Hans Christian Andersen (安徒生) was born in a poor ^.He was very interested in arts he was a little boy. At the age of 14, he left his hometown and started a new life a singer, dancer, and actor in a big city. However, he wasn't successful at first and became very Later in his life, Andersen a lot of money from a rich person and he used it to go to university and entered the world of Andersen's first book of fairy tales (童话故事), which was published in 1835, sold very well, so he writing stories. In his whole life, he wrote many fairy tales he died in 1875.Andersen's fairy tales were not only for young children also for people of all ages. Because these stories are touching and easy to understand, they are very popular today.

    Have you heard of Zhou Yang? She is now well known 1 an excellent short track speed skater (短道速滑运动员).

    Zhou Yang is not an overnight 2. She was born in a poor family in Changchun on June 9th, 1991 and started 3at the age of 8.She fell in love with the 4at once when she put on her skates to train for the first time. Soon her talent (天赋) for short track speed skating was 5. Zhou Yang trained hard and made her way into the national team 6^.

    In the world championships (锦标赛) in 2008, Zhou Yang set a world record in the 1, 500m event. Zhou Yang 7herself again in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her performance gave China the 8gold medal in the women's 1, 500 meters in the Winter Olympics — China had never won the event before.

    "Winning the event is my dream, 9I still have one more dream, winning the relay (接力赛)," Zhou Yang said.

    Her "one more dream" 10when she and her teammates won the women's 3, 000m short track relay with a new world record. 

—Yes. We Chinese won't ________.

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    Everyone in this world has their own favorite game. I have my own, too. My favorite game is football. I often play football with my friends in the evening. I like this game ________it is exciting and challenging. Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a grass field with a goal at each end. The objective of the game is to score by kicking the ball into the opposing goal. The winner is the team which has scored more goals at the end of the match.

    Football _______ (play) at a professional level all over the world, and millions of people regularly go to football stadiums to follow their favorite team or watch the game on television. There are many international competitions of football. One of the major international competitions in football is the World Cup. My favourite star in football is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. I wish to become a professional football player. I learnt teambuilding, discipline as well as teamwork through playing football.

—Not yet. I need ________.

—Sure.________, you should listen to the teacher carefully in class.