It's December 28th. New Year's Day is 1. Ma Li is in a 2 shop. She wants to buy a blouse 3 her mother. She is happy because she 4 a blue blouse. It looks pretty. She thinks it 5 her mother's trousers well, so she asks the shopkeeper what the 6 is. “198 yuan,” says the shopkeeper. Ma Li is surprised (吃惊的), “Too 7! What's it made of?” The shopkeeper tells her the blouse is made of silk. “Good things always 8 much,” he says.

  “But I have only 190 yuan. Can it be cheaper (更便宜)? I buy it for my mother. ”

  “9. 198 yuan is the last price. But I will lend you 8 yuan.”

“10? We don't know each other.”

  “Because I love my mother, too,” says the shopkeeper with a smile (微笑).

A Fun Way to Start the Day

    Mrs.Bames turned off the bright camera light on the news desk.Charlie，a fifth-grade news announeer（播音员），sat at the desk.“Our show seems to be missing something，”he said. “It seems like we should end our 1 on a cheerful note.We should give the students 2 to enjoy.Since the show is school wide，we could help everyone begin the day in a positive way.”

    “What do you mean，Charlie？Don't you think the students like watching our news show and 3about the important events of the day？”Mrs.Barnes said jokingly.“Sure，”Charlie answered. “I'm just looking for a little something more to add to our program，”he said.

    Charlie was what his mother called an “experimenter”.He was，4trying to find a new way of doing something，and today Charlie wanted to think of how to really 5 up the school with the morning news.

    As Charlie walked, he hummed（哼唱）the school song.His friend Jenny met him in the hallway and，without a word，she too began humming.By the time they reached the classroom door，another girl，Lily，had 6 them and started singing their happy song.

    At first， Mrs.Barnes watched the class with a confused expression，and then with a shine in her eyes，she smiled. Her class loved to sing，and she liked sharing this 7 with them.

    Just at that moment，Charlie realized that music was the8 he had been looking for.

    That's it！Charlie thought.We can end the morning news by singing our school song.

    “So what do you think？”Charlie asked heartedly.Mrs.Barnes was happy to see Charlie 9about his volunteer work as the school news announcer. “Let's give it a try！”Mrs.Barnes replied. “I have a feeling that it will be a 10 way to end our morning news show and a fun way to start the day！”

    Beethoven had an ugly face and a very1temper(脾气)but people2him to their homes. When he lost his temper, they forgave(原谅)him. He was often poor and ill during his life. After one illness, he suddenly3himself deaf. At that time he was431.What a blow it was on him!

    5this didn't stop Beethoven6on in his life.He went on7much music. He wrote long pieces and short pieces, happy ones and8ones. During his life, he composed(作曲)about 300 pieces. 9people's surprise, he wrote some of his best and most beautiful pieces10he became deaf. Many of them are known and loved all over the world.

    Several months ago, a couple with a little girl moved in next door to me. The girl seemed too quiet to make any noise, while the parents were always 1her loudly. Whenever we met my new neighbors, I always spoke, but the only 2 I ever got was a hello from the 4-year-old girl.

    I usually go out for breakfast and one day when I returned, they were just coming from their home and the little girl was holding the door open for others. I stayed in the car doing unnecessary things as I wasn't in a 3. The parents were telling her to get into the car immediately. I looked up and saw the little girl was still holding the door open, waiting for me.

As a disabled man, I can't hurry at 4, but I hurried as much as I could and thanked her. She was smiling like a lovely angel. I was so 5 by her small act of kindness. That afternoon I was shopping and I saw a white bear. I thought of the girl and said to myself. "I believe she would like that" so I bought it.

    The next day there was a knock on the door and it was the little girl and her parents. She was so 6of her bear and thanked me as if I had never been thanked before. The mother and father both thanked me. 

    Now when we meet, we all speak, and in a friendly manner I might add. As time passes, I don't hear that shouting as often.7, hardly at all.

    Last night we had about four inches of snow. I looked out at my car and wondered 8 I was going to keep my doctor's appointment(约会). When I opened the outside door, there was my car with all the snow cleaned. I can't express how I felt at that moment. The man next door was the only person I knew in the whole building,9when I saw him the next day, I asked him if he was the good man that cleaned my snow. He said No. He wanted to but his wife said she wanted to do it.

    Isn't it amazing that a 4-year-old girl can change so many things for the better? It is said that good things usually come from 10.

    Rachel lived in a small town in America. She always wanted to help others when she was young. At the age of 5, she learned about an organization named Locks of Love. It uses hair donations to make wigs(假发) for children who have 1 their hair because of cancer or other illnesses. Rachel then asked her mother to cut her long hair and send 2 to the organization.

    At 8, she learned that other children had no clean 3 in Africa, and she was shocked. When her school began 4 money to build wells(井) there, she asked her parents to stop holding her birthday party. Also, she asked her friends each to donate $9 to the project in Africa 5 giving her birthday presents.

    One year later, it was her 6 birthday on June 12. She made a birthday page on the Internet with a goal of $ 300.However, Rachel was able to raise only $ 200.This made her a little sad.

    Unluckily, Rachel was badly hurt in an accident 7 eight days. That was a terrible shock to her friends. They wanted to find some ways of showing 8 to her. They began donating on Rachel's birthday page. Donations 9 her $ 300 goal quickly and kept rising.

    When it was clear that she would 10 come back to herself(苏醒), her parents donated her organs(器官) to other children. They also donated her hair a final time to Locks of Love.

    More money was being raised. The total donations soon reached $ 100, 000, and then $ 300, 000. So far, more than $ 850, 000 has been raised from all over the world, including donations from the Africans who are moved(感动) by the little American girl.