Beijingis the capital of China. It is a very1 city. Lots of people live and work there. Itusually takes them a long2toget to work.

Myfriend Zhang Yu works in a company (公司) in Beijing. Thecompany is3from his home. He goes to work either bybus4 bysubway. When he gets up early, he5the bus to work. His home is next to thefirst stop of the No. 456 bus. It is easy for him to get a seat (座位)6 the bus. But hespends (花费) two hours getting to the7. When hedoesn't get up early, he takes the subway. It takes8 aboutone hour to go to work by subway. But there are too9people on it. Sometimes Zhang Yu can't even(甚至)10!

Itis Zhang Yu's dream to buy a house near his company. Can his dream come true?

Grace lives in Oklahoma. She is only six years old, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} she already has big ideas for helping other kids!

One Saturday morning when Grace was five, she {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (pass) a lemonade stand (柠檬水摊). Some teenagers were selling lemonade. Their purpose was to raise money for some of their {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (friend). Grace wanted to have a try, so her mother explained to her {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to start a lemonade stand.

Grace wanted to help kids too, especially foster (寄养的) kids! That was because she and her brother were foster children. She thought that maybe she could help {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (they) by starting a lemonade stand!

{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (luck), Grace's first lemonade stand made $ 132! She was very excited {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (buy) things for the foster kids with her mother. She helped 24 children for {#blank#}8{#/blank#} first time. Grace wanted to help {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (many) kids so her mum helped her start a project called Grace's Lemonade for Love. So far, she {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (raise) over $ 17, 000! Someday maybe she will be able to send toys to all foster kids in her country.

Jill is a very beautiful girl. She is tall and has long {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(金色的,浅褐色的) hair. She always wears blue jeans and a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(柔 软 的) white T-shirt. When she wears {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(眼镜), she looks lovely. Jill is an excellent girl. She often gets good {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(分 数) at school. Her parents are really {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(感到自豪的;感到骄傲的) of her. She has a Chinese pen friend. Her name is Li Hua. They often send{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(电子邮件)to each other, but they have never seen each other.

They look forward to seeing each other. This weekend they will see each other through the Internet. Jill also has some {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(业余爱好). She likes reading and painting. She is not {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(紧张的) when she talks to others in public. She has a sweet tooth. So pizza and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(小甜饼;曲奇饼) are her favourites. They {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (有……的气味)good. And she always shares them with others.

Tina is a thirteen- year- old middle school student. Last year, she went to a summer school in France and stayed with a local family, the Truffauts.

 At first, things didn't go well 1 she couldn't speak French. Simple things like2 the right bus stop became big problems. The Truffauts helped her a lot and treated her like part of the family. They played games and shared traditional food 3 her. Tina was helpful as well. She did some housework with the family every day. On the weekend, she 4 a community club and did volunteer work. For most of the time, she used body language to communicate. People showed 5 thanks with smiles and she would always smile back. Language was not a problem for her any more. As a new member of the club, Tina 6 to have parties with the other members. Day by day, she made more 7 . Tina began to love her new life."A smile is 8 second language we were born to speak. It is also the best gift I have got," she often said 9 .

 Smiles and a helping hand can always make people 10 closer than a language can.

It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. If we didn't see any rain soon, we would lose everything.

 One day when I was in the kitchen,I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} my six- year- old son, Billy, walking towards the forest. He was clearly trying to be as still(平静的) as possible. Several minutes later, he disappeared into the forest, and then he ran out again, towards the house. This activity went on for an hour, walking{#blank#}2{#/blank#} to the forest and running back to the house. I really wanted to know {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Billy was doing.

 Finally I followed him into the forest. I found that he was holding a cup of water. He walked very carefully not to drop the water.

I saw a baby deer(鹿) lying on the ground. It lifted its head to drink the water in myson's cup. After the deer drank up, Billy jumped up and ran back to the house to get more water.

 When he saw me, he said,"I'm not wasting, mother."I found that his eyes were filled with tears.

"I know."I watched the most beautiful heart working so hard to save {#blank#}4{#/blank#} life. Tears ran down my face. As my tear drops began to hit the ground, more drops suddenly joined them. I looked up{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the sky. It was raining.

 The actions of one little boy saved a life, and the rain saved our farm.

We were going to play against a team from a country school. 

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} the match almost began, they came. They looked {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(bad) than we thought. They were wearing dirty T-shirts and blue jeans and looked {#blank#}3{#/blank#} farm boys. We thought they never saw {#blank#}4{#/blank#} basketball before. We even felt that we {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(need) any practice to play against such a team. It was already so late {#blank#}6{#/blank#} no time could be given to them for a warm-up. The match began. One of our {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(boy) got the ball. And he tried {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(give) it to our forward. But from out of nowhere a boy in a dirty T-shirt caught the ball and he{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(quick) and beautifully shot and got two points. To our surprise, they got another two points in a minute. Soon it was all over. The country team {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(win) the match. Of course we knew that there was still another team better than any good team. 

But the most important lesson we learned this time was: One can't tell a man or a team by the appearance.