Larry is going to be a pilot. He wants to fly an airplane. But Larry is not a rich man. He doesn't have an airplane. He has only a chair. Larry ties 45 big balloons to his chair and then sits in the chair. The chair goes up.

    For a few minutes, everything is fine. The view from the chair is beautiful. Larry can see houses and trees below him. He is happy. He is flying!

    The chair goes up very high. Larry is afraid. “I don't want to go very high,” Larry thinks. “I want to go down a little.” With a small gun, Larry shoots 10 balloons. Then something terrible happens. Larry drops the gun, and it falls to the ground. Larry can't shoot more balloons. The chair goes up and up.

    Larry is three miles above the ground. Airplanes are flying over him. Larry has a small radio. “Help! Help!” he says into the radio. “I'm flying in a chair, and I want to come down!” People hear Larry, but they can't help him.

    Larry flies in the chair for 45 minutes. Then the balloons begin to lose air, slowly the chair comes down, and Larry is back on the ground. He is not hurt.

    If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?

    Don't listen to people who say the young people today often think only of themselves. It's not true at all. More and more young people in the U.S.A. volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don't do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

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    So my mother writes all the things on a piece of paper(-张纸) like this: ⒈cake; ⒉egg; ⒊tomato; ⒋milk; ⒌chicken.

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    One day a tiger catches(抓住)a fox in the forest. Before the tiger could eat him up, the fox cries out, "You can't eat me. Don't you know that I'm king of the forest. If you eat me up, all the other animals in the forest will be angry with you. "The tiger doesn't believe him." How can such a small animal be king of the forest?" He asks himself. "If you don't believe(相信)me," the fox says, "then take a walk with me in the forest．You can see for yourself whether(是否)they are afraid of me." The tiger thinks it is a good idea, so the fox walks in front and the tiger goes behind. When the other animals see the tiger coming, they run away as fast as they could.

    "See for yourself, Mr. Tiger," he calls out quickly. "All the animals are afraid of me."

    "Yes, yes," the tiger says. "You are quite right." He then lets the fox go.

    My name is Jack. I am English. And I'm in Beijing now with my family. Let me tell you our life(生活) here.

    My parents are teachers. They like to work(工作) here very much. I have a sister and a brother. My sister and 1 are in the same middle school in Beijing. My brother is only three.

    We have a nice house(房子) in Beijing. My room is big and nice. You can see a bed, a desk, a chair and a sofa in it. I have a computer, too. My books and computer are on my desk. On Sundays, I like to play computer games. I love my room.