About five hundred years ago, an earthquake (地震) happened in a small village. Luckily for them, nothing was destroyed (毁坏) and no one was hurt. But a huge stone fell from a nearby mountain and stopped in the middle of the road.

    When the earthquake stopped, many people came to the road and saw the stone. Some of the strongest men tried to lift the stone out of the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried to push it but failed. They tried to pull it with ropes but nothing worked.

    "Well," they said sadly, "there's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the way."

    At this time a boy about 12 years old said, "I think I can help you to move the stone away.

    "You?" they shouted. "What are you talking about?" The men all laughed at the boy.?

    The next morning, some people came into the road. One of them shouted, "The stone is gone." More people ran out to see what had happened. It was true. The stone wasn't on the road any longer. It wasn't even near the road.

    The boy walked over to where the stone had been and said, "I buried it."

    The people looked rather surprised. "You see," he said, "I dug a deep hole next to the stone and I dug a small incline (斜坡) up to the stone and the stone rolled (滚) down into the hole itself. Then I covered it with earth."

    The villagers shouted, "Clever boy! Clever boy!" And some of them said, "Why didn't we think out this good idea?"

    One evening, an old lady went shopping in the supermarket. She{#blank#}1{#/blank#}lots of toys for her grandson, including a knife. When she came back to her car, she found a man with red hair staring the car and{#blank#}2{#/blank#}two sitting at the back. She was surprised. She realized that they would drive her car away. Then she took out the toy knife{#blank#}3{#/blank#}thinking and pointed at the men in the car. "Get out of the car" She shouted {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. The men in the car got so scared that they ran away quickly. The lady made sure {#blank#}5{#/blank#} all the men had gone. Then she took out the key to start the car. To her{#blank#}6{#/blank#} , she couldn't. She tried again and again and finally she knew {#blank#}7{#/blank#} —it wasn't her car! She looked around and saw her {#blank#}8{#/blank#} car not far away. When she came back to her car, she saw the men {#blank#}9{#/blank#}to her with a policeman. She thought it was time for her to tell the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}and make it clear. After hearing her story, the policeman began to laugh. Her face turned red.

    There was a farmer named Hafiz in Africa who was happy. He was happy because he was satisfied with his life.

    One day a wise man came to him and told him about 1of diamonds and the power that goes along them .

    The wise man said" if you had a diamond the size of your finger, you could have your own city.If you had a diamond of the size of your fist, you could2own your own country." And then he went3.That night the farmer couldn't sleep .He was 4and he was discontent .The next morning he made arrangements to sell off his farm and went in search of diamonds. He looked all over Africa and Europe but couldn't5any.When he got to Spain, he was emotionally, physically and financially broke. He got so6 that threw himself into the Barcelona River and died.

    Back home, the person who had bought his 7 was watering the sheep at a stream. Across the stream, the light of the morning sun hit a stone and make it sparkle like a rainbow.He picked up the store and put it in the living room.

    That afternoon the wise man came and saw the stone sparkling. He asked," Is Hafiz 8？" The new owner said, "No, why do you ask so？"The wise man said，"Because that is a diamond. I recognize one when I see one." The man said, "No, that's just a stone I9 .Come ,I'll show you there are many more."They went and picked some samples  and send them for analysis . Sure enough, the stones were diamonds. They found that the farm was10mountains of diamonds .

    On the first day of school, the new teacher had a look at the name list of students. How pleased she was!

    Guess what she 1? After each student's name, there was a number 2 138, 140, 154 and so on. "3 these high IQ (智商) students." She thought to herself. "They've given me a wonderful 4!"

    As a result, the 5 teacher worked harder with this class than with her other classes. She 6 some new teaching ways. She thought these 7 would cheer the students and hold their 8. She was right. It 9 out well! The class did much better than any of her others.

    Later, however, she found out the 10 the number after each name did not mean the IQ, but the number of his or her clothing box in the school.

    Twenty-five-year-old South African DJ Mandla Maseko has been chosen as one of 23 people who will get to go to space! Maseko, a 1 African, can't wait to become the first black South African to go to 2!

    He and 22 others were some of over one million who 3 the Lynx Apollo Space Academy competition to win a ticket to space. When he was 4 why he wanted to go to space, Maseko's answer was 5, "want to fight against the rules of gravity(引力)."

    He will start to do so on a Lynx mark II space ship in 2015, not only fighting against gravity but also realising his childhood 6 of becoming an astronaut when he grew up.

    "We blacks also 7 with dreams. You dreamed of being a policeman or a teacher but you know you won't get as far as a pilot or an astronaut. Then I went to the space camp and I told 8 that I could be an astronaut," said Maseko.

    During the first week of December, Maseko, two other South Africans, 9 more than 100 international contestants(选手) went to the space camp in Orlando, Florida to test if they are 10 enough to go to space.

    Maseko knows there is a long way to go before he finally goes into space. "I'll be the first black South African and the first black African to go into space. When I think of the firsts, the first black presidents—Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, I tell myself to try my best."