There once was a woman. She had a faithful(忠实的)dog. The dog was so faithful that she could leave her baby with the dog when she went out. (A) And after she returned ， she would always find her baby safe.

One day， the woman left the baby with the dog and went shopping. When she returned， she found something had taken place in the house. There were bloodstains(血迹)all over the bedroom. The woman then thought of her baby. She cried and started looking for him. Then she saw the faithful dog. It was licking（舔）its mouth. It seemed that it had just finished a delicious meal. The woman was angry and thought that the dog had killed her baby. Without thinking too much， (B) ________________.

But as she continued looking for her child， she saw something else. Close to the bed， there was her baby and he was sleeping. And under the bed， there was a dead jackal(豺狼). The woman now understood what had happened. The dog tired to protect her baby from the jackal， but just now she killed the dog. How regretful she was!

    My name is Jerry Zhang, and I am a father of two young daughters one is about four years old and the other is only about one. I come from China and now live in the USA.

One day, my older daughter, Madison, told me she didn't want to be Chinese. Those days she was crazy about the book characters Madeline and Eloise. She kept asking me why she was Chinese and they weren't, and how she could have blonde or red hair like them.

    This made me look for books with Asian (亚洲的) characters for Madison to read. However, I only found a few, and they were heavily cultural, and Madison didn't connect (把……联系在一起) herself with any if the characters in them. And she wasn't interested in them at all. Then she told me again that she didn't want to be Chinese, and it broke my heart.

    In most of the books for children in the USA, the characters look like Americans. Few of them have Asian faces, although there are over 17 million Asians and Asian Americans in this country. I think it's important for Asian children to see themselves in books as interesting and smart kids.

    So I created (创作) a book for Madison. Pepper Zhang in the book is an Asian girl. Her imagination (想象) takes her on a trip to creativity and art! I want my children to know-that being Chinese or being Asian is a great thing, too.

    Peter comes from Canada. He speaks English,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Now he's studying Chinese in Beijing. It's sunny and kind of windy today. He visits Beijing Library.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Bob is in Guangzhou. He is from France. He likes Chinese food very much.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}It is sunny today. It's kind of hot. Bob wants to go to Guangzhou Hotel with his friends.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Look, a policeman is helping them.

    Jenny is living in Nanjing. She is Japanese. She thinks Chinese people are friendly. She likes them. It's cloudy today.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}A koala is sleeping in a tree. Some giraffes are eating grass and some birds are singing songs. They are having a good time.

A. He usually eats in restaurants.

B. They are playing in the park.

C. but he likes speaking Chinese very much.

D. Look! He is talking with people there in Chinese now.

E. He is eating dinner in the restaurant.

F. But he doesn't know the way.

G. Jenny and her Chinese friends are watching animals in a zoo.

    About the year 1900, Charlie Chaplin (卓别林) was often seen waiting outside the back entrances of London theaters. He looked neither tall nor short. He was hoping to get work in show business. Luckily, he soon got a chance to act and it was also his first performance on the stage.

    But twenty years later, this same Chaplin became the greatest, best-known comedian (喜剧演员) in the world. Any regular visitor to the cinema must have seen some of Charlie Chaplin's films. People everywhere have laughed at them until tears have run down their faces. Even people who don't understand English can enjoy Chaplin's films because they mostly have no sound. It isn't what he says that makes us laugh. It is based on little actions which mean the same thing to people all over the world.

    Chaplin lived most of his life in America and died in Switzerland on Christmas Day in 1977, at the age of eighty-eight. There was sadness all over the world at the news of his death.

    A teenage boy couldn't stand his parents' family rules, so he left home.

    He didn't find a job, and he had to beg (乞讨) for food on the street for a living. Years later his mother died. Though his father was old, he was still looking for his son. Everywhere he went, he put up a big photo of himself on the wall It said, "I still love you, my dearest son. Please come back home!"

    One day, the son saw one of the photos. The face on the photo was just his father's He moved closer and read the words, "I still love you. Tears ran down his face He made up his mind to go back to see his parents.

    It was an early morning when he got home. He knocked on the door. Nobody answered, but the door opened itself He rushed to his father's bedroom. "It's me! Your son is back home!" They held each other happily. "Why is the door unlocked? A thief could get in." The father answered in a soft voice, "The door has never been locked since you left. I'm always waiting for you."

    The door of parents' love for their children will never be closed.