Mike is a factory worker. He is often very tired after a day's work. His wife, Jenny, has no job, so she stays at home to cook the meals. Every day he can have his dinner when he gets home from his factory.  

    One day, Mike came home very late because he was very busy in the factory. He was very hungry when he got home. He was not happy when he found his dinner was not ready. He was very angry with his wife. He shouted at her, "I'm going out to eat in a restaurant." "Wait for five minutes，" said his wife. "Why? Do you think that dinner will be ready in five minutes?" asked Mike. "Of course not," she answered. "But I can be ready to go with you in five minutes."    

    It was wonderful in Taiwan. I still remember my last trip to Taiwan.

First, I visited the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. It began to be built in 1962. It was completed in 1965. In this museum, you can find lots of exhibitions(展品). The museum keeps about 600, 000 artworks. The clerks of the museum say they change exhibitions every three months.

    Yinke was the second place I visited. It is a great town. There are some beautiful buildings in the town. The buildings look like European houses. These buildings make Yinke look like old England.

    It was a great experience to visit Keelung. The Keelung coasts are very famous for their wonderful scenes. There is also a seafood market. You can buy fresh product there.

    Then I arrived at Danshui. The most interesting place of Danshui is the Lover's Bridge. The bridge connects one side of the river with the other side. It is about 40 meters long. However, only one person can cross it at a time.

    I like Taiwan and I want to visit Taiwan again if I have free time.

Emmitt followed his father to row eleven, seats thirteen and fourteen. He was so busy taking in the sights at the baseball stadium that he wasn't watching where he was going. He bumped right into his father's back. "Sorry, Dad."

His father laughed. "No problem. Which seat do you want?"

Emmitt looked at the number thirteen on the back of the seat. Thirteen was supposedly an unlucky number, and he was going to need some luck if he was going to catch a foul ball(界外球). "I'll take fourteen."

As the players took the field, Emmitt took pictures for his scrapbook. He cheered, did the wave, and even got a foam finger(泡沫手指). The game was great. But it was missing one thing. A foul ball. Emmitt wanted nothing more than to catch a foul ball.

Every time a batter popped a ball into the air, Emmitt sprang to his feet. And each time, he'd groan and sit back down. He'd seen foal balls go over his head and fall short of his row. He saqueezed his foam finger when the next batter came to the plate. It was his favorite player—Harry "the Hammer" Watson. Emmitt stood up and cheered for him. He heard the crack of the bat and watched the ball sail into the air… right toward Emmitt! He couldn't believe it. He was going to catch a foul ball hit by Harry Watson.

"Daddy!" the little girl sitting next to Emmitt cried. "The ball! The ball! Catch it!"

Emmitt saw the huge smile on the girl's face. She wanted the ball.

He turned his back to the ball just as it reached his seat. Emmitt leaned toward his dad and the ball dropped into the hands of the little girl's father.

"Why did you do that?" Emmitt's father asked. "Do you realize who hit that ball?"

"Yeah, but look," Emmitt nodded to the little girl. She was hugging the ball.

"My first game and I got a foul ball," she said.

"I'm proud of you, Emmitt," his dad said, ruffling his hair. "That was a really nice thing to do."

Emmitt smiled as he watched the little girl. He didn't get his foul ball, but he felt as good as if he had.

Asha looked out of the window on the plane. What a1 ! The buildings were so tall. The city was large, much larger than her small town. 

Asha was on vacation in New York City. She was very2 as she had always wanted to come since she was young. She read stories about it and studied its3 . She knew how the island of Manhattan was bought from native Americans 300 years ago. She4 knew people from all over the world came to live here. These people, like Asha,5 a new life in New York.But Asha was only staying for fourteen6 . She thought of these two weeks as a time to7 herself to move back to New York. She would return to her small8 , stay for one year, and then come to live in New York forever. So she had to plan this vacation9 .

In New York Asha wanted to do10 things. First, she wanted to look for a job. Next, she would find a place to live. She knew it was expensive to live in New York and that finding a good place to live was11 . And the third thing she wanted to do was to12 her English. She had studied English for 12 years but didn't know13 she could understand "real" English.

Before leaving, her friends told her that New York was a14 place.But Asha wasn't worried. She had studied New York carefully. She believed she would be safe.

15 Asha saw the Statue of Liberty! The plane flew around it, and then began to slow down. Soon Asha was on the ground, getting ready to leave the plane to meet her future.

Terry is 65 years old this year. He is from America. He makes a tree house for his family this year. It's very beautiful.

The tree house is in his back yard with two beds, ten seats and a BBQ. It can hold (容纳) ten people. It is big and brown. Terry spends six months making the tree house. And he gets some help from his good friends.

Terry's friends also like this tree house very much. They often have fun in it. They talk, play games, and listen to music together. "I am happy to share the tree house with my family and my friends." Terry says.

People call him "World's Best Grandpa". Do you know why? Because he makes a cool tree house for his family.

Back in the 15th century, in a small village in Germany, lived a family with eighteen children, Eighteen! In order to keep food on the table, the father, a poor man, worked almost eighteen hours a day. Despite(尽管) their 1 conditions, two of the eldest children had a dream. They both wanted to make a success in art, 2 they knew well that their father would never be able to 3 either of them to study at college. 

After many long discussions at night in their 4 bed, the two boys finally reached an agreement. They would toss(掷) a coin. The 5 would go down into the nearby mines(矿井), and, with his money, 6 the winner for college. Then, in the next four years, the winner would support(资助) the loser. Then Albrecht Dürer won the toss and left for college. His brother Albert went 7 into the dangerous mines. 

Four years later, when Albrecht Dürer, the young artist 8 home and said to his brother, "And now, Albert, it is your 9 . You can go to college to achieve your dream, and I will 10 you. "

Albert rose and wiped(擦) the tears from his cheeks, "No, brother. I cannot go to college. It is too 11 for me. Look...look what four years in the mines has done to my 12 . They cannot make beautiful lines on pictures 13 a pen or a brush. They can net even hold a glass. "

More than 450 years has 14 . By now, Praying Hands is the one that can 15 the world's hearts among Albrecht Dürer's hundreds of wonderful portraits.