A man had a little dog, and he liked it a lot. He would pat (拍) its head, put it on his knee and talk to it. Then he would give it some food from his own plate.

    A donkey (驴子) looked in through the window and saw the man and the dog.

    " Why doesn't he choose me as his pet?" said the donkey. "It is not fair. I work hard, and the dog only shakes its tail, barks and jumps onto the master's (主人) knee. It is not fair. "

    Then the donkey said to himself, "If I do what the dog does, the master may choose me as

his pet. "

    So the donkey ran into the room. He brayed (嘶叫) at the top of his voice. He shook his tail so hard that he knocked over a jar on the table. Then he tried to jump onto the master's knee.

    The master thought the donkey was maniacal , and he shouted, "Help ! Help ! "

    Some men came running in with sticks in their hands and they beat the donkey until he ran out of the house.

"I only did what the dog did, " said the donkey, "and yet they still regard the dog as their pet and they beat me with sticks. It is not fair. "

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    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.

    If anyone can be called a scientific giant after Albert Einstein, that person must be Stephen Hawking. On March 14, 2018, the world-famous British scientist died at 76 in Cambridge, UK.

    Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 in England. When he was a boy, he 1 to study how things worked. His father wanted him to 2 a doctor, but he didn't want to. He had great 3 in science.

    Hawking got a very serious 4 called ALS at the age of 21. He couldn't walk or speak. Only three of his fingers could move. He could only communicate with others by computer. At first, Hawking was very sad. Later he 5 to see his life in a different way. He worked 6 and went on with his studies. Then he made some great 7 in science. He wrote many great books. The most 8 one is A Brief History of Time. In the book, he explains the 9 and end of the universe. He also wrote books for 10, like George and the Bing Bang(《乔治的宇宙大爆炸》). They help kids learn about space. And he gave speeches at universities. His unusual life encourages many young people.

    Hawking has left us. But just as his children said after his death, Hawking's works and spirits will live on for many years.

    Kate said "Hello "to Mr. Patel as she entered. She picked up a wire basket and walked to——wards the back of the store1the rice was kept. The room, was quite large and divided by three long aisles(过道)，with rows of shelves full of2Besides her and Mr. Pate I there were only two boys in the store. They were both wearing3overcoats. They looked rather4because the overcoats were too big for then."5"she heard one of them whisper to6. She walked on to the next aisle and found the7she was looking for. Then she heard something else. It8like a box dropping on the floor. She looked through the small open space9goods on the shelf and saw one of the boys picking up a box. But10putting it in the basket，he dropped11into the inside pocket of his overcoat. Kate looked back and12see Mr. Patel at the door checking through a list. Then she looked through the13in the shelf again. The boys still had their backs to her. They were putting something14into their inside pockets and then one of them said, "Let's get out of here. "They moved away from her.

    When she got to the door the two boys were15her. She watched them16for the few things in their17They had both18their overcoats. Mr. Patel did not seem to know what they had done. He even19at them as they were about to20Now，Kate decided to stop them.

    Telling the truth is a very good habit. Here is a story of a man who did lots of bad things, but his promise to tell the truth 1 him.

    One morning the man came to the prophet(先知) Muhammad and said, "Oh prophet of Allah, I have many bad 2. Which one should I 3 first?"

    The prophet said," 4 telling lies first and always tell the truth." The man promised to do so.

    He went home and thought about the prophet's 5all day. But at night he planned to go out to steal something. Before leaving home, he said to 6, "If tomorrow the prophet asks me7 I have been, shall I say that I went out to steal? No, I can't say that. But 8 can I tell a lie. If I tell the truth, everyone will call me a thief." So the man decided 9 that night.

    Next day, when the man was about to drink10, he thought, "What shall I say to the prophet 11he asks me what I did during the day? I 12 not tell a lie, and if I tell the truth, people will hate me because a Muslim is not allowed to drink wine." So he gave up the idea of drinking wine. 13, whenever the man thought of doing something bad, he 14  remembered his promise to tell the truth. Step by step, he didn't do anything 15. He became a good Muslim and a very good person.