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    One day a mouse(老鼠)is looking for food. He meets a tiger. The tiger catches (抓住)the mouse. He looks at the mouse and says, "You are too small for me to eat." "Please let me go, Mr. tiger." says the mouse "One day I will help you."

    The tiger laughs, "How can a little mouse help a big tiger?" he says, "OK. I will let you go. But be careful(当心)next time."

    The next week the mouse is again (又)looking for food. He meets the tiger under a tree. The tiger is in a net (网)and can't get out.(出来).The mouse goes up to him.

    "Don't worry(担心). I can help you." He bits(咬)the net. Soon he bits a big hole(洞) in the net. The tiger can get out of the net.

    As he walked out of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, he looked like a normal repairman. But what he carried was very unusual. Under his jacket, Vincenzo Perugia was carrying Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world. And he was stealing it!

It sounds difficult to believe, but it's a true story. On August 20, 1911, Perugia went into the museum and hid. He waited 15 hours until the next morning. On the day of the crime, the museum was closed for repairs. Perugia walked out into the museum wearing the same kind of clothes as the other repairmen. No one paid attention to him as he walked out the door.

    Police looked all over the world—Russia, Japan, and Brazil. They even interviewed Perugia, but they let him go! Police continued to look for the painting. Two years passed before Perugia brought Mona Lisa to a man in Florence, Italy, who dealt in art. Florence is the city where Leonardo da Vinci painted Mona Lisa. Unfortunately for Perugia, the art dealer called the police, who arrested(逮捕) him.

    Perugia said he wanted to return Mona Lisa to its "real" home. The police believed he wanted to sell copies of the painting and keep the original for himself. To this day, nobody really knows why he did it.

My name is Linda and I live in London. I'm1 English teacher. I teach English in a middle school.

School begins （开始） at 7:30 2 the morning. I leave home （离开家） at 7:00 and take a bus to school. I 3 work （工作） at 4:00 in the afternoon. My work is 4 and I like it. 

After work, I play 5 with my students. Volleyball is my favorite 6 . My father is my volleyball 7 . He plays very well. I play with 8 every week. My son, Joe, is ten years old. He 9 volleyball. He likes basketball. He has four basketball 10 every week. He wants to be a basketball player.

Dear Mike,

How is everything? I am not happy these days. My parents are angry with me because they think I live an unhealthy life on weekends. They want me to spend my weekend like my sister Jenny.

I always get up late. So I usually have nothing for breakfast. I play basketball for an hour then. For lunch, I often eat out. Hamburgers and ice-cream are my favorites. I know they are not good for me, but they taste great. After lunch, I usually go to the movies with my friends. Sometimes, I sleep all the afternoon. In the evening, I either watch TV or play computer games. I don't go to bed until eleven thirty.

But Jenny is different. She never gets up after six thirty. Then she brushes teeth and does morning exercises. After that, she has milk and eggs. She does her homework all the morning. For lunch, she eats rice, meat, fish and vegetables. She studies for 3 hours before she eats dinner. Sometimes, she helps with housework after dinner. Then she goes out to take a walk. She reads and takes a shower before going to bed."What a great day I have!"Jenny always says.

It is weekend! I just want to relax myself well. I don't like to hear my parents always say the same words again and again to me. It's terrible to live like Jenny! What can I do?

Yours,

Leo

Ben lived alone on the island for three years. The members of the ship left him there because they were angry with him. He had met many difficulties during the three years. There was no fresh water for him, and he couldn't drink sea water. So he had to collect rain water when it was raining. There was no house for him, so he lived in a cave. It was better than living on the ground. There was no food for him, so he hunted wild goats in the forest. He became very good at hunting and fishing. He built a boat and hid it on the coast of the island. He hoped to leave the island by boat one day. One situation he couldn't stand was that there was no person to talk with, he nearly forgot how to speak. So he talked to himself all day long in order not to lose speaking ability.

(From Treasure Island)

Zhu Yanjun won the second place in the Chinese Poetry Competition for his excellent poetry skills.

Born in{#blank#}1{#/blank#} village in Jingning County, Gansu Province, Zhu only received primary and middle school education. His love for {#blank#}2{#/blank#}( read) poetry and books came from his Chinese teacher who has published many {#blank#}3{#/blank#}( article) in magazines."I also wanted to published stories, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}I started to read," he told China Daily.

Although Zhu left school so early, he didn't stop his poetic journey. He worked {#blank#}5{#/blank#} more than 10 cities. Whenever he got to a city, he visited the bookstores and libraries there. He took a notebook to write down paragraphs from books and recite(背诵){#blank#}6{#/blank#}( they).

Most of his favorite poems from the Tang Dynasty, and some of them{#blank#}7{#/blank#}( write) by Chairman Mao Zedong. Why? Because he found them easy {#blank#}8{#/blank#}( remember). Over the years, he has read thousands of poems and he can recite more than 1,000 of them now.

Reading poetry {#blank#}9{#/blank#}( help) Zhu stay calm and he never complains about hard work." Whenever I face any difficulty, I think of a famous saying‘ Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it'," he told China Daily.

Zhu's children were {#blank#}10{#/blank#}( interest) in poetry too. They were accepted into universities in different cities.