Gary and Gavin were twin brothers who worked in a store owned by their father. After the father had passed away, they took over the store. Everything went well until the day a twenty-dollar bill disappeared. Gary had left the bill on the cash register (收银台). But when he returned, the money was gone.

    Gary then asked his brother Gavin, "Did you see that twenty-dollar bill on the cash register?' Gavin said that he had not. But Gary did not let it go and kept asking. "Twenty-dollar bills can't walk away by themselves! Surely you must have seen it." "I said I didn't see it!" Gavin replied with anger.

   The quarrel divided the young men and they could no longer work together. Later, a wall was built in the center of the store. For twenty years, hostility (敌意) never ended.

    One day, a strange man came to the store. He walked in and asked Gary, "How long have you been here?" Gary replied that he'd been there all his life. "Then you are the person I'm looking for," the man said. "Twenty years ago, I was totally broke and hungry. I entered this store from the back door and saw a twenty-dollar bill on the cash register. And I took it. All these years I haven't been able to forget that. I had to come back and apologize for that.

    The stranger felt shocked when seeing tears well up in the eyes of the middle-aged man in front of him. "Would you please go next door and tell the same story to the man in the store?" Gary asked. Then something surprised the stranger even more--after hearing his story, the two middle-aged men hugged each other and cried together in the front of the wall of the store.

    After twenty years, the wall that separated them finally came down.

I'm Mrs Green. This summer holiday, I went to London with my husband and our son Sam. We first spent four days visiting some famous places, such as the London Eye and Buckingham Palace. On the fifth day, I was a bit tired and just wanted to stay at the hotel. But Sam didn't want to. He would like to visit the HMS Belfast, a famous warship(战舰)that joined the Second World War(战争). It is on the River Thames as a museum for people to visit now. It is very famous and Sam read about it in a magazine. Well, boys always love these things, so I promised to go with him. 

We took the underground and it took us about twenty minutes to get to the River Thames from our hotel. After walking another ten minutes we finally saw the HMS Belfast. An adult ticket was £ 24. 5 and my husband bought two. Sam was only 13 years old, so his ticket was half price. The HMS Belfast was really large. Sam was interested in everything on it and took lots of photos. He said it was his favourite place on his trip to London. 

In 1826, a Frenchman named Nieple needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.

The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. The kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype. Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all over the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains.

In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard.

Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were life like. 

Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed the author's ideas and feelings, like other kinds of art.

Gina and Jane are good friends. They are in the same school. They go to school five days a week. They have four classes in the morning and three in the afternoon every day. After school, they often play games. They go home at 6: 00 p. m. 

The two girls' mothers are also good friends. Gina often goes to Jane's home on Saturday. They read books in the morning, play the piano in the afternoon, and watch TV in the evening. 

Jane has a great collection of picture books. Gina likes these books. She can also take some books home. 

The two girls also like eating some fruits. They like bananas, strawberries and oranges, but they don't like eating grapes. Gina's mother can make great fruit salad. She usually lets Gina take some to Jane. Jane loves the food because it is very delicious. What good friends they are!

Alice comes from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. 1 parents work in a troupe of Yue opera(越剧团) there. As a kid, she 2 went to the troupe. There she could see many kinds of Chinese 3 , like the erhu, the pipa and the yueqin. Alice liked their sounds. Each of them sounds 4 and unique(独一无二的). 

At that time, Alice didn't like Yue opera, 5 she showed great interest in the yueqin. Her mum 6 the yueqi n in the troupe. She also has such an instrument 7 . One day, when Alice saw the yueqin in her mum's room, an idea 8 her:"I could learn to play it 9 my mum. " From then on, her mum became her teacher. After much 10 and hard work, Alice could play a piece of music. That also made her believe one thing: No pain, no 11 . 

Now Alice is a junior high student. She plans to 12 the music band. There is no yueqin in the 13 but she can play the guitar there. Well, Alice is also good at playing the 14 . Do you know 15 ? That's because there are some similarities(相似点) between the two instruments.