Mrs. Brown had a small garden behind her house, and in March she grew some vegetables in it. She looked after them very carefully（仔细地）, and when summer came, they looked very nice.

    One evening Mrs. Brown looked at her vegetables and said, “Tomorrow I'm going to pick them, and then we can eat them.”

    But early the next morning, her son ran into the house and shouted（喊叫）, "Mum, Mum! Come quickly! Some ducks from next door are in the garden and they are eating our vegetables! ”

    Mrs. Brown ran out, but it was too late! All the vegetables were finished! Mrs. Brown cried, and the owner（主人）of the ducks was very sorry, but it was too late.

    Then a few days before Christmas（圣诞节）, the owner of the ducks brought a small bag. In it was a beautiful fat duck, and on it was a piece of paper with the words“Please enjoy your vegetables! ”

It is easy for many people to catch a cold in the springtime or fall. It makes us wonder if scientists can send a man to the moon, why can't they find a cure for the common cold? The answer is easy. There are actually different cold viruses out there. You never know which one you will get, so there isn't a cure for each one.

When a virus attacks your body, your body works hard to get rid of it Blood rushes to your nose and causes a block in it. You feel terrible because you can't breathe well, but your body is actually eating the virus. Your temperature goes up and you get a fever, but the heat of your body is killing the virus. You also have a runny nose to stop the virus from getting into your cells. You may feel very uncomfortable, but actually your wonderful body is doing everything it can to kill the cold.

Different people do different things to deal with colds. In the United States and some other countries, for example, people might have chicken soup to help them get over the cold. Some people take hot baths. Other people take medicine to stop different symptoms(症状)of colds.

There is one interesting thing to note一some scientists say taking medicine when you have a cold is actually bad for you. The virus stays in you longer because your body doesn't have a way to fight it and kill it Bodies can do an amazing job on their own. There is a joke, however, on taking medicine when you have a cold. It goes like this:

It takes about one week to get over a cold if you don't take medicine, but it takes only seven days to get over a cold if you take medicine.

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One year, my family and I went on a long trip down south！ It was a three-week vacation. We lived in Michigan. So it took us a very long time to drive to Florida. We stopped in Atlanta to visit my uncle. We kept going down to Orlando. We visited Disney there！ We went to Magic Kingdom and Blizzard Beach. I really enjoyed all of the days we spent at Disney. We also went to see my dad's friend in Tampa Bay. Then we arrived in Florida. 

It was December, but we were still outside and played baseball. On the important festival, we brought some gifts with us to share_with each other, and we had some warm days. One of my favorite of the trip was New Year's Eve. New Year's Day was one of my favorite holidays. This time, we could not visit any friends. But we watched an interesting movie！ I still remember my family sat on the hotel's sofa and laughed so hard！ And I will never forget the time I spent with my family.