Mr. Knott [not] is a teacher. He teaches in a big school in London. Because he lives a long way from the school, he is usually quite tired（疲惫的） when he get home. At nine o'clock one evening when he is in bed, the telephone rings（铃响）, so he answers the phone, " Hello! Who's that?"

    "Watt [what]." a man says.

    "What's your name, please?" says Mr. Knott.

    "Watt's my name," the man answers.

    "Yes, I asked you that what is your name." Mr. Knott asks.

    "I told you. Watt's my name." says the man. "Are you Jack Smith?"

    "No, I'm Knott," says Mr. Knott.

    "But what's your name?" the man says.

    Mr. Knott and Mr. Watt put their telephone down and think, "What a foolish（愚蠢的）man!"

    Hans said to his friend Kurt, "I'm going to take my car and drive to London." Kurt said," Driving to London is very difficult. You aren't going to find your hotel." But Hans was not afraid. He drove to Calais, put his car on his ship, took it off at Dover and drove to London.

    He stopped near the city and looked at his map. Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel. He drove round and round for an hour, and then he stopped and got out of his car. A taxi came, and Hans stopped it. "Take me to the Brussels Hotel." he said. But he didn't get into the taxi; he got back into his car. The taxi man laughed, but then he drove to the Brussels Hotel and Hans followed him in his car. They got to the hotel in two minutes.

Ever since "Mother Nature" gave me life, I expected to grow tall and big.

As a young 1 , I was well protected in the forest. I used to 2 a good time with my friends under the blue sky and 3 the river. Our only purpose was to stand high. My pal, Tim often said, "All I ask for is to be 4 the whole day."

365 days passed and we grew straight. On that day, it was our 5 birthday, people came, moved us from the 6 and put us on their trucks. "I don't want to go!" Tim cried.

After a long journey, we arrived in a completely different place with 7 green. Here we were planted in a line. 8 the wind blew strongly, I could not even open my eyes to see Tim 9 beside me. So we needed enough 10 to grow thicker and higher to stop the wind.

As time went by, we finally 11 much stronger. I could keep my eyes open in the wind! I even found the blue sky was back!

This was no longer a no-man's-land, and hundreds of visitors came here. A man took a picture of us with his 12 . "Thank you. We can enjoy clear days 13 worrying about sand storms." A young girl jumping up and down came over and 14 me. "Thank you," she said. "It's you that have turned the desert into a green land!"

Tim and I smiled at each other, feeling 15 . The sun was shining brightly in the bluer sky.

A boy was walking home from the school. Suddenly, he saw a large, red apple 1 on an apple tree. The boy didn't like fruit very much, but this time he had a 2 will to have this one. And the more he looked at it, the 3 he felt and the more he wanted that apple. 

He stood on tiptoe（脚尖）, stretching as high as he could, but he was unable to 4 it. He began to jump up and down, as high as he could, but the apple was still out of 5 . 

"I can't 6 ! " he thought, "7 I can have something to stand on." But his schoolbag wouldn't give enough height and he didn't want to 8 the things inside, either. Looking around, he hoped he could find an old box, a rock, or, with luck, even a ladder, but nothing was 9 . 

Without seeing any other choices, he felt quite 10 and had to walk away. At first, he felt angry 11 how hungry he had become, and how he really wanted that apple. The more he thought like this, the unhappier he would become. 

However, the boy was always a pretty 12 guy. He thought for a while and said to himself, "I can do nothing to get the apple, and the result is unchangeable for me. Being upset isn't 13 because it can't change anything. So I must change my 14 and be joyful. I should go home earlier and eat something else, then I may not be hungry and I may not be angry, 15 .

 Suffering(受苦) from ALS (渐冻症) for 30 years, Jiang has never lost his love for life. Besides, he taught {#blank#}1{#/blank#}( many) than 200 children for free for over twenty years. 

 At the age of 16, Jiang Bing {#blank#}2{#/blank#}( fall) to the ground on the way to school and was unable to stand up again. One doctor told him that he had an illness that was hard to cure(治愈) and suggested {#blank#}3{#/blank#}( he) give up searching for treatment. He was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} great pain, but Jiang didn't lose hope and still kept studying every morning, spending one day like it was a month. 

 Though Jiang couldn't enter {#blank#}5{#/blank#} university himself because of the disease, he offered {#blank#}6{#/blank#}( teach) his younger sister and help her go to university in 1994. Not until then did the people living in the community realize that the special man could teach their children. 

{#blank#}7{#/blank#} they asked him for help. The next year, Jiang started helping children with their studies {#blank#}8{#/blank#}( careful). Apart from the school subjects, he also taught them art and clay sculpture(泥塑). He once taught 24 children in one single class, all for free. 

 Today many of the children that he taught graduated from university. They all think him one of {#blank#}9{#/blank#}( excellent) teachers. Zhao Feiyu, a student who once received Jiang's help, runs an art {#blank#}10{#/blank#}( train) school now. "He taught us wisely and took no money, " he said, "He is my best teacher and friend. "