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    Some people have a very poor sense of direction(方向). Unluckily, I am one of them. I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.

    When I was a little girl, I never dared to ask people the way. And so I used to walk around in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.

    Now I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often get helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. If someone asks me the way somewhere, I will say, "Sorry, I am new here."

    Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps, I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn't want to keep him waiting.

    When I just got to my office, the secretary(秘书) showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine(想象) how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight.

    I like fishing. Every Sunday I get up early and 1 a bike to a river.

    This morning my 2 wants to go with me after breakfast. We go by car first and then walk to the3. After we get there, we sit down and I start to 4. In two hours, I catch nothing.

    “All right, let 5 have a try.” she says. She 6six big fish in half an hour.“I'll go home and I'm going to cook them for 7You8take the bus home,” she says.

    I stay by the river but catch only an old shoe. I feel a little 9 with myself.10is the fisherman in the family? My wife or I?

    It was in autumn. A woman was ill. She 1 in the hospital. Her husband died ten years ago. She had no sons 2 daughters. Nobody 3 her. She felt very 4 .There was a tree outside her room. She saw the leaves fall down. Day after day, there were fewer and fewer leaves 5 the tree. The woman was very sad. She didn't want to eat or drink. She became worse day by day. She got a strong feeling of death. One day, she said, "When the last leaf falls down, I 6 die."

    An old artist knew that. He decided 7 this woman. One night, all yellow leaves fell down. The artist painted a green and yellow leaf and then put it in the tree. The next morning, 8 the woman looked out of the window and saw the last leaf, she was filled with 9. She wanted to be alive. She didn't want to fall down like 10 leaves. From then on，she became better and better and lived well.

    Don't give up your hope at any time.

    There was once a lonely（孤独的） girl 1 wanted love very much. One day while she was walking in the forests, she found two 2birds. She took them home and put them in a small3. She was happy to have two "friends". She4them with love and the birds grew strong. One day the girl5to leave the door of the cage open. The larger and the 6of the two flew out of the cage. The girl was afraid that it 7 away. She caught it quickly. She felt glad that she caught the bird before it could fly away. Suddenly she couldn't8 a sound from the bird. When she opened her hand, the bird was already dead. Her9 killed the bird! Then she noticed 10bird jumping up and down11 the cage. She could feel its great need for freedom（自由）. It wanted to fly into the clear, blue12. So she lifted it from the cage and let it fly away highly. The bird circled once, twice, and three times. The girl 13 as the bird flew. She didn't care about14the bird any more. She wanted it to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the15 song she had ever heard.

    The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tightly, and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Today is Grandma's 85th birthday.

"I'm giving her a photo," says Brian."I took it with my new camera (照相机). {#blank#}1{#/blank#}" he asks his brother Joey.

"I don't know." says Joey."I don't have a camera. So I can't take a picture."

{#blank#}2{#/blank#}His mom is busy making something." Mom, what are you going to give Grandma?"

"{#blank#}3{#/blank#}" says Joey's mom.

"I can't make cakes. I don't know how." says Joey.

Joey goes to the living room. His dad is sewing (缝) a blanket(毯子)."{#blank#}4{#/blank#}" Dad said.

Joey then goes and sits next to Grandma on the sofa." Everyone has a gift for you, but not me. I can't take a photo, make a cake or sew. I don't have anything to give you." says Joey.

Grandma put her arm around Joey." {#blank#}5{#/blank#} That's what you can give me," says Grandma.

Joey smiles." Happy Birthday," he says.