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Poor Gavin became blind at the age of six after a car accident. He was in his dark world. An already terrible life now looked much more hopeless. His mother tried to ________ him, but nothing could help him at all.

Later. Gavin did nothing but lie in bed all day, being ________ all the time. His mother felt worried, so she told him to work hard and change his ________ on his own. She said, “Son, since you have been blind and nothing can change that, you have to ________ it. There are things you can’t do. But there are lots of things you can do. You have a creative mind. Find ________ you enjoy and keep on with it, no matter what.”

The future seemed too ________ for a blind child from the countryside. But as the young boy thought about his mother’s ________, he reminded himself of becoming a star years ago. So he practiced playing the piano and singing each day and refused to stop.

Then one of his classmates heard him practicing at school and ________ him, “You can neither play the piano nor sing well. You are ________ a loser.” “Nothing can stop my dreams,” said the determined boy. From then on, he decided to achieve his dream.

In his life, Gavin got countless prizes ________ his music, and his excellent musical style (风格) made a great difference on the later popular music.

If you’re indoor lowers, the following places may have more fun for you to visit.

Scotwood Manor

The rooms in Scotwood Manor are made as they were 100 years ago. The workers spend the day as people did then and are happy to explain what the life in the town was like. There are activities for children and shops with books, gifts and cards, as well as a good cafe and car park.

Woodlands Museum

Set in beautiful countryside, the Woodlands Museum is built like a village of 100 years ago. To learn more about it, visitors are encouraged to spend time doing practical things such as making pots and cooking. There is a playground with picnic area.

Charberth Museum

Charberth Museum is near the main bus station and has rich collections, 19th-century paintings and photos showing life in the town over the centuries. There is no cafe, but there is an activity room for young children with DVDs.

Westerleigh Museum

Westerleigh Museum is near the bus and train station. It includes exhibitions showing people’s life and the development of the town. In a special room, there are works by some famous artists. The museum has an excellent cafe house.

The arrival of ChatGPT will push educators to think more about teaching subjects that technology is not good at. The future is not about technology fighting against humans, it is about humans living together with technology. ChatGPT pushes us to think harder of what makes us human.

What is very clear is that the kinds of things that are easy to teach and test have also become easy for ChatGPT. The world no longer accepts you just for what you know. The world accepts you for what you can do with what you know, and ChatGPT pushes us to work harder on this. If students are only as smart as a smartphone, it means educators are not doing enough. People should develop human skills, such as imagination and creativity, that means we should imagine and create things.

The arrival of AI really pushes people to think hard about what education is and for what it serves. While Google or Baidu simply provides knowledge, ChatGPT goes a step further and analyzes (分析) a search before providing only an answer.

There’s a great risk if we just follow the answers from ChatGPT instead of questioning it and creating new knowledge (知识). ChatGPT is going to make learning much more interesting and powerful, but humans need to work very hard to win that race with technology.

A 30-year-old man from Chengdu has recently caught people’s eyes for his action of climbing China’s five great mountains in just five days over the May Day holiday. As this trip is challenging, it must be planned, he said that China’s traffic is really good, “With such good traffic, I can have such a trip.”

	Beipanjiang Bridge’s location is between Southwest China’s Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. Its height is 565m and is regarded as the world’s highest bridge. It was opened to traffic on Dec 29, 2016. Sometimes covered in clouds, the bridge offers beautiful views (风景) due to its height, the river below and deep mountains around. The length of it is 1341.4m.
	The Zhoushan Cross-sea Bridge opened to traffic on Dec 25th 2009. It begins at the Yadanshan highway, on country road 329. It connects (连接) with the Ningbo ring highway, and the Hangzhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge. The Zhoushan Cross-sea Bridge passes through 9 cuttings and crosses 4 islands. It is about 50 kilometers long.
	The Hotan-Ruoqiang railway in Northwest China’s Xinjiang is the world’s first railway that circles (环绕) a desert. The 825-kilometer line, connecting the city of Hotan with Ruoqiang, is on the southern side of the Taklimakan Desert. The workers met many difficulties building it. It was finished successfully on June 16, 2022.

There was no sky or earth at the beginning. There was a big black egg. Something grew _______ it. What was it? It grew for 18,000 years. It _______ and dreamed. Finally, it stopped dreaming and woke up. It was Pangu!

In the darkness, his eyes shone like the sun and the moon. He reached out his body but his head hit on the egg. Pangu was too big for the egg. He felt _______, so he reached out his hand and touched something. It was an axe (斧子)! Pangu hit the egg with his axe. He _______ the egg! He breathed _______ and pushed up. Above him it became light. He pushed higher and higher. It became the sky. Pangu pushed down. _______ him it was dark and heavy. He pushed lower and lower. It became the _______. He kept pushing for 18,000 years. The sky and the earth became thicker. The more Pangu grew, the farther apart he pushed the earth and the sky, _______ the sky grew very high and the earth grew very big. Finally, Pangu got tired. He died. Then his head and body became the Five _______. They are Mount Tai, Mount Heng in Hunan, Mount Hua, Mount Heng in Shanxi, and Mount Song. His eyes turned into the sun and the moon. His blood changed into water. It filled the river and sea. His hair turned into stars. He __________ became part of the nature.