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Derlin Newey, an 89-year-old pizza delivery driver was in disbelief when the Valdez Family visited him. The local TV station was there to 1 the moment. "I don't know what to say," said Newey as he 2 tears of joy. Newey delivers 3 for others, about 30 hours a week. He said he couldn't live merely on social security.

4  being a delivery driver, Newey is also a rising TikTok star thanks to some loyal 5  inspired by his kindness.

The Valdez Family always ask for him when 6 pizza and started recording his deliveries as TikTok videos on their channel@vendingheads. "It's unbelievable. Everybody 7 him," said Carlos Valdez. The Valdez Family claimed his signature phrase with each 8 was, "Hello, are you looking for some pizza?"

With more than 53,000 followers, they often got comments asking why Newey was delivering pizzas at his 9 . The Valdez Family decided to use their platform for some good. They asked their followers to make a 10 to help Newey, and they were quickly able to raise $12,000. They presented a signed check to him as a gift from his "TikTok Family."

Newey didn't even know what TikTok was, but was 11 for the unexpected blessing. The Valdez Family said that the 12 couldn't have gone any better. "We just need to treat people with 13 and respect the way he does. He 14 our heart," said Valdez.

And if the cash wasn't enough, the Valdez Family 15 the surprise with a T-shirt that read, "Hello, are you looking for some pizza?"

Becoming Refreshed without sleeping

Sometimes there is just not enough hours in the day to get everything done and get a good night's rest. Once in a while you can get away with a sleepless night and still feel reasonably good by adjusting your meals and activities.

 The last thing you want to do when you are tired is get warm and cozy, this will cause you to fall asleep. Keeping the air conditioner on will make you feel much more alert and refreshed.

Eat small amounts. Eating small amounts of healthy food will help refresh you. Fruit and nuts are a good choice because they are nutritious and will energize youTry to stick to low carbon meals to keep you going. Chewing gum after your snack or small meal will also help keep you awake.

Keep it bright. When it is dark your body thinks it is time to go to sleep. Turn on lots of lights, which will trick your body into waking up and feeling better.  You get double the benefits if it is daytime.

Take a break. Taking a little break will help you in the long run. Turn up some energizing music to get yourself positive. Relax and talk to a friend in person or on the phone for a few minutes.

A．Keep it cool

B．Calm down and sleep

C．Avoid big, heavy meals as they will make you tired

D．Going outside whether it is day or night for some fresh air

E．Missing sleep regularly can make you sick and should be avoided

F．When you are tired, you may just want to sit around and do nothing

G．Having a good time for a few minutes will refresh you quicker than anything else.

Johns Hopkins University researchers discovered precisely how spiders (蜘蛛) build webs in the dark. Their creation of a web-building playbook brings new understanding of how creatures with small brains are able to create elegant and complex structures. 

Web-building spiders, which build blindly using only the sense of touch, have attracted humans for centuries. "The first step to understanding that is to study the behaviors and skills involved," said Andrew Gordus, a Johns Hopkins behavioral biologist, "But until now it has never been done, mainly because of the challenge of detecting and recording the actions."

His team studied a spider native to the western United States. To observe the spiders during their nighttime web-building work, the lab designed a stage with infrared (红外线的) cameras and infrared lights. They monitored and recorded six spiders every night and tracked millions of individual leg actions. "Even if you video record it, that's a lot of legs to track,"said lead author Abel Corver. "It's just too much to go through every frame (帧) and mark the leg points by hand so we trained machine vision software to detect the actions of the spider, frame by frame, so that we could record everything the legs do to build an entire web."

They found that web-making behaviors are so similar across spiders that the researchers were able to predict the part of a web a spider was working on just from seeing the position of a leg. "Even if the final structure is a little different, the rules they use to build the web are the same," Gordus said, "which confirms the rules are in their brains."

Future work for the lab includes experiments with drugs to determine which circuits (回路) in the spider's brain are responsible for the various stages of web-building. Corver said, "This work could help us understand larger brain systems, including humans."

At the beginning of Grade Two, I joined the cross-country running team in our school.

When I came to the first practice, I was filled with optimism. But as the distance we ran in each practice gradually increased from three to four, to six miles, I realized with surprise that no matter how hard I tried, I wasn't able to run as fast as others. In fact, I was one of the slowest on the team.

What was the point of putting myself through so much pain? After the first few weeks, I wanted to quit.

Then we had our first cross-country meet.

When we started the race, I felt the great pressure of expectations sink onto my shoulders. And after a while I stopped running and struggled to walk up the hill. But then I heard my coaches shouting my name from the top of the hill. I felt confused and embarrassed; why were they cheering for me? I was running terribly! As I tried my best to finish the race, I realized that my coaches didn't care how fast I ran. Neither did my teammates. During the rest of the season, they were always on the sidelines of every race, cheering for me just as loudly as they'd cheered for the front runner.

From then on, I began to put my effort into supporting my teammates instead of focusing on my own performance. In that way, I celebrated my teammates' victories as if they were my own; I felt their pain and exhaustion as if they were my own.

Cross-country running made me realize I don't need to be the best to be successful in life. It taught me to value my relationships with people more than my relationship with my ego. It taught me to cheer for others even if I don't know their names.

A month ago, I received an admission letter from Berkeley University, America, which made my whole family excited. Very soon, it was time for my leaving. On an unforgettable morning, my sister came to see me off. We arrived at the airport just in time for my flight. "Well, here we are,"my sister said with a sigh. As I watched her unload my luggage, I could see the sadness in her eyes. We had both been fearing this moment for the past week. After one last hug and a final goodbye, I would be on my way to a new life abroad.

I didn't put my bag in the overhead locker;instead, I just placed it on my legs. The departure meant I could not see my dear sister for quite a long time. I was lost in thought, recalling the happy moments my sister and I had spent together. Growing up, my sister and I would do everything together. One sunny summer day I was playing outside when she came up to me and said, "Want to come to the attic(阁楼)?" We both knew that the answer to that question was always "Yes". We were frightened of the attic but also fascinated by its smells and sounds. Whenever one of us needed something, the other one would come along.

Before I knew it, the plane took off. But while it was going up, the plane shook heavily and the bag on my legs fell onto the floor. My aspirin, hairbrush and a book I planned to read were spread out on the floor. I was about to bend down to gather them up when I saw an unfamiliar little book in the middle of my belongings. It was not until I picked it up that I realized that it was a diary.

注意：续写词数应为150左右。

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Immediately I recognized my sister's handwriting.

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I returned home two years later.

注意：1.词数80左右；2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jack,

……

Yours,

Li Hua

Ann's neighbour Tracy found a lost dog walking around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on it. Ann said that she could 1 it only for the day.

Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers and put them in mailboxes. 2 , Ann bought some pet foods in the dollar store nearby, and 3 her two sons not to fall in love with it. At the time, Ann's son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was 4 from a heart operation, was 21 years old.

Four days later Ann was still 5 the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog 6 itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley 7 into the boys' room where Ann 8 that Jack was suffering a heart attack caused by the operation. Riley ran over to Jack, and as soon as Ann bent over to help him, the dog went 9 .

"If it hadn't come to get me, the 10 said Jack would have died, " Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to 11 it.

The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter 12 his dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started 13 and told him, "That dog 14 my friend's son."

Peter drove to Ann's house to pick up his dog and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, "Maybe Odie was supposed to 15 you: maybe you should keep it."

Color is fundamental in home design—something you'll always have in every room. A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms you'll love to live in. Do you want a room that's full of life? Professional? Or are you just looking for a place to relax after a long day?, color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feel.

Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point. , they can get a little complex. But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

. They're the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual interest to our rooms. Less tiring than painting your walls and less expensive than buying a colorful sofa, small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable.

Medium color choices are generally furniture pieces such as sofas, dinner tables or bookshelves.. They require a bigger commitment than smaller ones, and they have a more powerful effect on the feeling of a space.

The large color decisions in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors. Whether you're looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant..

A. While all of them are useful

B. Whatever you're looking for

C. If you're experimenting with a color

D. Small color choices are the ones we're most familiar with

E. It's not really a good idea to use too many small color pieces

F. So it pays to be sure, because you want to get it right the first time

G. Color choices in this range are a step up from the small ones in two major ways

Susan Brownell Anthony was a lady ahead of her time. She fought for women's rights long before it became a popular issue.

Susan was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. At that time, women had few rights. They could not own property. Money earned by a married woman belonged to her husband. Major decisions regarding children were made by the fathers. Women could not vote.

At the age of 15, Susan became a school teacher. She taught for 15 years. Then she began organizing women's groups to promote causes that were important to women. She helped gain better educational rights for women. She helped give married women possession of their earnings.

After the Civil War, Susan became very involved in the Woman's Suffrage Movement. After years of lecturing, writing, and appealing by Susan and other women, some parts of the United States changed their laws to give women the right to vote. The first state was Wyoming in 1869. And then other areas and states followed Wyoming's decision. It was not until 1920 that the US Constitution was changed to give all women voting rights.

Susan Brownell Anthony died in 1906 at the age of 86. She was elected to the American Hall of Fame in 1950. She was the first American woman to have a likeness (肖像) of her face on a coin. It was the 1979 Susan Brownell Anthony dollar.

There are many colors in nature. But do you think that a color has weight? I think you'll say "no". But I'm afraid you are wrong. If you don't believe it, you may do a small experiment.

First, put two objects with the same weight into two boxes. Then cover the boxes. Third, wrap one box with a red piece of paper, the other one with white piece of paper. OK. Now hold the boxes with your hand one by one. It is certain that you will think the red one is a little heavier.

Why do you think so? A scientist found that different colors have different weights in man's mind. That is to say, every color has its own weight in our mind.

The scientist told us that colors also have smell. Can you smell the color? Of course not. Then why did the scientist say so? That is because every color stands for kind of light with a certain wavelength（波长）. It reaches our brain through sense organs.

According to this discovery scientists say that people accept the colors they like, and refuse the colors they hate. So your body and mind will be healthy by using the colors you like. Or you'll be nervous or even get ill. For example, you like blue and hate red. If you stay in a room with red windows, wallpaper and furniture for two hours, you'll feel you have been there for four hours. But if the room is blue, you'll feel you have been there for only an hour. And if a person walks out of a blue room and into a red room, his temperature will rise. That means our body temperature will change with different colors.