Look at this photo. It's a photo of my two good friends and me. The boy is Tom. 1 is from America. The girl 2 red is Helen. She is from England. And I'm from Australia, my name is Lucy. We3 in the same (相同的) school.

    Tom likes sports very much. He often 4Ping-pong, baseball and basketball after class. He has a great sports collection: some ping-pong balls, two ping-pong bats, eight baseballs and two 5. He thinks it's relaxing and 6 to play sports every day.

    But Helen thinks it's boring. She 7 sports every day. She likes 8. She has many books. She reads every day. I don't have a great collection. 9 I play sports every day. I also (也) 10 sports shows(  节目 ) on TV. I think sports are good for me.

    Today, I want to tell you a story about something I did when I was 14 years old. I made some friends in school 1 they turned out to be bad. They were some boys who stole（偷盗） 2 and sold them. Whenever we were stealing a bike, a boy named John would break the lock 3 two other boys were watching out. Then one of us would 4 the bike to a cave （洞穴）. The next day, we would meet there and repaint the bike. When we stole four or five bikes, we would sell them 5 a few hundred dollars.

    One 6 afternoon, we went to an apartment in Bukit Batok. We found a bike on the fifth floor and started to work on the 7. It was hard to break. We spent 10 minutes 8 it. We were about to escape with the bike when the owner of the bike came out of the elevator. “My bike!” he 9.

    We dropped the bike and ran down but two policemen nearby 10 us. We were taken to the police station. Our parents were called and our teachers were told what had happened. The police took down what we had done. The next day, a bright Sunday, I 11 to the Boys' Home.

    Life in the Boys' Home was very hard but it 12 me a very important lesson. I learnt that stealing was not right. At the Boys' Home, the officers helped me and encouraged me 13 my ways. I decided to 14 stealing.

    To this day, I feel so 15 for what I have done. I hope you will learn something from my story.

    Everyone has one or more friends. But not everyone has friends from other 1. I do! I have an e-friend from the US. 2 name is Susan. And she is twelve years old. She is the same age as me. She has a 3 family with six people in it: two elder brothers, one elder sister, her parents and her. But I'm the only 4 in my family. How lucky she is!

    Her favourite subject is Maths. 5 she doesn't like History. She thinks it's boring. After class, she often plays basketball 6 her friends. Many American students like playing basketball. But I like playing table tennis.

    She usually rides a bike to school because her house is not 7 school. She says it's good for her health. But I always go to school 8 bus. She likes to listen to music, but she never 9 in class. Her favourite song is My heart will go on. Do you think it's wonderful?

    Her dream is to visit China one day. She wants to learn about our country and learn how to 10 Chinese. I'm sure her dream will come true.

    Mark lived in a village far away. One day he became very ill and everyone thought he would1soon. They sent for a doctor. Two days2the doctor came and looked over the sick man. 3asked for a pen and a piece of paper to write down the name of the medicine. But there was no pen4paper in the village, because no one could write.

    The doctor5 up a piece of burnt wood from the fire and wrote the name of the medicine on the6 of the house. " Get this medicine for him, " he said, "and he will soon get 7. "Mark's family and friends did not know 8 to do. They could not read the strange words. Then a young man 9an idea. He took off the door of the house, put it on his carriage(马车) and drove to the nearest 10. He bought the medicine there, and Mark was soon well again.

    I was born with the ability to run very fast. As a result, I was the best runner in my school. I 1 get the first place in every race. But that was before a terrible traffic accident, which changed my life completely.

    After I woke up in a hospital, I found that I lost all feeling in my legs. I 2 sitting in my wheelchair. Sometimes when I thought about it, I got really sad inside. When I was 3 in my room, I even cry. However, thanks to my father, I am not going to cry about it any longer, and I'm not sick or helpless.

    Not long ago, Dad talked with me in person. And this conversation helped me to change. He told me to be brave. "You can be good at 4 else besides running. Try to find it out, Jane!" said my father, with a 5 expression on his face. 6 I started playing chess. Before I never thought of playing something like chess, but now I'm getting pretty good at it. I 7 Dad last night. Dad said I could enter their chess competitions.

    Before my accident I used to be good at a lot of things and I never really thought about it. But with chess I really have to think about it a lot and practice and try. 8, now I have to practice lots of things, and when I'm able to do a thing without 9, I have the feeling of winning though it isn't a/an 10.

    At first I didn't know what was happening to me. I started feeling sad,1and empty. My mum advised me to start 2others. I was confused (困惑的). But I decided to have a try. The next day, I went to a house.

    The house was for young girls. They were left behind by their 3. When I arrived, I felt 4. I didn't know how to talk to them. So I started helping them to do their homework. And I started going there very often and 5enjoying it.

    One day, I met a little girl in the house. She started asking me about my 6. She was interested while asking me questions about my family. I was really surprised because she seemed to 7 each of my answers. When I asked her if she knew her parents, she said no. This really broke my 8.

    When I left that day, the girl 9 me if I could visit her more often. I smiled and said yes. I was really happy to help this 10 girl. But in fact, this little girl helped me and taught me more.