A little boy invited his mother to his school's first teacher-parent meeting. He never thought that she would  1 . But she did. He felt worried.  2  she was a beautiful woman, there was a scar(伤疤) that covered nearly the whole right side of her face.

 At the meeting, the boy was 3 to see other people having a good talk with his mother. But he felt sorry for his mother's face and sat in a chair  4  his mother. Just then he heard a talk    5    his mother and his teacher.

“How did you get the scar on your   6    ?" the teacher asked. She replied, “When my son was a baby, his room caught on fire one day. 7 was too afraid to go in, so I went in and ran towards his bed. Just then I saw a beam(横梁) coming down and I placed myself over him trying to  8   him. I was knocked but luckily, a fireman saved both of us.” She touched the scar.

“This scar will be here forever, but I have never regretted     9 I did for my son. You see, he is strong and healthy now.”

Hearing that, the little boy came out running to his     10  with tears in his eyes. He hugged(拥抱) her and held her hand tightly(紧紧地) for the rest of the day.

When Millie got up this morning, she found it was a beautiful spring day. She saw some 1 in the sky，but she didn't think about them．She woke up her dog，Eddie，and put him in the 2 ．Then she drove out into the country 3 a picnic with her dog．

When they got to a big tree, Millie stopped her car and told Eddie to get off the car. They began to play games under the 4 . How happy they were! An hour later，the wind began to blow and it turned 5 ．Millie and Eddie were warm from running，so they didn't feel cold．When Eddie was playing with the ball，Millie 6snowflakes (雪花)in the sky．She called Eddie，picked up the picnic things and got 7 in the car．As she was driving home，the 4 became heavier and heavier．Soon all Millie could see everything was white all around 8 ．

The road became slippery(滑的)and she had to drive very  9 ．Then the c10ar hit into a piece of ice and it went around in circles. She got her mobile phone and asked for   11  quickly．They waited for about an hour because it was   12  for the police to drive in the snow. At  13 ，the police came to  14   them. Millie was very thankful, she said she would listen to the weather   15 before going on a picnic next time．

    It's the day before Christmas. Karen Hartley, 33, was skiing（滑雪）by 1 at Powder Mountain in Utah. By mistake, she began to ski off the trail. Soon she 2. She shouted for help, but no one heard her. Night came, and the temperature 3 below freezing（凝冻）. Karen was very cold and afraid of 4. But she stayed calm. She played music in her mind and danced all night long to stay 5. She danced to old disco songs, pop songs, and Christmas songs. “It was either dance 6 die,” she said. “I kept on 7. I didn't give up.”

    The next morning, a helicopter began to 8 Karen. After 18 hours in the cold, she was 9 just before it's too late. Karen was very cold but all right. She 10 Christmas Day in a hot tub（浴缸）.

    The Little Prince, a classic novel was written by the French pilot and writer, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It 1 a story that happened in the Desert of Sahara, about a pilot and a little prince. The pilot had an accident with his plane.2 was wrong with his engine. And he made friends with the prince who 3 from another planet.

    The main4in this book, a special little prince, lived on a5planet known as Asteroid B-612. It 6 only three volcanoes(火山) and a rose with surprising beauty. The flower was rarely found and charming7 words, but she was also proud and self-centred. And it made the little prince leave his planet because he was 8 to face her. During his journey, the little prince visited several planets, and had conversations with their9 including a king, a conceited(自负的) man, a tippler（酒鬼）, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From them, he found how meaningless the world of grown-ups was.10he arrived on the Earth, where he was shocked by a heart-breaking fact that his flower was not the only one in the world. At that moment a11 appeared , asking the little prince to “tame” (驯服)him, then he did so.12 the little prince left, the fox made him believe that the rose was special to him and the meaning of love and responsibility . At the end of the story, the little prince 13to go back home. The pilot walked14with his friend to the place where he landed. He saw a yellow poisonous snake bite the little prince.

    The next morning, the pilot was unable to find the prince's body. He finally 15to repair his plane and leave the desert.

    The pilot wrote this story to remember everything between himself and the prince.

    In space, there was a little gray planet. It looked very 1 , because the people who lived there hadn't looked after it. They had polluted the whole planet heavily 2 rubbish and pollution. As a result, there were few plants and animals left.

    One day, a little boy Jim was walking on the planet, when he passed a cave（山洞）and 3  a small red flower inside. The flower was very sick — almost dying, so Jim 4 dug up the flower, with roots, soil and everything. Then he started looking for a place5 care of it. He searched all over the planet, but everywhere was polluted so much that there was6 place the flower could possibly live in. Then he looked up at the moon. It seemed that maybe the plant could live there.

    Jim decided to go there. He7 a spaceship and put the little red flower in the back, then they flew to the moon. Far away from all that pollution, the flower soon grew up, giving birth to others, and these other flowers spread onto other flowers. Soon the whole moon was completely covered with flowers. When the little boy's flowers came out, the moon gave out a soft red8. It was the most beautiful scenery he had ever seen.

    Maybe the story is telling us9 we don't look after the planet, a day will come when flowers can only grow on the moon. So we must be friendly to10 place that we are living in now.

    Rose didn't see her school IC card at lunch time. She asked her classmates and looked for it everywhere. But she couldn't 1 it. Later, one girl said that she saw Kate take a card from Rose's desk. So Rose got very 2. When she met Kate in the afternoon, Rose 3, "You have stolen(偷) my card! "Hearing this, Kate began to cry, "No, no, I didn't steal it! I only took it by4." But Rose didn't think so and they began to fight.

    Just then a teacher came up and 5 what had happened. Kate told the whole story. She said her pen pal came to see her in the morning. She was so 6 that she took the card carelessly. Then they went for lunch happily. "I used the card, but I had thought it was mine. I didn't know it was Rose's 7 she asked. I was too afraid to explain it to her. So I decided to put the 8 back with some money secretly. I am sorry, Rose." Kate said in a low 9.

    "It's just a misunderstanding(误会) !" said the teacher. Tears(泪水) came into Rose's eyes. Then she said, "I was 10 sorry, Kate! I hope we are still good friends."