Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet (西藏). Our legs were so heavy and cold that 1 felt like big pieces of ice. Have you 2 seen snowmen ride bicycles? That's what we looked like! Along the way children who were 3 long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late4 we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze (结冰).However, the lakes   5 like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful.

    Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She was in high spirit and I knew I didn't need to

    6 her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we7 us, we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles, and we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. After a while, we began going 8 the mountains. It was great fun especially as it slowly became much 9. At the foot of the mountains, colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many sheep eating green grass. Then we had to 10 our caps, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.

    In the early evening we stopped to make camps. We 11 our tent（帐篷）and then we ate. After supper Wang Wei went to sleep but I stayed 12.  13 midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. As I 14 below the stars I thought about how far we had already travelled.

    We will reach Dali in Yunan Province soon, where our cousins will join us. We 15 hardly wait to see them!

    Once there was a boy named Jimmy. He started drawing when he was three years old, and when he was five he was already very     1 at it. He drew many beautiful and interesting pictures, and many people 2 his pictures. They thought this boy was going to be 3 when he was a little older, and then they were going to 4 these pictures for a lot of money.

    Jimmy's pictures were quite different from other 5, because he never drew on all of the paper. He drew on 6 of it, and the other half was always 7.

    “That's very 8,” everybody said. “No other people have ever done that before”.

    One day, somebody asked him, “Please 9 me, Jimmy. Why do you draw on the bottom (底部) half of your pictures, but not on the top half.”

    “Because I'm small,” Jimmy said, “and my brushes can't 10 very high.”

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    Amy is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta early on the morning of March 12, when a man 1her to her door, and put a gun(枪) to her side.

    “I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really 2 ,”she said in a TV interview last week.

    The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He killed three people at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11.The police were 3him.

    Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but set her free after she begged(恳求) him not to take her 4 again and again. “I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mummy,” she said with tears.

    “I just talked to him and tried to make him believe me,” Smith said.

    She asked Nichols 5 he chose her. “He said he thought I was an angel6 from God, and God asked him to do so.”

    Smith even 7 for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was8when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing the police looking for him. “I cannot believe that's me on the TV!” Nichols told the woman.

    Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he 9do. She said, “I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't, more people are going to get10.”

    Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.

     Early one morning, an old woman was carrying a big basket of potatoes on her head to the market. She hoped to1them to the people from town.

     The mountain road was narrow and the old woman was walking 2, because she did not want to have 3and lose her potatoes.

     Suddenly she 4 a loud bell, and a bicycle came round the corner.

     It passed her and went very fast 5the hill. The old woman had to jump to one side of the 6 so quickly that the basket of potatoes nearly fell into the valley.

     She looked up and saw that a young boy was on the bicycle. He was 7 on without even 8 round to see whether the old woman was all right. The old woman began to shout,“Come back, young man! You dropped something!”

     When he heard this, the boy stopped the bicycle so suddenly that he nearly fell off .

     Then he turned and began to 9the bicycle back up to the hill.“What is it?”he asked,“What did I drop?”“Little boy,”the old noman answered, “you dropped your 10.”

    I work as a taxi driver for nearly ten years. It's a 1 job most of time. I like to meet different people. I always work 2, because there are too 3 cars during the day. I live 20 kilometers outside of London and I go to 4at 5:30 in the afternoon. I usually go home between two and three o'clock in the morning.

    There is a very strange and interesting thing one night. I take a woman with a little dog5home. When we get to her house, She can't find her key and purse (钱包). So I wait in the car with the dog and she climbs in through the window.

    I wait for half an hour. At last I want 6 what is wrong with her. I tie (系) the dog to a tree and 7 in through the window, too.

    A policeman passes by and he thinks I am a thief(小偷). I argue(争论) with the policeman. The 8 .akes the dog barking loudly. The old woman wakes up and goes out of the 9. Because just now she goes to 10  and forgets me and the dog at all!