The city Bank was broken into yesterday at 8 p.m. The police were asking two men, John Smith and his brother Joseph Smith.

    If you are walking through Newyork's Central Park on a fine summer day, you might come across a group of children listening to a story. The storyteller will be sitting beside a statue of a kindly looking man holding an open book. Although this man never actually visited New York, his fame as a writer of fairy tales and children's stories has spread far beyond his homeland.

    Hans Christian Andersen is recognized as a key figure in 19^th-century romantic fiction. He is, without question, the best-known writer Denmark has ever produeed. His stories continue to delight children and adults the world over. Classic tales such as The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The emperor's New Clothes are loved for their humor and imagination. They are loved for the simple but meaningful messages they often contain.

    Born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, Demark, Andersen was an imaginative child. His father, a poor shoemaker, died in 1816. With a mother who was unable to read or write, the boy received little education as a child. At 14, Andersen traveled to Copenhagen. He was lucky enough to spend some time with the Royal Theater, but when his voice changed, he had to leave. Luckily, one of the directors helped him by arranging his education.

    Andersen went to the University of Copenhagen in 1828, and his literary career began soon afterwards. He hoped to achieve success with poems and plays, and made too low an estimate(估计) of the kind of stories which have made him famous. Though not particularly fond of children, he had a gift for entertaining them. This led a friend to suggest he write down the stories he invented.

    Many of Andersen' s tales are based on folklore(民间故事), and many are products of his own imagination. All of them are told in a humorous and informal style that children loved from the start.

    Before his death in 1875, Andersen regularly traveled around Europe, and was warmly welcomed everywhere he went.

    Nowadays, of course, Hans Christian Andersen is a household name. Whether he would have liked or not, millions of children and adults will always be grateful for the magie his stories have brought to their lives. The young listeners in Central Park are proof of that.

    A few years ago national attention was fixed on a deep, dark cave in the mountains near where I live now. A team had entered the cave to do some research. Although every precaution had been taken to make it safe, one young man was separated from the team and lost in the depths of the cave.

    For several days a rescue team worked around the clock, searching almost everywhere in the underground cave. With each passing hour chance of finding the young man inside the cave became smaller, and people had a lot of guesses. Perhaps he had simply run away. Or maybe he had stumbled out some other entrance and was now lost in the mountains. Or perhaps he was already... well, nobody wanted to say it. But everybody thought it. Everybody, that is, except the young man's parents.

    "That wasn't a choice in our opinion," the young man's mother said." Finally we would find him—safe and alive. We were certain of that."

    There was little reason to those who were familiar with the cave said it had been completely searched-several times. Common sense suggested that time was running out and that other choices needed to be considered—like when to say "enough".

    But like Kris Kringle says in his famous book A Miracle on 34th Street, "Faith is believing in something even when common sense tells you not to do." And the young man's parents had faith. They wouldn't give up, and they wouldn't let anyone else give up, either. And sure enough, the young man was found—hungry, thirst and afraid, but healthy.

    How did the young man manage to stay a live in the cave?

    "I've never stopped believing that someone would find me," said the young man.

In the forest there lived a rhino（犀牛） and a monkey. The monkey was not very friendly and he troubled the rhino every day. Sometimes he pulled the rhino' s tail. Sometimes he jumped onto the rhino's back. But the rhino didn't get mad. He could stand everything patiently and never complained （抱怨）. 

Other animals in the forest knew that the monkey always made fun of the rhino. They got angry with the monkey， They even advised the rhino to punish the monkey. 

The rhino smiled and said that sometimes the monkey was unfriendly， but he was thankful to him. He thanked the monkey for teaching him to be patient. Other animals just kept silent with their heads down， without saying anything. At that time， the monkey was sitting in the tree and heard the rhino's words. He felt sorry for what he had done. 

He came down from the tree immediately. Then he came up to the rhino and said sorry to him. After that， the monkey and the rhino became friends， and they got on well with each other. 

 Some artists are often not famous in their lifetime. Vincent Van Gosh(梵高) was one of  {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (they). People did not pay much attention to his works. He began to think he was not a very good artist. But he did not stop {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (paint). Vincent loved it. He would become so {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (interest) in what he was doing that he did not want to stop. He would even forget {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (eat)!

 His early paintings were dark. He used lots of brown and dark green. Later, Vincent moved to France. He wanted to learn from the artists working there. They were trying new {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (way) of painting. In France, Vincent began using bright colors and bold brushstrokes, He used oil paints to create his art. He painted the countryside. He painted people, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} . He also painted his own portrait(肖像画). He created more than 20 portraits of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (he).

 People did not buy Vincent's paintings in his lifetime. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} today his paintings sell for a lot of money. Most people think his paintings are {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (popular) of all the art pieces. His still life(静物画) of yellow sunflowers in a pitcher is well-known. Another famous painting is of yellow stars in a dark blue sky. In his lifetime, he {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (finish) more than 2,000 paintings.