Early one morning, an old woman was carrying a big basket of potatoes on her head to the market. She hoped to1them to the people from town.

     The mountain road was narrow and the old woman was walking 2, because she did not want to have 3and lose her potatoes.

     Suddenly she 4 a loud bell, and a bicycle came round the corner.

     It passed her and went very fast 5the hill. The old woman had to jump to one side of the 6 so quickly that the basket of potatoes nearly fell into the valley.

     She looked up and saw that a young boy was on the bicycle. He was 7 on without even 8 round to see whether the old woman was all right. The old woman began to shout,“Come back, young man! You dropped something!”

     When he heard this, the boy stopped the bicycle so suddenly that he nearly fell off .

     Then he turned and began to 9the bicycle back up to the hill.“What is it?”he asked,“What did I drop?”“Little boy,”the old noman answered, “you dropped your 10.”

    A few years ago, my husband and I were on an island for a long vacation with our two daughters. As we wondered about what to do 1, our girls jumped in and told us what they wanted to do. "2 want to go to the butterfly（蝴蝶）museum." said Ariela and Eliana.

    As soon as we3into the main area of the museum, we saw a lot of 4butterflies, all flapping（拍打）their colorful wings. My girls were 5up and down, and I knew we had made the right6to come to the museum. They were having so much fun. I7to our museum tour guide because I was curious （好奇的）, and asked, "8do butterflies live?"

    She said, "About ten days." "What can butterflies do9ten days?" I asked. The guide stopped, looked at me and said, "They make the world a more beautiful place." "Wow," I said, "I10 thought about butterflies like that. Thank you."

    After we said goodbye, I couldn't11thinking about what the guide had said. She was right. We all have12offer the world with the time we have.13we focus our gifts on taking care of each other every day, we can make a14.

    How thankful it is that you can have the influence on your family, friends and neighbors! Like a butterfly, you have your own way of making the world a little15for everyone.

    When I visit the Science Museum, I go to the Launchpad. This is my favourite room 1 you can do physics experiments. For example, if you want to fill a bag with 2 sand, you have to move a kind of truck on wheels into the correct position. I also go to the Rocket Show. You can learn how we travel 3 space and back again.

    Then I go upstairs to the Hmnan and Nature Room. You can 4 your speed with animals there. You hear a noise and push a button. If you aren't fast 5 , the lion catches you! I'm faster 6 all my friends, but the lion still catches me.

    There are also rooms on transport, the environment and space technology,7maths, physics and chemistry.

    You can do a lot of things in this museum, but you have to obey some rules as well. For example, you mustn't take photos of the 8in the museum. But you can buy postcards of them in the museum shops.   9, the Science Museum is free. That means you can drop in for a few minutes or you can stay as long as you like--it's open every day, from 10 am to 6 pm. So if you ever go to London, 10you visit the Science Museum. It's my favourite museum in the whole world.

    It used to be our custom to take handmade baskets to friends on May Day. We would1baskets on a doorstep, knock on the door, and then run away as2as possible. It was funny to hide in a bush（灌木丛）and watch our friends open the doors and pick up the colorful gift, 3who had left it out for them.

    I clearly4the May Day of the year when I turned ten. I had a dearest friend, Pam. We had studied and5together nearly every day. However, things6after a new family moved into our small town. Pam was spending more and more time at their house and I felt7and left out.

    When my mother asked me8 I was going to take a May Day basket to Pam's house, I replied9, "Certainly not! I hate Pam. "And then I began to cry.

Mom wiped（抹去） away my tears and told me that things and people change. She explained, "One of the greatest things friends can do is to give each other a10to grow, to change and to develop. It's acceptable for 11 friends to spend time with other people."

    I finally decided to give Pam a basket as a sign of forgiveness（原谅）, and asked my sister to help me do it.12we watched from our hiding place, Pam picked up the basket and said loudly enough for us to hear, "Thank you, Susie, I hoped you wouldn't13me!"

    That day, I made a14that changed my life：I decided to hold my friends tightly in my heart, allowing them 15 to grow and to change-with or without me.

    Three days had passed since the head teacher scolded (批评)her at the1but Cao Jing, 14, still felt unhappy.

    The head teacher scolded her for wearing tight (紧身的) clothes instead of the2.He said that Cao thought"3about being pretty". But actually the Hangzhou4 wore those clothes to run faster and was going to5the school uniform after the race.

    "I was wronged," Cao said. "I felt angry and sad."

    Many6come across similar things with Cao. Sometimes, as teachers don't fully know the situation. It easily leads to misunderstandings. Such things are not7bad for the relationship between students and teachers, but also the healthy development of students.

    Zhang Xiaoyu, 14, from Anhui thought the best way was to8teachers. "Refuting (反驳)  teachers at once is impolite and will make teachers9," she said.

    Lu Chunzi, a teacher from Heilongjiang,10Zhang. She said many teachers hurt students' feelings11meaning for it. "After all, teachers cannot know12,"she said. "So I hope students can come to teachers to clear up the misunderstandings."

    For those who13too shy to do that, Cao offered14choice. She wrote a letter to her teacher. "He15me later on and now we're good," she said happily.

    J. K. Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, which is now one of the best-sellers in the world. She1born in Britain on July 31st, 1965. She has one sister who is two years2 than her. Both girls liked3to their father's bedtime stories. They especially loved stories about magic. Rowling wrote her first story4the age of six.

    On a long train trip in 1990, an idea came to her. She wanted to write about a boy who had magic but he didn't know it. In 1992, Rowling began5the first Harry Potter book for young6. It appeared in June, 1997. The book was a great success. And the film came out in November, 2001. Now the Harry Potter series (系列) is7with people of all ages and about sixty8books were sold in 200 countries. In this series, Harry is an ordinary boy: polite, friendly, brave and clever. So when children read about Harry, they can imagine being like him. That's9the Harry Potter series has been so popular.

    J. K. Rowling is very10with the success. Now she's really enjoying life. She said she would go on writing children's books.