I have a friend. He is a boy. His name is Nick. He is from England. Nick is a sports fan. He likes 1 every kind of games. He likes basketball, football, tennis, badminton 2 swimming. Nick is good at 3 football. Yang Chen is his favourite football player. Nick is a member 4 the Football Club. When he goes shopping, he always 5 newspapers 6sports and he often reads sports news. His school is very big and beautiful. There is a football tennis court and a swimming pool in his school. He usually plays football 7 his friends after school. Nick says that he wants to 8 a football player when he grows up. Nick often goes to the stadium (体育馆) to watch the football games 9 the weekend. He 10 want to miss any match.

    It was Sunday afternoon. My brother and I were alone at home. My parents went for a party and asked me to look after my brother. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Ding-Dong! My brother thought that it was our parents, so he opened the 1soon.

    A tall man wearing a black raincoat stood outside. He said that he came to sell books and asked politely2 our parents were at home.

    Without thinking, my brother said, “No.” Then the man asked if we would like to 3some story books. I refused him. When I wanted to close the door, he suddenly pushed the door very 4and came into our house. He took out a 5and ordered me to tie up my brother's hands with a rope. I tied up his hands in a special way so my brother could untie 6easily. The man then tied my hands up and locked 7of us in the kitchen. Soon, he went upstairs to 8money. I taught my brother to untie the rope on his 9. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police,10the line was dead. The doors were all locked from the outside. It was lucky that the man 11to lock the kitchen window. We got out of the house through the kitchen window and went to the 12 pay phone to call the police

    Soon 13came to our house and the man was caught. By that time, my parents had come home. We told them the whole story. My parents were 14that we were not hurt. They told me that I should stop my brother from 15the door to strangers. I learned a lesson on safety.

    Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl who lived with her father in the forest. One day, a lion came to their house and told the father to let the girl 1 him. The father and the girl were very 2 of the lion. He knew that if his daughter did not get married to the lion, the lion would be very angry and kill them 3. So he had to find a way of 4  the lion.

    After thinking a lot, he said to the lion, "I will be 5 to marry my daughter to you, but she is very afraid of your teeth and claws. If you let me take 6 all out, you can marry her. I am sure my daughter will then make a good 7."

    "No problem!" The lion said. He could  8 think of how much he loved the girl and wanted her to be his wife. So he let the father take out all his teeth and claws. As soon as the lion was toothless and clawless, the father began hitting him 9 a heavy stick. The lion could not defend himself 10 he had no teeth, or claws. Finally, he ran away. He was also unable to kill animals for food. So he soon died.

    When I was a little girl, my grandma told me if I planted something in spring, I would get more in autumn. I1what she said without doubt（怀疑）.

    At the age of six, while I was eating a big apple, 2hard pressed against my tongue（舌头）. I spat（吐）it out. It was a(n)3! I was so scared that I cried and ran into my grandma's room. She looked at the tooth and4, "Don't worry, dear. It's a baby tooth. You will have a new tooth in a few5. "

    "A new tooth? In a few months?" I felt very6.

    "Yes, you will have your new teeth7you get old, and you must protect your new teeth well. When you become an old woman, the teeth will fall again. 8at that time, they won't grow again. So it's not9for old people to eat something hard," my grandma said.

    I went out of my grandma's room and thought,"10should I put the tooth?"

    I thought for minutes, and then I had a good11—why not plant it in the garden? If I took good care of it, day after day, maybe it would become a big tree. When12came, there would be many white and strong teeth on the13. I could pick them and send them to some14people. Then they could eat hard things with these teeth.

    Of course my "tooth tree" couldn't15into a big tree at all, but what my grandma said had been in my mind for years.

    Mr. James1at the school Lost and Found. He works very2. Every day when3gets a lost thing, he takes notes(记录)4it. There5pens, books, school uniforms(校服), keys and many6 things in the Lost and Found. Most of them are the7. If you lose your things, it's easy for you8the Lost and Found for help. But you must tell Mr. James what it is, its colour and the day 9you can't find it. I think Mr. Janes is very helpful(乐于助人的), and you will be10when you find your lost things there.

    Tom is the son of a farm owner. One New Year's Day, when he was 15, his father asked him 1 on the farm for one year when he was free. Tom was 2 with his father's idea. "That isn't my job. I have 3 homework to do." Hearing this, his father said, "I promise to give you the best present if you 4 finish one year's work."

    Tom thought for a while and 5.

    Starting One Saturday, the boy 6 early and worked hard until evening, just like 7 farmer. Time passed quickly. Tom's crops(庄稼) grew well. 8 the last day of the year, the father called his son to him. "I'm happy to see that you have worked very hard the whole year, "said the father." Now, tell me 9 you want."

    The boy smiled and showed his father a big piece of bread made from his wheat(小麦). Then he said, "I've already got the best present: No pains, no gains(不劳无获). I think this is what you wanted me to know. "His father was 10 to hear that. Then he smiled, too.