I'm Ben. Today was not a good day. First, I slept late and Morn shouted at me to wake me up.  When I went to the kitchen for breakfast, I found there was no hamburger. So I decided to have some bread, but I burned (烤糊) it. I had to eat it because there was no more bread. There was no juice, either. I just had a cup of water.

    When I was at the bus stop, I found that I forgot my wallet (钱包), so I had to go back home to get it. Of course, I missed my bus and had to wait for a long time.

    I was late for school. When I got to school, the first Class was over. I missed a math test. The teacher said there would be a test just for me after school two days later. Oh, it's Friday! I can't visit my grandma then

    After lunch, it was time to give the teacher my homework. I reached into my bag to get it but it wasn't there. I left it at home……

    After school, my father drove me home. When I got home, I went straight to my room to do my homework. Mom cooked fish for dinner. She knows I don't like fish, but she thinks it is good for me. What a bad day! I hope tomorrow Will be nice.

    My mom only had one eye. I hated her. I am always angry about it. She cooks dinner for students and teachers. One day at school, my mother sees me and says hello to me. I am so unhappy! How can she do this? I turn back and run away. The next day at school one of my classmates says, "EEEE, your mother only has one eye!" I don't know what to say. I wish my mother to just get away. I say to her at home, "If you're only going to make others laugh at me, just die." She doesn't say a word.

    Many years later, I have family in another city. Then one day, my mother comes to visit me. When she stands at the door, my children laugh at her. I shout, "GET AWAY! NOW!" "Oh, I'm sorry. I have the wrong address(地址)."She says.  A few years later, she dies. Somebody gives me a letter from my mother. It reads: "My dearest son, I think of you all the time. I'm sorry that I should not go to your house and…You see, when you are very young, you lose your eye in a car accident. As a mother, I give you mine. I am glad you can see a whole world for me with that eye. With all my love to you. Your mother. "

    When Abraham Lincoln was just a boy, he had to help his father to manage their farm. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Abraham wanted to go to school, but there was no school there, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Mrs. Lincoln loved the boy very much. She tried her best to make Abraham happy. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. It was a long way, so it took her a long time to get there. She bought something there and went back. It was dark in the evening when she got home.

    The next morning Mrs. Lincoln said to Abraham, "{#blank#}4{#/blank#}."She put some food on the table, and then brought out a present. "A book!" Abraham cried. It was an old book, but he liked it. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.He looked up at Mrs. Lincoln and said, "Thank you, Mom."

The seed vault(种子地窖)

    A lot of countries need different kinds of seeds so that they can plant them again. There is an important reason for this, Sometimes plants can't grow in a country because of bad weather or disease, so farmers need new seeds.

    You can keep seeds in a" seed vault". It's a place at a special temperature. The seeds don't grow, but they can live for a long time. Norway has the biggest seed vault in the world ﹣the Svalbard Global Seed Vault﹣and it has seeds from a lot of different countries.

    The vault is on the island of Spitsbergen. The island is about one thousand kilometers from the North Pole. It's a very cold place so it's good for seeds. Above the ground, the doorway is small, but inside, the building is huge. You walk down a long corridor (走廊), which is one hundred and thirty meters inside a mountain. At the end of it, there are three large areas with seeds.

    There are about half a million kinds of seeds inside the vault. For example, there are kinds of seeds for rice from Asia and Africa, 32 kinds of seeds for potatoes from Ireland and seeds for different tomatoes from the USA.

    The seed vault has space for a lot more seeds. You can put about 2.2 billion(十亿)seeds inside. The seeds can live here for thousands of years because of the cold temperature of ﹣18℃. So in the future, humans can grow any seed they want. In other words, the seed vault is the difference between life and death.

    There are many people helping to take care of others in every country. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or the old people's homes.

    They read books to the old people. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}For boys who don't have fathers, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students take these boys to baseball games or take them to go on trips. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

    There are a number of clubs in some cities. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, the museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs have a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they're young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}And they always do volunteer work happily.

My name is Angela. I'm an 8-year- old English girl. All my family like me, especially(尤其) my grandpa. And of all my family, I love my grandpa best. 

One morning, I was playing in our house. Then I saw my grandpa's hat. It was blue and looked very old. "Grandpa doesn't like this ugly hat,"I thought. "I can make it look nice. "So I painted his hat red. When the work finished, my mother saw it and said to me,"Your grandpa must be mad. You made his hat a mess(脏乱). "I was not really sure about it. 

But that afternoon, my grandpa came home and knew this. "My dear Angela, you're so creative(有创造力的),"he laughed and said. "That's a nice hat and I like it. I think my friends will like it, too. "

Not all adults can treat(对待) their small boys or girls like my grandpa. Thanks, Grandpa! You are the best in my heart.