Camilla Chomp was a strange littlegirl. She liked to spend her time alone eating chocolate. Her parents wereworried, so they tookall the chocolate away.

    Camilla left her house to look forsome chocolate. She found a small house full of bottles. Among the bottles, a blue bottle caught Camilla's eyes. It was full of chocolate.In the bottle there was also a card with the words "Changetears(眼泪)intochocolate."

    Camilla was very excited. She ran outof the house with the bottle to look for someone crying. First, she met a little boy crying hard and collected his tears. The tears were quickly changed into chocolate. While Camillawas collecting the tears, she comfortedthe boy. Finally, the boystopped crying and they had a good time together.

    Later, Camilla met awoman and an old man crying. The woman had broken some bowls.And the old man's dog had just died. Camilla collected their tears and made them happy again.

    Soon, Camilla knew thatmaking people happy was much more important than finding chocolate. So shestopped collecting tears and began to help sad people. As a result, she had many friends and had a happylife.

    It was 8:30 at night. Don was driving home. He was surprised when he saw a large, green light in the sky. The light was floating（漂浮）over a field. Don stopped his car and went out. He stood behind a tree and watched.

    The light got very bright. It came nearer and nearer. It was a UFO! And it landed in the field!

    "What's that? Maybe there are travelers from space in the UFO, "he thought. He started to walk across the field.

    Then a large door on the UFO opened. Something came out! It moved toward Don.

    The thing was not nice to look at! It had long yellow strings（细绳）on its face. Two round and blue balls were on its face. Under the round things, there were three holes. One hole opened and closed and made big noises.

    Now Don was afraid, but he tried to be brave. He walked nearer and listened to the terrible noises.

    "Hello," said the strange thing. "My name is Zeeb. I'm from the planet Mars（火星）. This is my first trip to the earth. Glad to meet you."

    It started as a game. Wendy and Peter were in River Park. They watched the boats in the river and visited the zoo. They played on the slides and swings. They watched the merry-go-round, but they did not have money for a ride. They ate their sandwiches at a picnic table. Suddenly Wendy jumped up.

    "I know what to do." she said. "Look at all that junk under the tables. Let's pick it up."

    So they picked up paper and empty boxes and cans. They put them in the green cans marked "Litter". Peter's dog Stoopy picked up some paper and ran away with it. Peter called him back and took it from him. Then they taught Stoopy to carry trash for them. They put it in the cans. They worked until there was no trash left on the picnic grounds.

    The next day their friends Mario and Andy came to the park with them. They helped to tidy the picnic grounds again. Then they ran all over the park looking for litter. They tried to see who could find the most. After that, it was a game they played every time they came to the park.

    One day, a man came with a camera. He watched what they were doing. He asked to take a picture for them. Then he took them all for a free ride on the merry-go-round, even Stoopy. The next day their picture was in the newspaper. It said, "Five Litter Lifters at River Park". After that all their friends wanted to be litter lifters. It was the beginning of a club that was a model for others to follow.

There was once a lazy crow (乌鸦). He thought it was too difficult {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (get) food. "Caw! Caw!" he said. "If someone brought me my food every day, I'd be very happy!"

One day, he saw a fat pigeon (鸽子) flying by. "{#blank#}2{#/blank#} happy it looks!" the crow said to himself. So the crow followed the pigeon until they came to a park. There were some other pigeons there too.

Before long, two {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (man) came along and brought the pigeons a large bag of food. When they had gone, the crow flew over to the pigeons. "Caw! Caw!" said he. "Can I help you?"

"No, you can't!" shouted the pigeons angrily. "We don't know you."

"The crow went home feeling sad. But he suddenly came up {#blank#}4{#/blank#} an idea. "I'll paint my feathers gray," he said, "and then the pigeons will think I am one of {#blank#}5{#/blank#}." After he did it, he flew off to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} park and was welcomed by the pigeons. The crow was so hungry {#blank#}7{#/blank#} he got very excited at the food. "Caw! Caw! Give lots to me!" he said loudly. Suddenly, the pigeons {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (find) he was a crow. They flew after him and made him away.

{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (sad), the crow flew to his own forest. But when his old friends saw him, they asked him to go away. They did not know him because of his gray-painted feathers. So the crow felt {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(bad) than before.

"What looks easier isn't always so," the crow said to himself. "I wish I had never painted my feathers gray!"

Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. He wrote one of 1 pieces of music of the 20th century. In his short life, he wrote nearly 300 songs and 2 opera. 

Xian was born in Panyu, Guangdong, China in 1905. His father died before he was born, Xian moved from place 3 place with his mother. He began learning 4 the violin when he was 20 years old. In the beginning, his violin was very old and cheap. So he 5 play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not stop 6 and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he studied in a special music school in Paris. He was one of the first Chinese students to go there. Before he left, Xian became the school's best student and won several prizes for his talents. 

In 1935, he 7 to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. 8 , he came to Yan'an to teach music at a college. 9 there were no pianos in Yan'an at that time, Xian still wrote some of his most important music there. 

In May 1940, the Chinese Communist Party sent Xian to the Soviet Union to write music for movies. In the Soviet Union, life was very hard. Xian got sick and died on 30th October, 1945, aged only 40. However, he gave 10 the wonderful music. And we will remember Xian. 

Wang Xiaojun, 49, has a small hotel in Pingyao, a county in Shanxi. She opened it in 2002. This January, Wang got an email from her friend Bernard Frigara in France. "I just want to tell you how much I miss Pingyao, you and your family. I love to walk around Pingyao and ride a bicycle there. . . " the 75-year-old artist wrote in the e-mail. 

When Frigara first visited Pingyao in 2004, he stayed in Wang's hotel. In less than 20 years, Frigara went to Pingyao six times, and he stayed in Wang's hotel everytime, for one or two months at a time. 

Wang and her family showed Frigara around Pingyao, washed clothes for him and celebrated(庆祝) his birthday. Once when Frigara didn't feel well, Wang took him to hospital. He wrote in his diary that he stayed in a wonderful hotel and that he felt at home there. In    return, Frigara taught Wang French and bought gifts for her children. Wang described her French friend as a kind and helpful man. 

Not long ago, Wang wrote a story between Frigara and her family named Wafting for you, my friend. "He will come to Pingyao again in the spring of 2024, " she said.