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A Bag of Kindness
"Boys and girls, tomorrow I want you to bring a cup of macaroni（通心粉）for our craft class, OK?"These{#blank#}1{#/blank#} from my teacher rang in my mind all evening. I was afraid of the next day because I knew we had no macaroni at home. Living in an alcoholic（嗜酒的）family, we never had too much of anything {#blank#}2{#/blank#} beer bottles.
I went home after school. Where could I find macaroni? I knew that the local bottle shop gave ten cents for a beer bottle, so I decided to sell some bottles to get money for macaroni. I started to
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the bottles. After selling those bottles, I earned eighty cents. Although I did my {#blank#}4{#/blank#} ,I still had no macaroni for my craft class.
"Weren't you{#blank#}5{#/blank#} when I asked you to bring it, John?"my teacher asked.
I went red in the face. I didn't know what to say and other children started laughing. Then a little girl, Rosalyn, who sat beside me turned to me and said, "You can have some of {#blank#}6{#/blank#}."She offered a bag of macaroni to me. The k{#blank#}7{#/blank#}in her eyes made me cry and I ran out of the room. I {#blank#}8{#/blank#} took her macaroni or thanked her for her bag of kindness. However, I often think about Rosalyn and the way she turned to save me t hat day. I used to spend a great deal of my life complaining and keep kind people like Rosalyn a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} ,After that class, I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} I am grateful to all the people like Rosalyn that made this world a better place to live in.

   Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：use it or lose it
   There are about 6.000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear(消失) in the next one hundred years. Will Hangzhouhua be one of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ? It's a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  that more people are asking.
   In China, Putonghua is the official language. That {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  it's the language of government, business and the media (媒体). And it's also the language that is{#blank#}4{#/blank#}  in schools.
   Hangzhou is a special city. It used to be the capital of Wu and Yue States in the 10th century during the Five Dynasties period. Now it is modern, fashionable and also beautiful. And Hangzhouhua shows that by being modern, fashionable and beautiful.
   Young people still speak Hangzhouhua but not as {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used{#blank#}6{#/blank#}  often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn't a painting {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a book. It's a living thing and you {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  use it or lose it.
   If people {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  using it in their daily lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.

    Have you read the book called Uncle Tom's Cabin? It's said that it is one of the greatest books in America．The book {#blank#}1{#/blank#}an unpleasant social problem—slavery(奴隶制)in the Southern States of America. It first came out in 1852．Over 300,000{#blank#}2{#/blank#}were sold out in a year．People had {#blank#}3{#/blank#}ideas about the book．In the North, more and more people began to{#blank#}4{#/blank#}theft support(支持)for the freedom(自由)for the black people after they read the book, but in the South, many people were very{#blank#}5{#/blank#}at the people in the North. In 1861, the war between the two parts of the country{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. Uncle Tom's Cabin surely played a part in the {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. In 1862, Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the book's {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. As he took her hand. Lincoln said, "So this is the little lady who started this big war."

    In the old days, we had a lot of stories between brothers and sisters about how to care about each other. However, most of us don't know how important it is to care about others in{#blank#}1{#/blank#}world. Once, two brothers worked together on a farm. One was married (已婚的) and had a large family. The other had no wife yet. Although they lived in {#blank#}2{#/blank#}houses, they {#blank#}3{#/blank#} everything they got from the farm.

    One day, the unmarried brother said to {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, "It's not fight that we share all the rice. There is only one person in my family, so I need {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  than my brother." So, every night he took a bag of dee from his store-room and went{#blank#}6{#/blank#}the field between their houses to put it into his brother's store-room. At the same time, the married brother thought, "It's unfair (不公平的) to share all the rice. I'm married and I have my wife and children to care about me when I get {#blank#}7{#/blank#} . However, my brother has no one to take care of him." So, he {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to take a bag of rice and put it into his brother's store-room. A few months passed by. They found it strange that {#blank#}9{#/blank#} rice never became less. Then, one dark night the two brothers {#blank#}10{#/blank#} into each other. Slowly they began to understand what happened. Their bags fell on the ground and tears filled their eyes at once.

    Millions of years ago, there were lots of trees on the Earth, because summer lasted all year round. A forest{#blank#}1{#/blank#}the Earth like a green carpet.

    What was the forest like? It's not difficult to find out, because parts of that{#blank#}2{#/blank#}forest still stand. The largest of today's rainforest is in South Africa. It covers about a million square miles. All the trees are very tall. The young trees are up to 60 feet high. But it is not easy for some to grow{#blank#}3{#/blank#}, because very little sunlight reaches them.

    In this forest of all trees, not only plant life is rich{#blank#}4{#/blank#}animal life. At different eights live different animals. By the many noises they make you know they are there.