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“You must be Alex.” said a girl, offering her hand.

Surprised, Alex quickly put the folded paper behind his back.

The girl continued, “I’m Sophia. I （1） in Smart Start Group for a year. You’re welcome.”

“Glad to meet you.” Alex tried to put himself at ease.

“Could you tell me a little （2） about yourself? What do you like to do? What would you love to do here?”

“I want （3） anything but math!” Alex replied.

“Well, I guess that’s why you’re here,” Sophia said with a laugh. “I used to hate math, too.”

Alex realized that Sophia was trying to make him feel （4） “What made you start to like it?” he asked politely.

“Things in our life are all about math. Hey, may I have a look at what you （5） ? What is it?” she joked.

“It’s nothing yet, but soon it will be,” Alex explained. Then, he folded and creased（压褶）. “A crane!” he said, showing his work （6） .

“That’s cool!” Sophia said, giving attention to the folds. “Do you mind if I take it apart?”

Alex showed that he didn’t care. Sophia unfolded each step of the paper crane.

“Don’t you see? What you have here is math, right in front of （7） !” Sophia spread the paper with her hands.

“Do your first fold，” she ordered, and Alex did what he （8） to do. “You began with a square, and created two rectangles. And you have a fraction（分数）, too: one half! Fold it again... and now you have four （9） ” Sophia pointed to the top fold. “What fraction does this piece stand for?”

“One quarter?”

“Right! Get out some more paper, and let’s do some geometry（几何）.”

It would be a thing （10） was expected to happen if math study was going to be paper-folding, Alex thought. He hoped it could be a Smart Start.