It was a cold night. The taxi driver didn't take even one passenger all day. When he went by the train station, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he drove to him and asked, “Where are you going, sir?”

    “To the MP Hotel,” the young man answered. When the taxi driver heard this, he didn't feel happy any more. The young man would give him only three dollars because the hotel was near the train station. But suddenly, he had an idea. He took the young man through many streets of the big city. After a long time, they arrived at the hotel. “Here we are! You should pay me seventeen dollars, please,” the taxi driver said to the young man. “What? Seventeen dollars! Do you think I'm a fool? Only last week, I took a taxi from the train station to this hotel and I only gave the driver fifteen dollars. I know how much I have to pay for the trip.”

    In the UK, bus journeys are very common. Buses are often convenient(便利的）for the people who live or work in the city center. Passengers can avoid heavy traffic and do not have to pay for the parking. However, taking the bus is just a necessary but boring part of life: they get on the bus, pay for it and sit down or find a place to stand when it is crowded. Everyone seems sad and bored. 

    In Latin America, however, bus trips can be wonderful. For a start, films are showed on the buses between cities for passengers to have fun along the journeys. Local buses do not show films. but drivers usually turn on the radio and it can be great for passengers to listen to songs and get relaxed. 

    Even better than films and music are the sights and sounds on the buses. Local buses always go to parts of the town that passengers would not visit by themselves. There passengers can see shops that they have never heard about. And they can also see other cultures of the town from the windows of the buses.

    Besides passengers' luggage(行李)is also interesting. It is common to see a happy dog's head getting out of somebody's bag or a lovely chicken "speaking cheerfully "under somebody's arm. Once on a bus in Peru a farmer even tied a sheep to the top of the bus. It was quite surprising.

    In all, taking the bus in Latin America is really fun and unforgettable.

It is Mount Qomolangma that is the 1 mountain in the world. It lies 2 Nepal and China and it is so high 3 nobody but Edmund and Tenzing Norgay were the first persons 4 climbed it in 1953. 

Junko Tabei was a Japanese woman. She was the first woman 5 Mount Qomolangma. A Japanese company 6 15 women to climb the mountain in 1975. The fifteen-woman team climbed 7 some days. Then a 8 ice and snow hurt ten women. They had to stop 9 , while the other 10 women went on. 

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To many people's surprise, Naranja didn't take any painting lessons." I learned how to draw all by myself I was just an engineer(工程师) before deciding to spend {#blank#}9{#/blank#}life on travel and art,"Naranja said.

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Hello! My name is Henry Smith. I'm 13 years old. I am a student in No.1 Middle School. I love reading and playing ball games, such as tennis and basketball. And I can play them well. They are easy and interesting for me. I have three tennis balls and two basketballs in my room. I often play them with my classmates after school.

I have a good friend. Her name is Suzy. Suzy is an English girl. We are in the same school, but we are not in the same class. She loves listening to music and watching table tennis games on TV. She has 10 table tennis balls and 6 table tennis bats! But she can't play table tennis. She thinks it is difficult.