A long time ago，there was a king in India．The king's 1 game was chess．

    One day，a wise old man 2 to the palace and the king challenged him to 3 game．The king promised the old man．"You can4 any prize if you win the game．"

    The old man5 ， "If I win the game，I'd like one grain of6for the first square of the chessboard，two for the second，four for the 7 ， and then double the amount for each of the 8of the squares．"

    "Is that all？"asked the king，"Wouldn't you like gold or silver9？"

    "No，just rice．"replied the old man．

    The king and the old man played the game 10  a long time．Finally，the old man won．11  the king ordered his men to collect a bag of rice．He12  one grain on the first square，two on the second，and so on．The king quickly realized the13—even with all the rice in the country，he would14  not have enough rice to put on all the 15 ．

The Shirt of a Happy Man

    Once upon a time, in a rich and beautiful country, there lived an unhappy king. He slept 1and didn't feel like eating. The queen and his people worried about him very much. One day, a doctor was called in to examine the king. But he couldn't find 2 with his body. It was all in his mind. He said the king needed the shirt of a happy person to wear. Then the prime minister, the king's banker and the palace singer were called to the palace. But they all had3worries. They weren't happy, either. The prime minister thought many people were trying to 4, then he would lose his power. The banker was afraid 5 his money. The singer said he couldn't get freedom because he always worried about being followed by 6.

    7, the king's top general was told to go out and find a happy man in three days' time.

    Two days passed, the general still couldn't find a happy man. Everyone had their own problems, Just as he was about to give up, he saw a poor man8happily on the street. The general didn't understand why the poor man was so happy, though he seemed to have 9 power, money or fame. So he went up to the poor man and asked him about the reason. The poor man said he was happy because he had everything he wanted, and he didn't want to have what he couldn't have. Hearing this, the general was excited. The poor man was the Happy Man. So he asked the poor man to give his shirt10the king. "Shirt?" said the poor man in surprise, “I don't own any shirts!”

    Once there was a king called David. He lived in a golden place with his 1. He was rich, but he still loves 2 very much.

    One day, a god called Gory got lost and woke up in the garden of David's place. The king 3 him for some days. Gory was very grateful (感激的) and 4 to give David anything he wanted. David was happy and said, "I would like everything I touch to turn into gold."

    At first David was very 5. He touched a table and it became gold. But as he reached out for an apple, it turned into gold and he couldn't 6 it. David became scared. At that moment, his daughter entered the room. David rushed over to hug her. Suddenly, he realized that his daughter was a 7, golden statue (雕像). David cried 8. Then he turned to Gory. Gory told him to go down to the river and wash his 9. David did as what Gory told. Then he returned to the 10. He found everything changed back when he touched the gold.

    From then on, David didn't care for gold any longer.

    I am Tom. I'm a student in a middle school. It's nice 1 you here. First let me say something about my family.

    There are five people in my 2: my mother, my father, my sister, my brother and I.

    My father is an 3 worker. My mother is a teacher 4 English. My sister is eighteen and my brother is sixteen. I'm fourteen. We 5 in the same middle school. We all study hard.

    My home is at West Hill. There is a big river near our 6. And behind it there is a pear tree and the small 7 are apple trees, 8 there aren't any pears or apples on them.

    9a photo of my house. In the photo, you can see three 10 in my bedroom. We like them very much.