Once there is a boy in London. His name is Jimmy. He starts painting when he is three years old, and when he is five years old, he is already very good at it. He paints many beautiful and interesting pictures, and a lot of people buy his pictures. They say, “This boy is going to be famous when he's a little older, and then we're going to sell these pictures for a lot of money.”

    Jimmy's pictures are different from others' because he never paints on the whole of the paper. He only paints on half of it, and the other half is always empty.

    “That's very clever,” people say. “No other painters have ever done that!”

    One day someone asks Jimmy, “Please tell me, Jimmy, why do you only paint on the bottom (底) half of the paper, but not on the top half?”

    “Because I'm small,” Jimmy says, “and my brushes can't reach very high.”

Dave is my friend. His family is rich. His parents always give himlots of pocket money(零用钱). But Dave thinks his parents work very hard and it's not easy forthem to make money, so he always tries to save money. He has some good ways todo it.

Dave likes books. He tells me he often buys books online, because they'recheaper. And when he is free, he often goes to bookshops to do some reading. Davehas a bike. He usually goes to school by bike instead of(代替) taking a bus. Sometimes whenit rains or snows, he walks. These two ways help Dave keep healthy and savemoney.

Dave brings a bottle of water to school every day. When others drinkjuice, he enjoys water. He says water is the cheapest and the best drink.

Some students think Dave is mean(吝啬的). But I don't think so. I think he is right.

 David and his friends are playing hide and seek(玩捉迷藏游戏) in his room.  {#blank#}1{#/blank#} John is under the table. Next, David finds Sally. She is behind the door. David sees her red hat. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

"I know where you are, Jack, " David says."{#blank#}3{#/blank#}" But Jack is not there. David can't find Jack.

" Come out, Jack" David says.

"{#blank#}4{#/blank#}" Jack says." Help me out(帮我一把)."

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} He can get in(进入), but he can't get out.

On a cold winter morning, Mamothy, the lead elephant, set out with her family for breakfast. The cold weather made 1 difficult to find food in the wild. So Mamothy decided to take them to the village where humans lived. When they reached the village, they were 2 .

"Wow! Look! There are so many flowers in this place! How big and colorful they are!" the baby elephants said 3 .

"They don't look like real flowers. Let me find out 4 they are before we eat them," Mamothy told everyone. Suddenly, she saw 5 cow and went to ask her.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, but could you please tell me what 6 ? Mamothy asked when pointing to the colorful things. Is it safe7 them?"

"Oh no! Don't eat them! Humans call them plastic (塑料的) bags. They throw them in a dump nearby. But the wind spreads them all around. You may choke (窒息) to death 8 you eat them." answered the cow.

"How terrible! Thank you for 9 me this." Mamothy went back to her family and told everyone the news.

Then Mamothy said, "Humans' world is too dangerous now but it used to 10 SO safe! What a pity! Tomorrow, we shall all go to another place to look for food." All the elephants agreed and then they seldom set foot on the village.

Last summer, I went to Yunnan on vacation with my family. We 1 four days there.

Our first stop was Lugu lake. I wonder why there was so beautiful a lake in the world. I enjoyed 2 there. We went boating and took quite a few photos. Then we went up to a hill. On the top of the 3 . we got to see something beautiful. I felt like I was in a painting. I thought l would 4 forget the beautiful scenery there.

The next morning we went to Lijiang by bus. It was a long 5 from Lugu lake to Lijiang. We6 in the afternoon. After a short break, we went to walk around the town and bought some gifts. Then we decided to try the famous Guoqiao Rice. Noodles for dinner. They were very 7 and delicious. After dinner, we took a walk and enjoyed the old streets and buildings 8 the moon. The summer evening was cool.

Our 9 stop was the" spring city" Kunming. We visited Dianchi, watched the birds and went to the flower market. We had a really wonderful day.

The four— day trip came to a(n) 10 soon. We had to go home. Everything in Yunnan was great. It isa very beautiful and interesting place. I'm sure you' ll never regret going on a trip there.