Once, a king loved music so much that he searched the world for the best instrument. One day, a magic man1the king a harp(竖琴). The king took it to the palace, but2 he played it, the harp sounded terrible. Many3people tried it. They agreed that the harp was 4　and the king had been fooled. The harp was thrown out as rubbish.

A poor little girl 5　found the harp, and even though she didn't know how6 it, she decided to have a try. She played and played, the whole day through, for months and years. The music she produced was never perfect, 7　 each time it sounded a little better.

  Then one day, suddenly, the harp started to play the most beautiful music. It was in fact 8magic harp, and could only be played well by someone who would put in the necessary effort.

   The king heard the music from his window, and called the girl to the palace. When the king saw that she was playing his old harp, he was filled 9　 joy. At that moment he made the girl his own private 10　 , giving her and her family many riches.

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    Perhaps the only test score that I remembered is the 55 when I was in high school.

    The test was the final for a course. I remembered waiting anxiously as my teacher Mr. Right handed out our papers one by one. It was a rather 1 test. I heard my classmates groaning(叹息), and I could tell by the groans that the scores weren't looking2 .

    Mr. Right put my paper on my desk. There in big red numbers, circled to draw attention, was my score, 55!

    I lowered my head, and 3 the score up quickly. A 55 is not something that you wanted your classmates to see.

    “The scores were not very good, none of you 4” Mr. Right said. “The highest score in the class was a 55.”A 55. That's me!5 my sad look didn't look so bad. I had the highest score. I felt a lot better.

    I walked home alone that day with the low but high score. My father knew that I had a big 6 that day and asked me as soon as I got home, “7 did you do in your test?”

    “I made a 55,” I said.

    A frown(皱眉) now stood on my father's face. I knew I had to8 at once. “But Dad, I had the highest score in the class, ” I 9  said. I thought that explanation would make a difference.

    “You 10 !” my father replied.

    “But it's the highest!” I 11.

    “I don't12 what scores others had, but you failed. What 13is what you do!” my father firmly said.

    For years, my father was 14 that way. It didn't matter what others did, it only mattered what I did and that I did it excellently.

    We often don't understand the 15 of good parents until we ourselves stand in the parents' shoes. My father's words have carried me throughout life.

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    Tom is an eight-year-old student in Grade three. He is not interested in his lessons. He spends most of his time playing basketball. At night, he doesn't sleep until very late in order to play. In the morning, he usually gets up late and hurries to school. Sometimes he sleeps in class.

    Tom's father is worried about his poor schoolwork. He tried to make him work harder. One day, his father said to him, "My boy, if you get one hundred marks in the exam,  I'll buy a new basketball for you." The boy was very happy to hear that.

    The next day  Tom came running home. "Oh, Dad, I got one hundred." He shouted, "I got forty in English this morning and sixty in Chinese this afternoon!"

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    Once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman. He always dreamed of becoming 1, and so did his wife.

    One day, while he was sitting on the boat, he 2 felt that the fishing rod was being weighed down by a 3 object.

    He excitedly 4 hard at it and what he saw made him cry. "Wow! A big 5gold chain!" He tried to get the gold chain into the boat, but there seemed to be no 6 to it. His boat started to get over-loaded and the sea water filled his boat. It was really 7. However, he had begun dreaming of a big home, a big piece of land and buying many horses and cows. He kept pulling the chain 8 the boat kept sinking. The boat finally went under the surface of the sea and he tried to swim. 9, his feet were trapped (陷入) in the gold chain and at last he 10 in the sea.

    In fact, there are many people like the fisherman in our life. They always want to get the fortune (财富) 11 hard work. The truth is that desire (欲望) is 12. Only through hard work can we achieve our dreams and live a better life. You may 13 at times and others will think you are crazy at times. But if you 14 that you can succeed, you finally will. Always remember that the bright future can only be created by 15.

     Mr. Green was unfriendly. Kids were afraid of going into his garden to pick an apple because he would run after them 1 with his gun (枪).

    One day, 12-year-old Janet walked out with her friend Amy. They had to 2 Mr. Green's house. 3 they got close, Janet saw him sitting at his front door. Like most kids, 4 was afraid of the old man. But Amy said, "Don't 5."

    When they got close enough Mr. Green took an unfriendly look 6, but when he saw Amy, he gave a big smile. Amy 7 back and told him that Janet was her best friend and they were going to listen to music and play games. Mr. Green said that 8 fun, and gave them each an apple.

Later, Janet asked Amy in 9, "Why was he so nice to us?"

    Amy replied "At first I was 10, too. But my grandma told me not to be afraid and to imagine that he was smiling at me."

    "11 a smile?" asked Janet.

    "Yes. If I smile back at 12, sooner or later he will really smile," continued Amy. "After some time, he started giving real smiles and 13 talked to me. Now, he always gives me a(n) 14, and is always very kind."

    If we remember to smile at others, most people can't 15 our smiles and they will smile back.