Helen is a student. She usually gets up at 6:00 in the morning. Then she has 1 at 7:00. She goes to school2about 7:30. She is never late for(从不迟到) school. Helen is a clever girl,3 she doesn't have any friends.

    One morning, on her way to school, she 4 a yellow cat. She thinks,“The cat can't find 5way home.” So she 6 it to the zoo.

    Then she hurries(急忙) to 7 but she is late. All the students and her8 look at her. Her face looks red.

    After(在……之后)class, her teacher says to the students.“ Helen is a 9 girl. She finds a cat and takes it to the10”Now all her classmates like her.

    Christmas was coming and ten-year-old Tracy told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her bike was too 1, and it needed repairing as well. As Christmas 2,  her dream for a bike seemed to disappear(消失), we thought, for she didn't say it again. We were busy3 some beautiful story books, a doll house, a holiday dress and toys. Then to our surprise, on December 24, she said she really wanted a bike more than 4.

    Now we didn't know 5 to do. It was just too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing 6 presents, parents'presents, a brother's present and friends' presents till midnight. So there was 7 time to take to buy the "right bike" for our little girl. Thinking we were parents who would make their child unhappy, we felt sorry and 8 .

    Suddenly my husband had an idea. "What about making a little bike with clay (黏土) and writing a note that she could trade in (交换) the model bike for a real one?" So he spent the next five hours carefully 9 with clay to make a small bike.

10 Christmas morning, we were so excited for Tracy to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. She opened and read the 11 loudly. She looked at me and said, "So, does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real 12?" Smiling, I said, "Yes!" Tracy had tears in her e yes when she replied, ‘I would 13 trade in this beautiful bike Daddy made me. I 14 keep it than get a real bike. This is the best Christmas present 15 I have ever got in my life!"

    No visitor was left in the museum now, and John was walking around to check if everything was all right.1 he saw a beautiful painting lying on the floor. John2 and gave it to the curator (馆长). The curator called several museums to check if it was a stolen painting3no one claimed(认领) it. So the curator decided to hang it.4said it was beautiful and had a very deep meaning. The curator was5to have such a painting in his museum and congratulated John on his discovery. Some weeks later a woman and her 6came to the museum. While they were looking at that painting, the little boy began to7. The curator went over and asked what was making him so sad. The child pointed to 8and said, "That's my painting and I want it back."

    "Yes," said his mother. "He 9it on the floor a few weeks ago. If you look carefully, you can see the name on the painting. " The curator 10believe his ears when he heard the truth.

    Mr. Brown was very fat and he didn't feel well. Mrs. Brown was1about his weight (体重).

    "You must see a doctor," she said, "and ask him how to2weight. It's not good3your health." "OK." Mr. Brown said, and then he went to see the doctor.

    The doctor looked him over, then he said, "Nothing serious, you are too heavy. You must lose430 kilos. Eat only fruit and vegetables and run five kilometers a day for the next5days, then call and tell me how6you are."

    Mr. Brown went home and did7the doctor told him. One hundred days8, he called the doctor.

    "Mr. Brown here, doctor," he said. "I'm calling to tell you about my weight. You will be9to know that I lost 30 kilos."

    "Great!" The doctor said. "Yes, but there's another10," Mr. Brown said. "I'm 500 kilometers from home!"

    There was once a young man who began to feel self-satisfied after some small achievements.

    One day, the young man took a walk with a 1 man from the town. On the way the young man was bragging(吹嘘) about himself, 2 the wise man didn't say a word. When they3 a peak(山峰), the wise man asked, "Look down. What do you see?"

    "I see trees, houses and people as 4 as ants working in the fields," the young man said.

    "What do you feel?" the wise man asked.

    "Everything is 5 me. I feel I rule the world," the young man answered.

    The wise man said nothing. After a minute, he asked the young man to look 6 "What do you see this time?" the wise man asked.

    "I see 7flying around high mountains, the white clouds on the mountains and the blue sky above the white clouds," the young man answered.

Then he asked the wise man's 8.

    "I feel small and powerless," the wise man answered. "A person who knows to look upward can 9 understand his position(位置). When a person knows the blue sky is always overhead, he won't be so luck as to believe he rules the world."

    The young man felt foolish for his pride. From then on, he looked up at the sky and remembered 10 small he really was.

    Try to look upward when you feel too good about yourself.