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Amy is 11 years old and lives in a city. She ________ much of her time at her grandmother’s home during the pandemic (疫情) . The house has a large yard that Amy explored when she wasn’t doing schoolwork online.

One day, she saw her first four-leaf clover (四叶草) in the yard. “I was just walking, and I was so ________ because I know that they are not very common,” she said, “some people say they bring good luck.”

Amy then researched what ________ clovers to grow that fourth leaf. It’s because of the plant’s genes (基因). The plant’s genes tell the plant to grow three leaves. ________ sometimes the genes tell the plant to grow four leaves. ________ , a 2017 study found that just one in 5,000 clovers has four leaves.

Amy has learned that four-leaf clovers grow in groups. “Then I wanted to find more of them,” she said. Amy began searching for more four-leaf clovers in the yard and it became her new hobby. By the summer of the next year, she had ________ more than 500 of them.

Her parents felt ________ that Amy found a way to lower stress that many children were experiencing during the pandemic. Her grandmother was also glad that Amy went outdoors and explored nature. “It’s a good thing that a city child was taking a (n) ________ in nature.”

For her part, Amy said she has a way of ________ the loneliness she felt during the pandemic. “It gave me something to do because I didn’t have the ________ of being sad,” she said. “I got peace,” she added, “and this was wonderful because they were right in my backyard.”

Beginning in the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivals in China. It fell on Sept 10 this year, is one of the most important traditional Chinese festivals. The day before, a cultural show “2022 Adventures on Mid-Autumn Festival” staged (上演) by Henan TV led viewers on a journey to the palace of the moon at 7:30 p.m.! Here are three fantastic programs in it.

	Missing You like Seeing You, a dance, was from the show. Performers brought the people a love story between a craftsman and a girl during the Mid-Autumn Festival, while showing the beauty of Jun ware (钧瓷) at the same time. Jun ware, from Yuzhou, Henan, became popular in the Song Dynasty.
	Fly up High with the Wind told the story of “Flight Pioneer” Wan Hoop a scholar (学者) of the Ming Dynasty. He was lost in the “dream of flight”. Space flight is a shared dream of all humans. Follow the performance Adventures of the Mid Autumn Festival 2022 to feel the excitement of this special festival.
	In this multilingual song Our Souls Together Heavenward Fly from the performance, children from different countries and ethnicities (种族) sang a song as one, expressed reunion and enjoyed the moon together.

What is your school life like? Can you keep a balance between your schoolwork and activities? If you have any problem, who do you want to talk with? Maybe you are not willing to share them with family members or close friends. Then a youth coach might be a good choice.

A youth coach helps you develop life skills while providing guidance for you. A youth coach can also help you learn how to manage stress.

Simon Waltz set up a youth coaching company five years ago. “I offer teenagers a place to talk. I help them find out problems, and then we work them out together,” said Waltz. John’s grades were once very terrible And he didn’t worry at all. Waltz helped him decide on his future plan. Now John is serious about his schoolwork, and he hopes to get into a top university and be a great doctor in the future.

Not only John but also other teenagers profited from youth coaching. Omella is among them. She said, “I thank my life coach Bella Miranda. Her advice is always helpful. I’m really happy to have her by my side at the difficult moments.” Omella was afraid of talking with people and she didn’t know how to get on well with her classmates. Bella Miranda talked with Omella about the things she really enjoyed. By joining the school violin club, Omella has made several new friends. By sharing interesting trips with her classmates, Omella has kept a good relationship with them.

It is not surprising that you get yourself into trouble. Sometimes it is hard for you to solve it. Maybe you can ask a youth coach for help. He or she can help you solve the problem and achieve success.

Are you feeling tired in class every day? Are you feeling that you lose attention in class? Are you feeling “brain-dead” sometimes?

Well, if you answer “yes” to these questions, you are not sleeping enough. But you are not alone. 1． Getting enough sleep is good for your health, so try the following ways.

Use your time wisely

2． Never wait till the last moment to study for an exam or finish a task because you are only hurting your body in the long run.

Sleep like a baby

Do you remember when you were a child and your parents asked you to take naps (小睡)? 3．               

Sleep more, suffer less

4． So tonight, clear your mind and try to get a few more hours of sleep than you did the nights before!

So how much sleep do you need? Researchers have done an experiment. They put people in an environment without clocks or windows and ask them to sleep any time they like. 5．

Dreams are like stars. You may never catch them, but if you follow them, they 1． (lead) you to success. Yan Ning is such a dream follower.

Yan is a rising star in the science world. When Yan Ning was only a little girl, she dreamed of being a scientist. After years of hard work, in 1996, she went to Tsinghua University to study biology (生物). After 2． (graduate) from Tsinghua in 2000, she went to Princeton University and finished her study there in 2007. Then she returned to Tsinghua and set up her own laboratory 3． (success). At the age of 30, she became the 4． (young) professor at Tsinghua.

Nowadays Yan 5． (become) a leading researcher at Princeton. She is one of the 100 new members in the US National Academy of Science (美国国家科学院). However, it was a long and difficult road for her to make such 6． (achieve). She said that in order to make her dream 7． (come) true, she experienced a lot of difficulties. But she never gave up her dream. Instead, she followed her dream and 8． (fight) for it. She usually works for at least 14 hours a day. Sometimes she even forgets 9． (eat) and rest, and she always works until late night. She never gets tired because she thinks doing research is the most “comfortable” job for her.

When Yan 10． (interview) by a TV reporter, she asked young people to work hard for their dreams. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to follow them.”

As a traditional and meaningful board game, Weiqi was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and it is still played until today.

The playing pieces are called stones. One player uses the white stones and the other, black. The players take turns to play the stones on the game board. As we know, the board surface has 361 cross points.The stones are placed on them.

Weiqi is also called Go in the world. Learning it can not only improve people’s logical thinking ability, but it can also develop their calm character. That’s why it is more and more popular with modern people.

In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Weiqi traveled to Japan, and then to Europe in the 19th century. Now it has grown into an international competition event. So far, people from over 40 countries have played it. Among them, players from China, Japan and South Korea have the highest level of Weiqi.

On February 19, Chinese-English Dictionary of Weiqi Term (术语) came out in Beijing. It’s the first professional dictionary about Weiqi in China. As a symbol of Chinese culture, Weiqi has its special language. It also has its own way of thinking and the method of communicating. The dictionary will serve as a necessary tool and bridge for spreading Weiqi culture.

近来，受新冠疫情影响，学生们都在家上网课。假如你是李华，你发现很多同学不专心致志上网课，而是浪费时间做一些无意义的事情，比如：微信(WeChat)或QQ聊天调侃、浏览网页、沉溺游戏等。

请你根据所给提示，结合自身体会，以“We should stop wasting time.”为题写一篇英语短文呼吁大家珍惜时间，认真学习，努力实现自己的梦想。

We should stop wasting time.

Recently, students are having online classes because of COVID-19. But some students waste their time doing meaningless things instead of study.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________