When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good at it and made his plane do ①all kinds of tricks.

    George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George wanted to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought, "I've traveled in a big plane several times, but I've never been in a small one. So I'll do."

    They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kind sof tricks in the air.

    When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back ②safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking (颤抖的)voice ,"Well ,George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane."

    George was very surprised and said, "Two trips?"

    "Yes, my first and my last," answered Mark.

    Do you go to school every day by bike or in your parents' car? The American English teacher Margaret tells her story about taking a school bus in America.

    When I'm a primary school student, I love taking the school bus. It is interesting to talk to my friends and play games on the bus. It is like children-only party every morning and afternoon. On the school bus there is only one adult（成年人）—the driver. Most of the time, we are well-behaved because we like the driver and don't want to make him unhappy. But one day, one of the boys makes a face at a policeman driving behind our bus. The policeman makes our bus driver stop. Then he scolds（训斥）the naughty boy loudly. We all behave well after that!

    It isn't comfortable for young people to wait for the school bus in winter（冬天） because it is very cold, especially when there are strong winds（风）. Some students in cities have bus shelters（遮挡）, but country children have to jump（跳）up and down to warm up. Hurry up, spring!

I was living in a house with a long history in Halifax, Nova Scotia five years ago. One day, one of my friends from the West Coast came to visit me. He was 1 for three weeks so he brought a lot of bags and suitcases, and other things like a 2  . I told him that he could sleep on the bed in the front living room.

One morning after a late night of drinking, my friend ran into my room, shouting, "FIRE! FIRE!"Without 3  , I jumped out of bed. The floor was 4  against my feet as I ran out into the hallway, right behind my friend. I couldn't see the fire anywhere, 5  as we ran towards the front door, I could hear the 6  making a loud noise all around me. It was inside the 7  . We ran out into the front yard and 8  at the house, seeing black smoke coming out of the 9  house.

We were standing there watching the house when I looked down and 10  all of my friend's bags and suitcases 11  lined up on the front grassland, including his basketball. When he noticed the house was on fire, he took 12  out to the grassland first. And then he came back to 13  me about it. That fire had started in the basement(地下室), and it spread up into the walls and was burning the 14  we were standing on. The floor and much of the house fell down not long after we came out. The firemen said we were very 15  .

Of course, we are not friends any more.

Tony loves his grandma. She often tells him stories about Santa Claus(圣诞老人). 

Today is December 24th. Tony's grandma takes him to Kevin's Store to shop. She gives Tony fifty dollars and says, " Take the money and buy something for someone who needs it. I' ll wait for you in the car. "

Tony thinks of everyone he knows: his family, friends and classmates. Then he thinks of Bobbie. Bobbie sits behind Tony. He doesn't have a warm coat. Tony knows it because Bobbie never goes out to play in winter. So Tony buys a blue coat for him. It looks really warm. 

In the evening, his grandma helps Tony put the coat in a Christmas box, and writes" To Bobbie, From Santa Claus" on it. " Santa helps people but never lets them know, " Tony's grandma says. They put the box in front of Bobbie's house and then go back home joyfully. 

That night Tony knows Santa Claus is real, and they are on his team. 

I'm Victor. On my seventh birthday, my mom {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(给) me a book about stars. That was the start of my hobby.

I always went {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(外面) with my mom on clear nights and looked at the sky. In different   seasons, we saw different groups of stars. Sometimes we saw stars shooting across the sky. How{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(美丽的) they were!

Studying the stars was great fun for me. Then I learnt a lot about {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(他们). Now I host a TV show c{#blank#}5{#/blank#} The Sky at Night. I want to tell people about the stars in a great way. I am happy because my TV show started over 50 years {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (以前), and it's still {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(受欢迎的).

Now I am {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(四十) years old. I think you can turn your hobby into your work, too. You just have to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(享受) what you do! Anybody can make his dream come t{#blank#}10{#/blank#}.