After a quick breakfast, I went into the lecture hall in a hurry．A famous teacher was{#blank#}1{#/blank#}to the students．He was holding up a $100 bill．Then he said to the three hundred students，"Who would like this $1 00 bill?" The students put up{#blank#}2{#/blank#}hands at once．Then he said，"I am going to give this $100 bill to one of you，but{#blank#}3{#/blank#}，let me do this．"He made the bill into a ball．Then he said. "Who{#blank#}4{#/blank#}it now?" The hands went back into the air．"Well," he said，"what if I do this?" and he{#blank#}5{#/blank#}it on the floor and stepped on it．He picked up the{#blank#}6{#/blank#}bill and said．"Who still wants it?" Hands went back again into the air．

    "My friends,"? he said，"you have learned a valuable(有价值的){#blank#}7{#/blank#}today．No matter what I did to the $100 bill! Many{#blank#}8{#/blank#}in our life，we are dropped and stepped on．We feel as if we are worth nothing．But remember, no matter what{#blank#}9{#/blank#}happened to you，you will never lose your value：You are{#blank#}10{#/blank#}valuable to those people who love you．Your value doesn't come from what you do or whom you know, but who you are．"

    Hello， everyone．This morning I lost{#blank#}1{#/blank#}keys and they are silver(银色的)．I can't {#blank#}2{#/blank#}them in my bag. Do you see them in the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}?If you see 3 silver keys，they must be{#blank#}4{#/blank#}．Please  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}me at 798—4075．

    English people are famous for their humour (幽默). {#blank#}1{#/blank#} it is often difficult for foreigners to understand their jokes. The main thing to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} is that English people often use understatement.

    Understatement means saying less{#blank#}3{#/blank#}you think or feel. For example, if {#blank#}4{#/blank#}gets very wet in a shower of rain, he might say, "It's a little damp (潮湿的) {#blank#}5{#/blank#}" Or, if someone is very impolite and shouts at another person {#blank#}6{#/blank#} people might say, "He isn't exactly friendly." People often use understatement in unpleasant (使人不愉快的) {#blank#}7{#/blank#} or to make another person look silly.

    Also, English people like to make fun of themselves as well as others. The comedy (喜剧) 'Mr Bean' is a(n) {#blank#}8{#/blank#}example of this kind of humour. Mr Bean always speaks as little as {#blank#}9{#/blank#} in the comedy. He always {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to use his body to make people happy. Maybe what makes Mr Bean so funny is that he does things that people in the real world will never do.

    I like reading. I love many different kinds of books, because they not only open my mind but also give me {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

    Up to now I have read a lot of books, such as magazines, novels and storybooks. But one of the books that I like best is The Story of My Life. It was {#blank#}2{#/blank#} by American writer Helen Keller in 1902. She was a blind, deaf and dumb person. In the book, she wrote that she had not been able to see, hear or speak {#blank#}3{#/blank#} she was one year and seven months old. This unusual thing made her very {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Luckily, she met her good teacher, Miss Sullivan {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the age of seven. Helen was getting happier every day. Then, Miss Sullivan helped her learn how to write English words. At first, Miss Sullivan wrote some words on Helen's hands with her own fingers again and again. Helen was a very {#blank#}6{#/blank#} girl. She tried as much as possible to remember words. After that, she wrote many famous works. The Story of My Life is one of {#blank#}7{#/blank#}.

    The Story of My Life describes her hard struggle (奋斗) to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a good writer and educationist of the world.

    It {#blank#}9{#/blank#} us an important truth: Nothing is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} if you put your heart into it! This is why I like it best. What about you?

    Have you ever read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? It must be the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} popular book for almost all the children in the world. The idea for the book came to J. K. Rowling in 1990. It {#blank#}2{#/blank#} her seven years to finish writing it. During those seven years she had a number of jobs, for {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, being an English teacher in Portugal. Rowling sent the book to four publishers (出版商) before one of them bought it. She was very {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to sell her book because it was her dream to be a writer. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} she sold her book, Rowling was living in a small flat (公寓) with {#blank#}6{#/blank#} daughter and was very poor. She didn't have enough money to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} for heat in winter. Harry Potter became a favorite with children and adults in England and then around the world. It was put into (被译成) more than thirty-five {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. After her second and third books were published, the three Harry Potter books filled the top three places on many lists of newspapers of the most popular books. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} any question, Rowling's life {#blank#}10{#/blank#} changed and she became one of the most famous women writers in the world.