Mr. White wanted to spend a day at the beach. He 1 his daughter Nancy and her two friends, Helen and Karina. They all went to Ocean Beach in New Zealand.

    The group swam and surfed. Then they saw something 2. "They are large fins (鱼鳍)," said Mr. White.

    The 3 saw seven dolphins moving towards them. The dolphins were worried. They 4 the water with theft mils(尾巴). They kept moving around the swimmers. Then one large dolphin swam towards Mr. White and Helen. Next, it dived down underwater. Mr. White saw something grey moving in the 5.

    A shark 6 underwater. It wasn't far from the people. Now the shark was not slow. It moved 7! So the dolphins used their 8 to swim even faster. Each one splashed (飞溅) its tail even more. Then Mr. White knew the dolphins didn't want to 9 him and the girls. These sea mammals (哺乳动物) wanted to keep them safe.

    The dolphins stayed close to the group until the shark 10. When Mr. White and the kids were safe, the dolphins swam away. "You want to say thank you and shake their flippers." Mr. White said. "These dolphins are heroes."

    In space, there was a little gray planet. It looked very 1 , because the people who lived there hadn't looked after it. They had polluted the whole planet heavily 2 rubbish and pollution. As a result, there were few plants and animals left.

    One day, a little boy Jim was walking on the planet, when he passed a cave（山洞）and 3  a small red flower inside. The flower was very sick — almost dying, so Jim 4 dug up the flower, with roots, soil and everything. Then he started looking for a place5 care of it. He searched all over the planet, but everywhere was polluted so much that there was6 place the flower could possibly live in. Then he looked up at the moon. It seemed that maybe the plant could live there.

    Jim decided to go there. He7 a spaceship and put the little red flower in the back, then they flew to the moon. Far away from all that pollution, the flower soon grew up, giving birth to others, and these other flowers spread onto other flowers. Soon the whole moon was completely covered with flowers. When the little boy's flowers came out, the moon gave out a soft red8. It was the most beautiful scenery he had ever seen.

    Maybe the story is telling us9 we don't look after the planet, a day will come when flowers can only grow on the moon. So we must be friendly to10 place that we are living in now.

    Do you like sports? All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports can help people to keep healthy, happy and to live1. What sports do you like? People often2different games in winter and summer. Summer is good3swimming. And in winter people often go skating. Some sports are very popular around the world4basketball, football and running. Do you often run? Are you good at it? Here is a funny story about running!

    Peter and Mike are in the5class. Peter was born in a poor family. But Mike's father is a shopkeeper and is6. When Peter gets into trouble, Mike always7him. Peter likes to have sports. And he is good at running. 8can catch up with him in his school and he often wins the 400-meter race.

    It was Sunday. Mike and Peter went to a forest to have a picnic, Mike took a lot of9there. They ate and drank and then began to go fishing in the river. The two boys enjoyed themselves there. Suddenly they10a great noise. They looked around and found it was11behind a big tree. They were both very12. Peter put on his shoes13and was going to run away. Mike14him and said, "It's no use for us. The tiger runs15than us. Let's find a way." "It doesn't matter," said Peter, "I'm sure I'll run faster than you!"

    Don't you think you should learn to run fast?

A few weeks ago, I went into Chase's class for help. I e-mailed Chase's teacher one evening and said, "My son keeps telling me that his homework is maths, but I'm not sure whether I should believe him. Help, please." She e-mailed right back and said, "No problem! I can help Chase after school anytime." And I said, "No, not him. Me. He gets it Help me."

And that's why I stayed with Chase's maths teacher. We talked about teaching children. We agreed that subjects like maths and reading are not the most important things that are learned in a classroom. We also talked about something else--kindness and bravery. 

And then she told me this. 

Every Friday afternoon Chase's teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down whom they'd like to sit with the following week. She also asks the students to nominate (推荐) who is the most popular student that week. They needn't write down their names on the paper. 

After the students go home, she takes out those pieces of paper and studies them. In fact, Chase's teacher is not looking for a new seating chart (表) or "popular students". She is looking for lonely children. She's looking for the ones who don't want to talk with others. She is finding out whose names are not noticed by their classmates.     ★        

After watching Columbine, the wise woman knew that all violence (暴力) comes um loneliness. So she decided to start fighting violence early and often, and what she is doing is SAVING LIVES. 

And she finds the lonely kids from those lists and tries to help them. It's maths to her. All is love--even Maths. 

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The next morning they visited their new neighbor.The lady invited {#blank#}3{#/blank#}in and said her name was Emily Harris."Please forgive the way the house looks，"said Ms.Harris."Being in a wheelchair makes it less {#blank#}4{#/blank#}for me to put things away."Betsy and her mom stayed only for a short time.Betsy's mom said，"{#blank#}5{#/blank#}you ever need anything，let us know.""Thanks so much，"said Ms.Harris {#blank#}6{#/blank#}.

The next day，Betsy went to visit Ms.Harris again.The {#blank#}7{#/blank#}was open，so she looked in but only to see Ms.Harris on the ground next to her wheelchair.She {#blank#}8{#/blank#}to Ms.Harris."I think I broke my arm，" said Ms.Harris.Betsy called for {#blank#}9{#/blank#}ambulance （救护车）.While Ms.Harris was not at home，Betsy decided to help put things away for her.

When Ms.Harris returned home，she was surprised by Betsy's hard work."You are a very kind girl，"she said."I'm so lucky to have bought this house {#blank#}10{#/blank#}yours!"Betsy smiled and said，"Welcome to the neighborhood!"