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    Once upon a time there was a poor woodcutter who worked very hard from morning till night. He had a son and his name was Herman. The old man saved some money and sent his son to university.

    But the money that the father gave his son was all used up after two years and Her-man had to come back home. The old man had no more money. Herman said he would stay and work with his father,

    The next day Herman went to the forest with his father. Though he had never done such work before, he worked well. Herman took his bread and said he would go a little way into the forest.

    Herman was so happy with the bright sunshine that he walked and walked, Suddenly he heard a voice, "Let me out! Let me out!" There was something in the bottle( 瓶子) that looked like a small frog(青蛙). It jumped up and down shouting, "Let me out!"

    As soon as Herman opened the bottle, the little thing jumped out of the bottle and began to grow. "Thank you, young man," he said. "Now it's my turn to help you.

    The giant gave Herman a piece of cloth(布). "It is unusual," said the giant. "Put it on a stone, and it will turn the stone into gold. "

    Herman ran back to his father with the unusual cloth. Also, Herman went back to university to learn more. Years later he became a famous doctor in town.

    Deep down in the sea. Oliver, a little octopus (章鱼) sat on the floor covered with sand, bored and upset. He watched pretty fish swimming in and out of rocks. which were laughing and dancing in the sea. "Why am I so different?" he said to himself sadly.

    "You are an octopus. Oliver. That's special. "The sweet voice of Cherub, beautiful purple angelfish (神仙鱼), always made Oliver feel better. Oliver looked up at the purple angelfish and smiled. Cherub suggested, "Let's play hide 一 and 一 seek (捉迷藏)." They were having so much fun that they didn't realize they had swum far from home. Suddenly, Cherub saw a large shark (鲨鱼) swimming above them. "It was Big White ... the biggest, scariest shark in the sea," she shouted to Oliver. Cherub looked at Big White hopelessly. And an idea came to Oliver. He quickly sprayed (喷射) a very dark cloud of black water to the shark's eyes. Then Oliver and Cherub escaped and got home safely.

    "Are you OK?" asked Oliver, Cherub laughed happily, "That was the most interesting trip ever! You saved me just now, Oliver. I am lucky to have you as my friend!" Oliver's face turned red. "I guess being different can be pretty cool in some situations," Oliver said. "That is what I tried to tell you," Cherub smiled.

    Bruce shook (摇) his money box again.

    Nothing! He carefully counted the coins on his bed. All the money was $24.52. He wanted to buy a 1, but it was at least 2. How could he get the rest of the money?

    All his friends had bicycles, but he was the only one 3 a bicycle. He thought about 4 he could do. He couldn't get money from his parents, because he knew they had no extra (额外的) money. There was only one way to get money, and that was to earn (挣钱) it. He would have to find a job. He decided to ask Mr Clay for 5 .

    “Well, you can start right here,'' said Mr Clay. “You see, my windows need cleaning and my car needs washing.”

    That was the beginning of Bruce's part-time (兼职) job. For the next three 6 he worked every day after finishing his homework. He took dogs for walks and cleaned rooms.

The day came at last when Bruce 7 his money and found $94.32. He went to the shop quickly to 8 the bicycle he wanted. He rode home happily, looking forward to 9 his new bicycle to his friends. Bruce liked his bicycle very much because he bought it with his own money. At last, his dream came true, and his parents were10 with him.

    There is a nice family living in Valladolid, a beautiful city in central Spain. father, José Garcia, is a tall and friendly man, He (work) at a famous company. He married Teresa, a (beauty) woman dark eyes and light hair. She is a (teach) of Primary Education, José and Teresa have three (child): Susan, Rebecca and Juan, The eldest, Susan, is 24 years old. She's a doctor busy with her work every day. She (usual) goes to work at 8 a.m. and comes home after 7 p.m. Rebecca, a beautiful girl with big dark eyes, is 19 years old and (study) Chinese in the Canary Islands. Juan, a naughty 11-year-old boy, dreams becoming a great football player. We can know they have a happy family.

June 22nd, 1993 is a day that I will never forget. It was on that day that my life 1 forever.

I was a nurse working in a 2. After being a single mother(单亲妈妈) for 12 years, I was finally 3to enjoy life with my four children.

 4 on June 22nd, 1993, I had a(n) 5 on the way to work. I was seriously hurt. I 6 my job, and I believed my life was over, too.

I had a lot of surgeries(外科手术). 7 the first surgery, I was 8 helpless and could do nothing for myself. Several months later, the doctor said there was 9 else he could do and he let me go home.

At home, I had to spend most of my time in the wheelchair. Though my children 10 me carefully, I was upset and not 11 in everything.

After several months of being sad, I started to look at my life 12. Now I realize 13 the important thing in life is. I enjoy 14 time with my family. And I started to appreciate(欣赏) the little things that I 15 to care about before. Now I feel I'm living a new life.

    One day, Mike and Dick decided to take their holiday in Australia. Their plane arrived in Sydney at nine in the morning. They had a good rest in a hotel. The next morning they rented a car in the city and began their trip. A few hours later the sun was shining in the sky and there were no shade trees beside the road. It was so hot that they could hardly(几乎不) go on driving. They had to stop to look around. Mike found a river was about half a kilometer away from them. They were both very happy and drove the car quickly. Soon they got to the river. Before they jumped into the river, Dick saw a boy playing under a big tree. He asked the boy, "Are there any sharks(鲨鱼) in the river? " "No," answered the boy, "There aren't any. "

    So they began to swim in the river. After a while, Dick felt something hit(敲打) against his leg. He told Mike about it. They were very afraid and stopped swimming. Dick asked the boy loudly, "Is it true that there are not any sharks in the river? " "Yes, Sir. There are a lot of crocodiles(鳄鱼)in the water. The sharks all swam away. "

    When I was a little girl, my mum and dad told me that if I planted something in spring, I could get1in autumn.

    At the age of six, when I was eating a big apple, something hard (硬) pressed against (挤压) my tongue (舌头). What was it? It was a tooth!

    I was afraid. I2and ran to my grandma's room. She picked up the tooth and said, "Don't worry, dear. It's a baby tooth. You will have a new tooth in a few3."

    "A new tooth?" I felt very4.

    "Yes. But when you get old, your teeth will5out again, but at that time, they won't grow again. So it's not6for old people to eat something hard," my grandma said.

    I went out of my grandma's room and thought, "Where can I7the dropped tooth?" Suddenly, a good idea8into my mind, "Why not plant it in the ground? If I look after it well, maybe it would become a big tree. When 9comes, there will be many white and strong teeth10the tree. I can give them to the old people then."

    Of course my tooth didn't grow into a big tree, but I won't forget the beautiful dream in my childhood.

Fahd Saleh is a restaurant owner. He is very interested in food and loves his restaurant. It is called Marmar Restaurant and it is in a big city in Saudi Arabia. Everyone enjoys eating his food.

After all the people finished eating and left his restaurant each day, he looked in his kitchen. There were always a lot of plates with food on. . Why not? Didn't they like it?

The waiters explained that those who came to dinner said they liked the food. They left the food because they had ordered too much. They were full and couldn't eat anything else.

. The next morning, he wrote a new sign. He put it on the wall in the restaurant. The first people to dinner that day were three men. Before the waiter pointed to the sign, they had ordered four starters, some fish, some meat and rice, and two vegetable dishes. . They ordered three starters, followed by some meat, rice and one dish of vegetables. Why did they do that? Here's the sign：

Dear friends,

    Thank you for eating in Marmar Restaurant. We want to waste less food. So we are asking you to think carefully before you order. Please do not order too much food.

A few months later， there was less waste in Marmar Restaurant, Mr. Saleh was very happy. He said, "People are thinking before they order. Then they eat up what they order."

The first time I saw Kai, she was sitting in my front yard hugging my dog. Seeing me, she1, smiled, and waved. She introduced herself as my new neighbor while she continued petting my dog. I liked her 2but didn't know then what an impact(影响) she would have on my life.

Soon we were not only neighbors but good friends. When Kai greeted you with her 3voice, you always felt like the most special person in the world. Anyone who came to her door was treated like4.

Whenever my sons, daughters, and I visited her, she would 5us in with a smile, sit us down, and cut us a piece of cake. She was always helping others and encouraging others. No matter who you were, you 6left her house feeling a little happier.

All of the time I was getting to know Kai, though, she was 7. She told me that her illness was terminal (晚期的). She was battling(搏斗) with several health problems and was slowly losing the fight. Her husband and she had their own business.8 after a while, Kai was too weak to work any more. She had to spend most of her time in bed. Finally, on a cold morning, her body gave out and she died in her home. The day she 9. I walked back to my house, closed the door to my bedroom and cried. She had touched me so much. I had become a 10person because of her. I still miss her today.

Mel Kiser was driving along a busy highway in Columbus, Ohio, He saw an armored truck(运钞车)and a few cars ahead of him. Suddenly the back door of the armored truck1, And a blue plastic bag fell out of the truck. A car in front of Mr Kiser hit the bag. And money spilled(洒落)out of it. Then another bag fell out of the truck, and another. Money was 2 everywhere.

At first, drivers thought the3papers on the highway were leaves. Then they realized that the papers were not leaves——they were money! Drivers quickly stopped right in the middle of the highway and jumped out of their cars. They began4money! They were putting ten, twenty, and one—hundred—dollar bills into their pockets. Mr Kiser also got out of his car. He took hold of a bag of money, put the bag in his car, and drove away.

Later, Mr Kiser5the money. He had $57, 000. For the next two hours Mr Kiser thought about the money. He6about spending it. He needed a new TV set for his house. He wanted to take a vacation in Florida. But he decided to return the money. He drove to the police station and gave the police the S57,000. There other people7money, too. But most of the money—almost one million dollars were still missing. The truck company8a 10 percent reward. If you return $1, 000, for example, we will pay you $100. "the company said.

Then the company got some9. A man telephone and said, "I was driving along the highway when I saw the traffic jam and the money. People were10everywhere. I had a camera in my car and I took some pictures. Would you like the pictures?"

"Yes!" answered the truck company. The company gave the pictures to the police. The police looked11at the pictures. They looked at the cars, the license plates, and the people's12. They tried to find the people who had taken the money, but they didn't have much13.

One man who had taken money 14 a Columbus newspaper, The man did not give his name, "I took two bags of money, " he said, "I'm going to take the money and15 Columbus. I have enough money for the rest of my life. "

The man was arrested and put into prison at last.

    Richard is going through a very hard time. His wife has just passed away. He feels that life without her is pointless. For months, Richard sits in his house, doing nothing. His family try to encourage him to do new things and enjoy life, but they're not successful. Richard's neighbor, an old woman named Helen, sees him from her yard one day. She has not seen him outside in days! She asks him to come closer to the fence (篱笆) next to her house. "Hello. Richard! Just look at this fence, It is falling apart. You are a strong man. Can you help me fix this fence?" Helen asks. Richard is angry inside. He is the needs help right now. He thinks the old lady is being kind of rude. But she is too old to fix the fence herself, so he agrees. Richard works on the fence for days. Helen brings him lemonade while he works. When he finishes, she thanks him. Richard smiles for the first time in months. "What a wonderful job! Could you please paint it for me?" Helen says to him. Richard cannot believe she is asking for more help. Doesn't she know how sad he is? But because he respects her, he agrees. He works hard painting the fence in the hot sun, but Helen's lemonade and encouragement are helpful. As their neighbours pass by, they all tell Richard what a beautiful job he has done. Richard feels very happy. Richard no longer feels that life is pointless. He finally realizes that Helen wasn't being rude. She knows that staying busy can help us forget our sorrows. He helped her, but she truly saved him.

The lion was ill. He had been lying in his cave(洞穴) for several days.

Usually the lion made all the1and the other animals just listened to him. When the lion no longer gave them orders, they didn't know what they should do2, they decided to go to the cave to visit him. One by one, the animals went to the lion's cave, but the3didn't.

After some time, the lion4that the fox had never visited him. He asked a jackal (豺狼) to find out the5.

"Fox," said the jackal, "the lion is 6. Why didn't you go to visit him?"

"Jackal," said the fox, "it's not that I don't want to7him. Several times I went to the mouth on his cave. I saw many footprints. However, the8thing was that they were all going one way—into the cave. There was no9of any footprints coming out."

The fox was so10. The lion wasn't ill at all. He was just too old to hunt. The animals who went into his cave all became his meals!

The Picture of Peace

When Mike was seven, he knew his dream was to be a photographer. He kept working on it for years. Recently, he was trying to take a picture of a sunset(日落) to enter the school 1competition.

"Mom, it has been cloudy these days. I don't think I can get this picture!" Mike complained.

"Why not use one of your photos on the computer?" suggested Mom.

"I can't-the rules say the photos have to be taken with a traditional camera. We hand in a roll of film, it gets developed(冲洗胶卷) ， and we2one photo for the competition. "

"Why is a sunset so important?" Mom asked.

"The3of the competition is peace," Mike explained, "and I feel most peaceful seeing a sunset."

Zach, his six-year-old brother came out of the bedroom. " Hey, you want to take a picture of me? Look!" He put both arms over his head.

"Not right now, " said Mike, laughing.

That very afternoon, Mike felt excited when he saw clear skies. He carefully lined up his shot(镜头) and waited4till the sun reached the ground.

"That's it! Perfect!" he shouted cheerfully.

The next morning, Mike noticed he could take one more picture to complete the roll of film, so he walked into Zach's room. Zach was 5quietly with a teddy bear under his arm. Mike didn't wake Zach up, and carefully took a picture of him.

A week later, Mike got the photos. The sunset picture was the one he was most6to see. There it was! It was as nearly perfect as Mike had expected.

Then, he looked through the other photos. Suddenly, he stopped. His eyebrows(眉毛) rose as he 7the photo of Zach. He looked back at the photo of the sunset, which seemed less perfect now. He 8the two choices. Finally, he decided to hand in the photo of Zach for the competition.

    In Zhengzhou No. 103 High School, the students plant hundreds of vegetables, fruits and flowers on the top of the school buildings.

    The school started the1project last autumn. The 3,000-square-meter rooftop farm has 152. Students can take part in the project through a club or during3class. Every Wednesday afternoon, they spend about two4in the garden.

They go up and down again and again5small bags of soil for several hours. They often work in the sun. But they never complain. From seeding and watering to harvesting, they really do the whole job of growing plants. To6more, students also work in groups to record the7of plants. They take photos and write things down every week. For8students, it is their first time to do farm work, and they work hard.

    "We hope to help students get biological lessons and hands-on9. But they get more than that," said Hu Yongbing, a biology teacher who takes care of the garden.

    So far, they have harvested tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables. Many of them are10in the school canteen.

Once there was a farmer who owned a farm near the ocean（大洋）. It was 1 for him to do all the farm work alone. 2 he wanted to hire（雇佣）someone for help. But most people didn't want to work on farms there because of the storms across the ocean.

One day, a mid-aged man came for an interview. The farmer asked, "Are you good at 3work?" The man answered, "Well, I can sleep when the wind blows." The farmer didn't understand what he meant, but he still hired him.

The man started to work on the farm. He kept busy every day. The farmer was satisfied 4his work. One night, the wind blew 5. When the farmer heard it, He jumped out of the bed and rushed into the man's room, He 6 at the man, "Get up! Hurry! A storm is coming!" But the man said, "No, sir, I've already told you, I can sleep when the wind blows."

The farmer was very 7and planned to fire（解雇）him after the storm. He hurried outside to 8 the storm. To his surprise, he found that cows and chickens were in place and doors of the farmhouse were closed tightly. 9 was in the right place. Nothing could be blown away by the storm.

Just then, the farmer 10the man's words. When one is well prepared, he has nothing to fear（害怕）。

Many people in Venice knew who Antonio Rossi was. Like his father, Antonio was a very talented glassblower. He made many beautiful glass products.

Antonio's daughter Clara liked her father's workshop. She loved to look at all of the beautiful and colorful products he created. One day, she walked into the workshop and her father was there, standing beside two glass vases (花瓶).

"Do you like them, Clara?" he asked proudly. "I have made them for Mr. Lombardi, the great writer here in Venice."

"They're beautiful, Father. "Clara said.

"I must go and get Mr. Lombardi," said her father. Then, he left the workshop.

Clara looked at the vases. Beside them was a note. Clara read the note and smiled. As she turned, she bumped the vases.

"No!" She tried to catch them, but it was too late. They fell to the ground and broke into many pieces. Only the round bases (底部) at the bottom were not broken, "What will I tell Father?" _______

It was then that she saw Mr. Lombardi's note as she looked through the glass. The letters were…BIG!

Clara picked up the other base and looked through it. It worked, too! The words looked bigger!

Clara thought quickly. She found a wire (金属丝) and carefully wrapped (缠绕) it around the two glass pieces a pair of glasses was made in such a way.

As Clara finished, Mr. Lombardi and her father walked in.

"Now let me show you the…"Clara's father stopped, and stared at the broken vases on the floor, "Oh, Clara!"

"I'm so sorry, Father, " Clara said in a low voice.

Mr. Lombardi looked at the two pieces of glass in a wire frame (框架) in Clara's hand. "What do you have there?" he asked.

"I made it from the broken piece," said Clara. "Look through them. "She held up the note for him to see.

Mr. Lombardi's eyes opened wide. " The words! They're big!" He looked at Clara's father, "My wife can't read my books because of her eyes. This will be my gift to her! It will be the greatest gift ever!"

Clara's father smiled. "I don't know how you did it, Clara," he said, but you made something very useful. "

Clara did make something very useful she invented eyeglasses!

A young man went to the boss （老板） of logging crew （伐木队） and asked for a job.

"Let me see you fell this tree first." said the boss. The young man took his axe and fell a big tree in a short time. The boss was happy and said, "You can start the job on Monday."

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday went by, and Thursday afternoon the boss went to the young man and said, "You can get the pay （报酬） today. "The young man was very surprised. He answered, "I thought you would pay on Friday" "Usually we," the boss said." But I'll let you go today because you've fallen behind （落后）. You have dropped （降） from the first place on Monday to the last place today. "

"But I'm quite hard—working. "the young man said, "I am the first to arrive, and the last to leave, and even work during my coffee time!" The boss thought for a minute and asked, "Have you sharpened your axe （磨斧子）? "The young man answered, "No, sir, I work too hard to take time for that!"

Our lives are like this. We sometimes get so busy that we don't take time to sharpen the axe". There's nothing wrong with working hard. But we all need time to relax, to think, to learn and to grow. If we don't spend time relaxing, we will feel bored and fall behind.

A primary school headmaster Zhang Pengfei became famous on the Internet because of doing cool moving exercise with his students. 41 -year -old Zhang Pengfei works at Xiguan Primary School in Linyi County, Shanxi Province. Every morning, he leads about 700 pupils in dancing" ghost shuffle routine" (鬼步舞) on the playground. The dance includes jazz (爵士) steps with heel (脚后跟), toe (脚趾) and arm movements. If people join in the interesting activity, they'll have a great time. The fun exercise certainly makes the students relaxed. The new 30 -minute dancing has replaced the old broadcast (广播) exercise program which began in 1951. “I thought we needed a change because the students are losing interest in doing the old one," Zhang told the reporter.

He saw a group of people doing the ghost shuffle routine in summer in 2018. Then he decided to learn the dance himself. in October, he showed it to all of his students. Soon even teachers and workers joined in the activity.  

“Now the students don't keep playing games on their phones all the time. 1 sometimes see them watching different dancing videos and learning new moves!” the headmaster said. "I think the dance is great for kids. The music is full of energy (活力) and it really brings people the happy feeling. ”

Every year in Australia, the greatest long-distance runners race more than 500 miles (805 km) from Sydney to Melbourne. It makes many world-class professional runners interested in, who have become spokespeople for sports shoes and sports drinks.

In 1983, however, as the competitors lined up to race, they were joined by a 61-year-old farmer. His name was Cliff Young. The other runners mistook him a spectator(观众). He explained that on his family's sheep farm, he often had to round up 2,000 or so animals by himself. "Sometimes I had to run after those sheep for two or three days," he said.

  Instead of chasing after them, Cliff shuffled(拖着脚走) along in an unusual way. The other runners and the spectators thought he would never finish the race. But something happened. When all the other runners took a break to sleep, Cliff kept running. The other runners caught up to him each morning, but finally Cliff was too far ahead to be passed.

Cliff received $10,000 for winning the race. He said he did not realize there would be prize money, and he shared the money with other runners. Since then, many runners have used his shuffling stride(快步走). No one sleeps during the race anymore, either. The farmer changed long-distance racing and proved that age and style aren't everything.

A. Cliff told them that he was there to race.

B. Doing this made him a hero in Australia.

C. The race takes more than five days to complete.

D. When the race began, the younger runners flew past Cliff.

E. On the fifth day, the sheep farmer shuffled into first place.

Lucy Brown, aged 12, puts smiles on the faces of kids and keeps them very warm too. She sews (缝纫) blankets (毯子) for children who are dealing with challenges such as being sick, feeling unhappy, or losing a family member.

Lucy got the idea four years ago. She had just learned to sew and made a blanket as a gift for her friend's birthday. "She loved it," Lucy says. "So, I thought maybe other kids might need that kind of love."

Her mom posted (发布) on the Internet that Lucy wanted to make a blanket for someone who needed care. They collected the kids' suggestions. When 20 suggestions came, Lucy didn't just choose one. She met all of their needs! She has already made more than 800 blankets for kids in countries.

Her favorite part is learning about each child. "I love hearing their stories and getting to know them," she says. She tries to design styles according to the children's interests.

On each of the blanket, Lucy adds a hand-sewn (手工缝制的) heart. "That's to let anyone who gets the blanket know they are loved," she says.

Many kids who receive a blanket keep in touch with Lucy. She now has friends all over the world. "I love knowing that I can make a difference." Lucy says. "Everyone can do something. Even the smallest act of kindness can change lives."