The cowboy without a horse

    A cowboy rode into a town and stopped at a cafe for a drink. When he finished his drink, he 1 his horse was stolen(偷窃). He went back into the caf6.held his gun up into the air and fired a shot(开枪)  2 even looking. "Which one of you 3 my horse?" he shouted loudly.

    4 answered. "Alright," the cowboy said, "I'm going to have 5 beer, and if my horse isn't back outside by the time I finish, I'm going to do 6 I did in Texas! And I don't like to have to do it. "

      Some of the people in the town were very 7. After the cowboy had one more beer, he walked outside His horse was back! He   8 his horse and started to ride off.

    The waiter went  9 the café in a hurry and asked, "Tell us, 10 you go, what happened in Texas?" The cowboy turned back and said, "I had to walk home."

    We had a sports meeting last Saturday. It was a big 1 in our school.

    Wu Ying, who is usually the best runner in our class, 2 fell and hurt her leg me day before the sports meeting. It was ten o'clock in the morning. It was 3 for the girls' 800-metre race with two laps (圈). My classmates asked me to run the race. But I'm not a good runner. 4 should I do?

    "Just try!" my teacher said. " 5 in yourself!" my classmates said.

    "OK."

    On the first lap, the girl from Class 2 was in the front. She ran much faster than I did. 6 I did my best to catch up with her in the race.

    "Come on!" When I passed the seats of my classmates. I could 7 them shouting. "Run! Run!"

    I was just running and running. I must catch up with her. At that time l was not far behind her. At the end of the 8 lap, we were neck and neck.

    "Come on! Come on!" I could still hear my classmates shouting.

    "Come on! Come on!" I said to myself too.

    There, the finishing line was right before us. We 9 it at the same time. Both she and I took the third place.

    "Hooray!" the students called out to me. "Well done!"

    But I was too 10 to go any farther and fell to the ground.

    When I was 7 years old, I went to the USA with my mom. I can still1 the first Halloween holiday I had in the USA.

    2 the morning of Halloween, we paid a visit to a pumpkin（南瓜）farm. Each of us brought a pumpkin to school for us. I used my pumpkin to make a lantern which had two round eyes and a scary mouth.

    In the afternoon, we3the Halloween costumes （服装） and had a parade （游行）in school. Some of the costumes were funny, but some of them4scary. I chose to wear a Superman costume.

    I did a lot of things that day, but the part I liked 5 was" trick or treat" in the evening. After dinner, I went outside with a bag. I hoped to get a lot of candies from my neighbors. At first, I was a bit nervous,6when I knocked at the first door, my heart was beating very fast. A lady came out, and I said carefully to her, "Trick or treat. "My voice was very low, so low that I could hardly hear myself speak. To my surprise, the lady was so kind that she gave7two candies, and I was so excited. I thanked the lady and moved on. I can't remember how many houses I visited, but I can remember how many8I got - I got 91 that day, and I was so happy.

    What a happy Halloween I had! And I wish we could have Halloween every month!

    Everyone has a place which he remembers most from his childhood (童年), and so do I. One of the places I remember from my childhood is a 1 in the country. It belonged to my parents. I spent my summers in that place 2 I was a teenager(青少年), and now I begin to miss the farm again.

    It was lovely to 3 there. There were a lot of lot of 4— cows, sheep, hens, dogs and cats. My sister and I 5 helped to work on the farm. We helped people graze(放牧) sheep or make bread or cheese. I can still remember that on Tuesdays we 6 the bread and on Thursdays, the cheese.

    I love that farm because I 7 to love animals and not to be afraid of them there. We saw a sheep give birth to its baby there, and we enjoyed staying there to see how lovely the 8 sheep was.

    Now my sister and her son are 9 this place. My nephew is 10 with the place. I hope that he has a good time there and when he is older, he will remember the place as I do.

Confucianism (儒家思想) has been followed by Chinese people for more than two thousand years. 

To help people understand how to behave towards others, Confucianism teaches the Five Constants (五常). These are ren, yi, li, zhi and xin. They are general virtues (美德) around the world. The most important two are ren and li. 

Ren is the feeling of care and love we should have for others. Confucius explained ren could best be understood as loving others. He is famous for teaching people. "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." It is quite similar to what is known in the West as the Golden Rule. "Treat others as you wish to be treated."

While the meaning of ren is easy to understand, li is a little harder to express. It can be thought of as duty or even respect. Generally, li is the way we should connect with people in our everyday life. In Confucian writings, discussions about li include the proper way to drink tea and how to remember ancestors. While ren is mostly about our opinions and feelings, li is about how we express our opinions and feelings towards others and towards the world around us. 

Perhaps the most well-known Confucian virtue is xiao. This is the duty children have to their parents. Xiao means loving, respecting, obeying and taking care of one's parents in their old age. In Confucianism, xiao is important for a harmonious (和谐的) society. Without it, the whole world would fall into a mess.