It was a lovely spring afternoon. My classmates and I were playing happily on the playground when I let out a cry, “Ow! Ow! Something in my shoe is biting me.”

    Everyone was shocked（震惊） by the cry. They took me into a classroom and were about to take off my1. “Which foot is it?” One asked “let us have a look.”

    Suddenly, I remembered the holes in2socks. My family was very poor during those years. I wore welfare （福利）socks, which cost only a little, but those3welfare socks didn't last long. They soon had 4at the bottom.

    I refused to take off my shoe. I5stand others seeing the holes in my sock. I tried to hold back my tears. Yet, each time the thing6my shoe bit me, tears raced down my face.

    My teacher, Miss Diane, hurried into the7, “What's wrong?” She asked.

    “Something is biting her right foot,8she doesn't let us take off her shoe,” One of my classmates answered.

    Miss Diane lived next door to me. She9everything about my family .She put both hands on my shaking shoulders and10into my painful and hopeless eyes.

    “Oh, yes, it must be a sock-eating ant,” She said, as if she had11seen the thing inside the shoe. “I had a bite from one of those ants. When I got my shoe off ,it 12almost the whole bottom off my sock.” My classmates nodded while they were listening to the teacher13, although they all looked a little surprised.

Miss Diane took off my right shoe and sock and shook them over the dustbin. Two red ants 14it.

    “Just what I thought it. The ants have eaten part of her sock.” When she stroked an alcohol （酒精）cotton ball on the bites, she added, “You are such a 15girl to take so many bites.”

    The alcohol felt cool on the bites and a little girl's pride was saved by the “sock-eating ant ” story.

    My name is Philippe and my wife's name is Sophie. We're from1 Recently we were faced with a 2situation while traveling by car in the mountains with our hired(雇佣的) driver. Just as we began to doze(打盹), the car made a strange, loud noise and then3working.

    We tried communicating with the driver but with little4because he couldn't speak French. He tried to tell us with body language that he was going to get help and then he left.

    We were in a poor area, with5houses in sight. We started to bear the cries of wild animals Sophie was very afraid. We didn't have much food and it was getting 6and darker I began to lose7 Should we leave the car? Would our driver ever8? Was he a trustworthy man? We were very worried.

    A couple of hours passed.9 the headlights from another car appeared in the dark. A man got out of the car. Finding us cold and hungry, he kindly asked us to10his car.

    11we left, he put a note on the windshield of the car with his phone number on it. Then he drove us to a nearby village, and we met his family. His cousin spoke French and he 12us tea and local foods.13asked us questions and they were excited to have unexpected guests.

    Later that evening, the phone rang. It was our14 He had kept his word and fixed the car.

    I will15forget the warmth we received on that day because we depended on a complete stranger for help.

    Hi! My name is Zhang Mingming. My family name is 1.My first name is Mingming. I 2 13. I have(有) a(n)3. It is very nice. The4 is 255-4300. I have a pen. What color is it? It's 5.

    Look! This 6 is my friend(朋友). 7 name is Frank. His 8 name is Miller. He has 9 rulers. One is white, one is red and one is green. 10 he? He is fine.

    There was once a rich and kind store owner. He1to leave all his money to an honest young mall when he was old.

    A good friend of his bad an idea and2him. "The next time you are giving the customers their change, make sure you give them too much. He who returns the3 money to you is honest. "The rich man thought it was a good idea, so he decided to try it.

    However, a neighbor happened to hear the 4. He paid a witch(女巫)to cast spell(咒语)on the rich old man's coins. Anyone who saw the coins5by the old man wouldn't see them as coins, but as something that they wanted most in the world. The neighbor believed that6customer would return the old man's money.

    Indeed, everything went according to the neighbor's7. When the old man had almost8trying, the greedy neighbor sent his nephew to the old man's store. He had told the boy to return the old man's money. 9when the boy received the coins, he saw in them all the money of his uncle. He didn't want to return the money and10with the coins.

    Finally, the rich old man was dying. He decided to give his servants some money so that they could live freely when he was 11with them. Among these servants was a young man, who12and respected the old man. He saw in the money a powerful medicine, which was13what he most wanted in the world. On seeing this, the young man14the money back, saying. "Take this, sir. It's15you. It will make you feel better. "

    The old man felt happy that he finally found an honest person. He gave all his money to him.

    One morning，Sue was riding her bike to school. She was late，so she decided to take a short cut（捷径）. But she made a mistake and1into a one-way street. The street was not very2. A car was coming from the other direction. The driver quickly drove to one side and drove into a shop window. The shop assistant was greatly3! There was4everywhere. Sue rode into the other side of the street and5a man, then an apple cart. The apple cart turned over and the apples went in all directions.

    A group of students were having6in a small restaurant. Quickly they ran7the street. With their help, all the apples were8and put back on the cart. Luckily,9Sue nor the driver of the cart was hurt. A policeman came by and saw what happened. He10Sue from riding to school and asked her some questions, so Sue was even later for school.

    When I was eight years old, Mother told me to put my coat on because we were going to go someplace 1. Usually, that meant we were going to see someone important or 2. I would at least get a new toy. I asked which one it would be that day, and she told me that I would be getting something better than a toy. She said I would get "access(通道)to a world of toys."

    I had no idea why she was being so 3that day.  4, I had no real idea what she meant.

    "Access to a world of toys?" Did that mean we were buying a toy store?

    But we did not 5 at any toy store. Nor did we finally see anyone we knew.6, Mother pulled her car into a parking lot in front of a building that looked like 7 out of the past.  It didn't have a modern look at all. And as we 8 the car, I still had no idea what this place was.

    We took stone steps up to the entrance. Only then did I find out what this place was, because there was a sign that 9"Marcy Public Library". We pushed the door open, and Mother led me to the front desk. "I'd like to get my daughter a library card", she told the man 10the desk. He asked her to fill out a form and smiled at me. "What kind of books do you like?" he asked. I was too shy to 11 them. I simply smiled back and shrugged my shoulders. "Well, you'll find it out in time," he said.

    I do not remember 12 I checked out that first day, but  I know  that  in  the years  that followed I read everything  I could  find 13 at that old library. I read through all the Nancy   Drew books before working on Judy Blume, then the 14: Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Shakespeare. Then I read books on history, books of poetry, and books about art. The library opened up a world that I 15 knew existed (存在).

    So Mother was right. Getting a library card was like getting access to a world of toys.