Patricia was born in Michigan and grew up in California. When she was a little girl, she often stayed with her grandparents who lived in Union City, Michigan. One summer day, a meteorite (流星) {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (fall) from the sky, right into her grandparents' backyard! Before that, her grandparents had lived a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} ['kwaiət] life on their farm. Now things were {#blank#}3{#/blank#} from before. They had so much to do. People came to see the meteorite. The professors from the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} [ju:ni'vəsti] came to study it and analyze (分析) it. Her grandparents had never talked to so many people in {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (they) lives! Everything changed.

    As you can guess, no one in the town had ever {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (see) a meteorite before! They were confused (困惑) and didn't know {#blank#}7{#/blank#} to do. Some people thought it would bring them good {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (lucky) if they touched it.

    Patricia loves to tell the story about her meteorite and even today, she carries a piece of the meteorite with her {#blank#}9{#/blank#} [weər'evə] she goes. When I met her, she let all of us touch it and make a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. What might you wish for if you could meet Patricia and see her meteorite?

    A man tried to catch monkeys to sell them to zoos. The monkeys were very clever and every kind of trick that he set wasn't successful.

    A young boy watched the man's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (努力) and then took a pot with a small neck. He placed some corn around the pot and put much corn in it. He then tied the pot to a tree and he told the man, "We will {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(很可能) have a monkey in a few hours."

    Soon, many monkeys were happy {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(发现) the corn and the pot. One put his hand into the pot easily and got {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(大量；充足) of corn, but he couldn't take out his hand with corns out of the small opening of the pet. The monkey got {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (生气) and began to cry. Some of the other monkeys tried very hard, but before they {#blank#}6{#/blank#}  (做成) to pull the pot off his hand, the boy and the man heard the noise. As the boy came near to the monkeys with a bag, the monkeys a[l ran away {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(除了) the one with its hand in the pot. The boy put the monkey and the pot into the bag. The man was {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(惊讶的) and asked the boy the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (秘密) of his monkey trick. "Why was it so easy for the monkey to get his hand in but so difficult to get it out?"

    “The monkey could get his hand back out if he let go of the corn in the pot, but he just didn't want to let go. So he {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (惩罚) because of that," the boy laughed and said.

    You live in a house made of sweets; you are walking in the clouds; you don't have to go to school tomorrow. How could all of these a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} things happen? In your dreams.

    A dream is quite a lot of pictures ideas and fellings playing in the mind during sleep. Humans spend one third of life sleeping and six years dreaming. A person usually has three to five dreams a night, a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} one may not remember his or her dreams.

    Many dreams, at least the ones we remember, are strange and interesting. That's why most people believe that dreams must have some deep meanings or important m {#blank#}3{#/blank#} . But people in different cultures have different understandings of the same dream. For example, when dreaming of fire, Chinese people think of money, Japanese may say it is "trouble". For people in the West, a dream of fire means something new is coming.

    Scientists have very different opinions about the deep meaning of dreams. Some believe that a dream is only an ordinary part of sleep and doesn't tell us anything. Other scientists think that dreams directly show what people think of these days. Dreams are like a window into one's wish and fears. For example, if you are very nervous about an exam, you may see someone strange r {#blank#}4{#/blank#} after you in your dream.

    Technology also helps us to know more about dreams. In some films, people can enter others' minds while they are dreaming. Well now, out of the dreams, we can really do it, too. Scientists can now r {#blank#}5{#/blank#} people's dream by scanning(扫描)their brain activity during sleep. Would you let scientists look into your dreams?