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    Mr and Mrs. Green have a son, Tom. They love him very much. Tom is only three years old. He likes asking questions.

    One day Mr. Green is sitting in a chair. He is reading a book and he has a banana in his hand. He likes to eat one while (当…时候) reading. Tom comes in. He asks Mr Green, "Daddy, what's that?" Mr Green is interested in the book. He doesn't hear Tom. Tom shakes (摇晃) his father's leg and asks again, "What's this? Tell me!"

     "A leg!" says Mr Green.

    Tom goes out and says to Mrs. Green, "Mom, I want to eat a leg!"

    Denny was a famous photographer. He travelled all over the world, taking pictures for magazines and newspapers, and won many prizes.

    "I'll do anything to get a good photo," he often said. "I'll go anywhere at any time, even if it is dangerous."

    And he told the truth. He had photos of earthquakes, forest fires, floods and even wars. If something interesting happened, Denny went to photograph it.

    He was a married man and his wife often asked him to take her with him, but he always refused. "I'll travel for my work, not for pleasure," he told her." You won't have fun, and I won't have time to look after you. Sometimes there's not even anywhere to stay, and I have to sleep outside. I often don't have a good meal or a bath for days. You won't like it,"

    "Denny, I am not a child," his wife didn't agree. "I can look after myself. Please take me with you the next time you go overseas."

    Denny did not say anything, but he thought about it, and when he was asked to go to Africa, he said to his wife, "You can come to Africa with me if you want to. I have got to take photos of wild animals there. It should be interesting and not, too uncomfortable."

    His wife was very excited, and at first she had a very enjoyable time. Then Denny went to the forest to find some lions to photograph. His wife went with him, but before long they became separated. She walked down one path while be walked down the other.

    Suddenly, Denny heard her crying. He ran back and saw her running towards him. A huge lion was chasing her. Quickly Denny took his camera out of its case and pointed it at his wile and the lion. Then he shouted,

    "Slow down, woman! I can't get you both in the picture!"

    A doctor entered the hospital hurriedly after being called in for an important surgery(外科手术). He found the boy's father waiting worriedly.

    On seeing him, the father cried out, “Why did you take all this time to come? Don't you know that my son is in danger? Don't you have any sense of duty?"

    The doctor said, “I am sorry. I wasn't in the hospital and I came as fast as I could and now, I wish you could calm down so that I can do my work quietly.

    “Calm down? What if your son was in this room right now? If your son dies while you are waiting for a doctor, what will you do?" said the father angrily. The doctor smiled and replied, “We'll do our best and you should also pray(祈祷) for your son.

    The surgery took some time before the doctor went out， saying happily, "Thank goodness! Your son is saved!" And without waiting for the father's reply, he ran away, saying, “If you have any question, ask the nurse.

    “Couldn't he wait some minutes so that I can ask about my son's state(状况)?”shouted the father. The nurse answered, tears coming down her face, “His son died yesterday in a road accident. He was at the burial(葬礼) when we called him for your son's surgery. And since he saved your son, he left running to finish his son's burial. ”

    There is always something unexpected in our life. I find it humorous sometimes that even the most ordinary thing can have an 1 on us.

    My wife, daughter, and I moved into our home nine years ago and we 2 a lot of   time and energy working in the yard to get it look like what it does today. We called this area our "rock garden" because there were so many rocks. We did the best we could to make the yard 3 . Then, we started to grow plants and flowers and 4 them carefully.

    Last summer I walked to the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately tell what it was. I knew I didn't plant it and Denise said that she didn't 5 . We decided to let it continue growing until we could 6 what it was.

    Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the mystery (神秘的) plant, I found it grow taller. It appeared to be a Sunflower. As I pulled rocks from the area, I noticed something 7 . The Sunflower didn't start where I saw the stalk (茎) begin. It actually began under a big rock and grew under and around it to 8 the sun.

    Suddenly I realized something. " 9 a tiny little Sunflower has the ability of overcoming a big rock standing in its way of developing, we also have the ability of doing the same thing." Like the Sunflower, it knew it had the ability to overcome difficulties.

    Stand tall like the Sunflower and take 10 in who and what you are and the environment will begin to support you. You will find a way to go under or around big difficulties in order to achieve your goal.

    Several cars waited at the top of a slope ( 斜坡). As the whistle blew, the cars sped down the slope. Spectators (观众) cheered and clapped. But this was not a normal car race. The cars were made out of food.

    Students at Orefield Middle School in Pennsylvania, US, held the race early last month. They spent several weeks making their cars. The race was part of the school's STEMM class. STEMM stands for science, technology, engineering, math and medicine.

    The rules of the race were strict. The only non -food items allowed were toothpicks and popsicle sticks (冰棒棍). Some students used round bread or cookies for wheels. Some used a steak roll for the body.

    For some students, the most difficult part was not making the car, but trying not to eat the tasty food. "If you ate any of it, you got out," James Cipolla, 13, told The Morning Call.

    Cipolla worked with three other students on their car. They put a marshmallow ( 棉花糖) at the base of their car to help it move easily. But it melted during the race and didn't make it to the finals.

     "We still had fun anyway", said 14-year-old Andrew Maitski. "We learned about engineering and the basic parts of a car."

Four boys sat in the headmaster's office, waiting for their punishment. When the headmaster came in, he told the boys, "You have 1 a lot of work for our janitor (看门人) by writing on the walls today. But he won't do the cleaning. You boys will clean the 2 every day after school for a week."

After school that day, the boys went to the janitor's office to get the tools and 3 their cleaning work. It took a long time and they worked all week.

On the last day, when they 4 finished the job and turned to leave, the janitor said, "Hey, boys, let me tell you 5. In the country where I grew up, we had few 6. We hardly had books or teachers. Even to 7 a new pencil was a big thing."

"You used pencils to write on the walls. A pencil is a lot like a person. For a person, there is the point on the outside, 8 it's what's in the inside that does all the work," he explained. "Every once in a while, you have to get a painful sharpening (磨砺). That's what you've had this week," he said. "From now on, 9 leaving your mark on the walls, leave your mark on life. Write your own 10 using what's inside you."

The boys understood and they never wrote on any walls again.

Che Milton is an Atlanta police officer. During his first week at work, he took a call for a robbery (抢劫). But he wasn't going to catch that person. The suspect( 犯罪嫌疑人) was a l2-year-old girl. All she'd tried to steal from a store was a pair of $ 2 shoes. Her family of seven couldn't afford new shoes, the girl explained. She is the oldest child in the family. And she'd hoped to surprise her 5-year-old sister with a new pair.

Milton offered to drive her home rather than punishing the girl. Inside the house in a poor neighborhood, the officer's heart broke. There weren't enough beds for all five children. And quilts were lying on the floor. The kitchen was empty of food.

The girl's mother, Mrs. Staple, explained that her husband worked a lot but didn't I make much money. She needed to stay at home with the kids, so she couldn't get another job.

The police department decided to help the family. To make sure the family received objects they could use, the police department shared the children's and the mother s clothing sizes. It also called for blanket and furniture donations and offered to let people drop things off at the police station.

Do you know how rice first came to China? There is an old Chinese story. The story is about a little girl who went out to fish. There (be) a famine(饥荒) and everybody was very / 'hʌŋgri/.

The little girl felt her net getting heavy and was very happy. However, it was the King of Frogs(青蛙) that she / kɔ:t/. The frog told her to hold out her fishing net to the sun's rays and he would sing magic song. The little girl followed his instructions. She was (great) surprised to see the rays of sunshine falling through the net.

And they were changed golden grains(谷粒) of rice. The first rice was thought to arrive in this way.

We do not know whether this story is true, but it tells (we) that rice has the same value as gold to the Chinese. Rice (be) always the main food for the Chinese. For centuries, much land has been devoted(奉献) to rice planting and many Chinese people are ( farmer)， who work very hard for each grain.

It's important to /seɪv/ food and say no to waste. After all, waste not, want not.

It was last January, when I'd just finished a charity(慈善) event and was on the train back home, that I put down my phone and started writing thank-you notes to people who had helped.

When I got off the train, I felt amazingly good. The next day, I wrote more thank you and the same feeling of happiness hit me again. I suddenly had the idea: Why not keep on doing this for every day of the year?

To keep on the task, I decided to pick out a different theme for each month. January was charity. February would be neighbors, I decided. And I thought of a number of names right away: the owner of our local bookstore, who let me and my little son in before the store opened and offered to play his favorite songs; our babysitter, who dropped off a bag of old board games for our kids to play...

While writing the notes, I realized how often I had spent my time on the phone moving from app to app, appreciating(欣赏) other people's lives. Writing thank –you notes allowed me the time to do something different, paying more attention to my own life.

In the following months, I wrote to my friends, doctors, teachers and parenting role models. In July, my food" month, I wrote to Julie, who used to cook at my favorite restaurant. It went like this:

Dear Julie,

I've been finding myself missing you lately. Thank you for hosting me and cooking beautiful and thoughtful food.

Jake and I will never forget when you sent out biscuits shaped into the number VI for our sixth anniversary(周年纪念日). We talk about it every year.

Thank you. We miss you.

Love,

Gina

I was happy to receive a note back from her. Julie replied, "I don't think I've ever received such a touching letter before. I'm going through a hard time right now, and this helps. "

On December 31, I wrote my last card- to Jake, my husband, and our two kids. And I took a picture of us, so I could remember the feeling welling up inside me. Gratitude.

Molly's family is Chinese-American. They serve a traditional Chinese meal once a week. Molly invited her friend Amy to join them this week.

Molly's family was busy preparing for dinner when Amy arrived. The house was filled with many good smells. “You can help me set the table,” Molly told her friend. They laid the place settings on the table. They gave each person a pair of chopsticks, a soup bowl, a soup spoon, and a rice bowl.

“Where are the forks and knives?” Amy asked.

“Oh, you won't need those,” Molly explained. “We use chopsticks. But don't worry. I'll show you how to use them.”

The two girls went into the kitchen. Molly's father was cutting vegetables. He threw the vegetables into a large cooking pan coated with (涂有)hot oil.

Amy watched the vegetables cooked. Then Molly's mother asked the girls to carry plates of food to the table. Amy carried the rice. It was one of the few dishes she recognized. There were meat-filled bundles called won-tons, noodles, stir-fried beef and sweet-and-sour chicken.

Amy was a little nervous about eating with chopsticks. Molly gave her directions on how to hold and use chopsticks.

Amy managed to pick up a piece of chicken in her chopsticks. Suddenly, her fingers slipped(松开) and the chicken flew across the table. It landed in Molly's soup. Everyone smiled. “We keep these on hand for emergencies(紧急情况),” Molly's father said kindly. He brought out a knife and fork and handed them to Amy. Amy was relieved and ate her dinner. It was delicious!

At the end of the meal, Amy was given a fortune(幸运) cookie. She broke it open and read the fortune inside. It said, “If you practice hard, you will learn many things.” Amy laughed and said, “If you let me take home a pair of chopsticks, my fortune may come true!”

It's hard to be an astronaut's son. Everybody expects you to be 1. I'm just a normal eleven-year-old kid. My father is so good at everything. I often wonder 2 my father ever had a son like me.

One morning, my teacher announced a 3 Day essay(散文) competition for the whole school. What would I 4? My father is an astronaut. I would start out like that. No, I decided I wouldn't do that. The whole country and maybe even the whole 5 saw my father as an astronaut, 6 that wasn't the way I saw him.

How did I 7 my father? Hmm. .

I saw him sitting with me in the dark when I was little and had a nightmare.

I saw him teaching me how to throw a baseball.

I remembered him hugging me for hours when my dog was killed by a car.

And I remembered how he 8 me with a new little dog at my eighth birthday party.

These were the things I was going to write about my dad. To me, he wasn't 9 a world-famous astronaut, he was my dad.

On Thursday night, the winning essays would be 10 in the hall with all the parents and students present. When the third prize was announced and it wasn't me, I was relieved and 11 at the same time. Then the second prize. It was me! I went up to the stage and read my essay "My Father's Son". I watched my parents as I read.

When I finished reading, the audience(观众) applauded(鼓掌). I saw my father blowing his nose. Tears were running down my mother's 12. Dad 13 his throat, and put his hand on my shoulder, "Son, this is the proudest moment of my life. "

It was the proudest moment of my life , too. Maybe I'll 14 be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but just then, it was 15 just to be my father's son.

One early morning, I woke up by a cell call. It was from a taxi driver. He told me he had my friend's cell phone(手机).

My friend, Michael, left it in the taxi the night before. The driver called others, but I was the first one to answer his call.

It was a rainy morning. For taxi drivers in this big city, it's a fantastic time to make money. He asked me where he could drop the cell phone off. I told him the street where I lived. Then I quickly jumped out of bed and got dressed, so I could meet him at the corner.

When he arrived, I thanked him. And I was so happy for my friend, he moved to this country a few weeks ago – and I could only imagine(设想) how important his cell phone was to him!

I asked the taxi driver for his name, so my friend could thank him. He said my thanks were all that he needed. Then he drove off.

I e-mailed my friend telling him I had his phone. In the evening, he came to my home and I told him how I received (收到) it.

My friend was very excited to get back his cell phone. He said he would help others as possible as he could.

    Amanda goes to work every day. She works in an office. She works very hard. She starts at 7 o'clock in the morning and finishes at 10 o'clock at night. She likes her work, but she has one problem. Her boss is not a very good boss.

    He tells her to do one thing, and then he changes his mind. Later, he tells her to do another thing, and then he changes his mind again. Amanda doesn't like this. She says, "This is a waste of time!"

    Today Amanda decides to talk with him. She goes to his office and says, "I like to work. I am a good worker. But I can't work like this. We have to work better. You need to tell me what to do without changing your mind."

    Amanda's boss listens to her. He thinks that she is right and promises to accept her advice. Now Amanda is happy. She comes to work every day. She starts at 7 o'clock in the morning and finishes at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, but she completes much more things than before! Amanda and her boss are happy.

Yesterday evening, when I went to town with my mother, we met a strange old man. It was raining hard and we had no umbrella. We were trying to get into a taxi when he came up to us. He was carrying a nice umbrella and said that he would give it to us for only a pound. He said he had forgotten his wallet and needed taxi fare to go back home. My mother didn't believe what he had said at first, and asked him a lot of questions. But she finally gave him a pound. However, the old man didn't get into a taxi. We follow him and found he went into a pub and bought himself a glass of whiskey with the pound. After he drank it, he put on his hat and took up one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off. Soon after that, he sold it again.

 Once upon a time, there was a swan（天鹅）. She lived in a lake. A woman with her two daughters lived in a small house near  lake. They lived a  life. Sometimes they didn't have money to buy food. Their  was to be rich. 

 The swan was sad to see that. She wanted to make their dream come . Every day she came to the woman's house and left a golden feather（羽毛） saying anything. The woman picked the feather, sold it and  food. She was happy  her life was better than before. 

 But the woman became greedy（贪婪的）. One day, the swan came , the woman caught（抓住）  and took all her golden feathers. Suddenly the golden feathers changed into common（普通的）feathers. 

 The swan said, "I came to help you, but you wanted to kill me. I will  come back. " With these words, the swan left. The woman became poor . 

 So, never be too greedy or selfish when you get help from others. 

Once upon a time, there lived a farmer in the countryside. He grew very good corn(玉米). Each year, he would take part in the local farmers'1and win first prize for his corn.

The story of the farmer 's success2 the ears of a reporter. He went to3the farmer. While he was learning about some growing skills from the farmer, he found that the farmer4his best seeds (种子)with his neighbours.

"How can you give your best 5seeds to your neighbours? They might go to the fair as well and win, " the reporter asked.

The farmer replied, " The wind picks up pollen(花粉) from the corn and moves it from field to field. Then cross pollination(交叉授粉) will does harm to my corm6my neighbours grow poor corn. 7ifl want to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn, too. "The answer made the reporter have a8understanding of the connections in life.

It is the same with 9lives. Those who10to live in peace must help others around them to live in peace. Those who wish to be loved must learn to love others, too.

Alison cornered me in the kitchen. "Daddy, I really want a rat."

"Again?" l saw the ugly gray things with round eyes and long tails in my mind. She wanted one of those in our1?

"No, Daddy. A pet rat is kept at home. "

This topic was around in our family for about one year. This time, Alison told 2 seriously how she would take care of the rat herself, and how she would learn to be3by doing so. I wanted to say "no" as usual. 4it was not the right response to this situation. I suggested that Alison should5me that she would be responsible by researching some basic questions we had about6: How much did they cost? What care did they need?

l thought the answers she found 7 change her mind. Alison searched for information and made many notes. She learned8the best cage for rats is and what types of food they can (and can't) eat. She learned that two rats are9than one-they like staying together.

Alison proved herself with her efforts, so I10finally. If she continued to do so, caring for the rats and preparing food for them, she would learn the responsibility we always wanted her to have.

We11several pet stores, asking for baby rats. One store told us it just received some that would be ready on sale in a week. Alison was so12-her dream would come true soon.

On Sunday afternoon, I drove Alison there. I must say, 13 seeing the rats, I found they were much cuter. Alison_14 picked out two little ones with her soft little hands. She cradled the cage with them, 15. We went back to our car, and huge smile was still on her face.

"I can't believe I have them after a year of begging!"

"It wasn't your begging, "I told her." You showed me you were responsible so I wanted to reward that. "

Recently I read a story about Robert, a famous scientist. When someone asked him why he could(克服) overcome so manyto do such great things, he gave the answer.

It all came from an experience with his mother when he was about two years old. One day, when Robert was to get a bottle of milk from the fridge, the bottle fell to the floor and broke. He was so that he didn't know what to do.

When his mother got into the kitchen, he was thinking about how to   this to his mother. To his surprise,  he heard his mother say, "Robert, I didn't see such a huge (巨大的)sea of milk before! Why don't you play in the milk for a while? I don't mind you making a mess in the room again. But after that you mustthe floor completely, OK?"

Robert did so. Then his mother said, "Robert, when you make a mess, you must clean it up by. " After Robert cleaned the floor, his mother said, "You don't know how to get a big milk bottle with two hands. Let's go out and fill a bottlewater to see if you can find a way to carry it. " Then Robert practiced grasping (抓紧)the bottle with both handsthat he could carry it without dropping it.

What a wonderful lesson!

My day began when I saw my six-year-old son Jonathan doing something in the garden by my azalea bush (杜鹃花丛). By the time I got 1 , I found he'd broken it! It was my favorite!

" Can I take this to school? " he asked, smiling. Though a bit unhappy, I nodded. Then I turned back to the broken bush and 2 it as if to say silently, " I'm sorry. " Later I pruned (修剪) it with great care.

The rest of the day, I was busy doing endless housework. Time had passed by fast 3 I realized it was already 3:00. Leaving the clothes in the washing machine, I hurriedly got to school to 4 Jonathan. When I got there, the teacher told me she wanted to talk about Jonathan.

What now? I thought.

I had prepared myself for the worst, 5 the teacher's words greatly surprised me. " Did you know Jonathan brought 6 to school today? " she asked. I nodded, thinking about my favorite bush. " See that little girl? " the teacher 7 . I saw a bright-eyed child busily drawing a picture with crayons. I 8 again.

" Well, her parents are separated and she has been 9 these days. I did all I could to comfort (安慰) her, but nothing 10 . This morning I watched your son walk over to 11 with some pretty pink flowers and say, "This is for you."

I felt my heart full of 12 for what my son had done. Holding Jonathan's hand, I said, "Thank you, you've 13 my day."

I was warmed by the 14 Jonathan showed to the little girl and I made up my mind to pass it on. Later that evening when my husband came back home from a tiring workday, I picked some pink azaleas and 15 them to him. " This is for you, " I said.

Mike Smith is from England. Mike is his（one）name. He has a big family. His grandfather and grandmother are in England. Their  (name) are Harry and Maria. But  (Mike)  parents and their children are  China. Mike's father is English teacher in a school. He teaches English very well. Mike's mother is   a teacher. She is a doctor. Mike and his sister Alice (be) students.  go to the same(相同的) school in Beijing. Mike is twelve and Alice is nine. Mike can play basketball,   Alice can't. At school, Mike has three good friends. They are David, Tom and Jim. Mike (like) them.