"I agree," said the writer, " you've done a great favour(恩惠) for me and if I'm not ungrateful for your kindness, I'll damage(损坏) my life to you."
    With these words he handed the doctor two copies of The Life of Richard Savage.
    The doctor took the books home and began to8 them carefully.
    "I see I've  9 the life of a great writer," the doctor said to himself with a sense of pride,  Maybe this is the only thing I could be really   10of in my life."
    Five years later Savage called on the doctor to pay his bill, only to find that the doctor had already passed away .

    Maxime and Lise are a young French couple. They are ready to travel across China from Beijing to Yunnan Province on a tandem bicycle (双人自行车). They have two main purposes and one of them is that they want to encourage green 1 through it.

    Maxime, 26, works helping farmers raise their cows, 2his wife Lise, 26, is a teacher. The two also like sharing their travel stores on Facebook.

    We chose a tandem bicycle because it makes it 3 to communicate with each other about interesting people and things we come across during the journey. 4, bicycling is healthier. And it's a cheaper and more environment-friendly way of traveling than 5 cars, motors and so on, “the couple said.

    As for the other 6of their journey, the two said they wanted to get people's good ideas on topics such as health, econnmy (经济) and politics. When they were asked 7they chose to visit China, they said it was because they often talked about its long history and beauty and how much of the country is competitive (有竞争力的) in the world.

    We know China is a country with a large population and will be the 8 of the economy around the world in the future. We want to get a better understanding of the country and its people. We 9the country,” they said.

    The couple will be on the journey to China soon. We hope they can make more people further 10 China by shairing what they see and hear on the way. Meanwhile. We hope they enjoy their travel in China.

    There is a small river near Peter's house in a village. He loves 1 in it very much, especially in 2summer days. But then his father goes to 3 in a big city and Peter has to go there with his family. Their new house has a garden,4 the garden is very small. Peter is not very 5.

    "Is there a river near 6 house?" he asks his father one morning. "No, there isn't. But there is a big 7 near here. And there's a pool in it. We are going to the park this afternoon," says his father. Peter is happy.

    Peter and his father go to the park in the 8. Peter wants to walk near the pool. But he sees a sign. His father reads it to him "Warning (警告): This pool is 9. And 365 people fell into it." Peter 10 into the pool carefully, and then he says, "I can't see them."

    Billy's favorite color was orange. But he couldn't see what orange looked like.

    A month after he was born, his mother noticed that his1weren't as big as a normal baby's. "Billy would2be able to see. He is blind. "The doctor said. Even so, with the hope to help Billy learn about the world around him, his mother kept 3everything she saw for him.

    Not just through his mother's4, Billy saw with his ears and hands, too. He had perfect hearing. In fact, he could5many things that normal people didn't notice.

    6Billy lived in the dark, he always believed a dream would light up his life. He found that he was7in computer science. So he began to learn it at seven years old. As a young boy, he8going to Sanford University some day. And for years of efforts, he finally achieved his dream.

    Many people wanted to find out the secret of his9. Billy explained, "Just move forward! Don't let any difficulty 10 your dream from coming true."

    You cannot choose what you are given, but you can choose how you make use of it.

    Last October, I told my pupils in Pompton School about my plan. "I'd like you to do jobs to make some 1 ." I said. "Then we'll buy food for someone in need."

    I wanted them to experience that it's 2 to give than to receive. I hoped they could experience a sense of their own ability to make a change.

    Early in Thanksgiving week, the children couldn't wait to 3. Before paying for the turkey and other food we chose in the supermarket, Kristine cried.

    "Flowers!" And the group all ran toward the holiday 4.

    "You can't eat flowers!" I said 5. After all, it was helpful to buy more food.

    "But Mrs. Sherlock," came the loud 6," we want flowers."

    In the middle of the plants, there was a pot of unusually purple mums."7 will like this one," the children agreed.

    8 the address of a poor grandmother who had lived alone for years, we set off. An hour later, we stopped in front of a small house. A thin woman with a 9 face came to meet us.

    As the kids carried all the food in, the old woman oohed and ached—much to her visitors" pleasure. When Amy put the mums on the table, the woman seemed 10. "She's wishing it was a bag of food," I thought.

    11 is your close friend in the woods?" Michael asked.

    The woman brightened. "The birds. They often fly over for food 12 I share my bread with them." She said.

    Then we returned to the car. Through the window we saw her walk past the turkey, straight to the 13. She put her face in them and looked up with a big smile. She was 14 before our eyes!

    In that one short moment, the children had seen for themselves the 15 they owned to make a change. Sometimes a person needed a pot of nice purple flowers on a dark November day.

    The Turners 1 America. They are now 2.

    Beijing, the capital of China. This is their first visit to China. They are going to stay in China 3 three months. They want to visit some big cities like Beijing and Xi'an and old villages like

    Hongcun and Xidi in Anhui. They hope to learn 4.

    Chinese too, because it will make their trip much easier.

    Mr. Turner is 5 good driver. He likes to drive in Beijing, because he can enjoy the beautiful scenery(景色). Mrs. Turner is a school teacher. She 6a school now. 7 daughter is a middle school student. In Beijing, she meets some students. The family 8 a lot of pictures on the Great Wall When they are back to America, they will 9 the pictures to their friends.

    They want 10 to know more about China.