A Little Horse Crossing the River

    There is an old horse and a little horse on a farm. One day the old horse asks the little horse to send the wheat to the mill(磨坊）。The little horse is very happy. He carries the wheat and runs toward the mill. But there is a river in front of the little horse. He stops and doesn't know {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to do next. Just then Aunt Cow is passing by.

    The little horse {#blank#}2{#/blank#},”Aunt Cow, please tell me. Can I cross the river?”

Aunt Cow answers.” It's not deep, you can cross it.”

    When the little horse begins to cross the river, a little squirrel(松鼠）shouts to him,” Little horse, don't cross it, you will be drowned. Yesterday {#blank#}3{#/blank#} of my friends was drowned in this river.”

    The little horse is very {#blank#}4{#/blank#} .Finally he {#blank#}5{#/blank#} to go home and asks his mother.

    The old horse asks,”{#blank#}6{#/blank#} do you take the wheat back? What's wrong with you, my child?”

    The little horse answers sadly,” There is a river in front of me. Aunt Cow said it was not deep, but the little squirrel said it was deep. What shall I do?”

    The old horse says,” My child, you should try to cross the river by   7    . If you don't try, how do you know the river is deep or not.

    The little horse carries the wheat and    8      to the riverside. At last,he succeeds in   9    the river. Now, he knows    10    deep the river is.

    What can you do with nuts?A scientist named George Washington Carver answered that question, over and over again.We should say thanks to him for more than 300{#blank#}1{#/blank#}. When Carver was born in 1864,he was a slave(奴隶）on a farm in Missouri.

    Later, he got freedom. As a teenager,he worked on a farm and{#blank#}2{#/blank#}finish high school. At the age of 30, he became the first back student at the college in lowa.In 1896, he became the first black teacher working at another college in lowa.Several years later, he took a job at a college in Alabama, where he worked until his{#blank#}3{#/blank#}in 1943.

    Carver studied agriculture, the science of farming.His{#blank#}4{#/blank#}made huge improvements in farming in the southern United States.

    The best way of learning English is using English as much as possible. Sometimes you will get your words mixed up(迷惑的) and people won't understand. Sometimes people will say {#blank#}1{#/blank#}too quickly and you can't understand them. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} if you keep your sense of humor, you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make.

    Don't be unhappy if the people {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to laugh at your mistakes. It's much {#blank#}4{#/blank#}for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry because they don't know what you are saying. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}most important rule for learning English is" Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes."