We had Sports Day at school on Saturday. I entered the 100 meters, 400 meters and high jump for older boys.

I didn't win the 100 meters but I came in1.My friend Peter came in first.I really thought I was going to beat him.But he managed to run just a little bit2than me over the last 20 meters and broke the tape a fraction of a second before me.Next year,I'll beat him!

I won the 400 meters.I think I am probably a better3at the longer distance.Next year,I might enter the 1,000 meters. To win the short distance races,you need to get a very good start.With the longer distance races,however,you have time to4if you get off to slow start.

Although I won the  5,it was a slow race compared with last year.I was 2 seconds behind my personal best.I know6I haven't been doing enough training. Next year, I must get into training at least a month7Sports Day. I will run for half an hour every morning.

I thought I was going to win the high jump but I8the bar in my third jump. My left foot touched the bar just enough to knock it down. I need to9more if I am going to win this event next year.

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     Farley worked for the Canadian government. One day，he was1 to learn more about wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou (北美驯鹿)? Do they kill people?

     They gave him lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane and took him to 2 . They put him down and went away. There were no houses or people in this place. But there were lots of animals and lots of wolves.

People tell terrible stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people. Farley remembered these stories，and he was 3. He had his gun with him 4 .

     Then one day， he saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father wolf and another young wolf lived with them.

     Farley watched these wolves every day. The mother was a very 5 mother. She gave milk to her babies. She gave them lessons about life. They learned how to 6 food. The father wolf got food for the mother. The young    wolf 7 the children. They were a nice， happy family — wolf family! Farley did not need his8anymore. In a short time，he got on well with the family. Farley watched them for five months. He learned that many stories about the wolves were 9. Wolves do not eat people， and they do not eat many large animals. And he also learned bad things about men. It was men who killed many caribou and wolves.

     Later， Farley wrote a book about wolves. He wanted people to10 them and not to kill them.

Comfort Zone

    I would never forget what I learned from the day when I left my junior high school. On the last day our teacher told us something1that I would like to share with you.

    He began by drawing a man standing in the middle of a circle. To make it more interesting, he drew things like a house, a car and a few friends inside the circle.

    He asked, "Can anyone tell me what this is?" In a long silence, one student decided to2his idea," The world?" The teacher said, "That's close. This is your Comfort Zone. Inside your circle you have all the things that are important to you. Your home, your family, your friends and your job. People feel that inside this circle they are safe from any3."

    "Can anyone tell me what happens when you step out of this circle?" A strong silence came over the room. The same student replied," You are afraid." Another student said, "You may make mistakes." The silence continued and our teacher smiled and asked," When you make mistakes, what can the result be?" The first student said," You4something."

    "Exactly, you are learning." Our teacher turned to the blackboard and drew an arrow（箭头）5from the man to the outside of the circle. He went on saying," When you leave your Comfort Zone, you put yourself out there, in a6that you are not comfortable with, The result is that you learn something that you did not know and you enlarge your knowledge to become a better person." He turned again to the blackboard and drew a bigger circle around the original（原来的）circle, and7a few new things like more friends, a big house, etc.

    A lesson from this story is that if you stay inside your Comfort Zone you will never be able to open your eyes to the outside world and learn, When you step out of your Comfort Zone, you will8make your circle bigger to challenge your mind and grow to be stronger, and all in all be a better person.

   "Jane, please let me borrow a dollar," Jenny asked as they stood in the school lunch line." I have one in my jacket, but I don't want to1and lose my place."

   "OK," agreed Jane.

    Jane waited all day for Jenny to2back the dollar she borrowed, but Jenny always seemed to be3."She just forgets about it," thought Jane." I don't want to make her angry." Still, her money didn't go4. Some classmates, like Jenny, were5five dollars a week.

    Weeks went by. At last Jane got enough courage to ask her about the money.

   "Oh Jane, I6!" Jenny said." I'll bring the dollar tomorrow." The next day Jenny seemed to have forgotten again. During the noon hour, Jane saw her buying sweets for Mary and Ann. Jenny saw Jane looking at her.7she said something in a low voice to the other two girls. Jane felt8and asked her teacher if she could go back to the classroom.

    In the classroom, Jane saw two new pencils on Jenny's desk. An9came to her," Jenny's not10recently, and anyway, she really owes (欠)me. Besides, she has money to buy more. A dollar doesn't mean anything to her, but it means a lot to me."

    Once there lived two brothers. The elder was called Simon and the younger was Victor. They1each other very much, and always took care of each other. Every day they worked from morning until night, getting as much grain as possible from their fields.

    One late autumn evening, after their work in the fields was done, Simon said to his wife, "Victor got married last month. He has many bills to pay. I think I should put a bag of rice in his barn(谷仓)." "Oh, that's a good idea!" said his wife." But please don't tell him, "said Simon." If he knows I put the rice there, he will2take it."

    So late that night Simon took a bag of rice to Victor's barn. The next day, while looking at his own barn, he found3 strange." I took a bag of rice to Victor's house last night, 4I still have the same number of bags in my barn.5 did that happen?"

    Simon decided to take another bag of rice to his brother's barn that night. But the next morning, he found the6number of bags in his barn again! "This is very strange," he thought.

    That night he 7 again. He carried a large bag of rice on his shoulder, and walked down the road to his younger brother's house. In the bright moonlight, he could see another person coming down the road. He was carrying something on his shoulder, too.

    "Younger brother!" Simon cried. "What are you doing?"

    "I was 8you," said Victor. "Your family is larger than mine. I thought you need more rice." The two brothers quickly 9 that they had been taking rice to each other. They 10what had happened. "It is good to have a brother like you," they both said.

    John James Audubon loved all kinds of birds. He spent his life studying them. He painted all the birds of North America.

    John James Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785. When he was a young boy, he moved to France with his family. His father was in the French Navy. He had a farm in the United States. When John was 18, his father sent him to the farm, hoping John would take care of it. But John didn't want to do that. He wanted to hunt, fish, and draw birds. John drew lots of pictures of birds. He wanted to make them look real.

    In 1808, John married Lucy Bakewell and they moved to Kentucky. John and a friend went into business there. They ran a shop. John really didn't like working in the shop. The business soon failed. John wanted to paint full-time. Lucy agreed to help. She got a teaching job to support the family. By that time, they had two young sons.

    John wanted his bird paintings made into a book. He finally did find someone to print his bird pictures in a book. Many people wanted John Audubon's book. Although his book was a great success, John wasn't happy with it. He wanted to show every bird found in North America. By 1838, John finished a great work. It wasn't just one book. It was an amazing set of four books called The Birds of America. It had many paintings. Today, these paintings are very famous.