A world-class violinist always kept silent when he guided his students to play. After one student  ___  a song, he always played it again so that his student got the guidance from listening. “Tweedle (琴声) is the best   _____   ”he said.

Once he got a new student. On the courtesy ceremony (拜师典礼)，this  student played a short song. The student was so talented that he performed the song ____   .

After the song ended, the master took the violin and walked on the stage as usual. This time, he put the violin on the shoulder ___  didn’t play. He was silent for a long time, and then took the violin down from his shoulder, and walked  ____ the stage.

The listeners were    _____  and didn't know what happened. He said with a smile, “Do you know? He played so well that I am not ____  enough to guide him. At least, for the song he just played, my playing is only a kind of misleading for him. ”

The listeners fell silent for a moment, and then a big applause broke out. It had three ____  : the first was for the student's talented art; the second for the teacher's ____   to the student；  and the third and the most important was that the well-known performer did not fear that his honest action would make himself ____his prestige ( 威信 ).His spirit is valuable as gold.

   Mr. Robinson works at an office. Every day, he drives a long way to get to work. In order to avoid heavy traffic, he has to get up early and go to work without having breakfast. He bought some bottles of milk and put them in a big box in his office so that he can drink the milk whenever he gets hungry.

One day, after arriving at his office as usual, he wanted to have some milk. But he found that two bottles of milk were missing. He thought someone who works in the same office must have taken the milk. So at noon, he said to all his colleagues. “I wish the person who stole my milk would return it and say sorry to me in the afternoon. In fact, anyone who touched the box left his or her fingerprints (指纹) on it, so I can find out who did this by checking the fingerprints.” After saying this, he went out for lunch.

During lunch, he was thinking about what he should say to the person who would say sorry in the afternoon. But when he got back to the office, no one said anything to him. To his surprise, all his milk, even the box, was missing.

What a pity! Sometimes a little tolerance (宽容) can make our life easier.

This year is the Year of the Cock. Just like other Chinese zodiacs(生肖), the cock means a lot. Do you want to know more about it? Read on.

★Cock in Chinese culture

In ancient times, there were no clocks. The cock told people it was time to get up and start to work. So hard-working ancient Chinese people were big fans of the cock.

Traditionally, people thought the cock was a bird that could avoid evil (邪恶的) things. The story says once cocks make their morning calls, all the evil things at night will leave.

The cock is popular with people for its courage. In ancient China, a lot of people liked to watch cockfighting(斗鸡) because the game was exciting.

The pronunciation of “cock” in Putonghua is the same as that of “chance” and “good luck”.

★ What it means to be a cock

Those who are born in the Year of the Cock are said to be active. “They like to be the center of attention and always look beautiful,” the China Highlight website noted.

★ Big events in the Year of the Cock

☆On January 20, Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States.

☆ In the first half of 2017, China launched (发射) its first cargo spacecraft(货运飞船) Tianzhou-1, to dock(对接) with Tiangong-2.

☆On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong returned to China. 2017 marks the 20th year of its return.

☆ At the end of 2017, China will launch its fifth lunar probe (月球探测器), Chang’e-5.

How do you often spend your summer vacation? Do you sometimes get bored? Here are some ideas for you to help spice up (调剂) your holiday, and keep you busy either inside or outside.

The British Museum is the biggest one in the world. There are lots of things in the museum to see: clocks which have been telling the time for six hundred years. Roman money, the earliest books in the world, including Shakespeare’s own works…

The British Museum was set up nearly 300 years ago by a doctor. Sir Hans Sloane. The man liked to collect such things as books, drawings, clothes, money, animals, flowers, and also hoped that his things would be well kept and visited by people after his death. His wish came true, and the museum opened in 1759, six years after Sir Hans Sloane died.

Later, more antiques(古董) arrived at the museum, more books, old and new, came to it, and more people wanted to visit it. All this made Pauizzi design the famous round Reading Room. There was something unusual in it. Cool air came up through small holes in the tables. Hot air under the floor kept readers’ feet warm. Since its opening, many famous men have written and studied there, including Karl Marx. And the library is growing faster and faster. Many tourists come to visit it every year.

It is now open every day of the year, except for two holidays (New Year’s Day and Christmas). Entrance(进入) is free. There are lots of special exhibitions (展览) and every day there are different films and talks, some of them for children. So if you are one of its two million visitors this year, don’t try to see it all too quickly. There is a lifetime of looking in the British Museum.

Life is short and we never know what will happen. Enjoy life with all its ups and downs. 1. So the important way to live is to follow your heart and live happily.

When good things come to your way, share with others but don’t ask for anything in return. There is nothing better than the feelings after helping others.

Love everyone in your life. 2. If we all start this now, love could come to every place of the world. In our lifetime, we’ll be able to see a better world. But it has to start with learning to love ourselves first.

Yue Yunpeng, 31, has become one of China’s favorite crosstalk (相声) superstars.

He not only does crosstalk shows, but also
66． in TV shows and movies. In the latest movie I Belonged to You (《从你的全世界路过》), he plays a silly but loveable man. It has made him more popular.

He is famous now, but he lived a hard life
67．. Yue was called “the Forrest Gump (阿甘) of the crosstalk world”. He stuck to his dream, and it led to his
68．.

Like many people, Yue started to learn crosstalk as a living skill at 18. He was not well educated because he
69． school at 14. But he worked hard to catch up. He stood outside in winter to read the newspaper in order to improve his Putonghua. He imitated (模仿) actors in theaters
70． doing part-time jobs there.

Gradually, he created his
71． style. His jokes are mean (刻薄的), but in a funny way. He often adds his Henan dialect (方言) to classic crosstalk works. Together with interesting language, funny facial expressions and body language, he makes people laugh
72．. His “My God” expression, with open-wide small eyes and hands on
73． mouth, has become a popular expression.

Also, he found his
74． was fit for singing and imitating. So he made use of it and created the song Five Rings (《五环之歌》). In the song, he talks
75． the Beijing traffic in a down-to-earth way. Isn’t he funny?

When you think about inventions that have changed human’s lives, what comes to mind? The car, the compass(指南针), or the computer? We hardly think about those more common things. But without them, our life will be much worse, for example, eyeglasses. Imagine a world without glasses, many of us would walk into things. So who invented glasses, and how were they first made?

The truth is that nobody knows who invented eyeglasses. What we do know is that the earliest lenses (镜片) were made from quartz (石英). As soon as people worked out how to make glass without bubbles (气泡), they started making lenses out of glass.

Glasses spread quickly all over Europe and Asia. But early glasses were squeezed(夹)onto the bridge of the nose. It was painful for the wearers. So there was still one big problem: how to keep them on the wearer’s face. It took nearly 400 years for people to come up with the way we wear glasses today.

We should be thankful to Benjamin Franklin, who invented bifocals (双焦点眼镜) in the 1780s. He liked to read or watch sceneries (景色) far away while traveling. But he hated to change glasses all the time. Then Franklin cut his glasses in half and put them together with his distance(远距离的) glasses. Now they are still popular.

In recent years, mobile phones and e-readers have become more common. Some people worry that the days of paper books will be gone. So we did a survey about paper books. Here is what we have got.

In the UK, sales of e-books are dropping while sales of paper books are rising. More surprisingly, it’s young people who are buying the most paper books. Another survey of university students from the United States, Japan and Germany also showed that 92 percent of them preferred paper books.

The most popular reason was: “I like to hold the product.” It’s true that paper books bring a very different reading experience. Some students said that they liked the smell of paper books. Other students said that they got a sense of accomplishment(成就感) when they finished reading a paper book and they enjoyed seeing it on the bookshelf.

Paper books can also be very personal objects to readers. Many people like to sign their names on the inside cover. If the cover gets bent (弯曲的) or there’s a stain(污点) made from coffee or food, it will make the book even more personal. It’s more like the readers’ old friends.

This “friendship” between people and books isn’t just sentimental (情感的). Studies have shown that readers remember more information from paper books. People also more easily have sore eyes while reading e-books.

It seems that paper books still have an attraction (吸引力). So why not pick up a book and start reading?

你喜欢的一位作家在个人的QQ空间里发布了即将出版新书的消息。请把你想对他/她说的话，想问的问题写在留言板上。开头已给出，不计入总词数。

I’m one of your fans.

青少年的生活离不开运动，运动可以丰富我们的生活。你经常做哪些运动？你的生活因此发生了哪些改变？通过运动你收获了什么？请以I do sports and I am ________ 为题，写一篇作文。

I do sports and I am