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    Mike Myers is a teacher at Chauncey Rose High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. Last year, he taught his students about the world's rain forests. They learned that rain forests are important because the plants and animals of the rain forest give us food, wood, and medicine.

    Destruction of the world's rain forests is a serious problem. Unluckily, rain forests are disappearing at a rate of 80 acres per minute! As part of a class project, Myers' students bought three acres of rain forest in Central America. They paid $25 per acre. The students hope that the land they bought will be protected and not destroyed. The students became so interested in rain forests that they decided to get a closer look at a real rain forest.

    So last June, Myers and four of his students took a boat ride down a river. They saw alligators and crocodiles. In the middle of the week, a guide took Myers and his students into the rain forest. "The monkeys were not happy that we were in their forest. They broke small branches off the trees and threw them at us," one of the students said. "It was a great learning experience for all of us," said Myers.

    Each student chose something specific about Costa Rica to study involving the plants, animals, food, and culture. During the last few days the group had time to do fun activities. They went whitewater rafting and horseback riding, and visited Costa Rica's active volcano.

    Myers hopes to make the trip every year with a different group of kids.

    One day,Eddy,the frog(青蛙)，meets his two friends：Tom，the squirrel(松鼠)，and Mary,the bird．

    "Eddy,can you climb trees?"asks Tom．

    "No，I can't，"says Eddy．Tom laughs(笑)and‘climbs up into a tree．

    "Eddy,can you sing?"asks Mary．

    "No，I can't，"says Eddy．Mary laughs and sings a beautiful song．

     "Look，"Eddy says，"I can swim."He jumps into the water and swims．

    "That's nothing．"say Tom and Mary．

    Eddy is sad and he goes away．He meets a monkey and he learns to juggle(玩杂耍)from him．Then Eddy goes back to his friends and juggles for them．But they don't like it．Eddy is sad again．At that time they hear a baby bird crying in the water,"Help!Help!"

    Mary and Tom can't swim，so they can't help the baby bird．Eddy jumps into the water and helps the baby bird out．

    "Thank you，Eddy!"says the baby bird．

    "You are great，Eddy,"say Mary and Tom．Eddy is very happy now．

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    Tina woke up at midnight. She looked out of her window and saw a yellow light in the sky. It suddenly dived towards the ground. She heard a noise and saw a red light.

    The next morning, Tina mentioned it to her brother Tom. "I'm sure something landed in the forest near the hills as I heard a loud noise last night" she said, "Let's go there and have a look after school."

    At 6 p.m., Tina and Tom reached the forest. They heard some voices speaking a strange language, so they hid behind some gees and kept quiet. Then they saw an alien! It was tall, with a round head and a silver body. It was standing next to a long spaceship.

    The children were frightened. Suddenly, another alien appeared from the trees in front of them. It discovered them and made a terrible noise! The children ran away in fear.

    The next morning, Tina and Tom told their parents about the strange aliens. "They were very ugly. They had some hair, but they didn't have any feathers." said Tina.

    "There was something written on the spaceship," said Tom. "It looked like this. I wonder what it means." He drew some lines on a piece of paper.

    But Dad said, "Since no one else saw these aliens. I refuse to believe you. Now go to school!"

    The children opened their wings and flew to school together.

    Dad looked at the piece of paper with the strange marks on it. "It looks strange," he said, as he looked at the word "EARTH".

    John was a poor man in a small village. He tried to grow as many vegetables as possible in his yard, so he didn't have to buy so many in the market.

    One evening, John was reading in his room. All of a sudden, he heard a noise in his yard and he looked out of the window. A white bull (公牛) was eating his vegetables. That burnt him up. He at once went out with his stick and ran after the bull. However, he was too old to catch it. When he got back, he found that most of his vegetables were ruined (毁坏).

    The next morning, while John was walking near his house, he saw two white bulls. They looked very much like the one that had eaten his vegetables. He was carrying his stick with him, so he at once began to beat the two bulls with it. As neither of them looked more like the bull that had eaten his vegetables than the other, he beat both of them very hard.

    The owner of the bulls saw that and shouted, "Hey! Why are you beating those poor animals like that? What have they done?"

    "You keep out of this!" John shouted back, "That's a matter between me and one of the two bulls. _________"

    The owner couldn't even say a word.

    Mr. Smith has a son. His name is Peter Smith. The young boy works in a bank in a city. He asks his father to visit the city. The old man is very happy and takes a train to the city. But he doesn't know where the bank is. He begins to look for but he can't find it.

    At a bus stop he asks an old woman "Excuse me, how can I get to the bank?" "We have ten banks in the city, which one do you want?" says the old woman.

    The old man shows the son's letter to her and the old woman says， "Walk along this road and turn left at the third crossing, then you can see the bank, It's across from a hospital."

    Mr. Smith thanks her and soon finds his son. After three days, the old man goes to the park. But he can't find the bank again. At the same bus stop he meets the same old woman and asks the same questions（问题）. "Oh, dear!" the old woman call out. "Are you still looking for your son?"