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I have found that spreading kindness is not always about 1. you do for someone, but it can also be what you say．One day I was standing in line at the gas station．Ahead of me were 2.other people．3. of them had a smile on their face and they all seemed to be in a hurry ．After the cold ,snowy winter, we were having a warm, sunny day．I wanted to cheer them up, so I spoke up and said, “I don’ t know 4. one of you ordered this fantastic day for us, but l want to say I really appreciate5. and thank you ．”After that, the five of us smiled 6. we started talking to each other．What I had said made 7. big difference to everyone’s day．You can see that it is much easier to spread kindness8. words．
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Chinese parents are very generous when it comes to educating their children．Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the US or Australia．They also want their children to take extra course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a head start in life．The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is．So parents will spend unreasonable amount of money on education．Even poor couples will buy computers for their sons or daughters．
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give to their children is usually very cheap．
Parents can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others．What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack self respect and self confidence．
The reasons are that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills: they need to be confident, happy and clever．
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework．
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life．Cooking demands patience and time．It is an enjoyable but difficult experience．A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully．His result, a well cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of confidence．These activities are not only teaching a child to work, but rather to think, and to use his mind．And that is more important．
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At least 36 people have been killed and another 42 people have been injured in a stampede that broke out during a New Year Eve celebration in downtown Shanghai, which may have been caused by the crowd rushing to grab fake money thrown from the balcony of a building．
Survivors described the stampede as "horrible and hellish．"
A woman said she covered two kids in front of her with her arms in the chaos．Her son followed her．Dirty shoe prints covered her son's clothes when the 12 year old boy came to safety．
"The crowd was in a panic．We stood in the crowd, feeling squeezed and almost out of breath," a boy said．"Some yelled for help, but the noise was too loud．"
Other survivors said police rushed to the scene and tried to pull out people who were stuck, but without much success．
The local authorities said that one of the victims was a female student from the Shanghai based Fudan University．The student, surnamed Du from Yunnan Province, was fatally injured during the incident and died later in the hospital．
"The chaos lasted several minutes, and then some of the injured were seen being carried out of the crowd," Yu said．
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday demanded an immediate investigation into the cause of the stampede and urged prevention of such incidents in the future．
The city has set up a working team for rescue operations to deal with the aftermath．
Fatal incidents like this one were not rare in China, the world's most populous country．Stampedes in the past were mainly due to safety measures．
In September 2014, six students were killed in a stampede at a primary school in Yunnan Province after a stairway was blocked．In January 2014, a mosque(清真寺) stampede killed 14 people and injured another 10 in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region．In 2004, a stampede on a bridge in suburban Beijing killed 37 during a local lantern festival．
1.How did the boy feel in the crowd? (No more than 12 words) (3 marks)
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2.What happened to the college student in the passage?(No more than 11 words) (2 marks)
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3.How many people were killed altogether in the stampedes mentioned in the passage?(No more than 2 words) (2 marks)
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4.What’s the news mainly about? (No more than 14 words) (3marks)
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