A very new, young officer（军官）was at a station. He was on his way to visit his mother in another town, and he wanted to telephone her to tell her the time of this train, so that she could meet him at the station in her car. He looked in all his pockets, but he did not have the coins（硬币）for the telephone, so he went outside and looked around for someone to help him.

    At last an old soldier came by, and the young officer stopped him and said, "Do you have change for ten pence（便士）?"

    "Wait a moment,' the old soldier answered. He began to put his hand in his pocket, "I'll see if I can help you."

    "Don't you know how to speak to an officer?" the young man said angrily. "Now let's start again. Do you have change for ten pence?"

    "No, sir," the old soldier answered politely and quickly.

    As far back as he could remember, Larry had wanted to go to Hollywood and become a film star. The young man's hopes for success were broken again and again. However, Hollywood was just everything to him. When he first came to California? Larry had decided never to give up and return home without success. Therefore, he kept on trying. "Some day," he told himself, "my big chance would come."

    Larry found a job—parking cars at one of Hollywood's big restaurants. His pay was low, but since the guests were kind enough to give him more money, he managed to make a living. One day he recognized an important film director driving into the parking lot and getting out of his car. Larry had recently heard that the man was ready to make a new picture.

    Larry got into the car and prepared to drive it on into the lot and park it. Then he stopped, jumped out, and ran over to the director. "Excuse me, sir, but I think it's only fair to tell you that it's now or never if you want me in your next picture. A lot of big companies are after me."

Instead of pushing away the boy, the director laughed, then wrote something on a card and handed it to the young man. "Come and see me tomorrow."

    Larry got a small part in the director's next film. He was on his way!

Mary and Lisa are sisters. They like the same colour— blue. They like the same sports— swimming and basketball. They go to the same middle school. But they aren't in the same class. They like music and art. Art is their favourite subject. 

But Mary and Lisa have a big difference (不同之处) . Mary has many friends. They like to play with her. But Lisa doesn't have any friends. Their mum sees the difference. She says to Lisa, "My dear, your smile (微笑) is very beautiful. Why not smile often?" Lisa says OK and she tries smiling often. Children come to Lisa. They like her smile. They want to make friends with her. Now Lisa has many friends. She is very happy.

It is the 31st year that Zhang Yufei has worked and lived in Faxing Temple. Changzhi，Shanxi province. 

The 52﹣year﹣old man {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the cultural relics （遗产） in the temple very well. "These cultural relics are part of my life and I want {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the culture，art and stories behind them to a wider public，"Zhang says. 

After graduating from junior middle school，Zhang took several part﹣time{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. The turning point was in 1991 when Chongqing and Faxing temples wanted some guards. Zhang became one of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} . "There was no water and electricity in the temple and in winter it was {#blank#}5{#/blank#} cold，"Zhang says. 

Later he became a guide at Faxing Temple. In 1998，he met Shi Yanchun at Faxing Temple. Shi is an expert and helped to rebuild {#blank#}6{#/blank#} than 1，000 cultural artifacts. "That was when I started learning professional knowledge about painted clay statues（雕像）. We talked about the art form at night，"Zhang says. Since then，he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} reading books on the topic. He has also taken every chance to communicate with experts. 

One day，he {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a camera as a gift by an expert. With it，Zhang started to record the painted clay statues in the temples in Shanxi. In 2011，his first book introducing the art form came out. He also wrote over 100 articles telling the{#blank#}9{#/blank#} stories about Shanxi's cultural relics online. Zhang hopes that more people can take part in the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of cultural relics. In this way，they can truly keep alive. 

Tom is Sally's brother. His hobby is playing the violin and his dream is to be a p{#blank#}1{#/blank#} musician one day. Unluckily, Tom hurt his arm badly in a traffic accident last weekend. The doctor said perhaps he couldn't play the violin any more after he c{#blank#}2{#/blank#} his arm. When Sally knew the bad news, she told Tom to be positive and p{#blank#}3{#/blank#} to help him out. She also bought an expensive violin for Tom as a gift. Every day Sally teaches Tom to play the violin in a special way. I{#blank#}4{#/blank#} of giving up, Tom tries his best to practise though it's not easy to do so. He has to practise for 2-3 hours every day. Now, Tom can play the violin better and better. He even w{#blank#}5{#/blank#} two prizes in a competition last week!

Molly ran back home from school and dropped her schoolbag on the sofa. Then on the table she saw "Mum's Wish Book". "Mum," she said excitedly to herself, "this year уоu'll get the gloves you want！" Molly saved her 1 all уear to buy Mum the gloves.

She opened "Mum's Wish Book" and hoped that she could find these 2 in it. Mum wouldn't buy them for herself, because the family had a 3 time on the farm.Molly ran out by the back door and went straight to the post office. "I need to buy a stamp to 4 the form," she said to Mr. Smith, the only worker in the post office. 

And she told him that was a Christmas gift for her mother, and wanted him to help her to 
keep the 5 .When she was back home, she told Dad this secret. "You've got to check thе mailbox every day," said Molly 6 to Dad. Hе nodded, with a big smile.

Coming home from school every day, Mollу peeked at （偷看） Dad when Mum wasn't 7 , but every time he shook his head. On Christmas Eve, Dad came back from the mailbox, still empty handed. Molly felt 8 .

Before Christmas dinner, as Mum took the apple pies out of the oven, Molly began 9 the table. Suddenly, they saw Mr. Smith making his way to the door, with a box in his hand. Mr. Smith 10 Mum the box, "I believe this is yours." Mum looked from Dad to Molly and opened the box. Her eyes lit up when she saw the gloves. "Oh, who bought these for me?" she asked.

"Santa did," said Molly smilingly.