Grandma Sally is eighty-six years old. She has no sons1daughters. Her husband died ten years ago. But she didn't move into a nursing home. She would like to 2herself every day.

    Every night she spends two hours3kids with math. All kids living on her street can get her help without payment(报酬). She was a famous math 4before she retired(退休) from a middle school.

    She gets up early in the morning, then does sports, goes shopping or helps cleaners5the street. And she does these happily.

    When the kids come for help, she is always6and tries her best. People asked her 7. She said," I love it. It makes me happy to help them. "

    She is always happy every day and always says hello to people around her8a smile.

    "I 9to love everything around me. So I'm happy to do something. I'm thankful for those kids who come to me for help. Each kid is my 10. I love each day to help them," she said.

    When I was 14, I went to a boarding school (寄宿学校). At first I 1 my family a lot. I often called them on the phone. But after two weeks, I found I 2 being with my classmates at school.

    I had many friends and they were all 3. I often played and studied with them. I thought of them as my best friends. I never thought my friendships with boys would become a 4.

    One day, one of my friends told me that some girls said I was 5 with boys all day long to get attention (注意) from them. A few weeks after that, Mr. Wang asked the class to 6 some students to join the Student Union. I thought I could be chosen 7 I was doing well in school. I was the top student in class. A week later, the result surprised me: I wasn't chosen. I was 8.

    Mr. Wang came to me after class and said, "Don't be sad. I know you're an excellent student! Maybe you should be a little closer 9 the girls in our class. They don't know much about 10. Try your best to get to know everyone and I think you'll get chosen next time. "

    I thought Mr. Wang might be right. "I will try to be friends with everyone," I said to myself.

    Susan is a Chinese girl. She lives in Beijing with her parents. It's eight o'clock in the morning. The1is sunny. But it's still very cold. Susan is2English in her room. She learns English for an hour every day. She wants to learn it well so she studies very3. Susan's father is reading a newspaper.4father usually reads newspapers in the morning. Where is Susan's mother? She is5breakfast for them in the kitchen. She prepares (准备) some hot milk. She thinks hot milk can make them6in winter.

    What is Susan's friend Tony doing now? Tony is not Chinese, He comes from another (另一个)7. America. It's in the evening in America now. The weather is8. It rains a lot this week. Tony is9at the table with his family. They are having dinner. Tony eats much chicken and some carrots. He also drinks some orange10

    Do you have friends from other countries? Do you know what they are doing now?

    Joseph was born in an English family. Whenhe was 2 years and 7 months old, his mother started to1him to read every day. And he was very2to learn that.

    When he was three years old, he3tell some stories.

    At that time, he4the level (水平) of a five-grade student. When he was four years old,he began to5booksby himself without his mother's help. He often read lots of stories to hisparents and his grandparents.

    When he was six, he could tell more than3,000 stories.

To our6, he could recite (背诵) the stories7once he read them one time. His memory (记忆力) was8good that many reporters can't believe it.

On January 25th, 2015, one reporter let him read an article (文章)9three hundred words in it and he then recited it freely and he didn't make a mistake. What a10boy he is!

    Now he is called "a child prodigy (天才；奇才) "in the UK.

Dick didn't spend the money he made on games or snacks, he has s{#blank#}1{#/blank#} up money for the last two years so he could buy his friend Brandon a new electric wheelchairs (电动轮椅). 

Dick and Brandon have been friends {#blank#}2{#/blank#} years. Though both of them go to Caddo Hills High School, Brandon has a h{#blank#}3{#/blank#} time getting through the hallways. Because Brandon uses a push wheelchair to get from class to class, he says his arms start to h{#blank#}4{#/blank#} after using it for so long. 

Dick spent the last two years t{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (take) a part-time job at a car repairing shop. He really wanted to buy Brandon an electric wheelchair. Dick f{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (final) could buy the wheelchair last month, and when he brought it to Brandon in class last month, Brandon could hardly hold back his feelings. He said, "I was just crying everywhere. I can't b{#blank#}7{#/blank#} he did that for me."

"Tt's been my d{#blank#}8{#/blank#} to have one of these," Brandon a{#blank#}9{#/blank#} "and now it came true."

"Dick has had some bad experiences over the last year, so being able to help somebody else has really brought him out-being able to know that he made a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (different)," Calleen said. 

"I'm so excited to build sandcastles!" said James. "I'm going to build a big one, with lots of rooms!"

"Your sandcastle will be good, but not as good as 1 !" said Nova. "Why don't we have a competition(比赛)?" James thought it was a good idea and 2 her.

They were busy building their sandcastles. Nova built a great one! It had big towers and little windows. She even made sand chairs for little crabs to relax in!

 When seeing it, James was very 3 . At first, he was so sure his sandcastle would be pretty good for a king. However, each time he tried to build a tower on the top of the sandcastle, it didn't work. Then he tried to place other decorations(装饰品) on it, 4 they only made it worse! The sandcastle finally became a disaster(彻底的失败) and he knew Nova already 5 him.

 Nova looked over at James's sandcastle, and then at James. Watching him sit by his sandcastle sadly, she thought she should offer some 6 .

"Do you know what could be more fun, James?" asked Nova.

"What?" sniffled James.

"You and I, build a sandcastle together!" said Nova. "This one took me too much time, and there are so many crabs. It will be too 7 with only one sandcastle! They' ll need more than one sandcastle!"

"Oh, really?" James said. "I think everyone can do it well 8 me. I'm afraid I' ll ruin(摧毁) it."

"You won't, James!" And so Nova built the sandcastle and James placed all the decorations on it. After finishing it, they looked at their work 9 .

"Now, that's what I call a sandcastle!" James said with a big smile.

"Next time, let's work together again!" said Nova. "We make a great 10 !"