When I was ten, my mother worked all day, so I had to take care of my younger brother. At that time, my little brother was about four years old and he ________ mum all the time.

One day, after I had given him his dinner, he started crying for mum. He was so young and really needed mum. So I dressed him, ________ his shoes, carried him on my back and walked out. Soon he fell asleep. About half an hour later, I found that he lost a shoe while he was ________, I took him off my back and put him ________. I knew we needed to find that shoe, for our mother couldn’t afford to buy new shoes. I had to go back to ________ it, so I told my brother to wait right there. A man heard it and stopped me just ________ I went away. He asked me, “You are leaving your brother here to find the shoe? What will you do if he is not here when you return?” I didn’t know ________ to answer that question. He continued, “It’s OK if you can’t find the shoe, but it is not OK to lose your ________.” Then he sent us to mum’s workplace by taxi.

During my whole life I have received the ________ from many strangers. I feel sorry that I can’t find them and say “________”. I do not even remember what they looked like, but they taught me a lesson — people are more important than things.

I’m my mother’s third girl. When I was born, the doctor gently explained to my mother that my left arm was missing, below the elbow (肘). Then she gave her some advice, “Don’t treat her any differently from others.” And she did.

There are five girls in my family, and we all had to help out. Once when I was about seven, I came out of the kitchen, “Mum, I can’t peel potatoes. I only have one hand.” “Get back to peel these potatoes, and don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!”

Of course I could peel potatoes — with my good hand and my other arm. “Jenny, if you try hard,” she said, “you can do anything.”

Once in the second grade, our teacher had each of us race across the monkey bar (攀爬架).

When it was my turn, I said no. Some kids laughed. I went home crying.

The next afternoon Mum took me back to the school playground. “Now, pull up with your right arm.” She advised. She praised me when I made progress. I’ll never forget when I was crossing the bar, the kids were standing there with their mouths open.

It was the way with everything. Mum had the courage to face anything. And she taught me I could, too.

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Yangzhou paper cutting, with a history of 2,000 years, can be dated back to the Sui Dynasty, making Yangzhou one of the places where paper cutting first became popular.

In the Sui Dynasty, the people of Yangzhou would cut colourful paper or silk and satin (缎子) to celebrate festivals. It is said that Emperor Yang came to Yangzhou three times. In winter, the flowers and trees in the garden became dry and weak. The emperor ordered the gril servants to cut fine silk and satin into flowers and leaves and use them to decorate the trees and lakes, copying nicely the looks of spring and summer. Since then, “colorful cutting” has become a popular art in Yangzhou.

In the Tang Dynasty, the paper cutting industry was highly developed and a large amount of high-quality paper was made as presents to the Court (宫廷).

In the Qing Dynasty, because of the economic development, the people of Yangzhou became interested in wearing fine clothing, especially embroidered (刺绣的) clothing. The embroidered designs were based on paper-cuts, the most well-know of them was from Bao Jun, a paper cutting master. He won a high reputation (名声) as Magic Scissors for his wonderful cutting skills.

After the People’s Republic of China was started, the Chinese government accepted the importance of paper cutting like many other arts and skills. In 2007, China Paper-cuts Museum opened to the public in the back garden of the Wang’s Residence (住所), Yangzhou, greatly helping the development of Yangzhou paper cutting.

The world has been troubled by COVID-19 for over a year. Masks (口罩) are really important to everybody during the pandemic (疫情). We all wear masks every day.
41．. This could become a big environmental problem.

In a study, scientists from the US and Denmark said that people around the world are now using 129 billion face masks every month.
42．. What a large number it is!

According to Elvis Genbo Xu from the University of Southern Denmark, disposable (一次性的) masks are plastic products.
43．. People think that they are a new kind of pollution.

44．. But we can’t recycle masks. Scientists have called for setting up mask—only trash cans (垃圾箱) to deal with mask waste.
45．. We believe that we can solve this problem in the near future though there is still a lot of work to do.

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My father Rong Xing isn't exactly a good father.

He works every day late into the
66．, sometimes even forgetting to eat dinner, and gets up early as well. Even when he's at home, he always thinks about his work and hardly ever spends any time with my mother and
67．.

As a doctor who graduated from Peking University, he could make lots of money and only do half the work he is doing now, but he
68． to do more difficult and important work when he graduated. He spends every coin like it is his last
69． he makes a good salary(薪资). He always wears worn(破旧的), cheap clothes, saying they are “comfortable and suit me
70．”, and refuses to change. I sometimes get angry
71． him for not caring enough about his appearance (外表), but he just smiles and says, “Daddy has
72． important uses for the money, all right?”

I never stopped being curious (好奇的) about how he spent his money. Then one day when I was
73． the newspaper, a piece of news caught my eyes: “Rong Xing donates 100,000 yuan to help poor children go back to school.” Then I suddenly understood.

My father's love for others touched me
74．. I started to understand the great
75． and I decided to pass it on.

   三年将尽，未来已来，我们如何成为更好的自己？请以“To Be a Better Man”为题，写一篇英文短文，从学习方法、生活习惯、交友沟通等方面进行描述。