The First Lesson is a public welfare(公益的) program for primary and middle school students across the country. It’s ________ on CCTV at 8 p.m. on September 1st every year.

This year’s First Lesson takes “struggling(奋斗) to ________ dreams” as the theme. Some special guests were invited to the ________. Winners of “the August 1st Medal”, Role Model of the Times, scientific and technological workers, Olympic athletes and volunteers shared a ________ and interesting “first lesson” with students in China.

This year’s program moved the ________ to the Wentian space lab. The astronauts of the Shenzhou 12 took part in the program through the connection. They ________ the students to “cloud” to visit the Wentian space lab. Wang Yaping also ________ the program to share her experience of returning to the earth from space. ______, the classroom was also moved into Saihanba and Xishuangbanna. Students felt the beautiful and amazing land of China. All of them developed their ________ of national pride after having this class.

Only if the young are strong, our country can be ________ enough. The First Lesson of 2022 encourages teenagers to struggle in the new age with lively and exciting stories. May the students bravely take the burden(负担) of the times and create a wonderful future for our motherland!

The Turn off (关掉) TV Week starts today. People who organize (组织) it say that TV is a bad thing. I’m not sure if they’re ________.

First of all, the organizers say that children today are in bad physical condition (身体状况) because they ________ almost all their free time in front of the TV. But a ________ of 10,000 American children aged 10 to 15 found no connection (联系) between TV and physical health. Children who don’t watch TV don’t always do more ________.

Of course, there are some terrible programs on TV. ________ I don’t think we should say no to TV. We ________ need to choose programs good for us ourselves. Another ________ that the organizers agree on is that TV stops us from talking with others. An American study found that parents in homes with no TV had an hour of talk with ________ children every day. In other homes, there was only 38 minutes of talk…a week! That’s bad. But TV can also bring people together and ________ to start a talk. Is there a better way to start a talk than by talking about the latest popular programs?