I am a little dog. I don't have a home or a name. How old am I? I don't know. Who 1 my father and mother? I don't know.  2 can I go? I don't know.

    But I know Grandpa Zhang. He is very nice. He takes 3 home and gives me some food to eat every day. He 4 a big box in his old house, and I like to be in it. He calls me Doggy, and I love my new 5.   

    Grandpa Zhang is very  6. And he can't see anything (任何东西) now. I like to 7 him. When he goes out, I go out 8 him. When he goes back home, I help to open the door for him. I try my best to be a helpful 9 for Grandpa Zhang. But I'm sorry I can't wash(洗）his clothes, 10 my "hands" can't do it.

One day a young man put an ad (广告) in most of the newspapers in England. He said that his parents   1 him millions of pounds (英镑). He graduated from Oxford University. Everyone knows this university is one of  2   universities in the world. So he had got a great education there. He'd like a girl to be his3  . The girl must be like the one in the books written by Somerset Maugham,  4  Maugham was his favourite.

This ad was read and known   5 by parents and young girls all over the country. Parents went to shops to   6  the books. They bought those books for their daughters  7 presents. Girls tried to get those books   8 . They wanted to know what kind of person the writer liked so that they could marry the young man.

All the books written by Maugham 9  in a short time and the writer became famous.

Can you guess who the young man was? It was Somerset Maugham   10  ! What a clever man he was!

    Once there lived two brothers. The elder was called Simon and the younger Victor. They1each other very much, and always took care of one another. Every day they worked from morning2night, getting as much grain(谷物) as possible from their fields.

    One late autumn evening, after their work in the3was done, Simon said to his wife, "Victor got married last month. He has many bills(账单) to pay. I think I will put a bag of rice in his barn(谷仓). “Oh, that's a good idea,” said his wife. “But please don't tell him,” said Simon, “If he knows I put the rice there, he will4take it.”

    So, late that night Simon took a bag of rice to Victor's barn. The next day, while looking at his own barn, he found5strange. “I took a bag of rice to Victor's house last night,6I still have the same number of bags in my barn.7did that happen?”

    Simon decided to take another bag of rice to his brother's barn that night. But the next morning, he found the8number of bags in his barn again! “This is very strange,” he thought. That night he9again. He carried a large bag of rice on his shoulder(肩膀); and walked down the road to his younger brother's house. In the bright moonlight, he could see another10coming down the road. He was carrying something on his11, too. “Younger Brother!” Simon cried, “What are you doing?” “I was 12you, Older Brother,” said Victor, “Your family is13than mine. I thought you needed more rice.” The two brothers quickly14that they had been taking rice to each other. They15what had happened. “It is good to have a brother like you,” they both said. And they lived happily ever after.

    Long ago, there was a queen 1 lived in a palace. She felt 2 and said to her advisor (顾问), "All the things around me are too boring. I need a different kind of beauty. Let everyone3 that I will hold a competition for the most beautiful thing in the world. And the prize 4 this crown."

    Several days later, lots of people came to the competition and showed their things. The queen was not satisfied with 5. The advisor suggested, "What you are looking for cannot 6 to you. You must look for it by 7. What about a journey?"

    The queen was interested 8 the idea, so she started immediately. 9 she was on top of the hill near her palace, she looked down and suddenly something cried in her heart. "Why have I never 10 my palace so beautiful?"

    The queen spent one year 11. She saw beauty on the farm, in the forest and even in the stars twinkling (闪烁) at night on her journey. But what was the most beautiful thing？She12. Suddenly, she understood beauty was everywhere. She 13 learn to enjoy the world. She left the pieces of her crown at different places that she has seen. As time went by, the queen's crown got smaller and smaller 14 nothing was left.

    She found 15 thing at last, it was the world.

    Last year, we took a trip to New York City. When we arrived at our 1, it was around 2 a. m. My son, Joseph, looked out at the lights of Times Square and said he wanted to go 2. I told him it was too 3 to go out, but he kept looking out of the window and said, "Just for two minutes."

    My wife and I just looked at each other, smiled and said, "Two minutes." We got dressed and walked into the center of Times Square. 4 we got there, my son pointed at the lights and said, "Dad, 5!" And then he started to fall asleep. So we had go back to the hotel.

    It took us 20 minutes to 6 for the 20 seconds we spent outside, but it made our son 7 and that meant a lot to us. That night, I learned a lesson about happiness. We sometimes have chances to 8 happy moments in our lives, but we often find 9 to do something else.

    Because of my son, I learned that I am the biggest enemy to my own happiness. 10 happiness is a door that is always open, we are the ones who have to decide if we are going to walk through the door.

    A man walked into a restaurant. The restaurant advertised it had the1menu in the world. The manager was very proud of being able to provide any dish, no matter how2it was.

    At the bottom of the 3, there was a notice that said, "If you do not see the dish you need on this menu, please tell us and we will add it to the menu right away."

The man4 the menu and decided to make sure if it was true. He would order5 that was very unusual.

    When a waiter came up to take his order, he said, "You say you can serve any dish, even if it's not on your longest menu in the world."

    "That is correct, sir. We are able to meet everyone's requirements."

"Well, "the man said, "bring me a sandwich with two elephant ears.6, not African." The waiter wrote down on his paper：Two Indian elephant ears on toast.

    "Very good, sir, "he said." That shouldn't 7long."

    The waiter walked away quickly.

    The man was very surprised and rather disappointed.

    Then he smiled8 the waiter returned with a very unhappy look on his face.

    "Ah！"the man said." You can't9 it to me, can you？"

    The waiter made an apology(道歉).

    "I'm very sorry, sir, and this is the 10 embarrassing, "he said, "but I'm afraid we can't because we've run out of bread."