Once there was a father and a son. They were ill-tempered(坏脾气的) and never gave way to  1 .One day the father 2 to ask some friends to dinner in his house. He 3 his son to buy some meat in town. When the son walked towards the town gate, a man was coming from the outside. The gate wasn't 4 enough to let two men in and out at the same time. But neither of 5 would give way to the other. They stood straight face to face inside the gate hour after hour. But the father was worried. “What shall I do? My son hasn't 6  yet. I can't wait any more.” He wanted to know what was the 7 with his son. So he left his friends at home, and went to town 8 his son. “You may first take the 9 home for my friends .Let me 10 here instead.” he said to his son when he knew what had happened.

    In our country we think being modest(谦虚的) is a virtue(美德) and being proud is a bad thing. One day, I heard an American boy say to a Chinese student, “You speak very good English.” But the girl answered, “No, no. My English is very poor.” The foreigner was quite 1 at the answer. Thinking he had not made himself understood or the girl had not heard him 2. He said, “Yes, indeed, you speak very well.” 3 the girl still kept saying, “No.” In the end the American boy could not understand and didn't know 4 to say.

    What's wrong with the girl's answer? She didn't 5 a compliment(恭维) in the same way as the American people do. She should answer “Thank you” instead of “No”. She 6 understood what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the 7, people will feel 8 and confident when they are praised. So if someone says the 9 you have cooked are very delicious, you should say, “Thank you”.

    If you are modest and say, “No, I'm 10 I can't do it well”, while working in a western country, people may think that you really can not do it. If you often say, “No”, you'll certainly be looked down upon by 11. When asking 12 a job, if one says something like, “Yes, I can certainly do it” instead of “Let me have a try”, he or she will 13 get it. So in the west, you should be brave to show your self-confidence. In my opinion, being confident does not 14 being proud, so sometimes you should be confident 15 being modest.

    Mary is an English1.She is six years old.2mother takes her to school in the3and brings her home in the afternoon. She likes her4school a lot. She likes her teachers, 5.

    One day, she says to her6, "Mom, we have a new girl in our class today. Her name is Kim. She's7years old, too. She's very nice, but she 8English. She is Australian".

    "Does she talk 9English?"

    "No,10she laughs in English." Mary says happily.

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    King Hiero asked a crown-maker to make him a gold crown, 1when the king got the crown, he asked himself, "Is the crown made completely 2gold?"

    Then the king 3 the crown to Archimedes, the 4 scientist in the kingdom. Archimedes thought about the problem  5a slave poured some water into a bath for him. Archimedes got in the bath and some water came out of it, 6the floor.

    "That's it" shouted Archimedes. "Some of the water will move out when we put an object in water. The object displaces the water. A big object will displace a lot of water. A small object will displace only a little water. "Archimedes was very 7 .

    Archimedes went to the palace to 8 the crown. It weighed only one kilogram. He put the crown in a pot of water. Five centimetres of water came out. Then he put one kilogram of gold in another pot of water. Three centimetres of water came out. Archimedes said to King Hiero, "Silver made the crown bigger. The crown displaced9 water so it was not made completely of gold. It was made of both gold and silver. "

    King Hiero became very 10 when he heard this, and then he sent the crown-maker to prison.

    For Pineda, it was a long way to succeed.

    His story began in El Salvador; where he was born with something wrong with his mouth. He had great 1 in speaking. At age 2, his family's house burned down. Pineda was hurt  2, and his legs needed to be cut. His mother died when he was 8, and he3years on the streets before he was taken in by an orphanage(孤儿院).

    Finally, at the orphanage, Pineda began to receive support and encouragement. He taught himself to play the guitar. He began his4with other musicians. Then the group went to Chicago, where Pineda, then 18, 5the attention of many people, who wondered what they could do to help him.

    A hospital offered him free medical care. A rich man agreed to6for Pineda's tickets to and from El Salvador.

    When he was in the hospital, Pineda began7music, and wondered if he might be able to record his own album(音乐专辑).Soon with the help of a musician, "The Sound of Gratitude(感激)" was born. On October 15^th, Pineda went to a Chicago club to8his new songs to strangers, and to the friends who had helped him come so far,

    It was 9that Pineda had come into such a good luck, after having so many years of hardship(艰难). "We have a 10 in El Salvador, 'Suffer(受难）first, then enjoy.' I guess that's what's happening. " he said.