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    I have a lot of friends. My best friend is Mai. She is 16 years old. She is 2 years older than me. We live in the same town and we began to know each other when we were very young. Now we are classmates. Mai is tall and thin, with long black hair. She has an oval face (椭圆的脸) with big eyes, a high nose and a small mouth. Mai is helpful (乐于助人的). When her friends have difficulties, she always tries her best to help them. Mai is one of the best students in our class. I like studying with her. She always helps me with my studies. Although we have the same hobbies and interests, we also have some differences. I am sociable and enjoy telling jokes. Mai, however, is serious and quiet. We believe in each other, so we are good friends. I hope we can keep our friendship forever (永远).

    Jenny is a good Canadian girl. She is 1.7 metres tall. She has a round face. Her eyes are very big. She likes vegetables very much，so she is not fat. She likes red，and it's her favourite colour. She looks very nice in red clothes. Jenny studies in China. She likes reading. She borrows books from the library every week. She is good at Chinese. She says Chinese is very interesting. Our classmates all like her very much.

    Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one August afternoon, I thought of my unforgettable experience in my own childhood. When I was a boy of twelve in South Carolina, something happened to me that made me never put any wild creature in a cage.

We lived near a forest, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come and rest in the trees and sing. Their singing is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

    I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way, I would have my own private musician.

    I finally succeeded in catching a young bird and put it in a cage. At first, being frightened, the bird fluttered(扑腾) in the cage, but finally it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing rom my little musician.

    On the second day, my new pet's mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.

    The following morning when I went to see the bird again, I found it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was terribly surprised! What had happened! I had taken good care of my little bird.

    Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist, who happened to be visiting my father at the time, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, explained what had happened. "Mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poisonous berries(毒莓). She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in a cage."

    Since then I have never caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.

My Favorite Day at School

提示：上学的日子既忙碌又快乐。从周一到周五，总有你比较喜欢的一天。你为什么会喜欢这一天呢?或许在学校里有你喜欢的老师和学科，或许有你喜欢的午餐和美食，又或许有你喜欢的课外活动……，这些都会让你喜欢在学校的时光。请你以My Favorite Day at School为题,用英语写一篇短文，介绍你喜欢的一个上学日及感受。

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A group of boys gathered around a tree. "What a tall tree!"they said to each other. "It would be exciting to climb to the 1 !"To see who could climb to the top of the tree first, the group of boys then decided to play a 2 . Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking at their children as they played. 

One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. Nobody thought he would 3 the competition. 

Then the game started. All of the boys 4 their best to climb as high as they could. Their faces lit up(露出喜色)with excitement as they began to climb. They all made it halfway up the tree before David did, 5 he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end. 

His mother was 6 to see this. She asked him, "David, how did you manage(成功)to reach the top of the tree so 7 ?"

"It was easy, "David said. "The other children kept looking 8 as they climbed. When they realized how high they were, they got 9 and were afraid of falling down. I, however, looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top. "

It is true in life that if we just 10 going forward without looking back, we can reach our goals more easily. 

Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in the town, I felt really 1 . So I wanted to have a rest 2 catching the rain. I3 a newspaper and some chocolate and went into the station4 shop. It was a cheap self-service place with long tables to sit at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, put the newspaper and the chocolate on the 5 and then went to get a cup of coffee. 

When I came back with the coffee, there was 6 sitting in the next seat. It was a boy, with dark glasses and old clothes, and colored bright red at the front. To my surprise, he had started to eat my chocolate!

I was quite uneasy(不爽的) about him, but I didn't want to have any trouble. I just read the newspaper, 7 my coffee and took a piece of chocolate. The boy looked at me in 8 . Then he took a second piece of my chocolate. I could hardly believe it. But I still didn't say 9 to him. When he took a 10 piece, I felt more angry than uneasy. I thought, "Well, I shall have the last piece. " And I got it. 

The boy gave me a strange look, then stood up. As he left, he shouted out aloud, "There's something wrong with that woman!" 11 looked at me, but I didn't want to quarrel with the boy, so I kept 12 . I did not realize(意识到) that I had made a mistake until I finished my coffee and planned to 13 . My face turned 14 when I saw my unopened chocolate under the newspaper. The chocolate that I had been eating was15 !