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    Mr．King goes to a dinner party．It is James' birthday．Mr．King is wearing his old clothes because he doesn't have time to change after work,but he does remember his present for his best friend．When he comes into the room，nobody in it looks at him or asks him to sit at the table,even James．

    Mr. King leaves the party,goes home and puts on his good clothes．He goes back to the party．This time,everyone in the room stands up and says hello to him．Of course．James does that too．They also give him the good food to eat．

    Mr．King gives his present to James．and then takes off his coat．puts the food in front of it and says．"Eat, coat!"

    All the people there are surprised．and James' son asks，"What are you doing?"

    He answers，"I'm asking my coat to eat the food．When I am wearing my old clothes，you do not look at me and you do not ask me to sit down．Now, I am in these clothes．And you give me the delicious food．Now I see，  ▲  !"

    There once was a man and a woman who had been married for more than 60 years. They talked about everything. They kept no secrets from each other…except that the old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet and she told her husband never to open it or ask her about it.

    For an these years the husband had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would never recover.

    In trying to sort out things they had, the little old man took down the shoe box from the top of the closet and took it to his wife's bedside. She agreed it was time that he should know what was in the box.

    When he opened it, he found two beautifully crocheted (钩针编织的) doilies (装饰垫) and some money. He counted the money. It was $25,000 in total. He asked his wife about the unusual contents.

    "When we were married," she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doily."

    The little old man was so moved, and he had to fight back tears. Only two precious doilies were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He was filled with joy and happiness.

    "Sweetheart," he said, "that explains the doilies, but what about all this money? Where did it all come from?"

    "Oh," she said, "that's the money I made from selling the doilies."

    Beakley gets a letter from his grandma. It says, "Please come and visit me soon."

    Beakley puts his green toothbrush and socks into his bag. He takes his favourite toy Bunny too. His friend Weber goes with him.

    They take a yellow taxi to the airport. "This airport is very big," says Beakley, "I am scared(惊恐的) of flying. Maybe we should drive a car there." "No," says Weber, "it's too far. The pilot can fly over buildings and trees just like a bird."

    Flying is fantastic and soon they land(着陆). And then Beakley takes a big purple boat with Weber. It crosses the sea to a big island(岛). On the island, Beakley and Weber take a train. After getting off the train, they rent(租) a bike. "This goes very fast and this is fun." says Beakley.

    Finally they get to a pink house and Grandma waits for them.

    Some children are flying kites near the river. They are very high and Peter can see them in the classroom. After lunch his aunt comes to see his mother and brings a kite to him. It looks like a bird. He wants to fly it but his mother doesn't let him do so.

    "It's time to go to school. " says his mother. "You can play it after dinner. "The boy is unhappy, and says goodbye to his aunt and leaves. Now he is in the classroom but he doesn't listen to Miss Black. She writes something on the blackboard and then turns to the class and finds this.

    "Name nine things with milk in them, Peter. " she says. The boy doesn't hear her and still sits there. A boy in Row 4 taps his back and he understands it. He stands up and Miss Black asks him the question again. He thinks for some time and then says, "Yes, madam, tea, coffee, cake and… er…six cows. "

    Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh(1853-1890) killed himself by shooting himself in the chest(胸膛).

    This is what van Gogh himself told his brother, the doctors and the police just before he died.

    However, in a new book Van Gogh: The Life, two Pulitzer (普利策奖) Prize-winning authors, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, argue that van Gogh may have been murdered. They believed that the artist was protecting a 16-year-old boy named Rene Secret, who shot him accidentally.

    Van Gogh's statement that he shot himself was accepted because he had been mentally unstable(精神状况不稳的) for two years. He suffered from psychotic(精神病的) attacks and imagined things that were not really happening. Art critics (评论家) believe that his unstable mental state is shown in his work, describing his style of painting as shaken. Some of his most famous paintings, such as The Starry Night, were produced during this period.

    Van Gogh is among a number of creative minds who suffered from mental health problems. In fact, mental illness is so common among famous creative figures that scientists have studied whether there is link between creativity and insanity(精神错乱). Research began in the 1970s, but the idea that an unstable mind could be linked to creative genius(天才) was already around in ancient Greece.

    Some scientists believe mental illness, in its more manageable state, gives artists creativity. Research has found that doing creative activities can also be therapeutic(有疗效的) for people suffering from mental illness. Painting, writing, or making something can be a positive way for people to express their thoughts.