Mr. Brown lived in a small town. One day he  1 a long journey. It was very late when he was going home.  2 he found that a man 3behind him. Mr. Brown went faster, and the man walked faster too.  4Mr. Brown walked slowly and the man walked slowly 5  .

    Now they were coming near a garden. Quickly, Mr. Brown ran6  it. He tried to get away from the man in this way, but he failed. He was very afraid. He rushed and the man rushed after him. Then Mr. Brown stopped. "Excuse me, "he said, "what do you want 7?"

    " 8 , sir, "answered the man, "You see, I have to  9 Mrs. King a bag and I asked the man at the station. He told me, "go right after that man. He lives in the house just next to  10 . "

    It's very common to meet different people in public places.

    When I was  12 years old, I got a small job in a 1,On my first day at work, I didn't come home for lunch. When I came home at night, Mum asked, “How did you 2 your lunch, dear?" I answered, "I made some new friends in the supermarket, twin brothers, their mom and dad. They were my customers. They invited me 3 lunch."

    Mum was happy that I had made new friends but she wanted to know what kinds of 4they might be.

    Several days later, I asked my friends to come to the supermarket where l worked5let Mum meet them. Mum was very 6 to find out that the twin brothers were joined at the chest（胸部）.She felt very strange because I didn't tell her about that before.

    When Mum asked me about this, I said, "I know that too. But do you know that their mom has to make all clothes because it's 7 difficult to find anything to fit them? They're also good 8  .That day, Joe, the one on the right, made me noodles for lunch."

    When Mum saw the twins, she must have thought how strange they9But to me, what I cared about was that they had difficulty10clothes and they were good cooks.

    Mother Hare's two children were a month old. They lived with their parents in a deep hole (洞) . "Children," said Mother Hare, "It's time for you to live by yourself. Listen carefully to1Father says. Father Hare said, "When you leave, make yourself a deep hole like our hole. It will keep you safe2danger.

    The first little hare did not want to3He thought, "I will make a house near the forest." He found some twigs (树枝) and put them all together to make a house. It4him a day to finish the work. After that, he was 5 so he went to the meadow (草地) to eat. Someone else was in the meadow: a hungry fox. "Come here," said the fox. "Let's have dinner together. You will be dinner!" The hare ran fast into his house.6the fox took the house down and ate the hare for dinner.

    The second little hare said, I will make myself a house in the tree. He built a house in the tree from twigs. When he finished, he went to the meadow to7 food. The hungry fox waited in the meadow and tried to get8for dinner. The second hare wanted to run back to his house in the9.But unluckily, he was so afraid that he couldn't climb up the tree. Then the fox got him and ate him for dinner,10.

    It's good to have your ideas and do the things you like. But sometimes you need to take your parents words into heart.

   It may save you from the wrong way.

    Once upon a time, there was 1 old farmer. He loved money very much. He kept a lot of gold coins(金币)but 2 used them; he 3 not give them to others. He put them into a 4 box and put it in the ground. He came to the 5 every day to look at it. This made him happy.

    6, when he came to the place, he could not find the 7^. He became very, very sad. He began to cry.8 a man came to him and said, "Don't cry. Put a stone in the ground instead, and 9⁾ it is a box of gold coins. A stone will be still the same, 10 when the coins were there, you never used them. "