Henry was a kind, good boy. His father was dead, and his mother was very poor. He had a little sister about two years old. He wanted to 1his mother, for she could not always make enough money to buy food for her little 2.

 One day, a man gave him a dollar for3 a wallet which he had lost. Henry might have kept all the money, for no one saw him when he found it. 4his mother had taught him to be honest, and never keep what did not belong to him.

 With the dollar he bought a box, three brushes and some blacking. He5went to the corner of the street and said to every one whose boots(靴子) did not look nice, “6 your boots, sir, please?” He was so polite that gentleman soon began to notice him, and to let him black their boots. The first day he brought home fifty cents, which he gave to his mother to buy food with.

 When he gave her the money, she said, as she dropped a tear(泪水) of 7, “You are a dear, good boy, Henry. I did not know how I could make enough money to buy bread with, but now I think we can manage to 8 quite well. ”

 Henry worked all the day, and went to school in the evening. He made almost enough money to support his mother and his little sister.

    Once there was a king. He was wise but everyone was afraid of him. His face showed the sadness deep in his heart. So there were deep 1 lines（皱纹）on his face.

    In his country lived a beautiful girl. Everyone seemed to love her, so did the king.He wanted to 2her, and finally he decided to speak to her of his love. After he dressed in his best clothes, he looked in the 3, but he saw a hard face, 4when he tried to smile.

    "How about wearing a mask（面具）?" he thought. Then he ordered his magician topaint a mask that looked kind and happy and handsome. The magician 5and said: "But you must keep your own face in the same lines that I paint and be kind to all people from your heart. If not, the mask will break." The mask looked so6that no one knew it was not the true face of the king. Months passed, the beautiful lady got married to the king, and the king treated everyone 7to keep the mask from breaking.

    At last, the king didn't want to cheat his beautiful wife any more. 8 he asked the magician to take the mask off. Surprisingly, he found his face was just like the mask he had worn for so long!

    This story tells us that a man is what he is in his heart.

    Long long ago, there was a swan（天鹅）with golden feathers（金羽毛）.She lived in a lake.

    A woman lived in a small house1the lake with her two daughters. They were very poor. They worked hard all year round,2 still, they lived a hard life and sometimes they even didn't have enough 3to buy food.

    The swan was 4to see that. She said to herself, “I'll give one of my5 to them each day, then they can live a happy life with the money selling my feathers.” That evening, she6to the poor woman's house and left a golden feather on the table without saying7.From then on, the swam came every day and gave them a feather. The woman was very happy because their life was much8than before.

    But day after day, the woman became greedy（贪婪）.She said to her 9”The swan may fly away one day. If so, we will be poor again. We should take all10feathers when she comes next time.” “Oh, no, Mom!” cried the daughters, “This will 11the swan. She helps us a lot !”But the mother wouldn't listen. When the 12came as usual, the mother caught her and took all her feathers .But suddenly, the golden feathers 13chicken feathers.

    Then ,the Golden Swan said, “Poor Mother, I came to 14 you, but you wanted to kill me. Now, I am leaving and will 15come back. Never be greedy!” With these words, the swan flew away.

    Have you heard of Zhou Yang? She is now well known 1 an excellent short track speed skater (短道速滑运动员).

    Zhou Yang is not an overnight 2. She was born in a poor family in Changchun on June 9th, 1991 and started 3at the age of 8.She fell in love with the 4at once when she put on her skates to train for the first time. Soon her talent (天赋) for short track speed skating was 5. Zhou Yang trained hard and made her way into the national team 6^.

    In the world championships (锦标赛) in 2008, Zhou Yang set a world record in the 1, 500m event. Zhou Yang 7herself again in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her performance gave China the 8gold medal in the women's 1, 500 meters in the Winter Olympics — China had never won the event before.

    "Winning the event is my dream, 9I still have one more dream, winning the relay (接力赛)," Zhou Yang said.

    Her "one more dream" 10when she and her teammates won the women's 3, 000m short track relay with a new world record. 

    Billy's favourite colour was blue. But he couldn't see what blue looked like.

    A month after he was born, his mother noticed that his eyes were 1 from the other babies. "Billy would 2 be able to see. He is blind," the doctor said. Even so, with the hope to help Billy learn 3 about the world around him, his mother kept describing everything she saw for him.

    Not just through his mother's words, Billy saw 4 his ears and hands, too. He had perfect hearing. "In fact, he 5 see something that people don't notice."

    Though Billy lived in the6, he always believed a dream would light up his life. He found that he was 7 in computer science. So he began learning it at the age of seven. As a young boy, he 8 going to Stanford University someday. And for years of efforts, he finally achieved his dream.

    People wanted to find out the secret of his 9. Billy explained, "Just move forward! Don't let any difficulty 10 your dream from coming true. "

    You can't choose what you are given, but you can choose how you make use of it.