Mr Smith was in trouble those days. He drove a car for Mr Black, a rich businessman. He worked hard and the shopkeeper liked him. But he couldn't work when he drank too much. And once he almost fell into the river when he drove along the bridge. Mr Black become angry and was going to send him away. He had a big family and was afraid of it and promised(许诺) he would stop drinking at once. The man told him to wait to be dealt with(处置).

    One Monday morning Mr Smith came into the office with two badly burnt(烧伤的) ears.

    "What happened to your ears?" asked Mr Black.

    "Well," said the man." I went to watch a football match yesterday while my wife was ironing(熨) clothes. She had put the iron(熨斗) near the telephone before she went to cook supper. Our team lost the game and I felt sorry for it. As soon as I went into the sitting-room, the phone rang and I answered the iron!"

    "And what happened to the other ear ?"

    "When I put the iron down on the table, the telephone rang again!"

    Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, a cartoon film based on a popular Chinese cartoon TV series, has won the hearts of children in China. The Chinese cartoon began to be shown in public on 16th January, 2009, the first day of the winter holiday for Chinese primary school students. The children seemed to go straight from the school to the cinema.

    Two weeks after its release(首次上映), the cartoon film got a box office income(票房收入)of 68 million yuan, bigger than that of an American film, Madagascar 2, which was released in China on 1st January, 2009.

    “I think it is more interesting than Madagascar 2, ” said 8­year­old Wang Lu, who had seen both the Chinese and American cartoon films.

    However, some parents don't have the same enthusiasm for Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. “It's so childish that I almost fell asleep in the cinema, ”Wang Lu's father said.

    But because primary school children's great interest, the Pleasant Goat and Big Big wolf made a great success at the box office results. Parents join their children in the cinema—buying two or three tickets to keep them accompanied(陪同).

    Some young people find the film funny enough to watch. “The Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf are so cute, ” Dong Lei, a 22­-year-­old college student said.

    “However, compared with the animation(动画制作)technology of Hollywood cartoon films such as Kung Fu Panda, the film still has room for improvement, ” said cartoonist Yang Lin.

In a small village, a young man named Mark lived with his father, a wise old man. One day, Mark told his father {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(sad) that he made little progress in learning the guitar. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't improve. Mark asked his father {#blank#}2{#/blank#}some help. "Follow me, and I {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(lead) you to the high hills around the village tomorrow," said his father.

The next day, they set out. The road was long and difficult, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Mark still followed his father. As they got higher, the father said that he wanted to go to the top of the highest hill where he had never been to. Mark was {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (surprise)but decided to help his father. With great difficulty, Mark helped his father climb the hill. Sometimes he even carried his father on his back. At the top, he put his father on the ground and laughed with joy.

"{#blank#}6{#/blank#}you were a little boy, sometimes you returned home with tears in your eyes," said his father. "The el der children laughed at you. Do you remember why?"

Mark nodded. He remembered that as a child, he and all his {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(friend) called this hill Mount Impossible, because small children couldn't reach its top.

"And today," said his father, "you not only climbed here, but also helped {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(I) to get here."

"I became {#blank#}9{#/blank#}bigger and stronger boy," said Mark.

"Instead of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(climb) Mount Impossible every day, you played on the smaller hills and became better at climbing," said his father. "It became possible for you to climb Mount Impossible while you weren't even thinking about it."

How long would it take you to run 5,000 m? Li Yiben, 80 years old, ran 5,000 m in 28 minutes and 6 seconds（秒）. 

Li did it in a race in Huainan, Anhui Province on April 3rd. There were six runners in his group. The other five were three men in their 50s and 60s and two women in their mid-30s. Li was the oldest but he finished third. 

"This is tough. I have never worked so hard," said Li after the race. 

Li served in the military（部队）when he was young. In 1968, he left the military and found a new job. Li had to go over 20 km from home to work. That's when he got interested in running. Li ran to work every two or three days. That made him a great runner. After he left work in 1995, Li spent more time running. 

In 1998, Li ran a 100 km marathon（马拉松赛跑）. He ran in the National Masters Athletics Championships（全国大师田径锦标赛）in 1999. One year later, he went to the Asia Masters Athletics Championships in India. In 2001, Li went to Sydney to run in the World Masters Athletics Championships. He won many prizes. 

In the following years, Li kept running in many races. Running plays an important role in his life. "Running makes me feel younger," said Li. 

The whole school was talking about the winter camp. And everyone was looking forward to it{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (除……之外) me because I would miss my parents. But it was the way we {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (生长) up.

When we reached the camp, we found the village was so beautiful. What a {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(惊喜) ! It was a village in the{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(北方) of China. It was famous for its snowy weather. Every year {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (百万) of people spend their holidays here. It was very cold that day. The lake was covered with thick ice. Our coach asked us to skate on the lake. But we must pay much{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (注意力)to that. We were all excited although it was a little dangerous. We laughed and shouted {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(响亮) all the way. Suddenly, I hit someone in front of me and we {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (摔倒) down. Luckily, we weren't hurt badly. And we stood up quickly and went on.

During the next camping time, I had all kinds of{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(机会) and challenges. I felt I was much more {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (自信) than before. Every moment I missed my parents, you'll never imagine how much I wanted to share my happiness and excitements with them.