7school they often go shopping. They8swimming twice a week. Sometimes they help their mother9some housework. They have a happy10.

    One day， a Chinese student goes to study English in England. His family name is Sun. It is the1as the word "sun."

    England is a country with2It is often cloudy or misty(多雾的)，and it3again， so the days there4get much sunshine(阳光) all the year.

    When the Chinese student gets to London，a tall 5policeman with a long face 6his passport(护照) to check(检查) it. The policeman finds the Chinese name "sun" in the passport. He 7it is pronounced(发音) just like the 8word "sun". So he says to the Chinese student， "I see your name is Sun， you're wanted here. You bring sunshine9England， so we don't want you to10." They smile.

    An old carpenter(木匠) was ready to retire(退休). He told his boss that he was leaving1 an easy life with his family. The boss was 2 to see his best worker go and asked 3he could build just one more house. The carpenter said yes, but it was easy4that his heart was not in his work. He used bad wood and didn't work5 before. When the carpenter 6 his work, his boss came to see the house. Then he handed the front-door key to the carpenter and said. "This is your house, my gift to you. The carpenter was surprised! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all7. So it is the same with us. We build our life, a day8, often putting less than our best into the9.Then, in surprise, we know that we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it again, we would do it much more differently. But you cannot go back. Someone once said, "Life is a do-it-yourself job. So, build your10 well

    Dorothy lived in a small house in Kansas, with her uncle, aunt and a little black1called Toto. Sometimes there was a cyclone（飕风）in Kansas. It could, blow everything away. 2usually there were cellars（地窖）under all the houses. People went into their cellars when a cyclone came.

    One day, a cyclone was coming. So they3went into the cellar, but the dog Toto was so4that he ran under the bed. Dorothy had to pick5up. But6she got to the cellar door with Toto, the cyclone arrived and the house was moving！It went slowly up into the sky. Dorothy was afraid. “But we7do anything about it, ”she said to Toto, “So let's wait and see. "Soon, they went to sleep.

    When Dorothy8, the house was on the ground. She opened the door and found she was in a new place. Then, she saw three short men and a little old woman9a white dress. The woman walked up to Dorothy and said, "Thank you！You killed the Witch（巫婆）of the East, and you10us. "

    Dorothy was really surprised.

    Having brothers or sisters means owning the most expensive gift in the world. With them, we do not have to live a 1 life and we can also learn a lot from them.

I 2 in a blue-collar (蓝领的) large family a few miles into the countryside outside Chicago. There were four 3 in my family and my parents lived a hard life to bring us up. Among all my sisters, Cynthia, who is four years older than I, has 4 me the most. Cynthia has never 5 to be different. She has always dared to point the unfair things out and 6 the way things were around us, trying to change the negative (消极的) situations through her own efforts. She has always had the 7 to look at life from a different and unusual perspective (角度). That made me 8 her very much. Her example gave me the courage to question things like her and taught me to explore my own world 9.

    Now we're both old 10 we're still exploring. We 11 a lot together each year and this year we're going to visit a few African countries. After experiencing more and more, I realize that it's great to grow old because without work to 12, you have more time to take trips and have adventures, like we are now. Cynthia and I have always been 13, and now in our 60s, we still keep a good relationship as ever. I'm so grateful to have such a sister.

    Do you have any brothers or sisters? If you do, you're in 14. They will be your lifelong wealth. Please 15 your time together and be a positive role model for the younger ones.