One day Eric was traveling on horseback. At noon, he tied his horse to a 1. Afew minutes later, Paul came along and tied his horse to the same tree.

   “My horse is wild,” said Eric. “Please tie your horse to another tree, 2 my horse will kill yours.”

   “No way!” Paul said, “I shall tie my horse as I like!”He tied up his horse and had his 3 nearby. After a moment they heard a terrible noise. The two horses were 4. They ran up to them, but it was too 5. Paul's horse was killed. “See what your horse has done! You'll have to 6 it,”shouted Paul. And he brought Eric before Mr. Know.

    Mr. Know asked Eric some questions. But Eric said 7. At last Mr. Know said, “This man cannot speak.”

  “He can!” Paul said 8. “He talked to me when I met him.”

  “Are you 9?”asked Mr. Know. “What did he say?”

  “He told me not to tie my horse to the same tree because his horse was wild and would kill my horse.”

  “Oh,” said Mr. Know. “So he 10 you. Then can you expect to get money from him?” Paul had to leave silently.

    Mrs Brown lived alone in a small flat, She was old and didn't like 1   at all. So she was very  2  when the excited young man and woman in the flat above moved out. A new young man moved    3  , and Mrs Brown thought, “Well, he looks   4   .” But at three o'clock the next morning, she was woken up by the barking(叫) of a dog.

    “I've  5heard the dog barking here before,” she thought. “It  6  be the young man's dog.” So she telephoned the young man at once,     7    some unpleasant things to him, rang off the telephone and went to bed  8  he could answer.

    The next day Mrs Brown's telephone rang at    9 hour of morning and when she got out of bed and answered, the  10  said to her. “I haven't got a dog, madam.”

    Mr. and Mrs. Green were very worried about their son, Daniel. He was born normal (正常) in every other way,1 seemed to be dumb (哑的). Mr. and Mrs. Green tried everything to get him to 2, but with no success.

    When Daniel was six years old, the best doctors in the town examined (检查) him3, but could find nothing wrong. And he seemed to be smart. It was just that he 4 spoke.

    “There might be something wrong with his 5, and he doesn't know he's able to speak,” one doctor said.

    “But he can read and write,” said Mr. Green, “We've written him notes, telling him to speak some day.”

    “It's certainly very 6,” another doctor said. “Perhaps he will be able to speak some day.”

    7passed. Daniel went to university. But he didn't speak a single word.

    Then one day Daniel was having a meal with his parents. Without any warning, he looked up from his 8 and said, “Pass me the salt, please.”

    Mr and Mrs Green were excited. “You spoke! You spoke!” they cried. “Why have you 9 so long to speak?”

    “I didn't have anything to say,” he said. “Until now everything was10. But you forgot to put salt in these potatoes.”

    At the age of 12, most of the kids like to watch TV or 1online games. But the 12-year-old Jaysea is 2teaching yoga. She finished 200 hours' teacher training and is the youngest yoga  3now.

    She teaches kids and teenagers yoga. "I want to do this for a long time 4I love so much," says Jaysea, the girl 5long blonde hair and long legs. She seems quieter6more serious than most other kids.

    She  7a twin brother and a 15-year-old brother. Their parents, Rick and Julie said, "They only go to school three days a  8. We tell them to think about  9they want to do and they have  10days to do it. And when they finish high school, they will get their favorite 11."

    Her father says she still 12her best at school. "She finishes all her homework and she13wants to miss a class."

    School doesn't 14before 9:45 a.m. or 10:30 a.m., so Jaysea has enough time to do practice every 15at home for an hour.

    Mrs. Wilson is my neighbor(邻居). She1at a post office and she meets lots of people2. She is3to everyone and likes helping others. She is over fifty years old, 4she looks very young(年轻). She is of5height and thin. She has long curly brown6. She likes to wear a red T-shirt and jeans. She7like a movie star. She really likes8shopping on weekends and she always buys many beautiful clothes. She always9, "Old people still want10beautiful!" People all like her very much.

    Years ago, I celebrated my 40^th birthday with my friends. I arrived at the restaurant ahead of time, 1I waited outside the restaurant. Then a homeless man came up to me and asked for 2. I had been given strict orders by my friends not to bring my wallet in case(以防) I paid for the meal. So I told the man that I had 3money. He quietly smiled at me, and then left.

    Just then a friend who just arrived called out "Happy birthday!" Hearing this, the man turned and asked, "Hey man, it's your birthday today?" "Yes, it is", I said. He 4, smiling and said loudly, "Happy birthday, man!" But I could hardly imagine what happened next. The man reached into his pocket, pulled out a dollar bill and said "Here man, take this."

    Though I was 5his action, I didn't want to accept money from a homeless man. I said, "Thanks. That's really 6of you, but that's OK." The man looked directly into my eyes and said, "Please take this." I still hesitated (犹豫)to accept this7, but I heard a voice within me shouting, "TAKE THE MONEY!" I hesitantly reached out and said, "Thank you". Excitedly, he caught my 8, gave me the dollar and said, "No, thank you brother!"

    That experience made me feel like I had got far more than $1! This was one of my greatest life9: No matter how poor we may be, we always have something valuable to10with others.