Li Hai: It's windy, Dad. It's a good day to fly kites.
Father: Yes, it is. Oh, look!{#blank#}1{#/blank#}is that yellow kite?
Li Hai: It's Pingping's.
Father: Pingping's kite is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} very high.
Li Hai: Oh, no, no! Her kite is falling down. It's on the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}  now.
Father: Have we got a ladder(梯子)?
Li Hai: Yes, there {#blank#}4{#/blank#} one over there.
Father: Good. Let's go and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  her get the kite down.

before; first; up; send; get; at;

plan; made; take; healthier

    Lily made some New Year's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} this year. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} , she's going to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} piano lessons and practice every day. Next, she wants to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} good grades. She's going to study harder and she's going to do all her homework {#blank#}5{#/blank#}she watches TV. Finally, she wants to learn French. She's going to buy some French CDs and practice French  {#blank#}6{#/blank#} home.

    Lily's sister Lucy  {#blank#}7{#/blank#} some New Year's plans, too. She wants to become fit, so she's going to exercise more and eat {#blank#}8{#/blank#} food. She also wants to improve her Chinese. She's going to get a pen pal in China, and she is going to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} e-mails in Chinese to her pen pal. When she grows {#blank#}10{#/blank#} , she wants to be an engineer. So she's going to work harder in her math and science classes.

    Hello, my name is Wang Na. My birthday is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} September 12th. And it's my {#blank#}2{#/blank#} birthday today. In the morning, my {#blank#}3{#/blank#} take me to the clothes store and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a red skirt for me. The skirt is very {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and I like it very much. In the afternoon, we go to the supermarket (超市) and buy lots of {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. We buy a big birthday cake, some candies (糖果), chicken and fruit. In the evening, we have a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} at home. My friends Helen and Jack {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to my party. I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a new watch from them. We eat the nice food and play games at the party. I really have a good {#blank#}10{#/blank#} today.

    A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, "I am blind, please {#blank#}1{#/blank#}"

    There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned {#blank#}3{#/blank#} around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} words.

    Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot {#blank#}5{#/blank#} people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. The boy recognized (识别) his footsteps and asked," Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

    The man said, "I only wrote the {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. I said what you said but in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} different way. "

    What he had written was, "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

    Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

    Of course {#blank#}9{#/blank#} signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it {#blank#}10{#/blank#} he was blind.

—She is my sister, Jane.