Mr. White's family decided to repair their house. Mr. White bought the house two and a half years ago. Since his kids were growing up, he and his wife wanted to make some changes to the house.

    They decided to knock down their living room wall to open up the space. When the wooden walls were moved, they were shocked to find a lizard (蜥蜴) stuck in the small space between the walls. The lizard's foot was stuck by a nail (钉子) which was knocked into the wall from the other side several months ago. However, they wondered how the lizard had survived so long without moving from that place.

    The family decided to wait for a while and see how the lizard survived several months without moving. While they were doing other things, they kept an eye on the lizard. The son, Ray, suddenly shouted, “Dad, look here!”

    Another lizard appeared, carrying food to the stuck lizard's mouth. That was a real surprise! Everyone was touched that the lizard fed the other one for all this time.

    Both lizards had never-ending hope for each other and carried their hearts with love and care. Why can't we humans always carry that kind of love in our hearts? Life is full of all kinds of difficulties. What we can do is to give our hand to the one in need and share our love. Sharing is caring.

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    Sam was a fifteen­year­old boy living with his little sister, Julie. Their parents passed away long ago. Sam had to take care of Julie by himself.

One day, Sam woke up at three in the morning as usual. When Julie was sleeping alone, Sam left their little house to send newspapers. When he found an old man sitting in front of their house, Sam was so surprised that he stopped to look at him closely. It was an icy morning and he looked very cold.

    The poor old man didn't have anything to cover himself with. Sam went into his house to get the old man a blanket(毯子). However, there were no extra blankets, so Sam thought hard and took his father's coat. It was the only thing of his father's that he had left. Sam wrote a short note. "Sir, I found you sleeping in front of my house. This is my father's coat. I hope it fits you well." He put the note in a pocket of the coat and covered the old man with the coat. Then he went to work. When he came back, both the man and the coat were gone. Sam thought that it was the best thing he could do with his father's coat.

    That afternoon, Sam hurried home after school because Julie was at home alone. However, Julie and the old man were standing in front of the house, and Julie shouted to Sam, "Brother! He's our grandfather!"

    The grandfather smiled and said, "Sam, thank you for giving me the coat and letting me know how good my grandson is. This coat was the one that I gave my son a long time ago!"

I used to live in my own room alone. But one day it all changed when my brother Mike asked to share my 1 At first， my parents said "No." to him， but at last my mother agreed. I cried and asked my parents not to do this， 2 it didn't work.

    As soon as Mike entered my room， it began to become 3. To my anger， he often left his unwashed clothes and toys everywhere!

    One evening， I was doing some 4 on my computer while Mike was listening to music.  5 ， I left my seat to get some water. A big surprise was waiting for me when I 6. He was using my computer to play games. I had forgotten to save the homework. Sadly， he closed my program saving it.7. All I had done had disappeared! I 8 him. He cried a lot as my mother came and beat him. My mother also asked him to leave room at once.

Then I did my homework 9 . At 10：00pm， I finished it. When I was going to turn off the 10 I saw the photo of my 11 that he had put on my table. I looked at his lovely face and remembered how 12 he was when my mom beat him. I really felt 13 . I went to see what he was doing. I found he was 14 in my parents bed. I kissed his face. He woke up， got up and said， "I'm sorry. I won't bring you any more trouble."

I was so moved and said， "From now on， my room is not only mine. It is 15!" That very night， Mike and I shared not only the room， but the bed.

    Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. As a child he was slow to talk. But when he was 14 years old, he became clever. He taught himself maths from text books. He studied hard because he wanted to be a physicist (物理学家).

    In 1901, Einstein began teaching. In 1902, he went on with his study at the University of Zurich. Several years later, he put forward (提出)his Theory of Relativity(相对论).

    To most people the Theory of Relativity is hard to explain. But once Einstein explained it very well to a group of young students. He said:" When you sit with a good girl for two hours, you think it is only a minute, But when you sit on a hot fire for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity".

    Later Einstein went to America and never left there. His life ended at the age of 76.

    Helen Keller was born in 1880 in the USA. When she was about 19 months old, she got very ill. After many weeks, the doctor told her parents, "Your daughter is better, but now she can't see and she can't hear." Her mother and her father were very sad. After a few years, things got worse. There was no way for Helen to speak to other people. She heard nothing. She didn't understand anything.

    Then one day a teacher came. Her name was Anne Sullivan She lived with Helen and her family. The teacher helped Helen learn words. Helen was a very clever child and soon she learned to spell her first word. When she was older, she went to college.

    Helen was a very famous woman when she died. The world remembers her today as a brave and wonderful person. She was blind and deaf, but she found a way to see and hear. It helped many people in the world.

Driving an electric car is good for the environment(环境). But is that true?

A University recently studied emissions (排放物) from different cars. The   scientists found that sometimes electric cars were worse for the environment than other cars. Surprising Well, please pay attention to the word " sometimes". Electric cars should be clean. The problem lies in th power(动力). If the power comes from the wind or the sun, electric cars will be good far the environment But if the power is from coal(煤炭), it will bring a co ntrary situation. According to the study, emission from these electric cars kill about 3,000 people a year. Compared with it, emissions from other cars makes about 880 people's death a year.

In France, more than half of the power comes from nuclear(原子核的) stations. Electric cars there should be as clean as they can be. But in many other countries, coal is still the main source(来源) of electricity. India, for example, needs coal for 61% of its power. Only 2% of its electricity comes from nuclear sources. In countries like India, electric cars are not clean at all!

All in all, sellers are not lying(说谎) when they say electric cars are clean, but they are right only when the power is also clean.