It was a long hard fight, but by now it was  1    and this helped us very much. We ran here and there in the trees, calling and   2   .  The enemies could not see us and did not know how many of us they were  3  . In the end the first officer shouted to them：                                                  

  “Put down your  4  and stop fighting! The captain has fifty island people to help him. We can kill you 5!”

 So the enemies   6   fighting and we took their guns. Three of the enemies7 to come to join us, but the others refused. So we   8  them in my cave. I stayed to  9 the prisoners(犯人), while the captain and his men went back to fight for the ship.

 All night we listened to the   10   of guns and shouting, but in the morning, when the sun    11 , the captain was master of his ship again. I went down the shore(海岸) to meet him.

  “My dear friend” he cried, “There's your  12  ! I'll take you to the ends of the 13    in it!" I put my    14   round him, and we laughed and cried together. How  15   I was to leave the island.

    Amy is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta early on the morning of March 12, when a man  1 her to her door, and put a gun(枪) to her side.

    "I started walking to my door, and I feltreally, really  2 ,"she said in a TV interview last week.

The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He killed three people at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11.The police were3 him.

    Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but sether free after she begged(恳求) him not to take her 4 again and again. "I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mummy,"she said with tears.

   "I just talked to him and tried to make him believe me,"Smith said.

    She asked Nichols 5 he chose her. "Hesaid he thought I was an angel 6  from God, and God asked him to do so."

Smith even 7  for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was 8 when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing the police looking for him. "I cannot believe that's me on the TV!"Nichols told the woman.

    Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he 9 do. She said, "I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't, more people are going to get 10 ."

    Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.

Both my wife and I are running lovers. I usually run on the track (跑道) in my neighborhood. Most people walk on the track, so I am 1 than them. My speed seems amazing to the walkers and I often pass by them twenty or more times around the track. This makes 2 feel proud.

One day, a short man came. I saw him out of the car and do exercise 3 running. Then he started running and he was fast. I 4 up and managed to catch up with him. I had someone to compete with. But after a lap (圈), I fell behind him and had great 5 in breathing. After two laps, my foot began to hurt, 6 I had to slow down and began to run at my usual speed. This time I could breathe again and the pain in my foot went away. In a very short time, I was far behind him. He was too fast for me to 7 .

That day, I learnt several lessons. In 8 , there will always be those slower and faster. Some have natural talent, and some have trained harder. Don't judge a person by how he or she looks.

The point is that we each have our own speed. When we are trying to keep up, we often 9 hurting ourselves and being out of breath. Don't run fast when you should be running 10 . Don't run at all when you should be walking.

Madison Checketts is a 12-year-old girl from Utah, the USA. She has always loved the 1 . When on vacation with her family in California, she couldn't turn a blind eye to all the plastic water bottles 2 her favorite beaches. So she decided to focus on (专注于) 3 plastic litter.

When Madison started researching plastic water bottles online, she found that Americans use more than 35 billion plastic water bottles every year, and most of them are not recycled 4 .

So Madison tried to 5 an environment-friendly water bottle. After lots of research and hard work, she designed the Eco Hero-an edible (可食用的) water bottle. People can poke (戳) a(n) 6 at the top of it, drink the water, and then eat it. It 7 only about $1.20 to make one.

"It took a lot of effort to develop the Eco-Hero," says Madison. "I just kept trying something new, and 8 it didn't work, I would do more research and try again. As for the future of the Eco-Hero, I want to do more tests to improve it and make it more stronger, bigger and be able to last for a 9 time. Also, I hope my invention will inspire (激励) 10 to make a difference, even if it's just in a small way."

The word "sandwich" is an English word. Sandwich was an English man. He lived in England about two hundred years ago. Sandwich had much 1 . He was very rich (富有的). But he liked playing cards very much. He often played day and night. One day he played for twenty-four hours 2 stopping. He did not leave the card table to 3 . He asked his servant (仆人) to bring him some meat and 4 . So he put some meat between two pieces of bread and then began to eat. It tasted delicious. He did not want to stop playing cards when he ate. From the 5 of this man, Sandwich, we have the word "sandwich" today.