I arrived at my mother's home for our Saturday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. I knew they were all made herself. She was preparing for a quilt show on TV. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box.

    I pulled it out. "What's this?" I asked.

    "Oh?" Mom said, "That's Mama's quilt."

    I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had made the pieces together.

    "Grandmother made this?" I asked in surprise. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn't look like any of the quilts she had made.

    "Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes,"

Mom said, "I'm still working on it. See, this is what I've done so far."

    I looked at it more closely. She had made a line straight(直的). At the center of the quilt, she had stitched a piece of cloth with these words: "My mother made many quilts. She didn't get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt."

    "Oh, this is so nice, Mom." I said. I was sure now that by completing my grandmother's quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.

    I live in a wonderful neighborhood. My neighbors are all very nice and kind, 1 the best of them is Mr. Lee. He lives on the left of my house. He is a 2 in a hospital. He has two sons and one daughter. One of his sons is my classmate, so I often 3 their house. Every time I go to their home, Mr. Lee welcomes me with a warm smile. Mr. Lee is very 4. If we have any health problem, he is always ready to help 5. And he will never 6 us for money. Mr. Lee is also a person with a sense of humor (幽默感). He 7 telling us jokes(笑话) and making us laugh. 8 in our neighborhood thinks highly of him.

    Peter is also one of my neighbors, and he does 9 in all his lessons. When I have some questions, I 10 ask him for help. We often play football together after school, sometimes we go 11 in the swimming pool. We like talking with each other on his balcony(阳台), we can 12out at the beach and the sea from it. After dinner, we often watch TV and enjoy cups of tea. The best place for us to stay is the 13, because we like eating.

    We are very 14 to live in a neighborhood like that, we often help each other. We are here like a big 15. What about your neighborhood? Please let me know.

One night, my family was driving back from visiting my uncle in the middle of a very bad snowstorm.

The road was normally two lanes (车道) going in each direction, but there was so much snow that it was down to one lane. We were scared, but we felt safe because my father used to work as a truck driver. He's a very safe driver.

We were all alone on the highway until three cars pulled up right behind us. They used their lights of the car and beeped their horns (按喇叭), wanting to get by us, but there was no place for us to pull over.

After a while, we stopped at a restaurant to wait for the storm to calm down.

The three cars behind us drove in too. They were full of young men. They were talking about how slow we were driving. One of them said loudly enough for us to hear, "If you don't know how to drive, you shouldn't be on the highway."

Soon after, the young men left even though the storm was getting worse. My father decided that we should wait inside, hoping the storm would stop.

After it cleared a little, we headed down the road. Finally, we came around a turning. We could not believe our eyes—the three cars were all in the ditch (沟渠)!

Dad ran to the cars. The young men were all okay, but they were freezing and very frightened. A police officer arrived and took some of the young men to the next gas station. We gave two of them a ride.

It was a very quiet drive. My dad turned to the young driver and said with a little smile, "You know, if you don't know how to drive, you should stay off the road."

The man was very upset. My dad smiled and said, "I was a truck driver for fifteen years and we had a saying: There are old drivers and there are bold (大胆的) drivers, but there aren't any old bold drivers."

The young man understood and hung his head in shame.

Jane is a middle school student. She is a beautiful girl. She likes nice shoes and she usually wears new shoes. She thinks new shoes make her look great. 

One day, Miss Lee finds that Jane is unhappy. She asks Jane, "Why are you not happy？" Jane answers, "I want to buy a pair of new shoes, but my parents don't buy them for me. They don't love me. " Miss Lee thinks for a while, and then she says, "Today, I have some homework for you—count(数) your parents' shoes and tell me the number(数量)tomorrow. "

The next day, Miss Lee asks Jane, "Do you count your parents' shoes？"

"Yes, my father has three pairs of shoes and my mother has four pairs of shoes. "

"How many pairs of shoes do you have？"

"Twenty，" Jane's face turns red. 

"Are you still sad now？"

"No, I am not. I don't want new shoes now. My parents do a lot for me. I know they love me. Now I want to save(节约) some money to buy shoes for my parents to show (表达) my love for them. "

Choose the best choice from A, B or C according to what you read.

内容提示：

1. What changes do you have? 

2. How have you changed? 

3. What do you think of the changes? 

4. Something more about your changes. 

注意：文中不可透露真实姓名和学校。词数100词左右。

Dear Peter, 

How time flies! And I have changed a lot during the past few years.

……

Yours, 

Li Wei