Madan was able to make clothes. And he was famous for the clothes. The people in the whole town wanted the clothes. One night, Madan said, "I am sure I can 1 a dress for the moon. I will be famous on the moon too."

    The wind carried his 2 to the coconut(椰子) tree. The tree said, "You can't do one thing."

    The coconut tree 3 to say something more, but Madan would not 4.

    Madan made a dress for the moon. He called out to the coconut tree, "You must give this dress to the moon, because I cannot 5 her." The coconut tree agreed.    Soon the coconut tree said, "The moon 6 your dress is too big."

    Madan was 7, but the moon really returned the dress to him. So he had to redo(重做) it. He spent the night making the dress a little 8 and gave it back to the tree. But the moon gave it back to him 9.

    "I tried to tell you about it before," said the tree. "After the moon is full, she grows smaller each day until you can't 10 her at all. So how can you make one dress that would fit the moon?"

    When Jane was a little girl, she liked keeping pets. She had many books about animals and there were many pictures and stamps on the walls of her bedroom. She often said that she would work in a 1 when she grew up.

    Most of Jane's pets were quite small — parrots, cats, dogs and so on. But one day she met something quite 2 .

    That afternoon, Jane's mother was surprised to see a big animal with long hair in the kitchen. He 3  a T-shirt and was sitting on a chair, trying to put on a pair of glasses and making faces at her. In front of him, on the table, were a basket of fruits and a glass of water. “Jane, where are you?” the mother shouted. Then suddenly she remembered that a few days before a young gorilla (大猩猩) called Gor had run away from the zoo.

    “I found him in the city square,” Jane said. “He seemed so lonely. I talked to him. We became friends at once and he followed me 4 .”

    “Well, you know you 5  keep him,” her mother said. “You must send him back to the zoo. You'd better phone the police.”

    Soon a 6  came and also a truck from the zoo. 7  was angry with Jane when she told her story. The policeman knew Jane loved animals. And the zookeeper said, “Thank you for your kindness (好意). I can see Gor likes you, 8  we need him back.” Jane agreed. She hugged Gor and said that she would go and see him 9 .

    These days Jane has stopped collecting 10 , but you can still find her with her friend Gor at the zoo on Saturdays and Sundays!

    Paul is the owner(所有者)of the bookstore called Bookends. He 1 the bookstore four years ago. This year, because of his illness, Paul thought it was time for him to 2running the bookstore. If Paul sold the 3 to someone, he would get $39,000. 4Paul was not going to do that. He wanted to 5 it to someone.

    "I think it's better to see someone make their dream of 6 a bookstore come true," Paul said.

    Paul had a raffle(抽奖 )in his store. Over the last three months. If people 7more than $26 at the bookstore, they were able to take part in the raffle to win the bookstore.

    8Van from the Netherlands won the bookstore.

    "Van often visits my bookshop. I'm9 to know it was him —he wants to have it." Paul said.

Van now lives in Lammas, Wales. He plans to run the shop with a friend from Iceland.

    "It is such an amazing thing for10. We are sure to bring the store a bright future," Van said.

    "Come here, boys and girls! Story time," says Ms Lee to the class.

Great! The children love 1 very much. They all sit around Ms Lee, and she 2 the story. Then, FatherChristmas (圣诞老人) comes.

    "Excuse me, is Aaron in the 3?" he asks.

    Everyone looks at Aaron. He walks up to Father Christmas and says, "I'm Aaron. Do I 4 you?"

    "Get the beard (胡须) off my face, and you will know me."

    Aaron is very curious (好奇的), 5 he gets the beard off Father Christmas' face. 6 does he see? His father!

    Aaron's father is a soldier (士兵). He 7 goes back home. This year he has a long holiday. He can 8 with his family. It's great. He dresses up 9 Father Christmas and comes to Aaron's school.

    Aaron is 10 to see his father. It's a great Christmas present for him.

    Perhaps not many Chinese people know Wentworth Miller. But it must be1for them to name the character that he2in the TV series Prison Break (《越狱》) — Michael Scofield.

    Miller was born in England, and grew up in New York. He had always wanted to be an actor from a very young age. He said. "As a kid I3every play and musical that my parents would allow me to."

    As a graduate (毕业生) of Princeton University, Miller s stage time during school was4in singing, and he travelled around the world acting with the school's famous group.5Miller loved acting very much, after graduating from his school, he went to Los Angeles to work in a small company. The manager 6him a well-paid job. However, the dream of being an actor made him give up the job at last.

    Within the next few years, Miller worked for many people in the entertainment industry. He learned very fast and paid attention to TV shows. Soon he got the chance to play the character of Michael Scofield in the TV series Prison Break. The TV series was very7and Miller became world-famous.

    My name is Tony. I'm from 1. Now I'm a student of NO.5 Middle School in Beijing. It's easy for me to make friends in China 2Chinese people are friendly. They usually ask me to join（加入） 3for dinner. There are 4people in my family. They are my grandparents, my parents, my sister and I. My father is a 5. He teaches English in my school. My mother is a doctor. It's 20 km from our home to 6. So she goes to work 7bus every morning. My sister is a six-year-old girl. She doesn't come to China. She stays in America with my grandparents. So I 8her very much. She has two dogs. They are smart. They can dance 9. They can play games 10her, too.