Do you often help the people who are in need?

One day, two boys were walking along the road to school when they saw an old woman carrying a large basket of pears. The old woman looked very tired. They went up and said, “Are you going to town? If you are, we'll help you carry your basket.”

“Thank you,” said the woman. “That's very kind of you.” Then she told them that she was going to the market to sell the pears. So the boys decided to lift the basket together. They walked slowly with the heavy basket, but they were happy.

 The other day, I saw a little girl pick up a piece of banana peel(水果皮). She threw it into the dustbin(垃圾箱). “I  hope nobody would throw that on the street,”she said. “Someone may slip (滑倒) and fall.”

Perhaps some people may say that these are not great things. That's right. But almost all great things are made up of such small things. We shouldn't wait for the time to do great things. We should begin with these things that are full of love.

A.This electric（电子的） product can make you cool during hot days. It can help you change the temperature and control the huimdity(湿度).

B. This can help you wash your dirty clothes and dry them. You just need to turn it on and later hang the clothes on the line.

C. You can do many things with this product, such as sending e-mails, playing games, getting on line and listening to music.

D. Each family needs it to keep meat, vegetables, fruits and drinks cool and fresh on hot days.

E. It is a very helpful product which tells you the time. It can wake you up at any time you want.

F. When you wash your hair, you need this product to make wet hair dry right away.

Match the information according to what you read.

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Bob likes listening to music when he is free. And he has to send e-mails to his customers(顾客）every day. He wants to buy something that can help him.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} 

Summer has come. Peter is heavy and he can't sleep well on such hot days. He'd like to buy something to make him feel cool.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}

Jenny often washes her hair late at night. It is often wet when she goes to bed. She needs to buy something to dry her hair.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} 

Mrs. Brown is a housewife. She has so many chores to do. She has to wash clothes for her family every day, so she needs a product to do it for her.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} 

    You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem, but it was more of a problem in the days before a dictionary. In those days people spelt words in different ways which you might find interesting. But it made reading English much more difficult. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn't made until the time of the Qing Dynasty.

    The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short. The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary.

    Murray had not been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one metre underground. In winter he had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o'clock and worked several hours before breakfast. Often he would work by candle light into the evening.

    Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter A! Then others went to work with Murray, and his two daughters were among them. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished it. It had more than 15,000 words in twelve books. And you thought your English dictionary was big!

{#blank#}1{#/blank#}On that day, I learned how to make zongzi from my mother. And I watched the boat races on TV.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#}On that day, I got some lucky money from my parents and wore new clothes to visit relatives. And we said "Happy new year" to each other.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}On that day, I sent my mom a card and some flowers. I said to her, I love you

{#blank#}4{#/blank#}On that day, we had a big dinner. Then we sat around the beautiful Christmas tree in the living room and sang songs happily

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}That night, all my family went out to enjoy the bright full moon. We also ate some moon cakes and fruit.

A. the Mid-autumn Festival

    It is a time for family members to get together. And it is also a time to enoy the beauty of the full moon.

B. Dragon Boat Festival

    It is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. Eating zongzi and having dragon boat races are very important customs of this festival.

C. The Spring Festival

    It starts on the first day of the first unary month. On the Spring Festival morning, people usually visit relatives. Older people give lucky money to children

D. Thanksgiving Day

    It is a time to give thanks for food in the autumn. Turkey is always the most important food in this festival.

E. Mother's Day

    Mother s Day in the United States is on the second Sunday of May. It is a time to show mothers our love

F. April Fool's Day

    April 1 is not a national holiday, but it is celebrated in man counties. On this day, practical jokes are played on friends and family.

G. Christmas Day

    At Christmas, family members get together to eat Christmas dinner. Parents always give children gifts. The Christmas tree is a symbol of Christmas Day

    The villas(别墅)were very nice. Beautiful houses, wonderful lawns, and nice gardens. This was the kind of housing estate where John Wood preferred to work.

    It was just before eleven o'clock at night. After John drove around for the fifth time, he thought that he had found the right house-No. 4. There was no light and the garage(车库)door was open. John parked his car in the next street and then came into the garage.

    No one would think that a well-dressed gentleman with a white silk scarf and gloves, was really an excellent thief.

    After looking around the house for a while, John got down to work. He searched every room, and before long, his hands were full. He had two necklaces, some gold rings and a purse with a lot of money. He put all the things in his pocket.

    Then he found a small wall safe(保险箱)in the bedroom. John couldn't wait to take the valuable things from the safe and put them into his own pocket！But the thief met a problem; he couldn't open the safe.

    John wiped a few drops of sweat from his forehead, took off his gloves, and placed them on a chair. Again and again, and finally, he opened the safe. He saw something shining-a huge diamond.

    Suddenly, John heard someone opening the front door. It was the owner of the house. John put the diamond in his pocket, ran to the window, climbed out of the house and drove away in the dark.

    Ten minutes later, the police arrived. After searching the house. the police found an important piece of evidence(证据)that could easily tell who was the thief.

    Do you know what the piece of evidence was?