This {#blank#}1{#/blank#} my good friend. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} English girl(女孩）. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} name is Emma. She is thirteen {#blank#}5{#/blank#} old. Now she is {#blank#}6{#/blank#} China. We {#blank#}7{#/blank#} in the same school, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} we aren't in the same class. She is in {#blank#}9{#/blank#} Five, Grade one. Her {#blank#}10{#/blank#} number is (010)8898 -6575.

    Pablo and I were walking home from playing football. On the way, I told him that our school needed {#blank#}1{#/blank#}football team. At once, Pablo suggested, “Why not run for（竞选）class president so that you can set one up?”

    “Who would want {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (I)?” I asked, surprised at the idea.

    Pablo made a list of reasons: I was the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (good) student of all in sports and lessons; I was {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(friend) to everyone. When I told him running for president would be much work, he {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (promise) that he would help me.

    I did run, and Pablo did help me. First, we made posters to hang in the hallway. Next, Pablo helped me {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(write) a speech about why I'd make a good class president.

    The big day came. I gave my speech in front of the whole grade, promising my {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (classmate) that if they chose me, I'd start a football team.

    As Pablo and I nervously waited {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the results, I was told that my speech was so successful {#blank#}9{#/blank#} I was the right person to be class president.

    Now we went {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (happy) to Coach Simpson and asked how I could start our new football team.

    My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I never wished her to show up in my school, being afraid that my classmates would find out I had {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ugly mother.

    One day during elementary school, I was terribly ill. My mother {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (come).

    "Your mom only has one eye?!" asked some of my classmates. I was so embarrassed.

    I wished {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (I) mother would just disappear from this world. "If you make me teased（嘲笑）, why don't you just die?" I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some medicine and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (leave) without saying anything.

    At that time, I felt good to say what I always wanted to say, and I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (not) think I had hurt her feelings very much. That night I saw my mom crying in her room, so {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (quiet), as if she was afraid that she might disturb me. Even so, I hated her {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (tear) from one eye. I made a decision: I must study hard and leave her.

    Years later my dream came true. I was quite successful and lived alone. I never thought of going back to see my "ugly" mother {#blank#}8{#/blank#} one day I got a letter, which said, " My son…I'm sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into an accident and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't stand {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (watch) you live with only one eye. So I gave you mine. I was never angry {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you and I never regretted what I did because I love you…"

    I cried out aloud. Only then did I realize how beautiful my mother was!

    In most cultures, when you meet someone for the first time, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is usual to greet him.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(one) a young woman from England went to Hong Kong to study. When she first arrived, she knew {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(less) about the Chinese culture of language. One day, she went to a bank to get some money. To her surprise, the bank clerk asked her if she had had her lunch. In the British culture it would mean an invitation(邀请) to lunch. Between unmarried young people it can also mean the young {#blank#}4{#/blank#} man) interest in dating the girl. Since this bank clerk was a {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(strange) to the British woman, she was very puzzled(疑惑的) and {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(quick) answered that she had eaten already. After that she was even more surprised when one of the teachers asked her {#blank#}7{#/blank#}same question.

    By now she had understood that it couldn't be an invitation {#blank#}8{#/blank#}was puzzled why they asked it. In the following days, she was asked the same question again and again and she spent many hours {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(try) to understand why so many people kept asking this. At last she thought that these people {#blank#}10{#/blank#}be concerned about(关心) her health. She was rather thin at that time and she thought they must be worrying that she was not eating well.