My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I n ever wished her to show up in my school, being afraid that my classmates would   1 I had an ugly mother.

    One day during elementary school, I was terribly ill. My mother came.

  “Your mom only has one eye?!” asked some of my classmates. I was so 2.

    I wished my mother would just 3 from this world. “If you make me teased(嘲笑), why don't you just die?” I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some medicine and left without saying 4.

    At that time, I felt 5 to say what I always wanted to say, and I didn't think I had hurt her feelings very much. That nigh t I saw my mom 6 in her room, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might 7 me. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a   8: I must study hard and leave my mother.

    Years later my dream came true. I was quite successful and lived 9. I never thought of going back to see my “ugly” mother   10 one day I got a letter, which said, “My son… I'm sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into a(n) 11 and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't 12 watching you live with only one eye. 13 I gave you mine. I was never  14 with you and I never regretted(后悔) what I did be cause I 15 you……”

    I cried out aloud. Only then did I realize how beautiful my mother was!

    Life is full of chances and challenges. For students, if we don't study hard, 1, we will fall 2 other students. At first, I didn't know 3 the word " exam" meant. Later, I knew an exam was a 4 of competition. In competitions, there were always 5 and losers. As I grew up, I got to know competitions well. In one's life, there must be competitions, so people could 6.

    Each time I saw children 7 games, and heard their laughter, I 8 I were that age again. However, I remembered my parents' words—You must work very hard 9 have a good future. So I 10 up my pen and began to study hard again.

    I was still not 11 what competitions really meant. One day, I was 12 an English-speaking competition. When I went to the stage, I saw other students looking at me kindly. I suddenly knew what the competition was. It was not as cruel 13 my teacher and parents told me. In fact, competitions were important and necessary.

    I learned a lot 14 what I experienced. Now I understand 15 about the world. Competitions are important for us all.

    It was a hot afternoon and Tom was feeling sleepy in his English class. It was a grammar lesson. He 1grammar. He wanted to leave school and work. Tom looked out of the 2. He looked at the trees and flowers. Then he started daydreaming.

    After ten minutes the teacher stopped 3. He asked the students to do some grammar exercises. The students took 4their exercise books and pencils, and started writing. The teacher looked at Tom. He saw that he wasn't writing, so he said, "Why aren't you 5, Tom?"

    "What, sir?" Tom said.

    "6, don't have a daydream, Tom!" the teacher said, "Why aren't you writing?"

    Tom thought for a moment and replied, "I aren't got a pencil."

    The teacher looked at Tom and said, "You aren't got a pencil? You mean you don't 7a pencil?"

    Tom didn't understand the English teacher, 8he said, "Sorry, sir."

    The teacher said in a(n) 9voice, "I don't have a pencil. He doesn't have a pencil. She doesn't have a pencil. We don't have pencils. They don't have pencils. Tom, do you understand?"

    Tom thought for a while and he said, "My goodness! What happened to all the 10, sir?"

    A photographer called Rienermann spent half a year with her head in the clouds—taking pictures of every letter of the alphabet in the spaces among1.

    In her spare time the talented2often walks in the streets of Barcelona, looking up at the sky.

    One day, she3the letter "q" in the city. The letter had been formed by the curve of a pretty square and the narrow4that leads people into it. She quickly took it in her5. She thought maybe she could find the other letters in the alphabet, so she6.

    It took her six months from "q" to all the letters. Her strange7have been put into a book called Type the Sky. She said, "Barcelona is beautiful anyway- especially the old part of the town with the8streets.

    Every time you9you can only see a small part of the sky and nothing else because there are houses on each side.

    She added, "I tried it in Berlin, but it didn't10because the houses and streets are too far apart."

    Her work is receiving more and more attention now.