Children love their parents, but I didn't get on well with my parents before. I hardly talked to my parents, because they liked to 1 me with my sister. And that made me unhappy. I sometimes argued 2 them for that.

    However, I wanted to show them that I could do things as well as my sister. Then I began to spend most of my free time painting in my bedroom. Luckily, my art teacher, Miss Green, 3 to help me a lot. She taught me some drawing 4 to improve my painting. She was the only person I would like to talk with.

    One day, I told Miss Green about my problem. She encouraged me to enter a painting competition. In her mind，the best way to communicate with my parents was to prove（证明）5. I took her advice.

    Several days later, Miss Green told me the result. I was very happy and excited 6 I won the first prize! My parents were very 7 and I could see that they were very happy. And they began to care more about me. Now 8 between my parents and me have become very good. And I think it's very important to have someone to talk with.

    Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was 75, he gave ￡12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children's playground.

As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was 75 and expected to live to be 100, and the newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at 75. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. "I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening", he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was 75 and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week, Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

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Sara comes from a big family and they live in a small flat. Sara's dad {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (work)hard, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} he doesn't make enough money to buy a house.

Sara has {#blank#}3{#/blank#} dream. She dreams that her family will have {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (they) own house. It seems difficult {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (make) her dream come true, but Sara's friend Jenny wants to help.

One day, Jenny reads about a program called"Houses for People". She tells Sara about it. Many people get together and help to build a house {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a family in need.They work for free. Local businesses(当地企业) buy things to build the house. Anyone can help. You don't have to be good at {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (build) houses because there is always something to do. Sara's family are {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (interest) in the program and wrote down the family name.

{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (Lucky), they get the result(结果) they want.

After a long winter of waiting, Sara's family are happy to know the work will begin on March 7th. It is a nice Saturday morning, and more than thirty people come to help.Over the next three {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (week), the new house is well under way.

The big day comes on March 30th. A new white house sits where once only a dream stands.