People have told stories about Robin Hood for over 700 years. Nobody knows if he was a real person or an invented character. In the legends, Robin was extremely smart and humorous, he helped strangers, and later his kindness paid off.

    The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood was just a young man, who was good at archery (射箭术). One day he was walking through Sherwood Forest, a royal hunting forest near Nottingham in England. There he got into trouble with a group of men. Among them, he killed the cousin of the Sheriff (郡长) of Nottingham. Robin became a legendary outlaw, and soon the leader of one hundred outlaws, known as his "Merry Men".

    Robin and his "Merry Men" always looked for rich people and asked them to their camp in Sherwood Forest. When they arrived, Robin gave them a good meal and played music for them. Then he took their gold away to help the poor. Robin became most famous for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor."

    The Sheriff of Nottingham was Robin's greatest enemy. He was cruel and treated the poor badly. It was his job to keep the woods safe and to make sure that nobody stole the king's deer. He hated Robin because Robin was an outlaw. But most of all, he hated Robin because everyone else loved him. The Sheriff of Nottingham kept trying to catch Robin Hood and his "Merry Men", but never succeeded.

    Hello! I'm Jenny Smith. I'm a student at No.5 Middle School, I'm at school now. Look! This is my desk. It is yellow. What's on my desk? Three' black pens, a blue ruler and an English book. The ruler is Sally's. She likes blue. Sally is my good friend. She is a nice girl. Her phone number is 518- 9236. I often call her. The English book is Peter's. He likes English very much. Whose are the pens? Of course, they're mine.

A young man named Mark lived with his father, a wise old man. One day, Mark told his father {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sad) that he made little progress in learning the guitar, although he had tried hard. Mark asked his father {#blank#}2{#/blank#}some help.

"Follow me, and I {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(lead) you to the high hills around our village tomorrow,"said his father. Then, they set out. The road was long and difficult, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Mark still followed his father. As they got higher, the father said that he wanted to go to the top of the highest hill where he had never been. Mark was surprised but decided {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(help) his father. With great difficulty, Mark helped his father climb the hill. Finally, they got to the top.

"When you were {#blank#}6{#/blank#} little boy,sometimes the elder children laughed at you. Do you remember why?" said his father.

Mark nodded. He remembered that as a child, he and all his {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(friend) called this hill Mount Impossible, because small children couldn't reach its top.

"And today,"said his father,"you not only climbed here, but also helped {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(I) to get here."

"I became bigger and stronger than before,"said Mark.

"Instead of {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (climb) Mount Impossible every day, you played on the smaller hills and became {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (good) at climbing,"said his father. "It became possible for you to climb Mount Impossible while you weren't even thinking about it."

My cousin Sam is a middle school student. He is twelve years old. He loves1 a lot. Every morning, he runs around the playground for half an hour. Now he looks 2 and tall.

Sam likes reading. He also likes writing a lot. He wants to be a writer. He often borrows books and reads them in the school 3 . In his free time, he often 4 some stories for his school newspaper, School Times. Many students like reading this newspaper very much. They all think his stories are very 5 . They want Sam to tell them more stories.

Sam doesn't do well in 6 . He thinks English is a little  7 and difficult, so he doesn't like it. One day, he finds his sister sitting in the study after he comes back home from school. She is 8  the computer. She is watching a video（视频）9 . It's about how to learn English well. He 10 it with his sister. He finds the teacher is cool in the video and his classes are so interesting. Then he makes a decision (决定) to learn English well.