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    There was a beautiful garden. Every year the king would go to the garden to decide(决定) which flower was the most beautiful one. 

    For the last few years, the rose was always Number One. Because of this, the rose Gulaab became arrogant. It would never let birds stay on its flower. Then all the birds started staying away from Gulaab.

    Behind Gulaab, there was a little yellow flower. People called it Junglee. Junglee wasn't more beautiful than the rose, but it welcomed the birds to stay on its flower. All the birds in the garden liked it.

    This year the king went to the garden as before. The gardener(园丁) pointed at the rose and said to the king, “Your favorite flower, my king.”

    Of course, the king also saw the yellow flower behind it and asked, “What flower is that?”

    “Oh! That's Junglee, a wild flower.”

    “I didn't see a flower like it before. There are so many birds on it. I think it's much more beautiful than the rose. It will be the King Flower of this year!” said the king.

    Emma's dream was to be a boxer. All her life, everyone said she couldn't be a boxer because she was a girl. They said that she should just get a normal job. Her parents told her that she would be killed one day if she kept boxing. It was hard to hear "you can't" all the time. Emma still decided to prove everyone was wrong.

    Emma's life was hard. Girls didn't like her, because they thought she was too manly (有男子气概的). Boys didn't like her, because they thought she wasn't as good at boxing as they were. Because of all these, Emma didn't have any friends at school. She always sat alone in the cafeteria (自助餐厅), and it was hard for her to find partners for group projects.

    However, Emma did have friends from her boxing class. They were all female (女人) boxers. They understood what Emma was going through because they were in the same situation. All they had was each other. They were a family. Because of this, Emma was always excited for boxing class. One day, she was going to be a famous boxer.

    Some people have a very poor sense of direction. Unluckily, I am one of them. I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.

    When I was a little girl, I never dared to ask strangers the way. And so I used to walk around in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.

    Now, I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive useless or ever wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. It anyone asks me the way somewhere, I would say, "Sorry, I am a stranger here."

    Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps, I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I hurried to meet someone at my office and I didn't want to keep him waiting.

    When I just got to my office, the secretary showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how awkward I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight!

Martin had a lot of friends at school. He 1 told his family how many friends he had. 

One day, his father called him for a bet (打赌). "Martin, I bet you for the bike you wanted."

"Really?! What's the bet? " Martin couldn't believe his 2 .

"You do not have as many friends as you think. Not everyone is 3 friend."

Martin asked, " 4 can I test whether they are my friends?"

"I have something special. 5 me."

A few minutes later, Martin saw his father walking back, looking like he was carrying something heavy. But Martin could not see anything.

"This is a magic chair. Take this to the club, and sit on it 6 . Then you can tell who are your real friends," his father said. 

The next day when Martin was in the club with the "chair", he asked everyone together and said, "Friends, you are about to see my magic here. 7 closely."

Then Martin tried sitting on the chair. But he fell. Everyone laughed. 

He made another try and fell again. The laughs 8 .

Martin kept trying and fell.

He tried again but did not fall this time. He saw John, Abram, Julie, and Terry carrying him up 9 he would not fall. The others still laughed. 

Now he 10 his real friends.

Lydia likes running a lot. She always runs, and picks up rubbish along the way. This activity{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (call) "plogging", an activity combining collecting rubbish with running. Last June, she first learned the idea of plogging{#blank#}2{#/blank#} the Internet and decided to plog. 

Lydia runs four or five times a week and takes{#blank#}3{#/blank#}walk with her two dogs every day. She often wears her{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (glove) and takes several bags when she goes out. Sometimes she spends half an hour{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (collect) rubbish. She says she{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (waste) the last few years of her running life.  Now she feels{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (good) to do plogging than just running by the litter. 

"It takes just a moment to stop and pick something up off the ground. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}, it makes a big difference to my community. Now my husband also joins me. " Lydia says{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (proud). "It doesn't matter{#blank#}10{#/blank#} much rubbish I pick up. It's a good way to protect our planet. "

There is a tree near a river. A lot of bees (蜜蜂) are making their house here. They 1 around flowers and get their food. They keep doing their work all the day. One fine day, a bee wants to go to the 2 to drink some water. When the bee tries to drink, the 3 blows it away. The bee fell (掉) into the river.

 Luckily, a kind bird, who is watching the bee far away, flies 4 to help the little bee. She 5  a flower from the tree and flies to the bee. The bird 6 the flower near the bee. The bee gets on the flower and makes its wings(翅膀) 7 . After some time, the bee feels well 8 flies away to its home.

 Some weeks later, the bird is 9 great danger. As she is sitting on a tree, a bad man tries to 10 her. The bird wants to 11 but sees a large hawk (鹰) flying around her.

 That's 12 her kindness comes back to her. The bee comes to help13 by stinging (咬) the bad man's face hard. At that time, the bad man shot the arrow (射箭), which 14 the bird but scares away the hawk. The 15 bird flies away to its home.