A GREAT basketball player will retire (退役) this week. His name is Kobe Bryant.

    Bryant, 1for the Los Angeles Lakers, a team in the NBA. He has been playing with the Lakers for 20 years. But now he is leaving because of2and injuries (伤).

    “My heart can take it, my mind can handle (处理) it,3 my body knows it's time to say goodbye,” he4in his poem (诗) Dear Basketball.

    Bryant is one of the greatest5in NBA. He has won five NBA championships (冠军) and two Olympic gold medals. He also has scored the third largest number of points in NBA history, even6than Michael Jordan.

    Bryant has a real love7basketball. He often starts to practice as8 as 5 am. Everybody knows how hard he works.

    Soon Bryant9 have some time to rest. But no matter (不管如何) what he does next, he said his love for basketball will10change.

    It was the last lesson before1 holiday. The students 2 very happy. Their English teacher was very3, too. The teacher 4 played nice games with them. He sang some nice songs, and then he went to the blackboard and wrote "SMILE"5 it. "This is one of the 6 words in English", he said to the class. 7 the students laughed, and then one girl 8 and said, "Why is it one of the longest words in English?" The teacher said 9 for a while. Then he smiled and said," Because there is a mile between the 10letter and the last.

    Walt Disney, the great film­maker was born in Chicago in 1901. His greatest wish was to be a famous 1. When he was young, he went to a 2office in a city named Kansas. There he had some 3. He took some pictures of himself and wanted to get a job. But he had 4 luck. They looked at the pictures and said, "Sorry, young man. We don't think there is 5 interesting in your pictures. "

    But he didn't lose 6. He went on to draw pictures. His family was 7. One day a mouse came into his room and played on the floor. He stopped 8 and watched it. The mouse came to him and sat on his desk, so he gave the mouse a piece of bread. Then the mouse came nearer and was given more bread. 9 this way after some days the mouse became his good friend.

    Disney went to the west of the USA after a few years. He tried to get work as an artist, but he was still 10. One day he remembered the cute mouse. He picked up his pencil and began to draw. He drew some different pictures of the mouse. He called it Mickey Mouse. Now most people know and love him all over the world.

    Mrs. King is a 26-year old woman. She comes from Australia. She has long blonde 1, a straight nose and blue eyes. She is thin and of medium 2. Mrs. King looks much 3 than other women of the same age. Some people think she is only about 20 years old.

    Mrs. King is our English teacher. 4 she only teaches us twice a week, she is a very responsible(负责的) teacher. She is very 5 with us in class. But after class she is friendly and kind 6 us. She always works very hard. I remember one winter morning, she didn't feel 7, but she went on giving us a lesson. We were moved(感动的) and all listened to her 8more carefully than before.

    Mrs. King teaches us very well. Her classes are 9 funny and interesting. She often tells us to be10. So we can learn English well. All of us love her.

    I come from a small village in North China. Every year, when the Spring Festival comes, people can see red flowers on the windows of my house. Of course, these flowers are not real and they are paper flowers. But 1 the cold winter days, these wonderful flowers make us feel 2. They can 3 my family and make us feel happy. But do you know who cuts them? It is my grandmother and she is 70 years old now. With a few cuts, she can 4 pieces of paper into a beautiful work of art.

    When my grandma was a little girl, people 5 her as the most clumsy(笨拙的) child in her family. But one winter night, she saw her new neighbor could cut some beautiful red paper flowers. She was so 6in it and decided to learn from the new neighbor. Lots of paper was wasted and her fingers were cut many times, but she7 practicing. It took over ten years before my grandma could learn the 8 of making paper art. The red flowers, blooming (盛开)like burning fire, make her happy. Now, my grandmother is famous for her paper flowers and almost 9 in the village loves them.

    The story of my grandma has shown us the way to succeed. As we know, happiness comes from hard work. 10we want to achieve our dreams, we must work hard.

    It was the golden season. I could see the 1 leaves falling with the cool wind. For others, it is a season to achieve something, but for me, it is a(n) 2 season. I was 3 for the mid-term exam, and so many unhappy things made me so tired. So I decided to have a walk along the road in the park.

    "Autumn is a lonely season and life is uninteresting. The days in this season always get me4 ", I thought when the sound of a guitar came into my ears, like a bird singing beautifully. A young girl, sitting on the grass, was lost in playing her guitar. She was a beautiful girl, 5 when the wind blew her long hair. I had never seen her before. The music was so wonderful that I listened quietly.

    Lost in the music, I did not 6 that I had listened to it for so long. But I did not seem to trouble her. Leaves were still falling. Every day when I passed by the grassland, I would see her playing her guitar. She was the only 7 and I was the only listener. During the rest of the days in the season, life became 8 and I could go over the lessons carefully.

    Autumn was 9 over. One day, when I was listening, the sound suddenly stopped. To my surprise, the girl came over to me.

    "You 10 like the music," she said.

    "Yes, you play very well. Why did you stop?" I asked.

    Suddenly, a 11 expression appeared on her face.

    "I came here just to have a rest because I 12 in an important exam. I felt very disappointed. And it was your listening every day that 13me," she said, "and I have to go tomorrow."

    "In fact, it was your playing that gave me a 14 autumn and helped me believe that I have the ability to pass my exams." I answered, "I think it was God who gave us the 15 to know each other and we should be good friends."

    She smiled and I smiled in that beautiful autumn.