High school does not encouragestudents to know about the new things in life, but college sets the stage for it.I myself went through this1process (过程) and found something that haschanged my experience at college for the better: I discovered ASL﹣American SignLanguage.

I never felt it necessary tolearn any sign language before. All of my family members can hear, and so are allmy friends. The 2 language was enough. Little by little, I discoveredmy 3 for ASL.

The4began during my first week atcollege. I watched it carefully when the ASL club performed their translation ofa song. Both the hand movements and the idea of communicating without speaking attractedme. What I saw was completely different from anything I had experienced in the past.This new form of communication just made me want more.

After that, feeling the needto5 further, I decided to join one of ASL clubs. Ionly learned how to express my feelings6 my hands about the letters that day. Although myprocess was7, I wasn't disappointed aboutit. I then tried my best to take part in those club's meetings and learned all Icould.

The following term, I decidedto be a member of an ASL class. The professor was deaf and any talking wasn't8. I soon realized that silencewas not unpleasant.9, if there had been any talking,it would have caused to learn less. Now, I enjoy the silence and the10 way of communication.

Alex goes to buy fruits. He asks the shopkeeper*, "What's the price of bananas and apples?" The Shopkeeper answers, "Banana is 2 dollars a kilo and apples are 4 dollars a kilo. At the same time, a woman comes to the shop and also asks the same question.

The shopkeeper says, "Banana is 

0.5 dollar a kilo and apples are 1 dollar a kilo." Hearing this, Alex just can't believe what he hears. "Why are the prices for the woman different?" he thinks. The shopkeeper finds this and asks Alex to wait here.

"Thank you, God, today my children will be very happy after eating fruits."The woman pays for fruits, and murmurs* excitedly leaving the shop.

After the woman leaves, the shopkeeper looks towards Alex and says, "In the name of god, I didn't deceive* you." After stopping for a moment, he goes on, "The woman you see just now is a poor widow, who looks after four kids alone. She lives in my neighborhood. I tried to help her, but she just didn't take any kind of help from anyone."

"Then I think of this way to help her. In this way, she doesn't have to feel that someone shows pity* for her. ____"

"In fact, whenever this lady comes, more people will come to my shop. Maybe she also brings luck to me."

After hearing all of this, Alex hugs the shopkeeper. "I will also be happy after eating the fruits." he says. Then he leaves with the fruits.

My grandparents lived in a small village near a hill. Before the summer vacation started, I {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(decide) to spend it with them. I never lived in the countryside before, so I knew nothing about{#blank#}2{#/blank#} life there.

When I lived with my grandparents, I was interested in {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(learn) what life was like when my father was little. Then my grandmother told me about it and she also told me some funny stories about my father. My grandmother kept many chickens and {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(duck). In the morning, they went out. I worried they wouldn't come back home, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}I finally knew that I didn't need to worry. They all came back home after some time.

One day, my grandmother took me to a market in the village. When we just got there, it started to rain. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(lucky), we took an umbrella. At the market, a woman sold hand- made clothes. They were not expensive, so I bought a skirt for {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(I) with my pocket money. The next day, we went to my {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(grandfather) farm. I saw my grandfather feed the pigs and cows. He told me a lot of things about farming and I learned much {#blank#}9{#/blank#} him.

I lived in the countryside for over {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(first) month. It was an interesting trip for me.

I'm Liu Bing. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} I have three good friends. They are Linda, Gina and Frank. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} My favorite（最喜欢的） sport is ping- pong. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} I think ping- pong is fun. But Linda and Gina think it is boring. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} They play soccer at school. Frank is a nice boy. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} He plays it very well. It's relaxing for him to play basketball. 

 The police have many ways of catching criminals. One way of catching them is by fingerprinting. Fingerprinting is the study of the patterns on our fingertips. We have known that no two fingerprints are exactly the same for hundreds of years. However, it wasn't until 1910 that the first criminal in the USA was convicted(被判有罪) using fingerprint evidence(证据).

 Early on the morning of September 19,1910, Hiller's wife noticed that the light which they usually left on was off. When Hiller went to find out what was happening, he saw a stranger at the top of the stairs. The stranger had broken in and wanted to steal. Hiller and the stranger started to fight, but the stranger had a gun. He shot Hiller twice and ran away.

 Hiller's wife ran to Hiller when she heard the gunshots but found him dead. So she called the police. Soon after, the police caught Thomas Jennings, not far from the Hillers' house.

 The only problem was no one saw the criminal. However, the police had started using fingerprinting at that time. According to Hiller's wife, only several hours before Hiller's death, he had painted some wood near the kitchen window. Then the police checked the wood completely and found some fingerprints in the wet paint..

 During the trial(审判), the police proved that the fingerprints belonged to Jennings, and he was convicted of Hiller' s murder(谋杀). Since then, fingerprinting has helped in the conviction of hundreds of thousands of criminals.