Do you ever watch old movies? Maybe you will see one with Carole Lombard. She was a famous 1  in the 1930s. She died when she was only 34.  In her  2 life she made 70 movies!

    Lombard's real name was Jane Alice Peters: In 1921, she was playing baseball in the 3 near her home. A movie director  4  her and decided to put her in a movie. She was only 13 at the time. The movie was one of the last silent movies. She acted(表演) so well that she5 the hearts of some people. At 16, she left school to act.

    In 1925, she had an agreement with a  6 studio, 20th Century Fox. The studio gave 7  a new name, and she acted in several films. Then, at age 18, she was in a bad car accident. The accident left scars(伤疤) on her face. The studio broke the agreement, but she did not 8. She continued to act.

    It was Paramount Studio that made Lombard a 9. She made many movies for the studio. She also married two of their stars. Lombard was married to actor William Powell for only 23 months. 10  seven years later, she married the great love of her life, actor Clark Gable. It was a great Hollywood love story.

    A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another country.

    Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who has much1in computer. One day, he2an email to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying "Help! Pain! Help!" The message was from Finland, 3kilometres away from America.

    "I didn't know 4 I should do, "Dean said to a reporter afterwards. "It was really difficult to tell if the message was real. "So Dean did nothing at first. 5the message kept coming.

    "By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble, "Dean explained. He 6and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was7, there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email. Dean got in touch 8the police immediately. And they realized that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library. 9," she was still alive and was sent to the hospital quickly.

    I'm glad she's OK, "Dean said, "It's hard to believe, but10 saved her life,"

    Who is that? That's Zhang Hao chen. He is one of the greatest young1in China.

    Zhang Hao chen was born2June 3. 1990 in Shanghai. He showed his3talent when he was only a small boy. He4his first music show in Shanghai Concert Hall at the age of five. In 2002, he took part5the fourth Tchaikovsky(柴可夫斯基)International Youngsters Music Competition. He became the6piano player who won the first prize in the history of the competition. In 2004, he took part in the 5th Asian International Chopin(肖邦)Piano Competition in Japan, and won the gold7. In 2005, Zhang Haochen went to8at the well—known Curtis Institute of Music(柯蒂斯音乐学院)in America  His teacher is Gary Graffman. Mr Graffman is also the teacher of the9musician Lang Lang.

    In 2009, Zhang Haochen won the gold prize in the world piano competition, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in the United States. The 19 year—old boy was the youngest piano player in the competition and he was also the10Chinese to win this prize.

    John suddenly jumped off the swing without even slowing down. He called out nervously," Mom, where's Charlie? "He had just 1he hadn't seen his new puppy for over an hour.

    John looked around the garden, behind the bushes, and under the picnic table. No dog! His mother heard 2in his voice as he called her a second time." Mom, I can't find Charlie!"

    She came outside 3. "Let's look around the garden first. Don't worry. I'm sure he's close by.

    Both son and mother were 4now, but still no Charlie. Their calls were not completely wasted, though. Joe, the next-door neighbor, and his two daughters Tania and Julie, immediately agreed to help them 5the lost dog.

    But even with five people now searching the town's streets, they had no luck. Charlie was still6.

    Tania suggested they make posters with Charlie's 7. She had done this when her own cat was lost a year earlier, she told John, and the cat was found the next day.

    John agreed. When they got home, he made a poster with a photo of Charlie. Then John heard a8 and opened his bedroom door. It was Charlie. John was greeted with a big wet kiss Charlie had been9in the bedroom this whole time, sleeping. John had never been so 10in his life!

    Walt Disney began to make cartoon movies when he was a young man. But he didn't have much money then. One day a mouse ran near his desk while he was working in his small office.

    ＂Would you like to be my pet?＂ Disney decided to make a cartoon about it.

    ＂I am making a cartoon about a mouse named Mortimer,＂ he told his wife.

    ＂Mortimer Mouse? I think Mickey Mouse would be a better name,＂ she said.

    ＂You are right. It would,＂ Disney agreed and made many Mickey Mouse cartoons.

    People all over the world saw Mickey and loved it. Mickey Mouse made Disney famous. Then came Donald Duck, and Goofy Dog and others. Disney began to make long cartoons. Then he made cartoon movies for television.

    In 1955, Disney opened a wonderful land of make-believe in California. Real boats, castles, trains, mountains, rivers, all are in one beautiful park. Millions of people came to Disneyland.

    He died in 1966, but the world will not forget him. Mickey Mouse and all his cartoons will help us to remember him.

My dad bought me a new Jeep when I was 17, but the real gift was what he  taught me about life through this car. Every month, on the first day, he asked me  to pay him $150 if I wanted to continue driving my Jeep. If I didn't pay, I  couldn't drive my car〔or "his car", as he often reminded me, since he owned the title (所有权). My dad was (and still is) a successful businessman, who makes a very good living. To a 17-year-old student who only had a part-time weekend job, $150 was more  than  I  usually  made  every  month.  I  had  to  work  harder.  Although I was unhappy about my father's request, I always made sure to give him $150 on the first of each month, and did so for two years.

The day I graduated from high school, my dad pulled me into his office at our house for a talk. "Kevin," he gave me a white box and said, "here is your graduation present. To be honest, this is actually a present you gave yourself." I opened the box carefully, and almost started crying when I realized he just gave me $3,600! It was 24 car payments that he had saved for the last two years. Every payment I gave him went straight into this box. By requiring me to pay him every month, he was teaching me how to save, how to use my money and how to be responsible (有责任心的). My dad is and will forever be the best man I have ever known.

Four years later he gave me the title to the Jeep, as my college graduation present.