Many of you have heard a Cinderella (灰姑娘) story, but you may not know that there are over a hundred different ways to tell the Cinderella story. When writers tell the same story in a different way, it is called their “version” of the story. The story of Cinderella has many different versions. Let's read two of them and find out how they are different.

The version that most people know is the oldest one written in 1697 by Charles Perrault from France. This is the version where the birds help make Cinderella's dress and the mice turn into carriage men (马车夫) and help Cinderella go to the dance in a pumpkin (南瓜) carriage. In this version, many of the animals are Cinderella's friends. They help her meet the Prince. Cinderella marries the Prince and they live happily together ever after.

In another version of this story written in the 1850s by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from Germany, the birds help Cinderella in the whole story. Cinderella's father gives her a little tree when he comes back from a party. She plants the little tree and her tears water it until it grows into a tall tree.

The birds now live in the tree and they give Cinderella a dress of gold and shoes of gold. Cinderella goes to the party to meet and dance with the Prince. Later, he finds Cinderella at home doing work for her stepmother (继母). Cinderella marries the Prince and they live happily ever after.

Now you can understand what the word “version” means and how more than one writer can tell a story in a different way. That is why there are many versions of the same story.

    Mr Jones, the owner of a farm, was one day driven out of the farm by all the animals he kept．The animals were excited to be masters of their farm．Animals made seven rules of their own and Snowball painted them on the wall．

    ⒈Whatever walks on two legs is an enemy;

    ⒉Whatever walks on four legs, or has wings, is a friend;

    ⒊No animal shall wear clothes;

    ⒋No animal shall sleep in bed;

    ⒌No animal shall drink alcohol(酒);

    ⒍No animal shall kill any other animal;

    ⒎All animals are equal．

    They were nicely written, except that "friend" was written "friend"．Snowball read them out, and all the animals agreed．

    "Now, let's go to the field．Let's get in the harvest more quickly than Jones and his men could do．"

    But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time, shouted because they hadn't been milked for 24 hours．Then the pigs began to help milk the cows successfully．Soon there were five buckets (桶) of creamy milk at which many animals

    looked with great interest．"What's going to happen to all the milk?" asked one animal．"Jones used to mix some of it in our food," said one of the hens．"Never mind the milk," cried Napoleon, standing in front of the buckets, "the harvest is more important．Mr Snowball will lead the way, and I'll follow in a few minutes．"

    So the animals ran down to the field to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening, it was noticed that the milk had disappeared．

    Robert De Niro is an American actor. He has acted in a lot of famous films. He is one of the greatest actors in film history.

    Robert De Niro was born in 1943 in New York City. He left high school at the age of sixteen. He wanted to have a career in acting. He dreamt of appearing in Hollywood films.

    His first major film role came in 1973. It was in the film Bang the Drum Slowly. Later, he got a role in the film The Godfather Part Ⅱ. The film is one of the greatest films in history. He won his first Oscar (奥斯卡金像奖) for this role. It was the start of a great career. After this, he got many other important film roles.

    On his way to career success, he became good friends with Martin Scorsese. Scorsese is a famous director (导演). They began to work together often. Their first film together was Mean Streets in 1973. It was a big Success. In 1980, he acted in the film Raging Bull. Scorsese was the director again. And for this role. Robert De Niro won his second Oscar.

    His acting career continued. In 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, he kept acting in a lot of films. Robert De Niro is a really great actor. If you are interested, you can see his films on the Internet!

There's a video online: a young girl, with an old man sitting on her shoulder (肩膀), is watching the national flag-raising ceremony (升国旗仪式) at Tian'anmen Square (天安门广场). The girl is ZhangBaige and the old man is her 1 Zhang Shuangqi.

One day in 1997, on his way home from work in Luoyang, Henan, 50-year-old Zhang Shuangqi 2 a baby girl on the roadside. Zhang took the girl home and raised (抚养) her as his daughter. He gave her a 3 Zhang Baige.

Zhang had no money, no family and no experience in raising a child. Raising a baby made his life 4 . The man took on different jobs at the same time to make a living.

In the poor family, Zhang Baige managed (尽力完成) to 5 . Although she did not go to college after high school, she worked hard. Now she can give her father and herself a good 6 . To spend more time with her father, who is now 75 years old, Zhang Baige decided to travel around the 7 with him. He always likes to see places away from home.

Last May, Baige and her father 8 their trip. From Henan, they traveled through Shaanxi (陕西) and Sichuan, and then to Tibet and Xinjiang. People feel touched by their story after 9 videos about their travel. And they are 10 to see that the father and the daughter are living a happy life.

It was a sunny summer day and I walked back home1 school. When I stood in front of my2 , I found I lost my key. It was very terrible for me,3 I only had one key. And my parents were out for some days.

I walked4 the neighborhood, hoping to find the lost key. But I didn't find it. I called my mom and she told me to go to my aunt's home. My aunt lived in5 house of our neighborhood. I could6 with her that day, but I still needed to get my key back.

The next day when I went past the security hut (保安亭) in the neighborhood, I saw something on the window. It was my7 ! "Is that yours, boy?" the guard (保安) asked me. "Yes. I lost it yesterday.8 found it?" I said. The guard9 , "I don't know. Someone picked it up last night."

I was happy. Picking up the key and taking it to the security hut wasn't something great, but this kind action (行为) was so10 to me. I just felt so happy. I couldn't thank the person, but I can pass on (传递) his or her kindness by learning from the person.