Mark Twain was a famous American writer. One day he went to a city by train. He was a busy man. He usually 1 something. When he was in the train, the conductor asked him for his 2. Mark Twain looked for it here and there, but he could not find it. The conductor knew Mark Twain. She said, “If you can't find it, it doesn't matter.” “Oh, but it does,” said Mark Twain. “I must find it. If I can't find it, how can I 3 where I'm going?” Another day, he went to Dijon by train. He was very 4 and wanted to sleep. He asked the conductor to wake him up before the train 5 Dijon. But first he explained that he was a heavy sleeper. “I would probably protest (抗议）6 when you try to wake me up. But do not 7. Just put me off the train anyway.” Then Mark Twain went to sleep. By the time he woke up, the train had already been in Paris. He 8 that the conductor had forgotten his words. He was very 9. He ran up to the conductor and began 10 him, “I never was so angry in all my life.” The conductor looked hard at him and said “I just put a man off the train at Dijon. You were not half as angry as him!”

    Long long ago, there was a swan（天鹅）with golden feathers（金羽毛）.She lived in a lake.

    A woman lived in a small house1the lake with her two daughters. They were very poor. They worked hard all year round,2 still, they lived a hard life and sometimes they even didn't have enough 3to buy food.

    The swan was 4to see that. She said to herself, “I'll give one of my5 to them each day, then they can live a happy life with the money selling my feathers.” That evening, she6to the poor woman's house and left a golden feather on the table without saying7.From then on, the swam came every day and gave them a feather. The woman was very happy because their life was much8than before.

    But day after day, the woman became greedy（贪婪）.She said to her 9”The swan may fly away one day. If so, we will be poor again. We should take all10feathers when she comes next time.” “Oh, no, Mom!” cried the daughters, “This will 11the swan. She helps us a lot !”But the mother wouldn't listen. When the 12came as usual, the mother caught her and took all her feathers .But suddenly, the golden feathers 13chicken feathers.

    Then ,the Golden Swan said, “Poor Mother, I came to 14 you, but you wanted to kill me. Now, I am leaving and will 15come back. Never be greedy!” With these words, the swan flew away.

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    Hannah Taylor is a schoolgirl from Canada. One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown. They saw a man 1 out of a rubbish can. She asked her mother why he did that and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry. Hannah was very 2. She couldn't understand why some people had to live their lives without houses or enough food. Hannah started to think about how she could 3, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.     

    Later ,when Hannah attended school, she saw another homeless person. It was a woman, 4 an old shopping trolley（购物车）which was full of 5. It seemed that everything the woman owned was in them. Hannah 6 to do something. She had been talking to her mother about the lives of homeless people 7 they first saw the homeless man. Her mother told her that if she did something to change the problem, she wouldn't 8so bad.

    Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness. She hoped to 9 her message of hope. She started the Ladybug Foudation(基金) and began to raise money.

    Hannah is one of many examples of young people who are making a 10 in the world. You can, too!

    I stood there listening to my father shout at top of his voice," 1one of you did this?" We all stared down at the step. There was child's handwriting in chalk there. Would he guess it was me? I was so 2. When he asked me, I lied, "Not me, Dad." The others denied (否认) it as well. Of course, we all knew that one of us 3 have done it. But as the youngest and smallest of the three, I just couldn't find the courage to tell the 4 .

    To find out who had written on the 5 , Father gave us each a piece of paper and a pencil. "I want 6of you to write exactly what you see on the step." I tried my best to write the words 7 . I didn't want Dad to be able to tell it was me. He gathered up our pieces of paper and looked at them. "Since none of you will admit (承认) to have done it, then I will 8 you all." I stood there and said nothing. "I did it." My sister stepped forward and said she had done 9 she hadn't. She was grounded (被罚不准出门) for a month. I didn't tell my dad it was really me 10 many years later. I always felt sorry because of it. That was the last time I let anyone take the blame (承担责任) for me.

    Once upon a time, there was a hungry fox that was looking for something to eat. He was very 1. No matter how hard he tried, the fox could not find any food. 2 he went to the side of the forest and looked for food there. He found a big tree 3 a hole in it.

    Inside the hole was a package. The hungry fox thought that there 4 be food in it, and he became very happy. He jumped into the hole and when he 5 the package, he saw there 6 lot of food in it!

    The fox happily began to eat. After the fox had finished 7, he felt thirsty and decided to leave the hole 8 drink some water. However, no matter how hard he tried, he could not get out of the hole. Do you know 9? Yes, the fox had eaten so much food that he became 10 big to go through the hole.