My best friend, Connie, is two years older than me. We spend a lot of time together.

    Connie has long dark brown hair and her eyes are big and round. People say she is 1 and looks like a doll. When we go out, people often 2 that I am older than her because she is shorter and slimmer (苗条的).

    Connie is positive（乐观的）even when things go 3 . Last week she got her examination 4 , which were not very good. I thought she was going to be 5 . Instead, she simply decided to do better the next time. Then, every day after class, 6 teachers are free in their offices, she will ask them for help.

    Connie gets on well with others. Everyone in my family 7 her, even my younger brother. When you hear her laugh, you will naturally（自然地）laugh 8 . When I feel unhappy, I will talk to Connie and she will make me feel 9.

    I think my 10 with Connie is very valuable, and I hope we will always be best friends.

    Walt Disney was born in 1901. The Mickey Mouse created in 1927 made him very famous. He died in 1966.but his work and his dreams did not die. Now people all over the world enjoy his Mickey Mouse and other cartoons.

    Wait Disney was a man who did not give up easily. One summer, Walt wanted a job in a post office, but they told him that he was too young. He went home, drew some lines on his face, and put on his father's suit and hat. Then he went back to the same office and told them he was 18. He got the job finally.

    Later in his lire, Disney had a dream, that is, to build a new kind of amusement park. It would be clean and beautiful. There would be rides for children and nice hotels for adults. It would be fun for people of all ages. Disney drew a plan for this park. It was called Disneyland. Engineers told him it was an impossible dream His family and friends thought he was mad, but Disney did not give up his idea. In 1955, Disneyland opened to the public and it became the most successful amusement park in the USA. Walt Disney's dream came true.

    On the morning of the day when he left Compton High School in Los Angeles, 18-year-old Allan Guei asked seven of his classmates to come together. Guei, a star on the basketball team, expressed he was giving away he $40,000 he'd won in a competition and was dividing it among them. The room filled with shouts and cheers. "Everyone went mad with excitement," he says. "They were surprised that I would do something like that for them."

    In November 2000, Guei's family moved from the Ivory Coast to the United States, and he immediately took up basketball." When I first came to California, the Lakers were winning: it was Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal era (时代),"he recalls." I just fell in love with the game."

    A few years later, he was playing for the school. Then, in March, he entered a free-throw competition at the school, and the town saw just how big a team player Guei really is—both on and off the court (球场).

    In the first round, each of the eight contestants (竞争者) took ten shots, and the top four shooters advanced." I was one of the final four, but I really didn't shoot that well," Guei says." I was nervous!"" In the second round, however, he took the winning shot. He went home with the prize of $ 40,000.

    A few months before Guei left school, he was offered a full scholarship (奖学金) to California State University, and he had an idea." I could have kept the prize money, but I was already going to college for free," Guei says. "I know the others were going to have a lot of difficulty paying for school. They needed it for their futures, so I just decided to give it away."

    Now wearing No.25 on Northridge's Matadors basketball team, Guei has little time for anything but training and studying, though he keeps in touch with most of his classmates." I know those kids. Whatever they decide to do in life is going to be something good," he says." It was just the right thing to do."

    As for his own future, Guei is still learning. "I work really hard at everything I do," he says. "But whatever happens in my future, I'm just happy that I was able to help somebody else along the way."

Long long ago, a king loved riddles. Once a year he made a new riddle and offered a 1 to the person who could first solve it.

Bob, a young man, was famous for his fine 2 . Bob had almost everything he needed except for 3 . He wanted to sell his products to every comer of the kingdom.

One year the king made a new riddle. People came from far and wide. He drew a line on the courtyard. "Make this line shorter without erasing （j青除）any part of it. Whoever wins can pick one of my strongest horses! Yet, is there anyone smarter than me? I doubt it!^v the king 4 the crowd.

People looked at the line in different directions. "How can you make a line shorter without erasing any part of it?" the crowd asked each other. Some of them 5 ・ The dressmaker kicked dirt over the end of the line to 6 it. The farmer poured water over the line to make it 7 . None of these efforts worked.

Then Bob came with a bag of flour（面粉）from his shop. "Your Majesty, this riddle is just a piece of cake."8 , Bob opened his bag of flour and poured out a line of flour right next to the king's line・ The line was 9 than the king's line.

"Now, my king," Bob smiled, ^Uyour line is shorter."

"Such a clever trick!" the people were 10 ・ The king laughed. ^uYou made it.

Now you can have any horse you like."

A long time ago, there lived a king. Every year, he would spend a lot of   money building his palace. One day, the king had a new1 and he said to his men, " This year, I will build the best2 in the world. It should be praised within my kingdom, and by the people of neighboring states. "

After building his palace, the king 3 noblemen (贵 族 ) from his kingdom, as well as from neighboring states to come. And he asked them to give their 4 about the palace. 

" Unbelievable! It is the most beautiful palace. " the noblemen said. But one man who looked young stood in the corner. He 5 said anything. 

The king wanted to know why the man was 6 when someone else was praising his palace. He walked up to the man and asked, " Hello, young man. You keep silent. Is there anything wrong with my palace?" The man smiled and replied in a calm voice, " Your Majesty! Your palace is strong and will 7 hundreds of years or even longer. It is beautiful but not perfect. Many of your people are still leading a8 life, though your palace looks wonderful. Because of that, I am silent. "

The king listened to the young man's opinion quietly. Then he thanked the wise man for his honest words and 9 he would never try to rebuild his palace again. Instead, he used the money to 10 the people in need. 

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