This story happened in a small mountain village. One day there was an earthquake. Nothing was destroyed and 1 was hurt. But a huge rock fell from a nearby mountain and stopped in the middle of the road.
When the earthquake2, many people came to the road and saw the huge rock. Some of the strongest men tried to lift the rock 3 the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried to push it but failed. They tried to 4 it with ropes but nothing worked.
"Well," they all agreed, "There's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the 5." At this time a boy of 12 years old said, "I think I can help you to move the rock."
"You?" they shouted, "What are you talking about?" The men all 6at the boy.
The next morning some people came into the street. One of them shouted, "The rock is7!" More people ran out to see. It was right. The rock wasn't in the road any more. It wasn't8 near the road.
"This is9," they said, "Where did it go?"
The boy stood in the street, 10 , "I told you I could move it last night."
The boy walked over to where the11 had been and uncovered some earth. "I buried it," he said.
The people looked 12. "You see," he said, " I dug a deep hole next to the rock and I dug a small incline (斜坡)up to the rock and the rock 13 down into the hole by itself. I covered it with earth."
The crowds shouted, "What a 14 boy!" And some of them said, "Why haven't we thought of this good
15?"
You can certainly see sunrise and sunset from the moon surface, 1 you can't see them as 2 as you do from the earth.
Here on 3 earth, our planet's rotation(自转) carries us 4 daylight to darkness. That's true on the moon as well. But the moon's spin(旋转) is 5 slower than the earth's. An earth day lasts twenty-four 6 . A lunar day lasts about one earth month. That means 7 about two weeks between each sunrise and sunset on the moon.
On the earth, when you watch sunset, you can see colored light for a while after the sun disappears. But if you watch sunset on the moon, you'll find it's 8 as midnight as soon as the sun 9 , because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere(大气层). And 10 , sunrise on the moon will come just as suddenly.
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Once when I was six years old I saw a picture in a book, 1True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor(大蟒) in the act of 2 an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey (猎物)whole, without chewing it. 3 they are not able to move, and they sleep 4 the six months that they need for digestion.”
After some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. It looked like this:

Drawing Number One.
I showed my picture to the grown-ups, and asked them 5 the drawing frightened them. 6they answered: “Frighten? Why should any one be 7 by a hat?”
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I 8 another drawing: I drew the 9 of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it 10 . They always need to have things explained.
My Drawing Number Two looked like this:

Drawing Number Two
Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of 11him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to12, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, 13 it was, he, or she, would always say: “That is a hat.”That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand 14 by themselves, and it is15 for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
My friend Bill is fourteen years old. He really likes 1very much, In his bedroom there 2 many movie posters(海报) on the wall. His 3 actor is Jackie Chan. He likes Chinese action movies. He thinks they are 4. He also likes 5. He thinks they are scary, but they are6. 7interesting thing: He is American, but he likes 8. He often goes to see Beijing opera 9 his father on weekends. 10father likes it, too!
Many people say that they have seen flying saucers(飞碟) in the sky. 1 can these things be?
Some people think that they are spaceships from other planets. Doctors 2 that perhaps they are only a weakness of the eyes. It is possible that they are our own planes 3 very high. Or are they birds with the sun's light on them?
But some people say that they have seen them 4. They have seen beings(人) get off them and walk around. They have 5 to those beings, sometimes in English. People have 6 photos of flying saucers and of these beings. We have seen the photos, but sometimes the people had to take them in a 7. Children have seen flying saucers, and even dogs have seen them. Perhaps we do not think that the 8 of children, or dogs are important. But school-teachers have 9 seen them and Air Force officers and 10 policemen. Must we not listen to these people?
As I held my father's hands one night, I couldn't help but notice their calluses(老茧)and roughness. His hands tell the story of his life as a 1 , including all his struggles.
One summer, I remember, a drought (旱灾)hit Ontario,turning it into a 2 desert.On one og those hot mornings I was picking sweet corn with my dad to fill the last 3 from the grocery store.Fifty dozen was all we needed, which normally took twenty minutes. That morning, however, the process didn't 4 quickly. After forty minutes of aimlessly walking in the field, we still needed twenty dozen. I was completely frustrated and 5 . Dropping the basket heavily, I declared, "If the store wants its last twenty dozen, they can pick it themselves. "Dad 6 ."Just think, my little girl, only ten dozen left for each of us and then we're 7 ." Such is Dad—whatever problem he 8 , he never gives up.
Unfortunately, the bad effects of the drought were felt all over our county. It was a challenging time for everyone, 9 Dad remained optimistic. He 10 to be grateful for other things like good health and food on our plated. Only then did I truly begin to appreciate dad and his faith that guided us through the hard times.
Dad is also a living example of real 11 . From dawn to dusk, he works countless hours to 12 our family. He always puts our happiness 13 his own, and never fails to cheer me on at my sports games even though he was 14 after long days. His loving and selfless nature has inspired me to become more sympathetic and friendly, putting others first.
Dad, the life 15 I have learned from you will stay with me forever.You are my father,teacher,friend and,most importantly,my hero.
Pupils in England were able to watch a new TV program called Monkey 1 November 1979. Most of them were hearing this story for the first time. 2, this story is not new to Chinese children.
There are many fairy tales(童话故事)in China. Journey to the West is 3 of them. In 4 tale, The Monkey King is the main character. He is not just any 5 monkey. We say this 6 he can make 72 changes to his shape and size. He can turn himself into 7 animals and objects. But unless he can hide his tail, he can't turn himself into a 8. He always uses a magic stick 9 the bad people. Sometimes, he can make the stick so small that he can 10 it in his ear. He is 11 able to make it big and long. This fairy tale is really great.
The Monkey King has 12 Chinese children for many years. 13 the TV program came out more than 30 years ago, western children became interested in reading this story. Great Monkey King keeps 14 to help the weak and never gives up. In fact, children 15 the world love the Monkey King.
Let me tell you something about my brother. He is a 1 fan(迷). He likes playing 2 kind of games. He likes basketball, football, tennis, badminton3 swimming. And he is 4 at football. Beckham(贝克汉姆) is his favourite5player. He is a 6 of the Football Club. When he goes shopping, he always 7 newspapers about sports and he 8 watches sports news. His school is very big and beautiful. There 9 a football field, a tennis court and a swimming pool in his school. He usually 10 football with his friends after school. He wants to be a football player when he grows up. He often goes to the stadium to watch the football matches at the weekend.
Walt Disney came from America. When he was very young, his family moved from the city to a farm. 1 Disney was busy most of the time, he could still find 2to do interesting things. He spent much of his free time 3 pictures of the animals on the farm. He then. Began 4 stories about them. Later he even began taking artclasses on Saturdays.
As he grew older, Disney's art5also grew. He began using a new way to tell his stories. To do this, he drew the same picture many times, changing each one a little. Using the camera, he took a photo of each drawing. Next, he put the film through a movie projector(放映机).
As the pictures ran6 through the projector, the characters looked 7 Disney soon began to make his drawings into cartoons in this way. And the cartoons were just like 8.Walt Disney was9after many years of hard work. He became one of the world's greatest 10His cartoons still make lots of people happy every day.
I was invited to attend a presentation at the Kentucky School. That evening I found gratitude had amazing 1 to change our attitude and our life.
The young musician Mr. Patrick was rolled onto the stage in his wheelchair and began to play the piano. His fingers danced across the keys as he 2 beautiful music. He then began to sing as he played, and it was wonderful. But what shocked me most was his magic smile.
Patrick was born with no eyes and an illness in the legs, which3 him lame for life. However, as a child, he was 4 with artificial eyes and placed in a wheelchair. Before his first note, he discovered the piano. When his mom hit any note on the piano, and within one or two 5, he'd get it. By his second birthday, he was playing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". His father was overjoyed. "We might not play baseball, but we can play music together."
When Patrick was at the University of Louisville, his father 6 classes with him. He was also a part of the 214-member marching band! He was a blind, wheelchair-bound trumpet player; and he and his father did it together. His father 7the night shift(夜班)in order to accompany his daytime band practice. Patrick says, "My dad's my hero."
But even more than his unbelievable musical talent, it was Patrick's "attitude of gratitude" that touch my soul. On stage, between songs, he talked to the audience about his life and about how 8 he was with a great father. When his performance was over, Patrick and his father were on the stage together. The crowd rose to their feet and cheered for over five minutes.
We all face misfortune in our lives.9 , it's not the hardship but how we react to it that will determine the joy and happiness in our lives. During tough times, do we spend too much time feeling10 for ourselves, or can we, with gratitude, learn how to dance in the rain?
No visitor was left in the museum now, and John was walking around to check if everything was all right.1 he saw a beautiful painting lying on the floor. John2 and gave it to the curator (馆长). The curator called several museums to check if it was a stolen painting3no one claimed(认领) it. So the curator decided to hang it.4said it was beautiful and had a very deep meaning. The curator was5to have such a painting in his museum and congratulated John on his discovery. Some weeks later a woman and her 6came to the museum. While they were looking at that painting, the little boy began to7. The curator went over and asked what was making him so sad. The child pointed to 8and said, "That's my painting and I want it back."
"Yes," said his mother. "He 9it on the floor a few weeks ago. If you look carefully, you can see the name on the painting. " The curator 10believe his ears when he heard the truth.
It was a sunny winter day. I had gone down the tower when a blind man came toward me. He kept close to the wall, touching it lightly with his arm. I stood still and looked at him walking toward the tower."What does a blind man want to climb up the tower for?" I wondered (疑惑). "Not the view(景色) certainly, perhaps he wants to jump. "Thinking of some terrible reasons, I thought I should1him. He went up slowly and2from time to time. I followed him a few steps behind. When he got to the first corner of the bell tower, I came close to him. "Excuse me, "I said as politely as I could, "but I wonder3you came up. He smiled, "Perhaps climbing up the tower. You have noticed — and yet, not being blind, perhaps you won't — how the sun shines into the tower4the windows here and there, so that one can5the cool steps suddenly become quite warm, even in winter. But behind the wall there is shade(阴影). There is no place so good as this for feeling the difference between light and darkness. Though I'm blind, I also want to feel the6brought by the sunlight. In fact, it isn't my first time to be here." He said and seemed as7as a child. I had never thought that even a blind man could have his way to8the beautiful life. But we often paid no attention to its value because we never9it. We went down the10together and I left him. From then on, I began to treasure what life has given me.
Gwondo was a trainer of dogs. He would go out every day with his dogs, to1them how to catch animals so that all his tribe(部落) could eat.
Wherever Gwondo went, his tribe could see him away in the distance 2his white hair would shine in the sunlight. The tribe3would say to their children, "See, there is Gwondo and his dogs, searching for4for us all." Gwondo went out hunting every day and always came5with much food. And all were very happy.
Now Gwondo grew6and as all humans do, one day he died. The tribe felt sad and cried many days and many nights7one day the elders called to their children, "You have cried enough for Gwondo. Now it is time to8living. Go down to the beach and be happy."
The children ran down to the beach and looked out to the sea.9 , they all looked at each other, then turned and ran back to their elders,10, "Come quickly. Gwondo, he is back with us. He is out in the sea. "The elders hurried to the11and said, "Yes! It is Gwondo back! He is now a dolphin and lives in the sea."
Now whenever you see12dolphins in the sea, look for the big old dolphin. You will know him because he has a large white fin on13back. He is Gwondo and he is training the young dolphins to chase(追逐)14close to the beach so that his tribe can catch them.
Gwondo is known to all the tribes15the east coast of Australia. They call him their sea dog.
The summer vacation is over. It's true that time always flies1. During the vacation, the weather was 2and I could not do much homework, but I lived happily.
As the afternoon was hot, I did my homework in the3. I often got up at 6:30 and4in the garden for half an hour. After breakfast, I5reading English and Chinese and did some exercises in math. Those6me three hours or more. I worked quite7and made good progress(进步).
I spent the afternoon outside. I went to8and it was funny. I would not go home until it was about five or six o'clock. Sometimes my friend came to see me and would spend some hours9music.
In this way I spent my vacation10. And I not only studied well but also became a good swimmer. Now I am in good health and high spirits(精神).
When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more 1 than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him so much in repairs that he decided that he had better 2 it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly anxious to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so 3 of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was 4 when they met one evening, and said, "What's up, Dave?"
Dave told him, and Sam answered, "Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may 5 more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!" Thinking that Sam's 6 was sensible (合理的), he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read "For sale: small car, 7 very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50."
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no answer. But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry (询问). A man rang up and said he would like to see him about the car. "All right," Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be suitable or not. "Fine," the man said, "and I'll 8 my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to test it."
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, 9 to wait there for the people who had answered his advertisement. Even Dave had to admit that the car really looked like a wreck (残骸). Then, soon after he had got the car as clean as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, "Have you reported this 10 to us yet, sir?"
Teenagers have a lot of new ideas. Let's have a look at these teenage inventions that might change the world.
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Banana leaves usually go bad in two or three days. Tenth Hadith, a teenager from India, used UV to make the leaves stay fresh for a year. Tenth thinks that one day the leaves will be used for making plates, cups and other things. |
| David Cohen, an American teenager, built an earthworm(蚯蚓) robot. It is able to go into the smallest places, where humans or dogs can't go. It will be used for finding people in a fire or an earthquake. |
| Remya Jose, a 14yearold girl from India, found it tiring and boring to hand wash clothes in the nearby river. She reused some bicycle parts and created a washing machine that saves time, energy and keeps people fit at the same time. |
| Kenneth Shinozuku, a 15yearold boy from New York, noticed that his grandfather who got Alzheimer's disease (老年痴呆) would often leave home and get lost. So he invented the wearable sensors (感应器) to help people find their family members like his grandfather. |
Jeff almost went mad when his elder brother was killed in a car accident. He refused to play1soccer or go to the movies with his friends. Instead, he just sat in his bedroom and didn't talk to2, even his parents. Jeff felt that the world was3. He was quite angry with 4 because his car hit his brother, even though it was an accident. After5 months, Jeff 6 to understand it was useless to be angry. Now he still misses his brother, 7 he doesn't hate the driver any8 . He is beginning to talk to his parents and that9them happy again. He no longer stays in his room by10. Instead, he goes to the movies or plays sports with his friends. He is feeling better now.
"Dr. Papaderos, what is the meaning of life?"
The usual laughter followed, and people stirred (喧闹) to go.
Papaderos held up his hand and 1 the room and looked at me for a long time, asking with his eyes if I was 2 and seeing from my eyes that I was.
"I will answer your question."
Taking his wallet out of his hip pocket, he 3out a very small round mirror, about the size of a quarter.
And what he said went like this:
"When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a 4 village. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a 5. A German motorcycle had been wrecked in that place.
I tried to 6 all the pieces and put them together, but it was not possible, so I kept only the largest piece. This one, and, by scratching it on a stone, I made it round. I began to play with it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact that I could 7 light into dark places where the sun would never 8-in deep holes and crevices (裂缝) and dark closets. It became a game for me to get light into the most inaccessible places I could find.
I kept the little mirror, and, as I went about my growing up, I would take it out in idle moments and continue the challenge of the game. As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor (暗喻) for 9 I might do with my life. I came to understand that I am not the light or the source of light. But light-truth, 10, knowledge-is there, and it will shine in many dark places 11 if I reflect it.
I am a fragment (碎片) of a mirror whose whole design and 12 I do not know. 13, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world-into the black places in the hearts of men-and change some things in some people. Perhaps 14 may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the 15 of my life."