When I was young, my {#blank#}1{#/blank#} often said it was important to get along well with others. However, I always thought I could do everything by myself. At that time, I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} my study at all. I really wanted {#blank#}3{#/blank#} go to school. So I often slept in class. At last, nearly every teacher didn't {#blank#}4{#/blank#} me. They {#blank#}5{#/blank#} my study.

    One day, my head teacher asked me to go to her office.{#blank#}6{#/blank#}, she told me my classmates had elected me to be the new monitor. I felt very happy because I had never been a monitor. I really wanted to be a good monitor. First, I {#blank#}7{#/blank#}to study hard. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} I tried to remember the new things, I couldn't catch up with others. My classmates helped me. I was moved. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, I caught up with others. And I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} having such a good teacher and classmates.

    An interesting new sport in the United States is sky diving(高空跳伞) . Some people like this {#blank#}1{#/blank#} very much. They often form(成立) a club. The members of the club get into airplanes and fly high above the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. When it is time, each person jumps from the airplane and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} toward the earth at a very high speed. All of the members have parachutes(降落伞) but they do not open the parachutes {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a long time.

    From the ground they look like big birds. The sky divers(高空跳伞运动员) say that they {#blank#}5{#/blank#} also feel like(感到好似) birds. Some people like to swim in the ocean or to play in the snow, but the favorite place for sky divers is the sky.

    Imagine one day, the water taps in your house stop running. You have to buy water from shops. And still there {#blank#}1{#/blank#}water for everyone. Your mother has to save the family's shower water to do other things. Would you be able to stand that kind of life?

    Probably not. But that's what kids in Yemen are experiencing. Experts said Yemen is going to be the first country in the world to run out of water. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}a report, the capital, Sana'a, will run out of drinking water as early as 2025.

    Because of the shortage, the government often cuts the water supply. Hannan, an 18-year-old girl from Lahej, told the Times: "In a good week we'll have the water supply all week. But then the following week there will be water only for {#blank#}3{#/blank#}."

    Hannan said only rich people have enough water to use. They can buy water from the shops or from the water trucks. Private companies own the trucks. They {#blank#}4{#/blank#}every day to sell water—at very high prices. "A lot of people can't afford it," she said.

    The government is {#blank#}5{#/blank#}making use of seawater. But it will cost a lot and it may not happen soon enough to help the people of Yemen.