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    Little Tom likes cartoons very much. When the cartoons begin on TV, he does nothing until they're over. Sometimes he'd rather(宁可）wait for a long time and go to bed late. In the morning his mother has to wake him up, or he'll be late for school.

    Yesterday Tom heard there would be an interesting cartoon today. This morning, as soon as he got up, he turned on the television, but he didn't see the program on it. He had to have breakfast and then go to school. After school he ran home while his mother was cooking supper in the kitchen. He hurried to the sitting room and turned on the television again, but he couldn't find the cartoon. He rushed into the kitchen and asked his mother for help.

    “It's only five now，''said the woman. “Your program will be after supper. ”

    “Well，let's have supper right now!”

    When my brother and I were children, we spent a few weeks each summer in the countryside with our uncle. He was a geologist and loved to go on long walks to find stones to add to his collection at the university. More often than not, we followed him.

    One day, we left early and this time, our uncle gave us two backpacks. "You can help me carry the samples（样本）," he explained.

    Sure, why not? The whole day, we walked around the countryside, and every now and then, our uncle put stones in our bags. We were a bit surprised that sometimes he also took some stones out from our bags, but thought he had just found better samples.

    We reached the house in the late afternoon. The backpacks were so heavy that we were really tired out when we put them on the ground. Yet our uncle's backpack was half-empty.

    "Why did you give us so many stones?" we asked. "I didn't. You did, "he said, waiting for a while before continuing." You did not know it, but I made you go through a little attitude（态度） test today."

    "What do you mean an attitude test?" we wanted to know.

    "It is something someone once did to me. You see, I listened to every word you said. And whenever you complained（抱怨） about anyone or anything, I added a stone to your bags. And whenever you talked about something in an attitude of positive thinking, I took out a stone. And now look at your backpacks." We did. They were full. "I hope you remember this little attitude test. You see, your negative（负面的） thoughts are like stones. You carry them in your mind just like those stones in a backpack. The more negative thoughts you have, the heavier your mind is. So look at those bags and start paying attention to what you say and how you say things."

    This little lesson was one of the most important I ever had. And I remember my uncle with great love for teaching us one of the most important lessons in life-the power of attitude.

Gina is a new teacher in a middle school in the US. She lives in San Diego, just fifteen minutes' walk from the beach. So she always 1 along the beach after work.

Last week was busy but happy for Gina. She had a lot of work from Monday to Friday. When the weekend came, she hoped 2 a good rest. Her weekend began when she met her friends at Sam's Chinese Restaurant on Friday night." My friends and I all like Chinese food, so we often eat together at that restaurant." said Gina 3 .

On Saturday morning, Gina helped a friend move to a new house. In the afternoon, she went to her tennis class. She was new to the sport, 4 she played well. After dinner, Gina went to the Red Onion and danced there until 10:00 p. m. She really enjoyed 5 .

On Sunday, Gina got up at 8:00 a. m. and she went to 6 expensive restaurant near her home for breakfast. She 7 the food there was delicious. Then she spent the whole morning reading books. In the afternoon, she went swimming 8 her cousin. For lunch, they had9 special— seafood noodles. In the evening, she went to the San Diego Folk Festival. She thought it was 10 of all the festivals. And Gina had great fun there.

What a busy but wonderful weekend Gina had!

注意： 1. 文中不得出现真实姓名、学校等信息。

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