Once upon a time there was a baby eagle（鹰）living in a nest on a cliff（悬崖）. The baby eagle liked the nest. It was the only world he had ever known. It was warm and comfortable. Many times each day the mother would swoop down from the sky and land in the nest and feed the baby eagle delicious food. She was like a god to him he had no idea where she came from or how she worked her magic.

    The baby eagle was hungry all the time, but the mother eagle would always come just in time with the food. The baby eagle grew strong. The mother wanted him to try flying and getting the food out of the nest. But the baby eagle was afraid to do it. The mother eagle flew away and stopped coming to the nest. The baby eagle cried and cried. But there was no one there to hear him. Two days later, the mother eagle appeared at the top of the mountain cliff with a big bowl of delicious food and she looked down at her baby.

    The mother said, “Here is some very delicious food, all you have to do is come to get it.”

   “Come to get it!” said the baby, with much anger. “How?”

    The mother pushed him out of the nest. The ground rushed closer, faster and faster. Something strange happens. He looked down and saw the sky. He wasn't moving towards the ground anymore, his eyes were pointed up at the sun.

   “Hug?” he said. “What's going on here!”

   “ You're flying,” his mother said.

   “This is fun!” laughed the baby eagle.

    Once a rich woman invited Martin Brown, a famous singer to sing for her friends. But she 1 him to have dinner with them. She told him to eat 2 the servants(仆人).

After the meal Martin stood up and said to the servants, "Now, my good friends, I 3 for you." He sang several songs and the servants 4 quite pleased.

Then the rich woman asked 5 to come to the sitting-room. "We are waiting for your songs. 6 you ready?" the woman asked.

"I am 7," Martin said. "I have sung already(已经). I usually sing 8 in one evening, and I can't sing 9."

And with a polite(礼貌) "10", he left the rich woman's house.

    Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. As a child he was slow to talk. But when he was 14 years old, he became clever. He taught himself maths from text books. He studied hard because he wanted to be a physicist (物理学家).

    In 1901, Einstein began teaching. In 1902, he went on with his study at the University of Zurich. Several years later, he put forward (提出)his Theory of Relativity(相对论).

    To most people the Theory of Relativity is hard to explain. But once Einstein explained it very well to a group of young students. He said:" When you sit with a good girl for two hours, you think it is only a minute, But when you sit on a hot fire for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity".

    Later Einstein went to America and never left there. His life ended at the age of 76.

    Hans said to his friend Kurt, "I'm going to take my car and drive to London." Kurt said," Driving to London is very difficult. You aren't going to find your hotel." But Hans was not afraid. He drove to Calais, put his car on his ship, took it off at Dover and drove to London.

    He stopped near the city and looked at his map. Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel. He drove round and round for an hour, and then he stopped and got out of his car. A taxi came, and Hans stopped it. "Take me to the Brussels Hotel." he said. But he didn't get into the taxi; he got back into his car. The taxi man laughed, but then he drove to the Brussels Hotel and Hans followed him in his car. They got to the hotel in two minutes.

    It's Sunday today. The weather(天气) is fine. Tom doesn't need to go to school. He takes the No. 24 bus to Wanda Cinema(电影院). An old man gets on the bus at the Xihu Park Stop. Tom stands up and says to the old man, "Come and sit here, please!" The old man goes over and sits down. He says, "Thank you very much, my boy. You are a good student." "You're welcome." says Tom.

    "Which school are you in?" the old man asks Tom.

    "I am in No. 16 Middle School." answers Tom.

    "No. 16 Middle School? I graduated(毕业) from this school 50 years ago(以前)." says the old man.

    "We are alumni." says Tom. Then they begin to talk about No. 16 Middle School.