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U1 Success for Spring BudsMy name is Feng Guixiang. I want to tell you about the China Children and Teenagers Fund(CCTF) and how it helped me. One of the CCTFs special activities is the Spring Bud Project. In 1989, 4.8 million in the country, aged from seven to fourteen, were unable to attend school. Eighty-three per cent of them were girls. Because of this, the CCTF launched the Spring Bub Project to help them. Since then, the project has helped millions of girls return to school. It has also built a lot of schools. The very first Spring Bud class was here in Guangxi in 1989. The Spring Bud Project paid for me to attend that class. It also rented a room close to the school for me. Before the project started, I stayed at home and helped my mother with the housework. Going to school changed my life. I learnt to read and write and do many other things. Now I work as a teacher at a Spring Bud school here in Guangxi. I wish to help other girls the way the Spring Bud Project helped me.U2 Eye contactEye contact means looking into another persons eyes. This is a very important of body language. It can be the key to communicate. Eye contact can show feelings such as friendliness, interest and understanding.In Western countries, using eye contact in conversations is very important. If you do not use eye contact, Westerners may think that you are not listening. And if you look away, they may also think that you are lying. However, in many Asian countries, looking down when talking with an older person, like a teacher or a parent, is polite. These differences can cause problems. For example, an Asian person might look down while listening to a Western speaker. The Western speaker might think this person is not interested in what he or she is saying. Not using eye contact can cause problems, but using too much is not polite either. In many countries, watching other people, especially strangers, for a long time is impolite. This may make them feel nervous.U3 shadow puppet playsEvery Saturday， Wang Weifang puts on a play with his friends in a small town near Xian. The audience can hear them, but they cannot see them. That is because they are putting on a shadow puppet play.Shadow puppets are made of hard leather.The leather is cut out in the shape of a person, an animal or an object.Each puppet is painted in bright colours and put on a stick.Some puppets have movable arms and legs.During a shadow puppet play, Wang stands behind a white screen with lights behind it. The audience sit in front of the screen. Wang and his friends hold the puppets very close to the screen so the audience can see the puppets shadows clearly. Then they move the puppets around and do the voices of the different characters.Shadow puppet plays are an ancient Chinese art.Now with TV and films, shadow puppet plays are not as popular as before.Wang and his friends often work very hard for little money, but they do not mind.They want to keep this traditional art form alive.U 4 Tom and JerryTom the cat and Jerry the mouse are two of the most popular cartoon characters in the world.In the short cartoons, Tom is always trying to catch Jerry, but he never has any success.Almost every cartoon ends with Tom in trouble and Jerry laughing at him.The stories are full of fun and have a long history.William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both worked for MGM in the late 1930s.Their boss told them to make funny cartoons.Together they thought of the idea of a cat and a mouse.They thought it would be funny if the mouse was clever and always got the cat into trouble.The first Tom and Jerry cartoon was shown in cinemas in 1940.It was a great success.Over the next 17 years, they made many Tom and Jerry cartoons. Most of them are around seven minutes long.In total, Hanna and Barbera made 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons.The cartoons were so good that they won a number of awards.The famous cat and mouse remain popular today, as the cartoons are still shown on television around the world.U5The storyHave you ever heard of the song “ the story of the red-crowned crane”?It is about a girl called Xu Xiujuan.Xiujuan was born in Zhalong, Heilongjiang Province in 1964.Her fathers job was to look after red-crowned cranes.Xiujuan started helping her father when she was young.She soon showed a great love for these white birds,She became good at raising them.When Xiujuan was 21, she got a job at a nature reserve in Jiangsu Province.She enjoyed taking care of the baby cranes.If a bird became sick, she took good care of it and stayed with it every day until it was strong enough to fly again.In September 1987, one of the birds went missing. The workeds in the nature reserbe looked everywhere, but no one could find it.Xiujuan was very worried.She looked for it day and night for two days.On the second night, while she was looking for the missing bird, she fell into a river and died.She was only 23.Later, a song was written in memory of Xiujuan.Though Xiujuan died young, people always remember her when they hear song or see a red-crowned crane.U6 A dogs storyMy name is Robbie.I was born on a farm with my brothers and sisters.One day, a man and two little boys came to the farm.“ Which dog do you want?” the man asked.“We want that one!” the boys said. They chose me!They drove me to my new home in the city.The boys promised they would look after me very carefully, and they did.They fed me, played with me and walked me every day. Then one day, they got a computer. After that, the boys played computer games all the time.They did not play with me or feed me any more.Eventually the boys father took me to a pet centre. He told the staff that his boys loved their computer more than me.The centre gave me lots of food and took good care of me.One day, a nice girl called Emma came to visit.“ Do you want to come home with me?” she asked.“Woof!” I said. She smiled and took me home.Emma feeds me and takes me for walks every day.I know I will live here happily for the rest of my life.Unit 7 UFOMany people say they have seen UFOs. Here is one famous story.It is called the Roswell Incident and it happened in the US in 1947.Person A (name not given): My wife and I were sitting outside because it was a warm night.Suddenly we saw something very bright flying through the sky.Person B (William Brazel, a farmer): I found some pieces of strange metal on my farm. I called the army.Major Marcel came and collected the pieces.He told me not to talk to anyone about this.Person C (Major Marcel): I went and collected the pieces.I gave them to an army expert.He said the pieces came from a weather balloon.However, since I have not seen this kind of metal before, I think this was a lie.Person D (name not given): My parents and I were in the countryside.Suddenly we saw a silver spaceship on the side of the hill.There were the bodies of three aliens lying on the grass.Then some soldiers came and told us to leave.So what is the truth?Perhaps some or all of the people lied.Perhaps a US rocket crashed and people thought it had come from space.Perhaps an alien spaceship really crashed in Roswell.U8 Problems in 2050Lily: I was staying at the Hotel Whale with my friends last week.After going shopping and having tea at the cafe, I went back to my room to rest.But when I opened the door, I saw that water was coming in through the window!I knew I should not just stand there, but I did not know what to doMike: At 11:30 a.m. the day before yesterday, I was having lunch in our Forever Green House while our fridge was ordering food.Suddenly a light went on and a lot of food started to arrive from the supermarket: meat, vegetables, fruit, milk, and so on.“Stop!” I shouted at the fridge, but the food continued to come inBenny: Dad was driving us to the airport in his CJ3, and suddenly the car stopped.The hydrogen in the car failed to mix with the oxygen, so the car did not work.“Oh, no!” said Mum.“Were going to miss our plane. What shall we do?”