Tom lives in New York. His father has a shop and his mother is a doctor. He is seven years old now, and begins 1 to school this autumn. It's far 2 from their shop and his father 3 him to school every day. So he 4 never late for school and his teachers all like him.

    It's Monday today, Miss Hunt is teaching them to 5 from one to ten. Sam is studying hard. Soon he can count 6. Miss Hunt is happy and 7,“How many people are there in your 8, Sam?”

      Sam stands up and says, “Two, Miss Hunt.”

    “9 are they?”

    “My father and my mother.”

    “Oh?” Miss Hunt is surprised. She says, “There are three people in your family.”

    “But now I am not 10. I am at school, you know!”

    It is a Saturday aftemoon．Susie is watching the two1play．They are Joe and Bob．They are2their bikes．

    Susie's mom comes out of the house and asks，"3are you doing，dear?'

    Mom,I'm watching the boys ride their bikes，"says Susie."Can you4me to ride a bike?"

    Susie's mom5it and agrees(同意)at last．Susie is only four years old．She is 6at first．Her mom holds (抓住) the bike when she starts to ride．7about half an hour,she is not afraid．She is having fun．Suddenly(突然)，she8that her mom isn't holding the bike．She is afraid．9she soon finds that she can ride a bike all by herself (独自)．She is very10 ．

    A teenage girl couldn't stand her parents' family rules, so she left home.

    She wanted to be1 but she had poor education and several years later she had to ask for food on the street for a living. Now her father has died. Her mother is an old woman. But she is still 2 her daughter. She has been to every corner of the city. Everywhere she goes, she3 a big photo of herself on the wall. At the lower part of the photo she writes, “I still love you…,4 home!”

    One day, the daughter saw one of the photos. The face was familiar. “Is that my mother?” She moved closer and read the 5: I still love you… She cried. When she got home, it was early morning. She6 the door. The door opened itself. She rushed to her mother's7. Her mother was sleeping. She woke her mother up, “It's me! Your 8is back home!” The mother and daughter held each other, full of 9tears (眼泪). The daughter asked, “Why is the door not locked? A thief could get in.” The mother answered 10, “The door has never been locked since you left.”

    The door of parents' love for their children will never be closed.

    Simon has a big shop in the center of the city. He tells all 1 salegirls to be friendly to the buyers and he gets 2 money.

    One day an old woman 3into the shop to buy a handbag. When she went out of the shop with the handbag, she left her wallet in it. A girl who worked 4 a shop assistant picked it up and found there 5 nearly five hundred dollars in it. She looked around and 6saw it. She put it into her pocket quickly. Soon the old woman came back to look for it7 she failed. She was sad and left. That evening Simon was told about it. He was so angry that he sent the girl away. Then he decided to get an honest man to take her place. Several young men came, but none of them could8  him.

    One morning 9 young man came to his office. He asked, "Do you smoke, sir?"

    "No, sir," answered the young man.

    "Do you drink?"

    "No, sir."

    Simon asked him the other questions, and the young man's answers made him happy. Before he made his decision, he asked him the last question, "You have no shortcoming, do you?"

    "No, I don't, sir. " said the young man. "I only like 10  lies."

    How would you use a radio or a telephone if you had no electricity or batteries? This1bothered(使烦恼) British inventor Trevor Baylis. He2 a wind-up(装有发条的) radio. It doesn't need electricity or batteries. You wind it up3hand. It plays for about an hour. Then, you wind it up4.

Later, Baylis invented a mobile phone that is by5. The shoes contain (含有) a small battery that is powered when you6This battery is connected to a mobile phone. These two simple inventions can bring modern7to all parts of the world.

    Baylis doesn't have a university degree in engineering. In8, he left high school before graduating(毕业). He just loves9things to help people. He never knows10ideas will come to him. The idea for the phone came to him in a dream.