I was on holiday in Spain with my sister. One day, we came to a village by a lake. There was a beautiful island(岛) in the lake, but we had to wait for the next boat! We were tired and hungry. At that time, a man with a sheep walked past. He looked at us and stopped. Then he sat down, milked the sheep and gave us two cups of milk.

Tom, the UK

I was on a snowboarding(滑雪板运动) holiday and it was great fun, but it was very cold. After I came down the mountain, I cried to my parents, "My hands are so cold that I can't feel them!" Then a young woman came to me. She gave me some hand warmers and said, "Hold these and think of the sun！"

Felipe, Australia

My friend and I were in Jordan on holiday. On our first day there, we wanted to take a bus to the town of Fuheis. There was an old woman next to us on the road. I asked, "Does the bus to Fuheis stop here?" "Yes, " she said and she waited with us for our bus. It started raining, and the woman's bus came and went, but she waited with us until our bus came. I didn't even know her name, but I was so happy that she helped us.

Alice, Canada

The year 2022 will be a big year for sports in China. That's because it will hold not only the 24th Winter Olympics in Beijing, but also the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.

On August 6th, 2018, the official emblem（会徽）for the Hangzhou Asian Games was released(发行). The city won the hosting rights for the 2022 Asian Games in 2015. It will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games after Beijing and Guangzhou in 1990 and 2010.

First held in 1951, the Asian Games is the largest multi-sport event in Asia. It also means a lot to China. The Beijing Asian Games was the first large international sports event to be hosted by China, China News Service reported.

To make the Games a great success, Chinese people worked hard to prepare. Beijing built a great number of roads and gyms, including the famous Beijing Olympic Sports Center and Asian Games Village. The Games helped the world see China and its achievements. Since then, China has improved its global image (国际形象), China Youth Daily reported.

For the 2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou has already started building 33 sports venues(场馆), according to China Youth Daily. The themes of the Hangzhou Asian Games are "green, smart, economical (节俭) and civilized (文明)". All the Games'buildings will be environmentally friendly.

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My mother is fifty-five years old. She retired(退休)just two months ago. After that, shewas bored and didn't know what to do every day She was kind to us before, butrecently she got angry easily. She often quarreled (争吵)withmy brother and me without any reason. Also, relations between my parents becamedifficult. My mother got into trouble and didn't know how to do with it.

My brother thought of a good idea tosolve the problem. He bought her a new smart phone and taught her how to useWechat. My mother's life changed a lot from then on. No matter where she wentand whatever she did, she always used it. She took photes with her new smartphone and always shared her photos in her friend circle to express how happyshe was. As a result she often did something by mistake. She often forgot toturn off the gas (天然气)and the food she wascooking usually got burnt. My father tried to stop her, but it didn't work.

This afternoon, my mother prepared tomake dumplings for dinner. She took a lot of pictures in order to post theminto her friend circle. After dinner, we took out our smart phones and waitedto see the photos she had taken. To our surprise, we didn't find any picturesof her dumplings. At tast, my father couldn't help asking her "Why don'tyou share your delicious dumplings in your friend circle today？"

My mother looked embarrassed and said. "Mysmart phone was boiled (被煮了)in thepot. "

I was once a very shy boy because I didn't like others to 1me. And if the teacher didn't tell me to have a seat, I always2to sit at the back of the classroom.

All this3after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher4me to join the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy idea because I didn't have a good5of balance (平衡). Moreover, I didn't have the ability to6the others in the team and they would laugh at me. But because the teacher kept saying "7 for it", I decided to give a try.

Getting up the courage (勇气)to try was only the half of it！When I first started 8the practice courses， I didn't even know the9of the game. Sometimes I'd get confused (迷惑的)and take shot at the10 direction, which made me feel really silly. 11I wasn't the only one "new" at the game, so I decided to learn the game, do my best at each practice course, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn't know.

I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the rules and the "moves". Being part of a team was not so12. Very soon the exciting part for me was WINNING，13I didn't have enough confidence (信心). With time, I learned how to play and made friends. I 14had so much fun before!

With more self-confidence (自信), I got more praise from teachers and classmates. I have gone from "15"in the back of the classroom to putting up my hand—even when sometimes wasn't and not 100 percent sure I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.