Mabel is a beautiful girl. She likes all kinds of clothes, but she didn't1 her heart into her lessons when she was at school. With her friends' help, she finally finished middle school, 2 she learned little there. Of course, she can't do any important work and now she is a salesgirl in a 3 She has to work there and hopes to find a better one .

    One afternoon the girl argued with her mother angrily. So the following morning, . When she served an old man, she was very4 The old man chose a pair of shoes and bought them. Before he left, he asked, "How 5  will the shoes last?"

"It depends. If you don't use them .the shoes will  6  be broken. "

The old man  7 nothing and went away. That afternoon, while Mabel was  8  for supper, she cut her finger. She had to go to a hospital. That old man happened to be on duty. After Mabel got the medicine from him, she asked, "When will I get 9 ?"

    "It depends, "said the old man. "If you don't use 10 , you'll lose your finger. "

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     Karen spent more than 75 years working as a cleaner. Certainly nobody would think that she was rich, 1 she was paid only a few dollars each time. So they were all 2 when Jenny decided to give $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi.

    The money, 3, was her life savings. She could save such a large amount of money because she lived a very 4 life. She never learned to drive. When she wanted to go somewhere, she just walked. She never flew to anywhere 5 her donation（捐献）, and in the 50 years she had been out of the South only once. The 6 in which she lived was also a rather old one, and her last uncle left her. Only after she became known in 7 did she begin to travel all over the country. Since then, she had been the 8 of many interviews and articles. She was even invited to the White House.

    Her donation was for the students who clearly needed 9 help. She herself left school in the sixth grade and had never married or had children. She said to the reporters that the idea of helping somebody's child go to college gave her much 10.

    Mr. and Mrs. Brown were teachers. They lived in a big 1.Last year they went to the countryside for their summer vacation. They 2 it very much because it was a quite clean place.

    One day they went for a 3 in the morning and saw an old man. He sat in the 4 sun in front of his house. Mr.Brown went to him and asked, “Do you like 5 in this quiet place?”

    The old man answered, “Yes, I 6.”

    Mr. Brown asked, “What are the 7 things about it?”

    The old man answered “Well, 8 here knows each other(互相) well. They often come to see me, and I often go to visit 9, too. Also, there are lots of children here.”

    Mr. Brown said, “That's interesting. Well, 10 are the bad things?”

    The old man thought for a short time and said, “Well, the same things.”

    Christmas was coming and ten-year-old Tracy told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her bike was too 1, and it needed repairing as well. As Christmas 2,  her dream for a bike seemed to disappear(消失), we thought, for she didn't say it again. We were busy3 some beautiful story books, a doll house, a holiday dress and toys. Then to our surprise, on December 24, she said she really wanted a bike more than 4.

    Now we didn't know 5 to do. It was just too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing 6 presents, parents'presents, a brother's present and friends' presents till midnight. So there was 7 time to take to buy the "right bike" for our little girl. Thinking we were parents who would make their child unhappy, we felt sorry and 8 .

    Suddenly my husband had an idea. "What about making a little bike with clay (黏土) and writing a note that she could trade in (交换) the model bike for a real one?" So he spent the next five hours carefully 9 with clay to make a small bike.

10 Christmas morning, we were so excited for Tracy to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. She opened and read the 11 loudly. She looked at me and said, "So, does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real 12?" Smiling, I said, "Yes!" Tracy had tears in her e yes when she replied, ‘I would 13 trade in this beautiful bike Daddy made me. I 14 keep it than get a real bike. This is the best Christmas present 15 I have ever got in my life!"

    In the Pacific Ocean lies Easter Island(复活节岛), a strange and magic place. The island 1 its English name from the Dutch explorer(荷兰探险者 ) Jacob Roggeveen. He arrived there on Easter in 1722. There, Roggeveen found a strange culture and even stranger huge 2called moat and they looked like men. Since that time, 3 all over the world have tried to find out how people came to the island and how they built such huge stones. But scientists still can't agree on 4the island's people came from. Did they 5 from Chile or Hawaii Island, very far from there? No one knows. So far, it is 6a mystery(谜). These huge stone men are also a mystery. Scientists think that the people 7 and moved the huge stone men there thousands of years ago. But how did they do it? And why did they do it? 8can really guess.

    As time went by, the people on the island died out slowly 9 fighting and illnesses. Thousands of people used to live on the island.10now, there only live several hundred. Luckily, they still have their traditional culture.

    Susan couldn't see well, and she wore big glasses. Some of her classmates made fun of (嘲笑) her big glasses.

    The 1 thing was that Lewis started calling her "Four Eyes". 2 knew her as "Four Eyes". She acted like she didn't mind, but 3, Susan didn't like the name.

    One day, the class 4 some caves (洞穴) as a school trip. Lewis and Susan fell into a deep hole (跌入深洞). They shouted for help. But it was 5 that no one came. They spent a long dark night 6.

    The next morning, Lewis went on shouting for help and he tried to look for a way out. However, he found nothing helpful after a few hours and started feeling 7. Susan used her glasses to let more light (光亮) show in the hole. Lewis felt better. In the end, they got out of the cave. Lewis told everyone about what 8 below the cave. And from that day, there was no "Four Eyes" in their class.