Mr. White lost his job last week. It was difficult for him to find another 1. Somebody told Mr. White that he 2 get a job in a town two hundred kilometers 3, so he decided to get there 4. He went to the railway station and got 5 a train. He was the only one in the train. The train started. Suddenly, a man came in 6 a gun (枪) and said to him. “Your money 7 your life?” Mr. White was afraid and sat there without 8 up.

    “I 9 any money,” Mr. White answered.

    “Then why are you so afraid of me?” The man asked angrily.

    “Because I  10 you were the conductor (售票员). I didn't buy a ticket,” answered Mr. White.

    Every day I can watch a little girl 1 basketball from my kitchen window. One day I asked her why she practised so 2 . She said: “I would like to go to college. The only way is 3  a scholarship(奖学金). I like basketball and I want to be the 4 player in college. My dad told me: ‘If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.' ” She  5 changed her mind. I watched her through those junior high years and into senior high school.

    One day before she graduated 6 high school, I saw her sitting on the grass 7 . I asked her what was wrong. She told me her coach said she was such a 8 girl that she couldn't be a good basketball player, so she should  9 dreaming about going to college. She was heartbroken and it 10 made me feel sad. Then she smiled and told me her father said that coach was wrong. He did not understand the power of dream. Her father said to her: “If you really want to 11 the scholarship of a good college, nothing but you 12 can stop your dream.”

    The next year, she and her team went to a big game. She 13 by a coach of a famous college team and was offered a scholarship to the 14 basketball team of their college. She was about to get the college education that she had dreamed 15 and worked towards for all those years.

    “If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.” It is true.

    In a small town lives an old man. He has a nice house with a large 1. The old man takes care of his flowers every day. The garden is 2 beautiful that every passer-by will stop to have a good look.

    One day a young painter went by the old man's garden. He looked at the garden, thinking how 3 he would be if he lived in such a beautiful place. Then suddenly he found the old gardener was blind. The painter was 4 and went to the old man. He asked, “You can't see the flowers. 5 are you making them so beautiful?”

    The blind gardener smiled, “I can tell you four 6 .First, I was a gardener when I was young. Although I become blind now, I am still good at gardening. Second, although I can't see these flowers, I can touch them. Third, I can 7 the sweetness of them. At last, that's you. It's true that I don't know you. But I know many people will stop by the garden and the beauty of my garden will make 8 happy. It also gives me a chance to 9 with you here and enjoy these flowers together.”

    Every flower has eyes. 10 the eyes they can see the kindness of the old man. The blind man also grows in his heart. Failing to see the beautiful flowers come out, he surely can hear the sound of them.

    1 English traveller found that he had only 2 to buy the ticket to go back home. As he knew that it would 3 him only two days to 4to England, he decided that he could easily do 5. So he bought a ticket and 6 the ship. It was time 7 lunch. He didn't go to have it. In the evening, he said that he didn't feel 8 and went to bed 9, the next day he was 10 hungry that he couldn't stand(忍受) it 11.

    “I'm going to eat,” he said. “Even if they throw me 12 the sea.” After he 13 everything the waiter(侍者) put in front of him and he was ready for the coming trouble. “ 14 me the bill(账单)，” he said. “The bill, sir?” said the waiter. “There isn't any bill.” Was the answer. “On the ship 15 are included (包括) in the money for the ticket.”

    Laura lived in a small village near the sea. One day she decided to go for a swim in the sea. She knew that the sea near the1had a strong tide(浪), but she was a good swimmer, so she wasn't 2. Laura left her friends lying on the sands and ran into the sea. She swam quite far out from the beach and waved（招手）to her friends in the distance. After a short while she decided to swim 3. She tried her best, but she couldn't get any closer to the beach. The tide kept4 her back. She waved her arms in the air to let her friends know that she was  5, but they just waved back, for they didn't know what she 6. After a long time, Laura become very 7  and she couldn't swim any more. Her legs8and she lost hope. Suddenly, her foot touched 9! All the time she had been swimming in a place where the water wasn't deep! When at last she went back to the beach, one of her friends asked," Did you10 your swim?" "Yes, it was lovely," she answered. She never told them what really happened.