Yesterday evening, when I went to town with my 1, we met a strange old man. It was raining 2and we had no umbrella. We were trying to get into a taxi when he came up to us. He was carrying a nice 3 and he said he would give it to 4 for only one pound.  He said he had 5 his wallet and he needed taxi fare(费用) to go back home. My mother didn't believe 6 he said at first, and asked him a lot questions. but she finally believed the man and gave him a pound. She was 7 to buy a good umbrella for so little. but the old man didn't get into a taxi. We followed him and found he went into a pub(酒吧) and bought 8a glass of whiskey(威士忌) with a pound. 9he drank it, he put on his hat and took one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off with the new one. Soon after that, he 10 it again.

Many musicians meet and form(组成)a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high school students and practice their music in someone's house. Sometimes they may play to passers—by in the street or subway so that they can get some money for themselves or pay for their instruments (乐器).

    However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and was formed in 1965. It began as a TV show. The TV show had planned to find four rock musicians who could act as well as sing. But they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.

    Since some of these actors could not sing well enough，they had to ask for help from other musicians. So at first，the band just pretended (假装)to sing. Anyway，their performances were excellent and they got lots of fans. Each week on TV，the Monkees would pretended to play and sing songs written by other musicians. After a year or so，they became more serious about their work. They started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced(制作)their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more influential and popular than the Beatles and sold even more records.

    However, the band broke up around 1970，but happily they reunited(重聚)in the 1980s. They produced a new record in 1996 to celebrate their time as a band. It was very successful. Today the Monkees are still making music for their millions of fans.

    One day, the students of Class 6 were reading in the classroom. Mrs. Brown came in and told the whole class they would have to change the 1 the next week. All of the students disagreed 2 Mrs. Brown, so they shouted when Mrs. Brown said it was because a new student would 3 the class. "Why must we move to another classroom just because someone new is coming?" One of them asked 4. Mrs. Brown stood there without saying anything. After a few minutes, she told them to be  5 to their new classmate and then she left.

    The following week, the head teacher, Mr White himself brought the new student to their class. 6,he pushed the new student to the class because the student was in a wheelchair(轮椅). Mr. White introduced the new student Jeff to the class. He said that Jeff now was a 7of the class and they should work together. He added," Helping each other is very important. " 8 could fully understand what Mr. White meant at first.

    Over time, they began to understand the reason. Jeff was a9 student and often helped the students who didn't understand their work. The class felt very thankful to him. They took care of him because they knew that when someone did something for you, you should do something 10 in return.

    Ashley Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta, Georgia 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 felt really, really 2," she said in a TV interview(采访) last week. The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He 3 at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11. The police were 4him. Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but set her free after she begged him not to take her 5 again and again." I told him 6he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mum my," she said with tears.

   "I just talked to him and tried to 7believe me," Smith said.

    She asked Nichols 8 he chose her. He said he thought I was an angel 9 from God, and God asked him to do so."

    Smith even 10for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was 11 when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing 12looking for him." I cannot 13that's me on the TV!" Nichols told the woman.

    Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he 14 do. She said," I think you should turn yourself in.  If you don't, lots more people are going to get 15."

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