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He when he failed the math exam for the third time.

Those soldiers of courage during the battle, inspiring their teammates to fight on.

her shy brother, Lucy is more lively and active.

Typhoon Bebinca, the 13th typhoon of the year 2024, made landfall in Shanghai on September 16, 2024. It quickly became the (powerful) typhoon to hit Shanghai since 1949. The typhoon was so strong that it brought about significant damage and disruption.

As Bebinca passed through Kunshan in Jiangsu Province, accident happened. Strong winds brought down a 10-kilovolt power line on Monday afternoon.(unlucky), two people lost their (life) after being electrocuted while passing through the area. Their deaths served a warning of the dangers in such powerful storms.

After Typhoon Bebinca swept through, Shanghai and its surrounding areas immediately began comprehensive rescue and recovery work. Many professional rescue workers rushed to the hardest-hit zones searched through every (damage) building, using thermal imaging tools and sniffer dogs to find people in ruins. Their tireless efforts (focus) on saving people, with some rescuers digging through ruins and(provide) first aid on the spot.

According to the weather report, the storm was expected to move northwest and to become weaker on Tuesday night., even in its weakened state, it was still likely to bring some rainfall and affect the weather conditions in the region.

"I wanted to5his dreams," Jeff said. "I started doing things I never would have dreamt possible." Finishing the Ironman competition would be another dream come true.

The race began with a 2.4-mile swim in the Choptank River. The6completed the swim in 90 minutes, and completed the difficult bike part in eight hours, then set their sights on the7leg of the race—a 26.2-mile marathon with Jeff8Johnny in the racing chair. They'd been racing for 5 hours, leaving another 3 hours to make their time. But at mile 19, Jeff began to worry, convinced they were going too slow. Somehow he9 the energy to pick up the pace.

With 15 minutes left and 200 feet to the finish line, Jeff stopped to help Johnny out of his racing chair. In the first decade of his life, Johnny could only walk 23 steps.10, after years of painstaking work, he11his step number and was determined to finish his races on his own. Johnny saw the clock ticking down and12they wouldn't complete it. "Not because I wouldn't get my moment," he says, "but because Dad had worked so hard."

After 16 hours, 55 minutes and 35 seconds—with just four minutes and 25 seconds to13— father and son crossed the finish line together.

As the crowd cheered on an excited Johnny, a(n)14Jeff kept a low profile (保持低调).

"He didn't want his finish line moment," says Johnny. "He wanted it to be15."

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program.

In this way, they help to improve their patients' condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

A. Laughter can prolong one's life.

B. Laughter is the best medicine.

C. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

D. They've found that laughter really improves people's health.

E. Despite the benefits, doctors still cannot put this theory into practice.

F. That's because laughter produces chemicals which reduce stress and pain.

G. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the US now hold laughter clinics.