boy asked, "What are you looking at?" His sister pointed at the doll（玩偶）. The boy told her that he would buy the doll for her. The sister was very happy. Then the boy asked the shopkeeper, "How much does this doll cost?" The shopkeeper looked at the boy and asked, "Well, how can you pay?" The boy took out all the seashells（贝壳）that he had collected from the beach and gave them to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper took the seashells and started counting them as if they were coins. Then he turned to the boy. The boy asked him, "Are they enough?" The shopkeeper said, "Yes, they are more than enough." He kept four of the seashells and gave the rest back to the boy.
The boy put the seashells back into his pocket happily and left with his sister and the new doll. The shopkeeper's assistant（助手）was surprised. He asked the shopkeeper, "Why did you do that? That doll costs a lot of money. And it certainly costs more than four seashells." The shopkeeper replied, "To us, these are just seashells. But to that boy, they're very precious. When he grows up, he'll remember that he once bought a doll for his sister with seashells. It might remind him that there are wonderful and kind people in the world. And perhaps he will also be generous（大方的）and kind to others.
There was a king who gave his daughter a beautiful diamond necklace. The necklace was missing and people in the kingdom searched everywhere but could not find it.
So the king put up notices, saying that anyone who found it could get a box of gold coins.
One day, a young man was walking along a river when he saw something shining in the river. When he looked, he saw the diamond necklace. He decided to catch it to get the reward（报酬）.
He put his hand in the river and tried to catch the necklace, but missed it. He took his hand out and looked again. The necklace was still there. He tried again. But strangely, he still missed the necklace! He started walking away, feeling sad. Just then, an old man walking by saw him, and asked him what was the matter.
The young man didn't want to share the secret with him, thinking he might take the necklace for himself, so he refused to tell him anything. The old man could see the young man was in trouble, He asked the young man to tell him the problem again and promised that he would not tell anyone about it. The young man finally told him about the necklace and how he tried hard to catch it, but kept failing.
The old man then told him that perhaps he should try looking upward, toward the tree, instead of in the river. The young man looked up, and the necklace was hanging on the branch of a tree. He had been trying to catch a reflection（倒影）of the necklace all the time.
We usually go to see a doctor when we are ill. Doctors may give us some medicine.
But sometimes the medicine doesn't work. This happened to one man, Thomas Smith. He was ill in hospital, but he wasn't getting well. Then he found a new "doctor" inside himself. He saw funny films. And something wonderful happened. Laughing took away his pain after half a year. He could have a good night's rest. His own happy feeling helped him get well, He said laughing was very useful and it was the best "medicine".
Another man, Simon Beck, was also ill, and he had a serious pain in his back. The doctor couldn't stop it, so the man began to "picture" his pain. He imagined it to be a real dog. Then the man talked softly to the dog. He put his hand on the dog's head and made friends with it. One year later, his pain went away!
However, more and more people are getting well in this way. So call on the "doctor" inside your mind, and keep happy and well!
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A. He read funny books. B. He wrote his story in his book. C. Reading is good for everyone. D. These stories may surprise you. E. In his head, he drew a picture of a dog. F. The medicine often makes us feel better. G. We need to do more exercise to keep us healthy. |
