A five-day holiday can be very exciting for anyone. But a small thing can also make you feel really bad.

    One sunny day Mr. Li wanted to go to Hangzhou for a trip. He wanted to take a train because he would like to see the villages and rivers along the way. And it was not expensive. After he arrived at the train station, he waited for（等待）a long time. He had nothing to do, so he bought a book and read it. When the train came, he got on the train and sat down. About ten minutes later, a man came up to him and said, “Excuse me, sir. This is my seat.”

  “What?” Mr. Li said, looking at his ticket（票）.

  “Are you going to Chengdu?” the man asked.

  “No, I'm going to Hangzhou,” Mr. Li answered. And then he knew he got on the train by mistake.

   Luckily, he didn't miss the right train. All in all, it was not a good start.

    There are many people on the bus. Some have seats, but some have to stand. At a bus stop, a woman gets on the bus. An old man hears the door and tries to stand up.

    "Oh, no, thank you," the woman forces(强迫)him back to the seat. "Please don't do that. I can stand.''

    "But, madam, let me……" says the man.

    "I ask you to keep your seat." the woman says. She put s her hands on the old man's shoulder.

    But the man still tries to stand up, "Madam, will you please let me……" "Oh, no." says the woman. She again forces the man back.

    At last the old man shouts(喊), "I want to get off the bus!"

    Mr. Brown got up late this morning. He was going to be late for work. It was raining hard and the streets were wet. He drove so fast that he didn't see the red lights. He couldn't stop his car and hit a car. An old man got out of the car and called out angrily, "What are you doing? How can you drive so fast? "

    "I'm sorry, sir," said Mr. Brown, "l didn't see the lights turn red." Then he brought out a bottle of wine and gave it to the old man.

    "It's cold today, sir," said Mr. Brown. "Please drink a little, and then you'll get warm. "

    The old man drank some wine and became happy. He asked, "I'm feeling much better now.

    Why don't you drink any? "

    "I can't drink anything now, sir," answered Mr. Brown, "I'm waiting for the policeman. Only drunkards（酒鬼）make accidents（交通事故）, you know! "

    I have a problem. Her name is Luca, We do not see eye to eye.

    Like yesterday, we saw the number 9,999. She said, "All those nines. They feel so.... so purple!?"

    Purple? I saw it as logical and orderly. Not as colours. I think Luca and I live in different universes.

    But we have to do a report on the Statue of Liberty I really doubt if I can work with her.

    At our first meeting on Friday, we come up with a plan. She will make a Statue of Liberty, and I'll write the report. But on Monday, with only one week until our report is due, she tells me she's leaving to visit her great-grandfather for six days, because he's ill. It means that I, the one who can't even draw a stick figure, will have to make the statue. And she, the one who doesn't like to think logically, will have to write the report.

    "Please be at my house at 2:00 on Sunday," I say. I cross my fingers.

    While she's gone, I spend lots of hours making the sculpture according to some directions I find online.

    Sunday at 2:00 arrives, and Luca is late. Finally, I see her skipping down the sideway, carrying only a small piece of equipment.

    "What's that?" I ask." Where's the report?"

    "It's a digital recorder," she says." A report didn't feel right, so I did something else."

    I try to keep my voice calm as I say," But this is not about feelings. I's about the Statue of Liberty. Statues don't have feelings." Our project is due tomorrow. We're doomed.

    "Statues don't have feelings, but my great-grandfather does." Luca says.

    Now I am quite sure that we're from two different universes because I have no idea about what she's talking about.

    "I interviewed him about when he came to America and saw the Statue of Liberty," she continues." Listen." She turns on the recording.

    A scratchy voice comes on." In Hungary, I had no food and hoped to go to America, where I could eat, have a better life. Finally I got on the ship. Then the sunshine started. Oh! There she was, Lady Liberty. Like hope itself All of us cried. All my life, I remember that feeling, of seeing the Lady.""

    Looking at Luca, I think awhile. "You are right. That's what the Statue of Liberty is all about. Who says a report has to be on paper?" I say quietly. And a smile spreads over her face.

    Can you imagine what happens while we are making the presentation the next day? When Luca's great-grandfather says" All my life, I remember that feeling, of seeing the Lady," everyone is staring at our statue, quiet.

    Garfield first appeared in a comic strip on June 19, 1978. Garfield is well known all over the world. Lots of Garfield books have been translated into 26 languages. Garfield products are sold in 69 countries.

    Jim Davis is Garfield's creator. Jim was born on July 28, 1945 in Indiana. He grew up on a farm where his dad raised cows. Jim and his brother Dave helped with the farm work. They had 25 cats. Their mom always made sure there was plenty of food for the cats.

    As a boy, Jim was in poor health. When he had to spend time resting, he drew pictures. He added words to his pictures to make them funny.

    After college Jim worked a few years at an advertising company. In 1969, he got a job to help a cartoonist. Jim noticed that there were many comic strips about dogs but few about cats. He thought that was strange since the world is full of cat lovers.

    He remembered the 25 farm cats he grew up with. They gave him ideas for a cat comic strip. In the comic strip, Garfield became the central character in daily difficult experiences with Jon, his owner, and other characters. He is lazy, funny and hungry.

    Jim Davis has received many awards for his work. Twice he was given the Best Humour Strip Cartoonist of the Year Award. He has won four Emmys(艾美奖)and other honours.

    A kind of little cars may some day take the place of today's cars. If everyone drives such cars in the future, there will be less pollution. There will also be more space for parking cars in cities, and the streets will be less crowded. Three such cars can fit in the space now needed for one car of the usual size.

    The little cars will cost much less to own and to drive. Driving will be safer too, as these little cars can go only 65 kilometres an hour. The cars of the future will be fine for getting around a city, but they will not be useful for long trips. Little cars will go 450 kilometres before needing to stop for more gas (汽油).

    If big cars are still used along with the small ones, two sets of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be used for the big, fast cars and other roads will be needed for the slower, small ones.