Fred is a bus driver. He always drives the number 14 bus. Fred's bus goes 1the shopping mall on High Street to the park on Queen Street, then 2to the shopping mall. Fred3work at six o' clock every morning.4 bus leaves the shopping mall at ten past six. Fred is sometimes5 to work. When he is early, he sits in his bus and6the newspaper until it's time to go. Fred always stops for 7on the bus because he has to finish work at three o'clock in the afternoon. He doesn't go home by bus. He 8 ! He thinks it's really good for his health. Fred loved his 9 because he can meet different people every day. And he is very10. So the people who travel on Fred's bus like Fred very much.

    Do you celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival? Do you remember the story ? How did this festival1?

    Long ago, our earth had ten suns. It was too2 for plants to grow, so everyone was poor and hungry.

    Hou Yi climbed to the3 mountain and shot down nine 4 He was a hero! As a reward, the God gave him a special medicine, and it can make him5forever. To keep the6safe, Hou Yi7it to his beautiful wife, Chang'e.

    One day Hou Yi was away. One of his followers, Peng Meng, tried to make Chang'e give him the medicine. Instead, Chang'e had to take it herself, and suddenly she8 up to the moon.

    When Hou Yi returned, he found Chang'e had gone and he missed her. Then he saw 9.It was very bright. A shadow on it looked just like 10.

    He set a table in the garden, with fruits and food for Chang'e.

    Now people still do the same at Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Secret Soldier

    A young soldier, Robert Shurtliff, lay dying in a hospital bed. He was too 1to speak or move. Two men stood over him.

    "I think this young man has 2 ," one man said.

    "I'll take his jacket and boots," said the other.

    Robert gathered all of his strength to 3 , "I…I'm alive. "

    The doctor came running over as Robert fell into a coma（昏迷）. "We can 4 him," he said as he examined the young soldier, "Oh, my! He's a 5! "

    It was true. The young soldier, Robert Shurtliff, was really Deborah Sampson. 6who was she？

    Deborah Sampson had grown up in Massachusetts, living as a servant. She 7of having great adventures (冒险). 8 the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, women were not allowed to serve in the army. But Deborah 9 herself as a man and became a solider. She called herself Robert Shurtliff.

    One day, during an attack, Deborah was shot in the neck and10. Another soldier lifted Deborah into his horse and rode her to the 11. A doctor treated the wound on her back and asked if 12 had any other injuries. Deborah lied and said no. She was afraid that if the doctor examined her leg, he would discover her 13. Using a pocket knife, Deborah got the bullet（子弹）out of her own leg. She 14 to fight as a soldier.

    After the war ended, Deborah got married and had children. But she still longed for 15. So she put on her soldier's uniform and travelled around the country telling of her life as young, brave soldier, Robert Shurtliff.

    A small "shop" by the road in Japan has a dog "shopkeeper". It's selling roasted(烤的)Sweet 1there.

    The friendly dog is 2 Kenkun. Because the shop is a self—service one, what the dog should do is just to be cute for customers and he does well3that. The roasted sweet potatoes are kept in a heated "box" outside the shop. So customers can help4directly They need to5100 yen(日元)into the money box for each potato they take. It seems to be working fine now. 6, who would steal a dog? Actually, the three-year-old dog is a good "shopkeeper. It's 7cute and lovely that some of the customers come to see him and of course, they will leave with 8 one or two potatoes.

    People online have different opinions about this. Some of them think that's interesting and they say the dog is the 9 one they've ever seen. But others think it's crazy to keep a dog 10 near a "box" for several hours a day. In their opinion, dogs should run and play hers and there in the sun.