On April 16, Shenzhou XIII astronauts safely came back to Earth.

The landing set a new speed record. When Shenzhou XII came back ______ the space station in 2021, it took about 28 hours. This time, it took just 9 hours ______!

It landed upright. This landing position is not often seen in China’s space light history. Landing upright makes sure that astronauts have the ______ landing.

The astronauts felt good after landing. ______ they still needed to sit on chairs. The long space journey changed ______ bodies. In the next few months, they will gradually get used to living on Earth.

I was shopping at a department store and had just got onto the down escalator（手扶电梯）when I noticed a woman standing to the side. She looked about 65, and her _______ told me she was scared. I turned _______ the woman and asked “Do you need any help?”

The woman remained silent. As the escalator continued moving, I heard the woman reply _______, “I’m afraid.” “Want me to come back and get you?” I called to her. She _______.

But by the time I reached her arm, the woman had reconsidered. “I don’t think I can do it,” she said. I suddenly realized that I had offered far greater help than I _______.

“I know we can do it,” I said. “I can hold on to you.” She looked down at the scary _______. Then her eyes came back to mine, looking doubtful. “This has never _______ me before,” she said, as much to herself as to me.

I took her _______. “Shall we?”

She made a little sound of _______ as we stepped on, but we’d passed the point of no return. To my joy, she ________ a little as the stairs moved us downward.

“I don’t understand this at all,” she said.

However, as we got near the ________, she felt scared again, but we did it.

“I’m so ________…” she began.

“It was nothing,” I said. “I was happy to do it.”

Happy, yes. I seldom help others. I am ________ because I care for a family and work full time. For a short moment, I seemed to understand ________ someone would become a nurse or a social worker or something else. Not only did I help the old lady get on the escalator, but also helped her ________ her fear. It was a much happier moment than I’d had in weeks.

Peter was the richest in town. He had earned himself a bad name because he was too proud of his money. One day, Peter became blind. Only by doing a cornea transplant surgery（角膜移植手术）could he see again, but there was no donor（捐献者）. Peter had to wait in the hospital sadly.

One afternoon, Peter wanted to sit in the sun, so he felt his way for the little square before the hospital. He raised his head to enjoy the sunshine. However, he saw nothing but the whole darkness.

Just as Peter felt hopeless, someone hit him hard all of a sudden. That angered Peter, so he shouted loudly, “Don’t you have eyes? Don’t you see who you hit! I’m Peter!”

The answer was from a little boy, “I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t notice, please forgive me!”

Peter changed his mind and ordered, “I can forgive you, but you must talk with me!”

The boy began. “How beautiful! The grass is green, the sky is blue, the flowers are coming out everywhere, and the little trees are also very lovely. The clouds are floating…”

As he was listening, Peter began to envy（嫉妒）that boy. Suddenly, he shouted, “Oh, my God, the little boy is so poor, nothing but a pair of eyes! Why do you give him light?”

“You are wrong!” came the voice of a lady, “My son is too poor to have eyes. What he just described is what I told him!” Peter sat on the square silently, tears coming up in his eyes.

Since then, the city charity（慈善机构）would receive a great deal of money every year from the richest person, Peter.

A man in black clothes jumps high into the air. Sometimes, he carries a red fan（扇子）. Sometimes, he spreads his arms like wings. When he lands, the crowd cheers loudly. His dance is eye-catching, and many people watch.

He is Chinese dancer Ma Jiaolong. Since 2020, he’s made short videos of himself dancing in London. He has performed at the city’s parks and landmarks like Tower Bridge. The 35-year-old has nearly 5 million followers on Douyin.

Classical Chinese dance mixes martial（武侠）arts movements with those of traditional Chinese opera. Ma was interested in the movements of classical Chinese dance and started to learn it at 12. Later, Ma studied at the Beijing Dance Academy. Since 2019, he has been teaching classical Chinese dance at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Two years ago, Ma had to give online classes due to COVID-19. In his small home, he could only make small moves. One day, he took his wife’s suggestion and danced at Greenwich Park, a popular place for tourists. She took videos of Ma. He then edited（剪辑）the video, added music and sent it to friends, who loved it and inspired him to share it online. From then on, Ma made more short videos. As his videos went popular, he received messages from people around the world.

“Now, making and sharing short videos has become a part of my life, and, most importantly, a great way to introduce traditional Chinese dance to more people, especially those in foreign countries,” said Ma.

March 21 is World Sleep Day. Here are some facts about sleep.

Sleep at advised times

In 2021, the Ministry of Education（MOE）advised that junior and senior high school students should go to bed before 10 pm and 11 pm respectively（分别的）.

How do astronauts sleep

Just like on Earth, a person in space goes to bed at night and then wakes up the next day. But in space there is no up or down, and you do not feel the pull of gravity（重力）. As a result, astronauts usually sleep in fixed sleeping bags.

Earworms happen while sleeping

Some people enjoy listening to music a lot. While we’re awake, the music we know well keeps ringing in our ears, which is called earworms（耳虫现象）. This can happen during sleep as well, which could cause problems in getting to sleep and staying asleep.

Sleep with your pet

Pets, like dogs and cats, do not sleep continuously and they will often get up and walk on the bed, which can make you sleep even worse.

But recent studies found that having pets in the bed may help people who are often worried. The pets, like soft toys, can help cut down their worry.

Socks can help us sleep

Studies have shown that wearing socks to bed can help you fall asleep faster!

Hands and feet help exchange（交换）heat between the far ends of the body and the heart. Wearing socks means an increase of blood to your hands and feet, which cuts down your core（核心的）body temperature. The lower the core body temperature is, the faster you fall asleep.

China will have 75 percent of its wild animals on land under the national key protection system by 2025, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration（国家林业和草原局）said. Its announcement took place on Sunday, which happened to be the International Day for Biological Diversity（多样性）.

The administration said that part of China’s achievements in protecting wild animals lie in setting wild animals into nature reserves（保护区）after human breeding（繁殖）. It said that nine milu deer（麋鹿）recently came into the world in the Daqingshan National Nature Reserve in Inner Mongolia. They are babies of the milu deer, or Pere David’s deer, who were set into the wild in September following human breeding in Beijing and Jiangsu province.

According to the administration, human breeding has helped to increase the population of some animal kinds that had before disappeared in the wild, such as milu deer and Przewalski’s horses. There are now around 10,000 milu deer and around 700 Przewalski’s horses. As for other wild populations, the giant panda population has increased from 1,114 in the 1980s to 1,864. The number of wild Asian elephants has increased from about 180 to 300 over the same period.

The administration plans to improve the protection of wild animals—including giant pandas, Siberian tigers, Asian elephants, and snow leopards.

At the same time, the government has made more efforts to punish unlawful trading in wildlife, which also helps with the increase of wild animals.

Night came, noises calmed down and the Mexican sports center of the Olympics stood quiet in darkness.

Greenspan, the world famous reporter, found the center
56． after making the scenes where the marathon（马拉松）winners received the medals and marked the victory. It was time for him to return to the hotel for a rest. He was about to leave when he suddenly saw a bandaged man ran into the center with his right
57． bleeding. This man ran lamely（一瘸一拐的）out of breath, but he didn’t
58．. After he ran along the runway for a circle and got to the
59．, he fell down on the ground.

Greenspan guessed this was a marathon runner. Feeling interested, he went over to ask why the runner wanted to run to the goal with
60． a difficulty. The young man
61． Kowari from Tanzania replied, “That my country sent me here from more than 20,000 kilometers is not to let me get off the mark in the competition, but to make me complete the game. I want to run to the goal,
62． I have fallen behind all other runners. I have a great goal
63． them. I will run to the goal. Though the audience（观众）won’t cheer me any more, my motherland is watching me
64． from behind…”

Tears welled up in Greenspan’s eyes. Soon, he
65． the most touching scene in the history of the Olympic Games to every corner of the world.

For pupils at a village school in Yiyuan county, Shandong province, Ren Jilan has not only been teaching them but also showing them how to face life bravely, especially when things just don’t seem to be working out.

Ren came from a poor family in a Yiyuan county village. She had to do more housework than other children when she was young because both her father and mother were in ill health. With support from her relatives and villagers, Ren completed her 12-year school study and was accepted by Qufu Normal University. But the four-year university experience didn’t go well. Her father died and then she had to care for her mother. At the difficult moment, it was her teacher, Li Zhenhua, who came to her and offered help.

After graduation, Ren was faced with chances to work as a teacher in cities, but she chose to return to her hometown and work as a country teacher at Fuluping Primary School. “Teacher Li gave up a well-paid job in a big city to teach children at the village school. I’d like to follow his path to play my part for the education in my hometown.” Ren says.

Fuluping Primary School is 50 kilometers away from downtown Yiyuan county. It was once among the schools with the worst conditions in the county. But the school has its own beautiful and comfortable playground now.

Ren works hard on teaching and taking care of her students. She also spends a part of her money helping two poor students. She received the China Youth May 4th Medal—the country’s top honor for excellent young people.

“Life was not easy for me, but luckily I had nice people around me. They gave me a helping hand when I was in need, and it encouraged me to go on,” says Ren.

开展丰富多彩的课外活动对我们很有好处。请以“Free-time Activities”为题，用英语写一篇短文介绍你及朋友们的课外活动开展情况。

Free-time Activities

Free-time activities are good for us teenagers.

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