My father was sick badly,so he needed a lot of help to do the everyday things.

    Dad was sitting in his old armchair and listening to the radio when I arrived.He 1and smiled.

    “What's new,Jim?”he said,2 I sat down on the sofa.

    I wanted to tell him all about my problems at work,3I couldn't seem to find the works.4 he think that I was a failure,out of work at 58?”Nothing much,”I said,finally.He told me lots of family news.He was in 5 spirits.Then it was time for Dad to 6 his medicine.

    “I'll get it,”I said.I went into the kitchen and7a glass of water from the fridge.I found a red apple in the kitchen.I cut it into small slices,put them on a plate.He was very 8 and looked as if he were going to cry.

    “Dad?What's the matter?”I asked.

    “9 has cut me an apple like that since your mother died,”he said.”it's just like what she used to do.”I shut and opened my eyes quickly to bring 10 the tears.I couldn't let myself cry in front of him.

    Hello！My 1 is David. I am in No.12 Middle School. Here 2a photo of a pen. Is it mine？3. It is not my pen. It is my good friend Anna's. She lost 4 pen in the school library this morning. It is black. Now she can 5 it. I can e-mail her about it 6 anna808@tom.com.

    I found a 7 of keys in Classroom 7C this afternoon.8 yours？My phone number is 798－5546. Please 9 me. You can 10 the teacher for them, too. Thank you!

    Einstein is a world-famous scientist. In 1899, he1at a famous university in Zurich.

    Once Einstein asked his teacher, Professor Minkevsky, "How2a person, like me, leave his clear footprints on the road of science and make a great success?" Minkevsky said that it was a "3" question and he would give him an answer later.

    These days later, Minkevsky told Einstein that the4was coming! He pulled Einstein to walk towards a building site and straight set5on a concrete(混凝土) road. It was a road that workers had6finished!

    All the workers7him, "Sir, don't you lead me the wrong way?" Einstein was confused (疑惑不解的) and asked Minkevsky8.

"Can't you see?" Minkevsky asked. "Only the9concrete road surface can leave footprints. The old road surface has been walked on and countless 10have been left by many people, 11you can hardly find your footprints," Hearing that, Einstein thought for a long time and nodded.

    After that, a very strong sense of 12begin to 13new things. He believed strongly that14could tell him what to do and no books could help him. He always said, "I never memorize what books carry because my brain was only 15 those things that are not in books," It has because of this that Einstein left his shining footprints in the history of science.

    Mr. Black works in an office. His memory is very poor and often 1 something. One day his son had a cold and he had to 2 him to hospital. When they got there, he remembered that he left his 3 at home. He ran to the telephone box4 and was going to ask his wife to bring the money to him. But there was a woman in it. She was looking up something in the telephone book. He had to stand outside to 5 . About ten minutes passed, she was still in it. His son began to cry on a chair in the waiting room. He was 6. Another ten minutes passed, the woman didn't 7 He was more worried. He thought for a while and knocked at the door. The door 8 and he went in.

    "Thank you, sir," said the woman," I don't 9 anybody up. I had a baby last month and I'm only looking for a good 10 for her in the telephone book."

    Abing, one of 1 Chinese musicians of the 20th century, was born on August 17, 1893 in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi. His official name was Hua Yanjun.

    Abing's father was good at a number of musical 2. He trained Abing in drums from the age of 10. Abing began learning the dizi at age 12, then the erhu. When he was 17, Abing first 3in religious ceremonies, and won acclaim for his musical talent and voice.

    After his father's4 in 1914, Abing along with his cousin took charge of the temple (庙)which supported the family. However, Abing didn't have the5 to run it well. This drove Abing into poverty(贫穷). However, bad luck never came6. At the age of 34, he developed a serious illness and became blind. He became 7and made a living as a street performer.

    In 1939, he married Dong Caidi, a country woman in Jiangyin. After his8Abing performed every afternoon in a public square in Wuxi. He became famous for adding news into his music and songs, 9the war with Japan. After the performance, he would walk through the city streets, playing the erhu. This was a period of many works for Abing, and his most famous composition, Erquan Yingyue, was performed in this period. Till today, it 10as a classic of Chinese erhu and pipa music.