Bell was a British teacher to deaf people. He was born in Scotland in 1847 and went to school in London. Bell was interested in helping deaf people to learn to speak. He taught people how to use their mouths to make the sounds needed for talking.

    Bell's family moved to Canada in 1870 and to the USA in 1871. For several years he taught the people who could not speak in Boston. But at the same time he was developing a way to use electricity to send the sounds of talking along a wire, and he made the first telephone in June, 1875.

    The telephone developed quickly in the USA over the next few years. The Bell Telephone Company started in 1877, and in 1878 the first telephone centre was built in New York. More than 150,000 people had telephones in their homes ten years later. Bell was a kind man and spent much of his money and time during the rest of his life helping deaf people. In 1922 he died in Canada.

    Several days ago, Brenda had a car accident that led to one of her legs being cut off. Since then she didn't talk to anyone.

    “I wish I could bring her friends to visit her,” said Brenda's mother. “But it's a long bus trip.” The nurse smiled, “Don't worry. We have a plan.”

    Later that day, the nurse had taken Brenda to another room. “Here's your new roommate, Annie Wiggle-Do,” the nurse introduced a dark-hair teenager on the other bed.

    As soon as the nurse left, she jumped out of her bed with her only foot and sat at the other end of Brenda's bed, “I lost my leg from bone cancer,” she said. “What happened to yours?” Brenda was so shocked that she couldn't say a word. “You're lucky.” Annie continued. “You've still got your knee. They had to take mine.”

    “I'd like to have a chat with you, but my friends are coming any time now, so I have to get ready.” Annie said when she took off her hair! Her head was completely bald(秃头的).

    “Oh, I forgot to tell you, the medicine they gave me to kill the cancer also killed my hair.” Annie looked out her wigs(假发), brown and yellow, short and long, straight and curly.

    “That's why I thought up 'Annie Wiggle-Do'.” Annie smiled. “Get it? Any wig will do? Annie Wiggle-Do?” When Annie's friends came, she introduced Brenda to them all. Before long, Brenda started chatting with Annie and her friends. They didn't make her feel like a strange person at all!

    The girls shared their names with each other. When it was time to go to bed, Brenda said, “Good night, Annie Wiggle-Do. Can't wait till morning.”

    Clark and Dale were staying in the same room in hospital. Clark was so sick that he could not even move his body. He had to spend all his time lying on his back. Dale could sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the room's only window.

    Over time, Clark and Dale became good friends. Every afternoon, Dale would look out of the room's only window, describing the scenery outside for his friend. He told Clark about the flowers in a park outside the window, the people walking by, the green trees beside the roads—anything that might interest a man.

    On morning, when a nurse came only to check the two men, she found that Dale had died in his sleep. As soon as the room seemed tidy again. Clark asked if he could move to the bed next to the window so that he could look out of the window himself. The nurse agreed. Slowly, he could take his first look at the world outside. To his surprise, he could see nothing but a blank wall of another building.

    The nurse explained that Dale had been blind. He had never seen anything outside the window at all—but he described beautiful scenes to help his friend better.

Roger was new in town, and he had no friends here. His birthday was coming. He wanted to have a big party, but he was 1 that other kids would not come to his party.

One week before the birthday party, Roger and his 2 went to Benny's Pizza Store. It had the best pizza in town. Roger wanted a large pizza. He 3 it very much.

Suddenly(突然), Roger got a great 4 ." Will you teach me to cook pizza?" he asked Benny.

" Benny is very 5 . He may not have time to teach you." said Roger's father.

" But everyone loves his pizza!" said Roger."6 I can cook pizza like him, I' ll be the most popular boy at school."

"I will help you," said Benny." Come here after school every day and you can learn to make it 7 ! Roger decided to have a try. After that he went to Benny's Pizza Store every day after school. Benny taught him how to make pizza. At last, he could make very good pizza.

Roger told the kids at school that his party would have pizza from Benny's. Everyone was8 . But when they came to Roger's house, Benny wasn't there. However, they saw Roger 9 pizza himself. The kids didn't believe that Roger could make pizza. But when Roger took the pizza out of the oven, everyone ate a piece. They all agreed the pizza 10 just like Benny's. It might be a little bit better.

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 Emma dreamed of writing a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(小说). She had some ideas but wasn't sure how to begin. She imagined a story where characters would {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(对待) each other with kindness and respect.

 At the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(中心的) part of her story, she planned to show how friends support each other. She wisely decided to {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(避免) making everything too easy for her characters. She wanted to{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(划分) the story into chapters(章节), each showing different moments of life.

 In one chapter, a character {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(哭) after losing something special, feeling completely{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(空洞的) inside. Everyone around seemed joyful {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(除了) this one person. By the end,

Emma hoped to show that there is always hope and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(大量) of love around. She believed her book would be {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(广泛地) enjoyed by readers looking for encouragement.