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Lao She was "People's Artist".

He was too tired .

He is to go to school.

    Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many people in the 19th century. She was named after the city of Florence in Italy.

    Florence was an (usual) young woman for her time, because she didn't want to go to parties or get married. She wanted to be a nurse and help people. Her family (not) want her to become a nurse because hospitals back then were dirty, horrible places.

    the age of thirty-one, Florence went to Germany and learned all about nursing. It was hard work, she loved it.

    In 1854, lots of British soldiers went to fight in the Crimean War. Army hospitals were filled with injured people, but there (be) no nurses and many soldiers died. Florence and a team of nurses went to help.

    Florence worked 20 hours a day to make the hospital a (clean) and safer place. She brought fresh food, she cleaned the beds and she used clean bandages on the wounded soldiers. Soon, fewer (man) were dying.

    At night, Florence talked to the injured soldiers and helped them (write) letters to their families. They called her "the lady with the lamp", she always carried a lamp.

    When Florence returned to England, people called her a hero. Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to say thanks. She (give) the honour (荣誉)—Order of Merit, becoming the first woman to receive it.

    Sophie Chen is a 14-year-old girl from Taiwan. When she was 6 years old, she did something amazing.

    She finished a 2,100-kilometre bike journey from Xi'an, the capital city of Shaanxi, to Turpan, a city in Xinjiang, with her parents. It took them two and a half months. Sophie became the youngest child in the world to have biked along the Silk Road. Chinese novel Journey to the West inspired her to do so.

    That is not all. Sophie wrote a book about the long journey with her father Jack Chen, a professional outdoor explorer. On April 26, 2017, the book's English version (版本) Biking the Silk Road: 6-year-old Sophie's Fantasy Tour came out in Beijing.

    Now Sophie studies at Ta Hwa High School. She sees the journey as a special experience in her life. She became more hard—working and learned history and geography better because of it.

    On the way, she met many friendly local people and saw amazing things. She even picked grapes! "The grapes in Xinjiang were so big and sweet. I have never seen grapes like them in Taiwan," she said.

    Still, it was not easy. "The biggest challenge was the bad weather and road conditions," she said. She wrote in the book, "It was terribly hot in the Gobi Desert. I almost got sunstroke and could never have enough to drink."

    Sophie has biked in other countries, such as the United States and Turkey. This summer holiday, she plans to ride a bike from Greece to Portugal in Europe.

    Today is December 15, 2030. Influenced by the launch of the first manned mission to Mars next month, you will most likely get a gift card for a space trip.

    The interest in trips, 100km above the surface of the Earth, has grown steadily since such a trip began. However, the market has grown much larger this year since the official announcement of the Mars mission. More low-cost spacelines have entered the market and you can now find the price for such a trip is as low as $3,495. It's very reasonable.

    Space tourism (旅游业;观光业) is one of the markets that have developed fast during the last decade, with the opening of the Starbright Hotel on the moon as well as the low orbital (轨道的) hotels that started accepting guests. However, accommodation (住宿) in space is still expensive for the average household, so the suborbital (亚轨道的) flights with thirty-minute weightlessness during the three-hour flight will for some time be the most popular trip.

    However, the spacelines might face fierce (激烈的) competition for space elevators (太空升降舱) in the future, like the one that is projected to start construction (建造) within two years. Once it is fully functional (工作的), it will

start to ship cargo (货物) to space. But it will accept passengers as soon as possible to get back the large investment. Even if the elevator (电梯) becomes successful, it will take several years before there are more elevators in the world to get in the competition for space traffic with the spacelines.

    Those who are looking for a little bit of adventure and have extra money to spend may want to consider a suborbital flight in space. While a suborbital flight may not be the space mission that you have always dreamed of, it will give you the rare opportunity to see what our planet looks like in a high-altitude (高度) flight outside our atmosphere. So before you enjoy a trip by elevator to space, enjoy a suborbital flight first.