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A young lady was driving a family car home with her father when they were caught in a heavy storm.
The young lady was a little 1 and asked her father, "What should I do, stop or 2 driving?" Her father said, "Keep driving. "
After 3 a few kilometers, the storm was becoming heavier 4 heavier. The young lady noticed that some cars and big transport trucks 5 pulling over (靠边停) to the side of the road.
The young lady asked her father again 6 they should stop. But her father said 7. So, she had to keep on driving.
Ten minutes 8, the storm started to become 9 and she could see a little more clearly. After a few of kilometers, she drove out of the storm. What's more, the sun 10 and the road ahead was dry.
Her father told her to 11 and get out of the car.
"But why 12, Father?" she asked in surprise.
Her father said, "When you get out, you can look back 13 all the people in cars and big trucks that gave up and they are still in the storm. Now, your storm is over 14 you didn't give up. "
Don't give up, even if the stronger do. If you keep going, soon your "personal 15" will be over. The sun will shine on you again and the road ahead will be dry and clear.
The classics are really great. Some of them can even change our life. I have a cousin who is eight years older than me. He is very good at writing now，because he has read many classics before. Those novels(小说)help him do well in writing. He thinks the classics are part of his life. He can't live without them. He has read 26 classics. As for me，I have read Little Women ， Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island.
—Mike，14 years old
Reading the classics is good for us. Some classics such as Oliver Twist ， Treasure Island ， Tom Sawyer and Little Women are good books. I have read all of them. But if students spend too much time reading the classics，they won't get good grades，either.
—Susan，16 years old
Are you tired after studying hard？American country music will take you away for a while. The guitars and songs will take you to mountains and fields there.
Country is simple music. It talks of everyday life and feelings. It's the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and basic.
Country is a traditional kind of music from the southern states of America. It was the folk music of the American countryside. Many of the songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about love, crops or death.
Rural life can be hard, so the words are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.
When people moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America's most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song Take Me Home, Country Roads is wellknown and people still play it today.
A high school student Juliette Turner has been famous as a teen author since her three books came out.
Turner finished Fourth Grade in New York City, but then she and her mom moved to a large farm in Texas and started working with horses and cattle. "My mother and I were the only workers there," Turner said.
Life on the farm provided Turner with rich experience. By Sixth Grade, she began writing about her own stories.
Turner loved learning about the US Constitution (宪法), and she wrote 90 stories about it. The stories became Turner's first book, Our Constitution Rocks, when she started Ninth Grade. Her second book, Our Presidents Rock! came out the summer after her second high school year. Finally, she went to work on That's Not Hay in My Hair.
This story was different from the first two books and had a personal element (元素). "Everything that happened in the book actually happened in my life," said Turner. In the book, Juliette Turner became Jules O'Connor.
Was Turner afraid to be hurt by snakes, just like O'Connor? Students in the book played trick on O'Connor when they found hay in her hair. At school, did Turner get laughed at like O'Connor? "I'll leave that as an open question," she said.
