My grandpa is seventy-six years old. He often tells me about his old days when he is {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Grandpa often says, " {#blank#}2{#/blank#}is much better today. Now you have lights, but when I was a child, we  {#blank#}3{#/blank#}candles. Travelling used to be very difficult, but now it's much easier." My grandpa was born in a poor {#blank#}4{#/blank#} so he didn't get much {#blank#}5{#/blank#}However, he never stopped {#blank#}6{#/blank#}.As a child, Grandpa hardly ever played games with other children. Instead, he read {#blank#}7{#/blank#}to increase his knowledge. When Grandpa was eighteen years old, he {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a job as a postman. No matter it was in {#blank#}9{#/blank#}or in summer, Grandpa worked ten hours a day. He loved his job very much. In Grandpa's {#blank#}10{#/blank#} knowledge is wealth. He often encourages me to read a lot.

    Have you ever read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? It must be the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} popular book for almost all the children in the world. The idea for the book came to J. K. Rowling in 1990. It {#blank#}2{#/blank#} her seven years to finish writing it. During those seven years she had a number of jobs, for {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, being an English teacher in Portugal. Rowling sent the book to four publishers (出版商) before one of them bought it. She was very {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to sell her book because it was her dream to be a writer. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} she sold her book, Rowling was living in a small flat (公寓) with {#blank#}6{#/blank#} daughter and was very poor. She didn't have enough money to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} for heat in winter. Harry Potter became a favorite with children and adults in England and then around the world. It was put into (被译成) more than thirty-five {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. After her second and third books were published, the three Harry Potter books filled the top three places on many lists of newspapers of the most popular books. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} any question, Rowling's life {#blank#}10{#/blank#} changed and she became one of the most famous women writers in the world.

    Once upon a time, in a small village, there was a place {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the House of 1,000 Mirrors(镜子). A small happy dog knew this and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to visit it. When he arrived, he happily climbed the stairs(楼梯) of the house. He looked into the doorway {#blank#}3{#/blank#} his tail wagging(摇动) as fast as he could. He smiled, and saw 1,000 other warm and friendly smiles. As he left the house, he thought, "This is a nice place. I will come back and visit it often.

In this village, another little dog，who was not as {#blank#}4{#/blank#} as the first one, also decided to visit the house. He {#blank#}5{#/blank#} climbed the stairs and looked unhappily into the doorway. He saw 1.000 unfriendly dogs staring at(盯着看) him. He growled(吼叫) at them and saw 1, 000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought, "This is a bad place， and I will never come back here.