Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and their children were going to begin their holiday one day, and they had to be at the airport at eleven forty in the morning. "It'll take us half an hour to get there in the car," Mr. Wilson said, "so we must leave before eleven o'clock. Don't be late."

    At ten minutes to eleven, they were busy doing things, except Mrs. Wilson didn't, she was sitting quietly on a chair in the garden and enjoying the sun.

    Her husband and children were very surprised. Why wasn't she busy, too. Mrs. Wilson answered, "Well, before I went to bed last night, I moved all our clocks and watches ahead twenty minutes. So now we can go to the airport quietly, Don't worry, then."

    Walter Dean Myers，born on August 12，1937，was an American writer of children's books．He was known for young adult literature （文学） He wrote more than 100 books，including picture books and non﹣fiction．"I care about writing for young people because I remember how much I needed help and guidance at that time in my life，"Myers said in his book．

    Myers loved writing．He got up at five o'clock every morning．He worked at home in a small office that used to be his son's bedroom．

    Myers would first write an outline for every book．He called this prewriting．He imagined what the story would be and wrote down ideas in a notebook．To make sure there's enough action and dialogue for a good story，he thought of 30scenes．He wrote a short description of each scene in his notebook．

    He also cut out pictures of real people and put them on his office walls．He looked at those pictures and came up with ideas．Once he knew what the story would be and who the characters were，he began to write the book．He wrote five pages a day on his computer．

    Myers usually worked on three books at a time．When he was not prewriting or writing a book，he might be rewriting something he had already completed．Then he would send the story to his agent （经纪人）．He or she made suggestions for the story．After these final changes were made，the book was published and made its way to bookstores and libraries．By that time，Myers would begin to write his next book．"I want to do the best that I can with my writing．"said Myers．

    I arrived at my mother's home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt(被子) after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. "What is this?" I asked.

"Oh?" Morn said, "That's Mama's quilt."

    I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together; irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right.

    "Grandmother made this?" I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn't look like any of the quilts she had made.

    "Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes," she said. "I'm still working on it. See, this is what I've done so far. "

    I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched(缝) a piece of cloth with these words: "My mother made many quilts. She didn't get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt. "

    "Oh, this is so nice, Mom," I said. It occurred to me(突然想起) that by completing my grandmother's quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.

    The New Year was coming. Grace and Alice were going shopping with their mother. The mother wanted to{#blank#}1{#/blank#} them to a Farmers' Fair (集市),but Grace wanted to go to the supermarket. The mother explained that they{#blank#}2{#/blank#} buy fresh fruit and vegetables there, and could support (支持) local farmers as well. Grace agreed.

    The girls were{#blank#}3{#/blank#} when they arrived there. The farmers sold things that they grew{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Alice found a stall (货摊) with red strawberries ,and she{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, "Where did you get so many good strawberries?" The woman answered, "I grow them on my farm. You can come to visit my farm{#blank#}6{#/blank#} you like." "That will be great!" said Alice. At last, Alice asked her mother to buy{#blank#}7{#/blank#} strawberries. They also bought something else.

    At the dinner, the father asked each person to say something{#blank#}8{#/blank#} this day. Alice said, "I want to thank not only the strawberries, but also the{#blank#}9{#/blank#} They needed to work so {#blank#}10{#/blank#}to grow strawberries." Grace then said, "We should thank the food and the people who bring it to us every day." Alice and Grace's parents smiled.

More biking, better public transport and odd-even bans on vehicles (车辆单双号限行)—many cities are using different ways to reduce {#blank#}1{#/blank#} pollution.

 Paris doesn't allow cars in many historic central places at weekends, carries out odd-even bans on vehicles, and makes public transport free {#blank#}2{#/blank#} there are serious pollution events.

Because of the serious {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in Delhi, India made the city stop all new large diesel cars (柴油汽车) and diesel taxis. The city has started odd-even bans on vehicles and is now encouraging Uber-style minibuses. Other {#blank#}4{#/blank#} like Dublin and Brussels, are also considering diesel bans.

Helsinki, capital of Finland, plans to {#blank#}5{#/blank#} cut down the number of cars on its streets by developing better public transport, raising the parking prices and encouraging bikes and walking. The government {#blank#}6{#/blank#} that in this way, no one will want a car by 2050.

Freiburg, Germany has 500km of bike routes(路线) and a cheap and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} public transport system. One town, Vauban, does not allow people to park cars near {#blank#}8{#/blank#} homes and makes car owners pay€18,000 for a special space near the town. In return for living without a car, the government {#blank#}9{#/blank#} people cheaper housing, free public transport, and many bicycle spaces.

 Copenhagen, Denmark prefers bikes to cars and now has {#blank#}10{#/blank#} bicycles than people. Large parts of the city have been closed to cars for years and the city plans {#blank#}11{#/blank#} carbon neutral (碳平衡) by 2025.

A man wanted to sell his donkey（驴）in a market. The market was  1  from his house, so he  2  early in the morning with his son. 

On the way, the man was sitting on the donkey while his son was walking near it. 3  saw them. He said the father didn't love his son. The man heard this. He got  4  from the donkey and made his son sit on it. 

5  person met them. He said it was not right for the son to make his old father walk in the sun. It was so hot. Now  6  of them decided to walk. 

After 7  , a group of people saw them. They said the father and the son were stupid. They had a donkey, but they didn't sit on it. Now both of them had to sit on the donkey and then  8 going. 

There came a woman. "You may kill the little donkey by  9  that!" she shouted. So what should they do?

10  we should just do what we think is right, because we cannot follow everyone's advice （建议）.