1．　　Jiang Mengnan was born in 1992 in Yizhang , Hunan province. Her world (1)       silent since she was 6 months old, because her hearing (2)       seriously when given medicine. However, she overcame many difficulties and succeeded in studying at Tsinghua University. (3)       March 3, 2021, Jiang Mengnan received the award of Person Touching China for 2021.
　　When Jiang was a little kid, her parents began teaching (4)       to read lips. They (5)      taught her how to speak by putting her hands on their throats. It was a slow, hard process, (6)       her parents never gave up and Jiang learned to speak.
　　When she was(7)       , Jiang studied at a primary school like most common children. She said it was difficult at first. During lessons, teachers would often write on the blackboard (8)       their back to the students, so Jiang failed to read their lips. She had to copy down (9)       on the blackboard. After class, she studied her notes alone so that she (10)       keep up with her classmates.
　　Her hard work made her a top student. In 2011, she got into Jilin University with (11)       excellent grade. After graduating in 2015, she went on (12)       computer﹣aided drug design for a higher degree. In 2018, she continued further study at Tsinghua University.
　　"I (13)       always grateful for the respect I've received from my parents, teachers and friends,"she said. "They never give me special attention for my imperfection, which means I've never seen myself as different from (14)      ."
　　In the future, she wants to continue scientific research and contribute (15)       she's learned to deal with problems of life and health.

2．　　Once upon a time the colors of the world started to (1)      . All claimed that they were the best.
　　Green said, "Clearly I am the most (2)       as the sign of life and of hope. Just look over the countryside, I was chosen for grass, trees and leaves.
　　Blue interrupted, "Consider the sky and the sea. The sky gives peace, and (3)       is the basis of life. Without my peace, you would all be nothing."
　　Yellow laughed and said, "You are all so (4)       . I bring laughter and warmth into the world. The sun, the moon and stars are yellow. Every time you look at a sunflower, the whole world starts to (5)       ."
　　(6)       said, "I am the color of strength. When I fill the sky at sunrise or sunset, my beauty is so amazing. "
　　Red shouted out, "I am the ruler of all of you. I am life's blood!I am the color of danger and bravery. Without me, the earth would be as lifeless as the moon."
　　Purple said, "I am the color of royalty and power, so kings have always chosen me. People do not question me!They listen and (7)       ."
　　Finally, Indigo (靛蓝) spoke slowly, "I am the color of silence, representing thought and reflection, twilight and deep water. You need me for balance, prayer and inner peace."
　　Their quarreling became louder and louder. (8)       , with a flash of bright lightening thunder, rain started to pour down. The colors were frightened. Rain said, "Don't you know that you were each made for a(9)       purpose, unique and different Join hands with one another and come to me."
　　The colors united and joined their hands. Finally, the rain stopped and a beautiful. (10)       appeared in the sky. It looked so peaceful and beautiful after the storm.

3．　　The first time I saw Carlos I would never have believed he was going to change my life. I had my arms full of books and I rushed into the classroom when I ran into something solid. It was Carlos.
　　"My. . . you're tall," he said.
　　Of course, the class began to laugh. Angry, I walked to my seat without a word.
　　I looked back to see if Reed Harrington was laughing with the rest. That would be the last straw. To my relief, I see Reed was studying chemistry and did not seem to be aware of anything else. I didn't know why I considered Reed my friend. Maybe just because he was a good two inches taller than me.
　　"Take that seat," Mr. McCarthy told the newcomer Carlos, pointing to the only empty one, in the back of the room.
　　Carlos laughed widely. "But I need a couple of dictionaries." Again, the class laughed, but now they were laughing with Carlos, not at him. He had been here only 10 minutes and already he had them on his side.
　　The bell rang for classes. As 1 stood up to go, I saw Carlos coming toward me. "I'm sorry l embarrassed you," he said. I looked straight ahead over the top of his black hair. "That's all right." I said.
　　"A little talk" He was still standing in my way and held out his hand. "What's your name " "Karen Forbes." Unwillingly, I shook hands with him. He looked up at me seriously with his brown eyes. "I am Carlos. I don't see why you're so easy to get angry."
　　It was the school elections that made me think of Carlos again. Reed Harrington was voted president and Carlos vice﹣president. "How come " I kept asking myself, "How come this guy who's only been in town for a little over a month gets to be so popular"
　　So on that morning, I stopped Carlos and said, "It doesn't seem to bother you being short." He looked up at me," Of course I mind being short. But there isn't anything I can do about it. When I realized I was going to have to spend my life in this undersized skin, I just decided to make the best of it and try my best to be myself." "You seem to get along great," I said honestly, "But what about me Nobody wants to date a girl taller than he is. ""The trouble with you is you're afraid to be yourself. You're smart. And you could be pretty. In fact, you might be more than pretty "I felt myself turning red.

4．　　In many countries, people are encouraged to buy electric cars. It is said that driving an electric car is good for the environment. But is that true The University of Minnesota recently studied emissions (排放物) from different cars. The scientists found that sometimes, electric cars are more harmful than petrol (汽油) cars.
　　Surprising Well, please pay attention to the word "sometimes". Electric cars are supposed to be clean. The problem lies in the power that is used to charge (充电) them. If the power comes from wind or solar energy, electric cars will cause little pollution. However, if the power is produced from coal, they will be very harmful. According to the study, emissions from these cars kill about 3, 000 people a year. However, pollution caused by petrol cars only leads to 880 deaths a year.
　　In fact, sales people are not lying when they say electric cars are clean. However, they are right only when the power used to charge their cars is also clean.
　　So how clean electric cars are depends on what its electricity comes from. In France, more than half of the power comes from nuclear stations. Electric cars there should be as clean as they are marketed (推销)to be. In many developing countries, however, electricity still mainly comes from coal. India, for example, depends on coal for 61 percent of its power. Only two percent of its electricity comes from nuclear energy. In countries like India, electric cars are not clean at all!

6．　　We choose food to eat every day. We might know some of the reasons for the choices, but food scientist Dr. Brian Wansink has found that we are unaware of 90% of our food decision. Here are some "big ideas" in his research on the hidden power that drives our eating.
　　Food for thought
　　In one of the studies, Dr. Wansink made volunteers eat chocolate yogurt in a dark room. He told them the yogurt was with a taste of strawberry even though they were all eating chocolate Finally, 65% of volunteers described the yogurt as having a "nice strawberry flavour"!
　　The research shows that our imagination has an effect on our taste. If you expect a food to taste good, it will. So take a moment before you eat your unpleasant healthy food to remind yourself that you are eating delicious fish and chips.
　　Our eyes eat first
　　How your food looks is just as important as how it tastes. Dr. Wansink gave cakes to three groups of people. The cakes were exactly the same but served in different ways.
①Group one got the cake on a nice plate.
②Group two got the cake on a paper plate.
③Group three got the cake on a piece of paper.
　　Dr. Wansink then asked the people how much they would pay for each cake.
①Group one who got the cake on a nice plate would pay ＄ 1. 27.
②Group two who got the cake on a paper plate would pay 76 cents.
③Group three who got the cake on a piece of paper would pay 53 cents.
　　Take some time to make your healthy food look amazing. Cut your fruit into a flower shape and put your colorful vegetables on nice plates. This works really well for your appetite (胃口).
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　　Dr. Wansink also found that when people sat at the desk full of snacks, they ate 71% more of snacks a day than those sitting near a clear table. We eat what we see. As a result, put all the unhealthy food in your fridge.
　　Hide it and make it really hard to get to. The closer bad food is, the more you eat it.

7．　　If you were born in the 2000s, you are called the oh﹣ohs. That would make you young, creative, connected, world﹣wide, and no doubt smart. Maybe good﹣looking, too. Right? (1)      
　　Some adults worry that you're more interested in the screen in front of you than the world around you. (2)       They wonder how you will deal with school, friends, and family.
　　(3)       Many children born in the 1990s and 2000s were raised by "helicopter parents." (4)       As a result, their children are busy with programs filled with homework and after﹣school activities such as dancing, drawing, or sports. With parents who do everything for them, today's youth seem to prefer to live like teenagers even when they are in their 20s or 30s.
　　Does the face down generation need a heads﹣up Well, probably not. The fact is that many of today's teenagers are better educated and more creative than past generations. They seem to be willing to become leaders. (5)       There are also brave young people such as Malala. Yousafzai, the teenager who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for pushing girls' rights to go to school.
　　So if you're one of the oh﹣ohs, there's reason to be hopeful about the future. Things are looking up for the face﹣down generation. Chances are that you do great and laugh out loud.

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　　A new study published by The Royal Society shows that pigeons (鸽子)have amazing memories. The report says they can use landmarks (地标) to (1)f        their way, even after four years.
　　The report came from a 2016 experiment. In the experiment the birds tried to go back their home from a farm 8. 6 kilometers away. When they were brought back to the (2)s        place in 2019 and 2020, the birds were (3)a        to plan their routes in a correct way. University of Oxford zoologist Julien Collet said, "It seemed that the last time they (4)f        there was just the day before, not four years ago."
　　Pigeons have had a long connection with people. They are among the curliest domesticated (家养的) birds. Their ability to remember way home made them valuable. In ancient times, people used them to carry important(5)l        quickly over long distances.

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