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    A crow (乌鸦) wants to drink, but he can't find water. He looks here and there. At last, he cries, "I can see a jar (罐子) and there is some water in it." He tries to get the water, but he can't. "How can I get the water?" he cries, "I can put my break (鸟嘴) quite close it." But still he cannot drink. "What can I do? I want to drink." He looks here and there, then he picks up a small stone (石头) in his break and carries it to the jar of water and drops it into the jar. "Soon the water will be high in the jar, and I can drink," says the crow. So he begins to do that until the water is high (高的) enough to drink.

Dear Yang Kai,

    Would you like to go out for a picnic with my brother and me at 3: 30 on Sunday afternoon?

    We will have the picnic in Yingze Park. You know where it is, don't you? You can take the No. 6 bus to the park. After you go into the park, walk straight on for about five minutes until you come to a small but clean river. There is a bridge over it. Go across the bridge and turn left. After walking for ten minutes, you will come to a hill. Walk to the other side (边) of the hill and you will see a lake (湖). We will have the picnic by the lake.

    I'm sure you will find us easily. Don't forget (忘记) the time.

Yours,

Hao Gang

    Miss Miller, the English teacher wants to know about her students. She asks them some questions. The next are some of the students' answers：

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Here's what John said:"Hello, I'm John. I'm from Egypt and there are some 

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That's the end of today's news.

 When shopping for clothes, my mother and I have always disagreed on what fits me well. To me, if it zips, it fits. My mom, however, usually tells me I need a bigger size.

 When I was a teenager, I wanted to dress like my friends, but my body size made it impossible. When mo m told me something didn't suit me, or I needed a bigger size, all I heard was that my body was wrong.

 To avoid arguments, we stopped going shopping together. This continued until  I got engaged(订婚) last year and needed to buy some clothes. When I tried on a blouse. my mother looked at me, and I knew what was coming." You need a bigger size," she said.

 There was no bigger size. I tried to hold back my tears. Maybe I could buy it alone, of course, but my mom is my favorite person to hang out with The idea of looking for a wedding dress without her seemed just as scary as taking her with me.

 And so the day came. As I tried on a simple white dress. I saw tears in my mom's eyes. " You look beautiful! " she told me. Nothing could have shocked me more.

 This one didn't zip up at the back and I did actually need a bigger size, but my mother didn't say that. She just told me how beautiful I looked. In that moment, all the argument s in the past ended. We didn't buy a dress that day.

 We decided to see more, which I would never have predicted.

A few weeks later, we found the perfect dress. We both loved it as soon as I put it on. And during those few weeks, mom and I also found the perfect fit for our shopping relationship.

One girl leaves her home after a quarrel (争吵) with her mum.

She walks for a long time. Then she sees a noodle shop. She is hungry. But she doesn't have money to buy noodles.

There is an old woman in the shop. She asks her, "Girl, do you want to have a bowl of noodles?" "But I don't have any money," says the girl. "Don't worry." Soon, the old woman brings the girl a bowl of noodles. The girl eats for a while and starts to cry (哭).

"What's the matter?" the old woman asks. "I'm just touched! We don't know each other and you cook noodles for me! But my mother, after a quarrel, let me get out of the house!" the girl answers.

"Girl, how can you think that way? I just cooked you a bowl of noodles. Your mother cooks for you every day. Why don't you thank her?"

The girl is surprised (惊讶的) and goes home at once. Her mum is waiting for her for dinner. The girl comes to cry again.