Joe Brown had a shop where he 1 meat. One day a woman 2 into the shop at five to one. “I' m sorry. I' m late,” she said. “I 3 some more meat for my dinner tonight.” Joe had only one 4 of meat in his shop. He took it 5 the fridge and said, “This is $6.50.”

    “That piece is too 6, ”the woman said. “Haven't you got anything bigger?” Joe 7 into the room behind his shop, put the meat into the fridge, took it out again and closed the door 8 a lot of noise. Then he brought the piece of meat to the woman and said, “This piece of meat is bigger and 9 expensive. It' s $8.75.”

    “Good,” the woman said with a smile.

    “Give me 10 of them, please.”

   This boy is Peter Smith. His1 name is Peter. His2 name is Smith. This is3 school. His school4number is 20048567. His teacher is Miss White. Miss White 5a good teacher. Li Min is a Chinese boy. Li Min is his good 6 at school. Look!7 a pencil sharpener. Is the pencil sharpener 8? I9know. Let's10 Li Min at 495-6548.

    During the Warring States Period (475-22IBC), there was a man called Yue Yangzi. One day he saw a piece of gold on the road. He picked it up and 1 it home. But his wife was not 2 and said, "I hear that a great man doesn't drink a thief's water or accept alms(施舍物) .What do you think of the action of keeping others' thing for yourself?" Yue Yangzi felt sorry 3 what he had done, so he put the gold back to the place where he found it.

    The next year, Yue Yangzi decided to go to a faraway school to improve himself. A year later, he came back home 4. "Why have you returned?" asked his wife in surprise, "You've 5spent one year studying with scholars (学者们)." "I come back because I 6you very much."

    Without saying anything, his wife took a pair of scissors and went to the loom(织布机)at which she had worked. 7 the half done cloth, she said, "The cloth is woven from the best silk. Now 8 I cut it ,all my previous（先前的）work will be wasted. It's the same as your 9.You can learn a lot only by working hard. Now, you've stopped half way. Isn't it the same as cutting the cloth on the loom?"

    Yue Yangzi was moved by 10she said. He again left home to visit scholars. Several years later he became a learned man.

    One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas when they saw a horseshoe on the ground. The father said to his son, "Look at the horseshoe on the ground. Go and1the horseshoe and put it in your bag, my son." But Thomas said, "If I do so, it will waste my time." His father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they2a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and3some strawberries with the money.

    The father and the son went on walking. The sun was high up in the4. They soon drank up all their water and there was not a house or even a tree for them to have a rest. Thomas felt5thirsty to walk on. At that time, his father gave him a strawberry and he6ate it. After a while, his father gave him another strawberry and once again, his son got it quickly and put it in his mouth.

    And so they7walking. The old farmer gave strawberries and the son ate them. When Thomas had eaten up all the strawberries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you picked up that8, you would have your own strawberries to eat. Always remember the9: if you don't worry about the little things, you will find it difficult to do the10things. "