Let me tell you about the best day of my life! I got up early and ran to the kitchen in my pajamas(睡衣). It was my thirteenth birthday and I was really 1. In fact, I wasn't sleeping all night because I kept 2 all the presents I would get.
I walked into the kitchen with a big smile on my face, 3 nobody looked up. Mum and Dad were reading their newspapers while my two older brothers were eating breakfast. 4 said a word! "They have forgotten about my birthday!" I said to myself. I turned around and walked out of the 5. Suddenly, I heard a noise, so I went back to 6 what it was. I couldn't believe my eyes! There were lots of 7 on the kitchen table. "Surprise!" I heard 8 me. When I turned around, I saw Mum, Dad and my brothers! Mum was holding a huge 9 with candles and they were singing "Happy Birthday" to me. We shared the cake and opened all the presents. They didn't 10 my birthday after all. It really was the best day of my life!
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Once upon a time, there was a lazy, 1 man living in a small house with spider webs (蜘蛛网) on the walls and mice running around. People 2 coming into such a dirty place and the man was lonely and sad every day. He thought it was poorness that 3his unhappy life.
One day, the poor man dropped in on a wise old man and asked him for 4 about changing his life. The old man gave him a beautiful vase (花瓶) and said: "This is a magic vase that will bring you 5."
The man looked at the vase with 6 . Why would he need 7 in his poor house? However, he didn't want to 8 such a beautiful vase, so he brought it home and put it on the table.
"It's not right for something so beautiful to be 9 ." The poor man looked at the vase and thought. Then he 10 some wild flowers and put them into it, making it even more beautiful. 11 he was still not satisfied. "It is not good for such a beautiful thing 12 next to a spider web." Then he started to do some cleaning in the house and painted the walls. His house quickly turned into a 13 place. The poor man 14.
He suddenly realized that in the past it was his laziness that made him poor and unhappy. 15, he worked hard and his life got better and better.

I have a good friend. 1 name is Peter. We study in Beijing Sunshine Secondary School. We are in the same class. He sits in front of 2. He likes Music lesson best. He 3 many CDs. He likes 4 music very much. He likes playing football, too. After school we often play football in the 5. He is very helpful. We often help each 6.
Peter is not a Chinese. He is from 7. He comes to Beijing 8 his family. His father is a doctor and his mother is a nurse. They work from Monday 9 Friday. At weekends, his mother likes shopping and his father likes fishing. Sometimes they go to the park. They all like Chinese food. They 10 very happy.
It was a Friday evening. I was waiting at the bus stop after school when a car stopped and the driver opened the door. It was my 1. “Quick, get in!” he told me. I was very 2, but I did as he said.
At first, I was worried that something 3 happened. Then, I noticed my mother. She was also 4 the car and on the back seat. There were some bags of clothes and 5 food. My father was driving the car, but he was not driving 6. He was driving out of the town. “Where are we going?” I asked.
It was a warm evening and lots of people were walking along the road. It was the 7 day of term. Did my parents have a big surprise for me? We were going somewhere special — 8 where? The next thing I can remember is falling 9. When I woke up, I saw the sea. We were at the beach. My father was smiling. “Here we are,” he said, “the summer holiday 10 now!”
Mary is an English1.She is six years old.2mother takes her to school in the3and brings her home in the afternoon. She likes her4school a lot. She likes her teachers, 5.
One day, she says to her6, "Mom, we have a new girl in our class today. Her name is Kim. She's7years old, too. She's very nice, but she 8English. She is Australian".
"Does she talk 9English?"
"No,10she laughs in English." Mary says happily.
Yesterday was Father's Day. Many things happening between my father and me crowded my mind. But one thing made a deep impression on me.
It was a Sunday morning, and I was in a 1 mood (情绪). Two of my friends had gone to the movies the night before and hadn't invited me.I was in my room2ways to make them sorry when my father came in. “ Want to go for a ride today,Berk? It's a beautiful day.”
“No! Leave me alone!”Those were the 3words I said to him that morning.
My friends called and 4 me to go to the mall with them a few hours later. I forgot to be5with them and then went with them.When I came home,I found a6 on the table.My mother put it where I would be sure to see it. “ Dad has had an 7 Please meet us at Highland Park Hospital.”
When I reached the hospital ,my mother came out and told me a car hit my father and his injuries were extensive(大曲积的). “Your father told the driver to leave8 alone and just call 911, thank God! If he had moved Daddy, ….”
My mother may have said more,but I didn't hear. I didn't hear anything 9 those terrible words: Leave me alone. My dad said them in order to10 himself. He didn't want to be hurt more. How much had I hurt him 11 I shouted out those words at him earlier in the day?
It was several days later that he was12 able to have a talk.I held his hand gently, afraid of hurting him.
“ Daddy... I am so sorry...''
“It's okay, sweetheart. I'll be okay.”
“No,” I said, “I mean about13 I said to you that day.You know, that morning?"
He looked at me and said, “Sweetheart, I remember14 about that day, not before, during or after the accident. I remember telling you goodnight the night before,though." He managed a weak smile.
My English teacher once told me that words have great power. They can hurt or they can heal(治愈).And we all have the power to 15 our words.I am going to do that very carefully from now on.
One day, a poor young man went to Paris to visit one of his father's friends and 1 that his father's friend could help him find a simple job for living.
"Are you good at math," his father's friend asked him.
The young man shook his head.
"How are your history and geography?"
The young man shook his head again.
"How about your law?"
The young man 2 his head embarrassedly.
His father's friend asked again and again,3 the young man could only shake his head and told him he himself couldn't find out any4.
"Then write down your address first."
The young man wrote down his address and turned to leave, but he was stopped by his father's friend. "Your name is written very 5 which is your advantage. You shouldn't satisfy yourself with finding a job only for 6"
Years later, the young man wrote the classical works that won the world fame. He was Alexandre Dumas, a famous French writer of 18th century. One of his greatest works 7 The Three Musketeers was popular 8 a great number of readers.
There are many ordinary persons in the world who all have many 9advantages, but they are neglected (忽视) because of their self-abasement (自卑). In fact, there is a gold mine (矿) in every ordinary life. If you're willing to dig, you will dig out treasures to 10 yourself.
Body language, which is known as the "silent language" of every culture, can be the key 1 successful communication. We point fingers or move another part of the body to show 2we want to say. 3 is important to know the body language of every country or we may be misunderstood. In the United States, people greet each other4a handshake in a formal(正式) introduction. The handshake must be firm. If the handshake is weak, it is considered(认为) impolite or5. Space is important to Americans. People in America usually stand two and a half feet away when 6to each other, so they do not face each other directly. Americans get uncomfortable when a person stands too 7. They will move back to have their space. If an American touches another person by accident, he says "Pardon me" or "Excuse me". Americans like to look at the other person in the eyes when they are talking. If you don't do so, it means you are bored, hiding something, or are not interested. But when you stare at someone for a long time, it is considered rude and 8, 9 a culture's body language is sometimes very difficult. 10 you don't know what to do, the safest thing to do is smile.
I was living in a house with a long history in Halifax, Nova Scotia five years ago. One day one of my friends from the West Coast came out to visit me. He was1for 3 weeks so he brought a lot of bags and suitcases, and other things like a2. I told him he could sleep on the bed in the front living room.
One morning after a late night of drinking, my friend ran into my room shouting" Fire, Fire". Without3, I jumped out of bed. The floor was4against my feet as I ran into the hallway, right behind my friend. I couldn't see the fire anywhere, 5as we ran towards the front door, I could hear the6making a loud noise all around me. It was inside the7. We ran out into the front yard and looked8at the house, seeing black smoke coming out of the9house.
We were standing there watching the house when I looked down and10all of my friend's bags and suitcases11lined up on the front grassland, including his basketball. 12he noticed the house was on fire, he took all of them out to the grassland before coming back to13me about it. That fire had started in the basement(地下室), and it spread up into the walls and was burning the14we were standing on. The floor and much of the house fell down not long after we came out. The firemen said we were very15.
Of course,we are not friends anymore.
Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a pianist's concert on a summer holiday evening. After they found their 1, the mother saw two friends in the hall and walked to 2 them.
It was the boy's first time to come to the hall. He thought it was a good 3 for him to explore the wonders of the concert hall. He 4 and walked around. He walked 5 a door marked "NO ADMITTANCE"(禁止入内). When the hall lights dimmed (变暗) , the 6 would begin. The mother returned to her seat and discovered that her son was 7. The mother was 8 worried at that at the moment that tears (眼泪) were in her eyes.
The concert began, and the lights focused on (聚焦于) the wonderful piano on stage. The mother was 9 to see her little boy sitting at the keyboard, playing the song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star 10 he did at home.
At that moment, the great pianist came, quickly moved to the piano and 11 in the boy's ear, "Don't stop. Keep playing. " He leaned over (俯身) and began filling in a bass part (低音) with his left 12, then added a running obbligato (伴奏) with his right hand. They played the piano together 13.The old pianist and the young novice (初学者) changed a frightening situation into a wonderful creative experience. The audience (观众) stood up and 14 them.
An artist's achievements and charm depend on not only his perfect skills 15 his good qualities.
A 14-year old boy from the US was described as a hero after he saved the life of a girl in another country.
Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who has much1in computer. One day, he2an email to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying" Help! Pain! Help!". The message was from Finland,3kilometres away from America.
"I didn't know4I should do," Dean said to a reporter afterwards. "It was really difficult to tell if the message was real. "So Dean did nothing at first.5the messages kept coming.
"By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble," Dean explained. He6and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was7 , there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email. Dean got in touch8the police immediately. And they realised that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library.9, she was still alive and was sent to hospital quickly.
"I'm glad she's OK," Dean said. "It's hard to believe, but10saved her life.
Do you often watch TV? Maybe your1is "Yes". Most children like watching TV2it's interesting and relaxing. They can also learn a lot and know 3 things about their country and the world. TV helps to open children's eyes. TV can open4minds (头脑). They can learn some better ways of5 things. Many children are always6with their studies, so they watch TV only on weekends.7 some children watch TV every night. They go to8 very late. It takes them lots of time9TV. I don't think it's good to do so. Do you10?
On March 14th 2018, one of science's 1 stars went dark. Stephen Hawking, the world-famous British scientist, died at 76 in Cambridge, UK.
Hawking 2 by many people to be the greatest scientist in history since Albert Einstein. He came up with the theory that the universe began with the Big Bang(爆炸) and 3 in black holes. His theories became the base for a lot of later research. Common people are also curious about the space. So he wrote books to help 4understand the universe. His most famous book is Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 10 million copies around the world, according CNN.
5 his scientific achievements, Hawking was also someone6 had strong will and optimistic attitude. When Hawking was 21, he was diagnosed (诊断) with7 serious illness that stopped him from walking and talking. Later in life, he had to sit in a wheelchair and "speak" using a computerized voice.8 this didn’t stop him from living a meaning and colourful life. "If one is physically disabled, one 9 afford to be psychologically (心理上) disabled as well," he once said.
Hawking traveled the globe10science conferences, visiting every continent, including Antarctica. He was also a fan of pop culture and appeared on TV shows such as Star Trek and The Big Bang Theory. Hawking has 11 fans in China. His first message of Sina Weibo was a greeting 12 his "friends in China" posted in both English and Chinese.
He celebrated his13 birthday by going up in a hot-air balloon; when he was 65, he took part in a zero-gravity flight to experience14. He hoped to travel into space one day.
In 2013, Hawking spoke about how he felt life was unfair when he was first diagnosed with his illness. "But now, 50 years later, I can be 15 satisfied with my life." he said.
I did very1 at school. My headmaster thought I was simple and when I was 14, he said, "You are never going to be 2 but a failure."
3 five years of low jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middleclass girl. It was the best 4 that could have happened to me. I decided I wanted 5 something positive with my life because I wanted to prove to 6 that what people said about me was 7, especially her mother, who had said to me, "You have 8 in everything you have ever done." So I 9 hard with my writing and went to college. My first novel came out while I was at college.
After college I taught during the day in high schools and attended evening classes at London University. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of 10 that job to write full time at a university. I began to feel proud of myself.
Now I am rich and famous. But what does it mean? I just wish all the people that have put me down had said, "I believe in you. You will succeed."
People eat different things in different parts of the1. In some countries, people eat rice every day.2they eat it two or three times a day, for breakfast, lunch and supper. They usually eat it with meat, fish and vegetables. Some people do not eat any kinds of meat. Muslims, for example, do not eat pork. The Japanese eat a lot of fish, and they also eat a lot of rice. In western countries such as Britain, Australia and the U. S. A. themost3food is bread and potatoes. And people there can cook potatoes in4ways. Some people eat only fruit and vegetables. They don't eat meat or fish or anything that comes from animals. They only eat food from5. Some people say that food from plants is better for us than meat.
Two boys, Albrecht Durer and Jack, loved painting very much, but their family was so poor that they1 be sent to study at an art school at the same time.2, the two boys thought of an idea. They would toss a coin(抛硬币). The3would go to the mine(煤矿) to earn money to pay his brother's college tuition(学费). When the brother who won the toss4his study, he would pay for the other brother to study at college.
Durer won the toss while Jack went to the mine. Durer worked hard at college and his paintings were much better than even most of his 5. He made a lot of money by selling his paintings.
Durer returned. When he told Jack he could go to6, Jack said softly, "No. You don't know7 I have experienced over the past four years. It is too late. Now I can't even hold a glass."
To show his great love and respect for his brother, Durer8 his brother's hands with palms(手掌) together and thin fingers towards the sky. He called his work The Praying Hands, which became 9 years later.
The next time you see a copy of that touching work, take a second10. Let it be your reminder: No one can ever be successful alone.
Han Mei is a 12-year-old girl. She loves her family very much,1 she doesn't feel happy. She says there are many 2 in her family. She 3 get up at six o'clock every morning. She can't play with her friends after school because she has to 4 her little brother. She always has a lot of 5, so she can't watch TV 6 school nights. And she has to 7 by 10 pm. On weekends, she has to 8 her room and wash her clothes. Then she has to help Mum 9 dinner. Later she has to go to the Children's Palace to play the piano. She says she doesn't have 10 fun.
Old tires(轮胎)are no good for a car, right? But they can be good for another way of 1:walking!
In Zimbabwe, people 2 throw away old tires. They use old tires to 3 sandals (凉鞋). One of these people is Casper Mamutse.
When Casper first saw Isaac wearing tire sandals, he thought they looked 4. He asked Isaac where he 5 them. Isaac said he made them himself. Casper 6 to buy a pair to make his friends laugh. But his friends didn't laugh. They wanted their own. So Casper asked Isaac to 7him to make tire sandals.
Casper says, "The most 8 part of making sandals is to put a shoe sole(鞋底)on the tire and cuts out a sole with a 9. That needs power(力量)and skills. You also need to be 10, or you will cut your finger easily. "
From one tire, Casper can make about four pairs of sandals for adults(成年人)or about six for children.