Bert Manson, 82, slowly opened his eyes and turned to face the clock on the bedside table. It was 8:23 a.m. He felt 1. The time was nothing to him. He had nothing to do all day. He lay on the bed, 2 to the cars on the highway and the shouts of the children running to school.

After a while, Bert3 got out of bed and asked himself the same questions as he did every morning: Would he fall today? If so, would anyone come? How long would he 4? Would he die? He looked out of the window into the street below. “And who would 5?”he spoke quietly.

After Bert's wife died a year ago, his son and daughter said they would visit once a week. But the last time was months ago. On the phone, they always had a(n) 6: too busy at work; the children are 7; bad weather; no time. Nobody seemed to have any time…except for Bert. He8 his granddaughters. He loved it when Mandy and Ruth came to visit. They brought him candy and 9.

He walked toa chair near the bedroom door 10. He rested for a moment before continuing in small steps to the bathroom.

    Mr Jackson began his trip last Saturday. Two days later when he was travelling in the country 1 , he saw a dog behind a man. As the car came near them, the dog suddenly started to2 the road. Of course the car hit the poor animal and killed it.

    Mr Jackson 3his car and walked to the man. "I'm very 4 that this happened," he said. "How much shall l 5? Will ten dollars be enough?"

    "Oh, yes," said the man, "ten dollars will be 6 enough." Mr Jackson put his hand into his pocket, but he only 7 five dollars in the pocket. "Sorry, sir, I've only8five dollars," said Mr Jackson.

    "No problem. That's enough," the fat man replied. "Thanks a lot. That's very kind of you." Mr Jackson thanked the fat man and 9 away.

    When the car went away, the fat mart looked down at the dog and thought, "I want to know 10 dog it is."

    My family came to America from China many years ago. I was born in Oakland in 1989. Many young Chinese Americans don't learn much1because our parents2us to learn English very well.

    Chinese is a difficult language. If we don't speak it3, it's easy to forget. Writing is hard, too. We have to remember lots of words and thousands of characters (汉字). In English, there are only 26 4.

    At home, I5English with my family. But now, we speak some Cantonese (广东话) because we watch films 6 that language.

    My mom has come to love F4, a Chinese boy band (组合). They are in the film Meteor Garden (《流星花园》). We all7the TV series, and we learn Cantonese8 saying some funny words from the TV series to each other.

    It's fun to speak Cantonese with my Chinese friends. It 9funny because we can't say the words just right.

    Young Chinese Americans know that our culture (文化) is getting lost, so we try to10something.

    Mr. Robinson had to travel somewhere on business, and as he was in a hurry, he decided to go by1. He liked sitting2a window when he was flying, so he got onto the plane and looked for a window seat. He3all of them taken except one. There was a young man4beside it, and Robinson was surprised that he had not taken the one by the window. Anyhow, he went towards it.

    When he5it, however, he saw that there was a notice on it, written6large letters, 7"This seat is kept for proper balance. Thank you. "Mr. Robinson had never seen such a notice before, but he thought the plane must be carrying 8 particularly heavy in its room which made it necessary to have the passengers properly balance. So he walked on and found9empty seat, not beside the window10.

    Two or three other people11to sit in the window seat next to the young man, but they also read the notice and went on. Then when the plane was nearly12a very beautiful girl13into the plane. The young man, who was watching the passengers coming in, 14took the notice15the seat beside him, and by this means succeeded in having a pretty companion during the whole trip.

    One day Tony was crossing the road when he was hit by a car. He fell and broke his arm. An ambulance soon 1 and took Tony to a hospital. There a doctor operated 2 his arm. Then he put the arm in a cast(石膏铸件). Tony couldn't move it at all. "You must keep your arm in a cast for six weeks, "the doctor said. At the end of six weeks Tony went back to the hospital. The doctor cut the cast 3 . Then he took Tony's arm out of the cast. " Can you move your arm, Tony? "he asked.

    Tony tried to move his arm. At first it was difficult, but soon he could move it  4 . "Yes, it's fine, "he said. " Thank you very much. "" 5 a few days it will be as good as new, "the doctor said. " Just exercise it a little. "

    "will 1 be able to play the guitar(吉他)? "Tony asked.

    The doctor smiled. "Of course you will, "he said. "You'll have no 6 . ""That is good news, "Tony said. "Because I couldn't play it at all before. "

It's Sunday afternoon and the weather is sunny and hot, My friends and I are in a large and beautiful park. We' re having a good time. 

Jack and Tom are swinging. Steve, Alice, John and Tim are playing hide-and-seek (捉迷藏). Rose, Mary and Lisa are skipping (跳绳). They re good at skipping. Susan is reading a book. Tina and Kate are chasing after my pet dog. They 're running around happily. 

We can see a lot of people in the park. Some are running and some are walking slowly. Look!

A boy and a girl are drawing pictures. Their parents are sitting next to them. They' re talking about something. 

Everyone is having a good time in the park. The park is a great place to have fun.