King Akbar was in the habit of putting riddles and puzzles to his people. He often asked 1 which were strange. His people had to use words in a 2 way to answer these questions.

    Once Akbar asked a very strange question. He looked at his people. As he looked, one by one the heads began to hang low in search of a(an) 3. It was at this moment that Bribal entered the palace. Birbal  4 the habit of the king. He understood the 5 at once and asked, “May I know the question so that I can 6 for an answer?”

    Akbar said, “How many crows(乌鸦)are there in the city?”

    Without even a moment's thought, Birbal 7, “There are fifty thousand five hundred and eighty nine crows, My Lord. "

    “How can you be so 8?” asked Akbar.

    Birbal said, “Make your men 9, My Lord. If you find more crows it means some have come to visit their relatives here. If you find 10 crows it means some have gone to visit their relatives somewhere else. "

    Akbar was pleased very much by Birbal's wise answer.

    One day, when Bill was walking home from school, he heard a 1 coming from the bushes(灌木). He went over  2 what it was. Behind a bush, he found a black dog. Bill went back home as soon as he could with the dog and 3 her to his parents. Bill's dad found that the dog had 4 leg, so they brought the dog to a doctor for animals 5 car. On the way Bill's parents decided that Bill could 6 the dog if they couldn't find the owner of the dog.

     When they arrived, the doctor checked the dog. He told Bill that she was going to have 7! The next day, Bill 8 signs like "FOUND DOG BACK" around his neighborhood. He also wrote his family's phone number on the signs.

     Two days later, Bill got a/an 9 from the owner of the dog. The owner thanked Bill. When he came to pick up his dog, he said Bill could have one of the babies. Bill was very 10! Finally Bill got a baby dog from the owner. He named him Rosco and liked him very much.

    Hello, everyone.Nice to meet you. It is my 1day (天) in the school. My first name is Jenny. My family 2 is Green. I'm 3Class Two. My phone  4 is 886-3068. There are 5 people (人) in my family, my parents, my two brothers and I. My brothers and I are 6. We are in the same (相同的) school. Look, this is my good friend 7 name is Sally. She is 8English girl. She is in Class 9, too.  10are in the classroom. We are talking happily (快乐交谈).

    One afternoon in June, Maggie was driving back to her house. Her sheepdog, Patches, was sitting in the back with 1 head out of the window to help it cool down. 2, Maggie heard a loud noise and she began to lose control of the car. Then the 3 crashed into a tree.

    Maggie opened her eyes and looked around to 4 that her dog was all right. Then she felt a great pain in her left leg. And she realized that the car was filled with thick black smoke. She pushed the car door open and tried to get out, but her trousers were caught in 5. That's when Patches proved (证明是) to be a 6 dog hero.

    It started biting her trousers until Maggie could pull her leg. Unluckily, that wasn't enough because Maggie 7 couldn't move. Patches grabbed(抓住) her jacket with its teeth and bravely pulled her out of the car. She 8 to the ground, but Patches kept pulling until it made Maggie far away from the car. After a while, the car blew up (爆炸).

    Finally, the emergency services 9 and they took Maggie to a hospital.

Maggie is very proud of Patches. She says that she wouldn't be here today to tell his 10 if there were no her brave dog.

    Tommy was a poor man, so he tried to grow as many 1 as he could in his own garden, 2 he would not have to buy so many in the market.

    One evening he heard a noise in his garden and 3 the window. A white ox had got into the garden and 4 his vegetables. Tommy at once took his stick, 5 and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had ruined(毁坏）most of his precious vegetables.

    6 while he was walking in the street near his house, he saw a cart(马本)7two white oxen which looked very much like the one that 8 his vegetables. He was carrying his stick with him, 9 he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than 10 , he beat both of them equally hard.

    The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a 11 coffee-house. When he saw what Tommy was doing 12 his animals, he ran out and shouted," What are you doing? What have those poor animals done to you 13 you beat them like that? "

    "You keep out this!" Tommy shouted back, "This is a matter 14 me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well 15 I am beating him!"

    My friend, Robert, 1in a butchers shop. He helps the butcher(屠夫) to do some heavy work. He puts meat on the shelf every day. People come into the shop and buy the meat. But today there isn't any meat on the shelf. The butcher asks Robert2some meat onto the shelf.

    Robert runs to get some pieces of meat. They are in another room and they are on the3shelf. Robert is tall, but he still can't reach(达到) the meat. Robert thinks for a minute. He has a good idea. He takes two boxes and puts one on the top of4. Then he stands on them. Now he can reach the pieces of meat5.

    The butcher is very glad to see the meat. And then, people are also happy to get some meat from the butcher's.