When I was five years old, I took a boat out on the river and went fishing by myself. I really wanted to catch a fish! But they were not biting. I stayed in my boat for three days, waiting. A few times, I thought I felt a fish at the end of the line. The first time I pulled in my catch, it was not a fish; it was an old bag. The second time, it was a shoe. Finally, at the end of the third day, I felt a strong pull at the end of the line. The pull was so strong that my boat raced around and around. I needed all my power just to hold onto the fishing rod. I pulled, and I pulled and I caught the biggest fish that ever swam on the earth! It was heavier than everyone in this room put together! Then something terrible happened! After I pulled the huge fish into my boat, I saw that the boat was going under water! Water was coming into the boat from all sides! I was not a very good swimmer, so I was scared.

    Although it was the hardest choice I ever made, I had to let the fish go. I pushed it back over the side of the boat, and we waved good-bye to each other as it swam away.

    Joe was driving home on a road one evening. He just lost his job. It was winter and it was very cold, just like his feelings.

    An old lady with a car was standing on one side of the road. She needed help, but no one stopped to help her. Joe stopped in front of her and got out of the car. The old lady looked very worried. Even when he put a smile on his face, the lady still looked worried. Was he going to hurt her? He didn't look safe, and he looked poor and hungry.

    Joe knew how she felt. He said, "I'm here to help you, madam. Why don't you wait in my car? By the way, my name is Joe."

    The lady thought for a while and then went into his car. There was something wrong with her car. Joe went under her car to repair it. It took him a long time to repair the car. He got dirty and his hands hurt. Then the lady told him her name was Mercedes. She asked Joe how much she should pay for his help.

    Joe never thought about getting money. This wasn't a job to him. This was helping someone in need. He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person help.

    My grandfather Jack is 96 years old, and he has had an interesting life. He has traveled a lot in his life in the Far East He visited the Taj Mahal in India and the Pyramids in Egypt. He hunted (狩猎）lions in Africa, and rode a camel in the Sahara Desert. He says the most beautiful place he has travelled to is Kathmandu in Nepal.

    Jack has married twice. His first wife died when she was 32. He met his second wife Maria while he was cycling round France. They have been married for 50 years, and they have lived happily in a small village since they got married.

    Jack says that he has never been ill in his life. The secret of good health, according to my grandfather, is exercise. He goes swimming every morning. He has done this since he was a boy. He also has a glass of wine every night Perhaps that is his secret!

Vienna is called "the city of music". Itis in the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (中心)of Europe and it's the capital city of Austria. Many {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (音乐家) came to study and work there in the eighteenth the eighteenth {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (世纪).They wrote thousands of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (首) of famous {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (古典的) music. Lots of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (作曲家), like Johann Strauss, father and son, and Mozart were all {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (欧洲的). The father, Johann Strauss the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (年长的), wrote and played music for traditional dances, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (叫作) the waltz. The son, Johann Strauss the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (小的), wrote the famous The Blue Danube waltz. {#blank#}11{#/blank#} (另一个) important person was Mozart. He could {#blank#}12{#/blank#} (演奏) the violin and the piano before six years old. His music is {#blank#}13{#/blank#} (完美的). But he became very {#blank#}14{#/blank#} (贫穷的) later and died in 1791. All of them were great. People around the world {#blank#}15{#/blank#} (仍然)love their music.

Mrs. Brown will go to see her daughter in New York. She wants to take some of her favorite books. She finds an old-book in her bookcase. It's a book about art. Mrs. Brown finds a library card in it. "Oh, it's from the library," says Mrs. Brown. She finds the due date on the library card. The due date is November 20th, 1985, but it's 2023 now! "Oh, I must pay a fine (交付罚款) for it," thinks Mrs. Brown. She doesn't know what to do. She thinks about it. "I can just throw the book out (扔掉). No one will know," thinks Mrs. Brown. So she throws the book into the trash can (垃圾桶). "No, that's not the right thing to do," says Mrs. Brown. Then she takes the book out of the trash can.

"Dear stranger, I'm inviting you to hear my goals I' ve never shared with anyone before. I would like to be active. I want to achieve..."

 This heartfelt(诚挚的) message {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(write) on a sanitary bag ofa high-speed train by a college girl. The next day, a passenger in the same seat discovered the message.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} passenger posted it online with a reply, "How {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(luck) we are to meet across time and space! I hope you can do well in the interview. I wish you all the best." This communication{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(catch) people' s attention and touched their hearts. The sanitary bag became the carrier of the college girl's dream and hope.

 Under the post, people shared their views, and many college students also expressed their{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(feel) about school interviews. Later, the college girl read the post and shared {#blank#}6{#/blank#} she did it. She was nervous on her way to an important school interview, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} she wrote the message to pour out her feelings. The good news is that she has been admitted (录取) to her dream school. And she thanked the stranger for his encouragement {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (polite) and hoped other students could go to their dream schools, too. The railway staff explain that if the sanitary bags{#blank#}9{#/blank#} messages are intact(完好无损的) and clean , they usually do not replace them. "We hope these special notes on sanitary bags can brighten {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(passenger) journeys," says a staff person.

 So what do you do with the sanitary bag when you take the high-speed train? Have you ever had any special communication with strangers?