A fox once said to a cat, "I have a whole bag of tricks（诡计). I know   1 than a hundred different ways of  2away from my enemies--dogs." "That's great," said the cat. "As for(至于) me, I have only one trick, but it usually works. Will you please3  me some of yours?", "Well, if I am not busy some day, I'll teach you one or two easier ones. "

    Just at that moment they heard something  4. That was a dog. The cat climbed5  a tree quickly. "This is my only trick," she called down to the fox. "Which trick are you going to6  , Mr Fox?" The fox sat there. He used his head 7  one of his many good ways.

    The dog came nearer. The fox thought and  8  . At last he found a way to run. Running away was    9    best way.   But that was too late.   Before he started 10, the dog came to him. That was the end of the fox.

    It was a cold snowy morning after the winter vacation. And it was my first1at my new school. I was walking alone slowly and 2about lots of things. It was early and there weren't many people on the road. Suddenly a girl who was 3a bike on ice fell down. She was trying hard to get up but fell again. 4 thinking, I went over and helped her. She said "5" with a smile and then rode away. Her words warmed me a lot.

    Finally, I got to school. The teacher led me to the 6 and introduced me to the class. Then he asked me to sit down beside a girl. I felt so 7 that I didn't dare to look at her. Soon the first class, 8, started. Their textbooks were different from those in my old school. As I was wondering 9 to do, an English book appeared in front of me. "Let's share," the girl beside me said, "Hi, I'm Carrie." I 10. It was the girl I helped this morning. Later on, we became good friends.

    From that I learned: to help others is actually to help ourselves!

    A young man was walking in the desert. He felt very 1. Just then he suddenly found a spring of delicious and clear water. The water was cool and sweet for a man who had 2it for such a long time. He drank a lot, and then he 3 his bottle so that he could bring some back to his village and gave it to his teacher who had taught him in middle school.

    After a four-day 4, he gave the water to the old man and he took a deep drink, smiled warmly and 5his student for the sweet water. The young man returned to his home with a happy heart.

    Later, the teacher let another student taste the water. He spat it out at once, saying it was6. The student said the water had become bad because the bottle was too old.

    The student asked his teacher, "Master, the water was bad and it was bitter. Why did you 7 to him that you liked it?" The teacher replied, "You only tasted the water 8 I tasted the gift. The water which has been put in loving and kindness is not 9water." Nothing could be 10 than love.

    A 14-year old boy from the US was described as a hero after he saved the life of a girl in another country.

    Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who has much1in computer. One day, he2an email to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying" Help! Pain! Help!". The message was from Finland,3kilometres away from America.

    "I didn't know4I should do," Dean said to a reporter afterwards. "It was really difficult to tell if the message was real. "So Dean did nothing at first.5the messages kept coming.

    "By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble," Dean explained. He6and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was7 ， there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email. Dean got in touch8the police immediately. And they realised that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library.9, she was still alive and was sent to hospital quickly.

    "I'm glad she's OK," Dean said. "It's hard to believe, but10saved her life.