When I was a senior high school student, I had to drop out of school to work in a factory. Because my family couldn't afford my tuition (学费). 

Later on, something changed my life. I still remember that it was a rainy day. I walked slowly in the street. Suddenly the rain stopped! I raised my head and found "the sky" was in fact a dark blue umbrella. Then I noticed a middleaged man with one leg on crutches (拐杖) standing behind me. He said to me, " Why not run without an umbrella？If you don't run, you will getdrenched. "

The man told me that he was a salesman (推销员). He once dreamed of being a policeman, but his dream ended in an accident. Though now his job was not fit for his legs, it was a wonderful start to him. He didn't lose heart and still "ran" on the road of life. I was encouraged by the man's words. I went to a big city and after two years' running, my family condition (条件) turned much better. Later I returned to school and succeeded in my entrance to university.

Life is like this. When you are in rainy days in your life, if you can't find a way to prevent you from being wet, you will be overwhelmed (被压倒). But if you decide to deal with it, you'll find that the rainy days last not so long as you imagine. 

A Chinese father's letter (信) to his son to "end their fatherson relationship" and become "brothers" becomes hot online.

In the letter, the father first told about the moments he and his son shared when his son was a child. "When you were a boy, you said I was your hero (英雄). Whenever I went to work, to parties, or to travel, you were always by my side. "

"I taught you how to play Chinese chess, card games and pingpong"

"As you grow older, we talk less and less，" the father said in the letter.

"You start ignoring (忽视) me. You stop me from your WeChat Moments. You hardly come back home and when you do, you always look at your mobile phone. There seems to be a cloud between us—the harder I try to get closer to you, the farther you will go. "

 He learned things the teenagers are interested in. He came to know the websites and video games they like and the popular stars they love. 

"In my eyes, our relationship should be like brothers, hand in hand and doing great things together. In the past 20 years, you were my son; in the next 60 years, you will be my brother！" the father also wrote.

Johnnie Martin was born in a worker's family. His parents lived a simple life, saving money for the day when they could send him to a good university. They had dreamed that their son could get a good1 and live a better life. However, to Johnnie, school lessons seemed like a wall that was impossible to go through. 

One day when he was in Grade 11, Johnnie went 2 the school psychologist's office (心理咨询室) to ask for help. 

"Johnnie, I've been studying your marks of all the tests at school. I've made a3 study (研究) of them，" said the psychologist.

"I've been trying hard. " Johnnie was about to4 .

The psychologist put his hand on the boy's shoulder, "People have different kinds of talents, Johnnie. Some painters are5 able to learn maths, and some engineers can't sing on key (调). Some day you will find6 you are good at, and when you do it, you will7 your parents and all of us very proud of you. "

Johnnie didn't go to university. He found a job working in the gardens around the town. Soon8 amazing (神奇的) happened. His customers began to notice that Johnnie had what they called "a green thumb". The plants he9 grew well, and the roses blossomed. People started to accept his10 of gardening, because he had an eye for colour and light.

One day while he was downtown, he happened to 11 an unused dirty land behind the city hall. He volunteered to make it into a garden. That very afternoon as soon as he got the permission (允许), he started the work,12 he couldn't afford all the tools or the plants that he 13 for it. People gave him young trees, rose bushes, benches and many other things. Before long, it had become a beautiful little 14 . 

Today Johnnie is the head of the business in gardening. Wherever he and his men go, they always 15 beauty before the eyes of people. 

Dear Eighth Graders，

These days you are taking a number of important tests. there is something more important that you need to know: These tests can't measure (衡量) all the things. Your results from these tests will not tell you everything. 

There  not any tests to measure how kind you are to your friends, or how much you love to draw. The results don't show how helpful you are to your mom and dad or how friendly you are when playing  others in the playground. They don't know how bravely you share your weekend stories with your friends or your performance in sports, music and art. Besides(除此之外), these tests will not measure how much you have improved on something,  how much you love a certain(某一) subject. There is no test for these things!

We hope you can know about these and try  best. Always remember that there is no test in the world that can measure all the wonderful things to make you, YOU!

From，

Sophia, James，Christine and Vivian

要点:
1. 李梅情绪低落的原因；
2. 你如何安慰她； 
3. 你的建议。

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1. 可适当进行发挥；
2. 文中不得出现所在学校的校名和师生姓名
3. 词数90左右。

Dear Li Mei，

……

Yours，

Tom

The coffee shop, HINICHIJOU, in Shanghai is famous these days, because it is quite different from other common shops. 

There're no doors, seats or tables in the shop but only a wall with a hole. People order their coffee online. Then someone in the shop serves them through the hole in the wall. The person wears a pair of "bear claws(熊爪)". After serving the coffee, he may give a flower to people outside or shake hands with them. No matter what kind of coffee people order, the price is 20yuan. It is really cheap in Shanghai.

  ▲   Yingying is one of them. Although she is deaf, she once won first prize in coffee making. Wang Haiqing, one of the owners of the shop, says the main reason to open HINICHIJOU is to provide more jobs for disabled people. With the wall in the shop, disabled people don't need to talk to people face­to­face. In this way, they can work more comfortably. 

HINICHIJOU is not the first shop in Shanghai to employ(雇佣)disabled people. The shop owners bring in the disabled workers and train them so that they could learn new skills and get work experience. 

 you practise English，you will speak it.

It's  just get good grades.We must have healthy bodies.

When to start  the weather conditions.