I grew up as a foster (收养的) child from the day I was born. I never really. 1 the true love from a mother. Five years ago, I came to my second foster home. It was a 2 family full of love, but I was still sad. I refused to get 3 to them because I wasn't their birth child.
Things changed one night, 4
My foster mom asked me to get into her living room. "I want you to read this book. It's really 5 !" she said excitedly, and then handed me a children's book. I had a quick look at the 6 : The Kissing Hand. She smiled at me, "7 me! You'll love it. "
It was a story of a raccoon (浣熊) mom who8 a kiss in the palm (手掌) of her child. She told him. to put his kissing hand onto his face whenever he felt 9 . In this 10 , he would feel as if his mom was always there.
When I finished the story, she did something really 11 . She gently took my hand and put a warm loving kiss in my palm. Then she quietly closed my hand, held it tightly and spoke words that I12 to hear for so long: "Whenever you get afraid or 13 , don't forget your mom loves you. "
My eyes were filled with tears.
I14 did have a mother. No, she wasn't biological (有血缘关系的), but she was mine just the 15 .
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Andreas watched the clock moving so slowly. Today, there were tryouts (选拔赛) for the basketball team after school. Andreas had been practicing hard for months together with his best friend Tyrell.
They ran to the gym an soon as the bell rang. Oh! There were already about 60 boys. but the basketball team only needed 20! Andreus and Tyrell looked at each other, What if only one of them made the team?
The tryouts began. Andreas and Tyrell were in different groups. Andreas's hard practice finally paid off as he look shots (投篮) from the 3-point line. But he still felt uneasy—a name list would only be posted the next morning. He knew he'd played well, but was it good enough?
"It's OK!" said Tyrell, "I'm sure you made it. I just don't know if I did. "
"Playing on the basketball team wouldn't be any fun without you!" Andreas said.
The next morning, Andreas hurried to school to see the lint. He was so glad to see Tyrell's name! But his heart broke then— ★
"Andreas! "He heard Tyrell's happy voice. "We made it!"
"What?" asked Andreas.
Tyrell pointed to Andrea's name at the very top of the second sheet, "Look! I found your name here!"
They shouted and gave each other a high-five. They were going to be on the basketball team together!
"Sunday driver" was a phrase that described someone who drove his car down the highway when enjoying the scenery (风景). These drivers just drove slowly, taking their own sweet time, as if they had nothing to do. However, a Sunday driver wasn't necessarily someone who needn't work on a Sunday. A person could be a Sunday driver any day of the week. The phrase simply meant that the person was an obstacle (障碍) to other drivers who were really busy.
The phrase probably came out because there was a time when people could go for a relaxing drive on Sunday afternoon. There were many Sunday drivers years ago and especially (特别是) on nice warm sunny days. There were no stores open on Sundays because of the "blue laws" ("周日法规"), so you needed to fill up the gas tank and do any other needed shopping before Sunday arrived. Some states in the US had strict blue laws一Some activities were not allowed (被允许) on Sundays. . At that time, very few people worked on Sundays but some important workers such as those in the hospitals. It was a day that people spent resting, visiting neighbors and friends, or maybe going to grandma's house for supper.
Today there are many people who go back to work and children who go back to school feeling tired on Mondays because they don't have a good rest on weekends. However, there would be less stress-related illnesses if we really keep Sunday as a day of rest.
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The traditional Chinese Longtaitou festival, or Dragon Head Raising Day, falls on the second day of the second lunar month every year. A well-known saying goes, "Er yue er, long tai tou". The dragon is very i in Chinese culture. It is said that it has power over the wind and rain.
Old people (believe) that after the day of Longtaitou, there would be more and more rain, because the rain-bringing Dragon King woke up from his winter sleep. So the day of Longtaitou marked (标志) the e of winter and the start of spring. Farmers believed that. . the help of Dragon King, farming would be easier and they could e一for a good harvest (丰收) in autumn. .
There are many w to celebrate the festival. The most famous tradition is f (get) a haircut. Many believe that going to the barber's on this day gets rid of (除去) bad luck. Among Chinese festival traditions, there is always a place for f. For example, people in East China (usual) eat tofu balls during the festival. They m tofu and vegetable balls to wish a good wish for family and business. Other foods, like noodles, dumplings and spring rolls, are named after dragon body parts to mark the day. Noodles are dragon's beard (longxu). Dumplings are dragon's ears (long'er). And spring rolls are dragon's scales (longlin).
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Dear classmates,
Robert is leaving for his country soon.
Can you come to the party? I'm looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Ming
Do you wear noise-canceling earphones (降噪耳机)? They can keep noise out. But sometimes, they can be dangerous when you cross a busy street and need to hear some noises around you. The US scientists made a new Al. It lets people pick a sound. If you pick the sound of people's voices, all you will hear in the headphones is that sound. People can pick from 20 kinds of sounds, such as bird sounds and baby cries. 
Check out this Wind Tree! It looks like a tree with 36 green leaves", but it's a small wind turbine (涡轮机). It's about 5 to 10 meters tall and easy to build. Each "leaf" can turn with the wind and create electricity (电). It can make 18, 000 kilowatt-hours (千瓦时) of energy in a year. That's enough to-power a house of four people. 
Drivers usually need to wait for a long time for their electric cars to charge (充电). Now, a road in the US can charge electric cars as they drive along the road or park on it. There are charging coils (线圈) under the read, and-the cars have special receivers. When the car comes near, the coils send electricity through a magnetic field (磁场). It's safe for people and animals to walk on the roads.