Peter is eight years old, and he goes to a school near his house. He always goes there and comes home on foot. He usually gets back on time, but last Friday he came home from school late. His mother saw him and said to him, "Why are you late today, Peter?" "My teacher was angry and told me to see the headmaster after class," Peter answered. "To see the headmaster?" his mother asked. "Why did she tell you to see him?" "Because she asked a question in class," Peter said, "And nobody could answer it except me." His mother became angry. "But why did your teacher tell you to see the headmaster then?" she asked. "Because her question was 'Who put the glue (胶水) on my chair?'" Peter said.

    Every boy wants to find treasure．And Tom was no different.  One summer day Tom told Huck about his idea．

    "Where can we look for treasure？"asked Huck．

    "It's hidden on islands，under dead trees，but mostly under the floors in haunted（闹鬼的） houses．"

    So，one Saturday afternoon Tom and his friend went to look for treasure as the haunted house on Cardiff Hill．It was a quiet and lonely which made the boys feel very frightened．They entered quietly，and explored downstairs．Everything was old，broken and dirty．They threw their tools in a corner and walked upstairs，but there was nothing there．They were just about to go downstairs and start digging when Tom stopped．

    "What is it？"whispered Huck，going white with fright．

    "Keep quiet! There's someone downstairs．"

    The boys lay down，looking through the holes in the wooden floor．There were two men downstairs．One was an old Spaniard in a wide sombrero hat and the other was duty and unpleasant﹣looking．

    Tom and Hack shook with fear when they heard the Spaniard speak because they found it was Injun Joe He said，

    "It's time for us to move，partner．What will we do with the 650formtherobbery（抢劫）？""Let'skeep30each and leave the bag here．"

    The dirty man went to the fireplace and moved a stone．Then he lifted out a bag full of money and look out some coins．The two boys forgot all their fears when they saw there was real treasure downstairs．

    Then Indian Joe started digging a hole with his knife and the knife hit something．

    "What is it？"asked the other man．

    "It's a box，"said Indian Joe．And he put in his hand and pulled out a handful of gold coins．The other man found the boys'tools，and they soon pulled out the box．

    "Where's thousands of dollars in there，"Said Indian Joe．

    "The Murrell Gang used this area one summer，"said his partner．

    "They most have hidden their money here．"

    "What will we do with this，Joe？Will we bury（埋）it again？"

    "No，someone might find it，"said Indian Joe．"Let's bury it in the member two den（巢穴）．"

Tom and Huck got up as soon as the two men left．They decided to watch out for the"man in the sombrero"when he came to town and find out where the member two den was．

    There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of every color, with long and difficult names, for competitions（比赛）. He tried to grow a rose of a new color to win the silver cup（银杯）for the Rose of the Year.

    Mr. Flowers' glass-houses were very near to a middle school. Boys of around thirteen of age were often tempted（引诱）to throw a stone or two at one of Mr. Flowers' glass-houses. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or near his glass-houses at the beginning and end of the school day.

    But it was not always possible to be on watch at those times. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to protect his glass, but nothing that he had done had been useful. He had been to school to report to the headmaster; but this had not done any good. He had tried to drive away the boys that threw stones into his garden; but the boys could run faster than he could, and they laughed at him from far away. He had even picked up all the stones that he could find around his garden, so that the boys would have nothing to throw; but they soon found others.

    At last Mr. Flowers had a good idea. He put up a large notice（布告）made of good, strong wood, some meters away from the glass-houses. On it he had written the words: DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flowers had no further trouble; the boys were much more tempted to throw stones at the notice than at the glass-houses.

    The class teacher thought that hobbies were important to children. So she encouraged all her students to have one, and sometimes she arranged hobby shows for their parents to see.

    One morning the teacher told the class to have a holiday and get their hobby things to school before 5:00 p. m. A hobby show would be held the following afternoon.

    So in the afternoon, the students with nothing to show did their lessons at school as usual, while the lucky ones had a holiday to go home for their hobby works.

    When the afternoon lessons began, the teacher was surprised to see that Tommy was not there. "I don't believe Tommy has a hobby, "she thought. However, at a quarter to five, Tommy arrived with a beautiful collection of butterflies(蝴蝶) in a glass case. The teacher liked the samples（标本） very much and put them on a desk in the classroom. But, to her surprise, Tommy picked them up again and began to leave.

    "What are you doing, Tommy? "she asked. "Those things must stay here until tomorrow afternoon. That's when the parents are coming to see them. "

    "I know that, "answered Tommy, "and I will bring them back tomorrow, but my brother doesn't want them to be out of our house at night."

    "But, aren't the butterflies yours?" asked the teacher.

    "No," answered Tommy." They are my brother's."

    "But Tommy, you should show your own hobby here, not somebody else's!"

    "I know that, "answered Tommy. What surprised her most was the answer, "My hobby is watching my brother collecting butterflies."

    Hi, I'm Tina. I'm a student in Grade One. I have a twin brother, and his name is Tom. We are in the same class. We go to school together every day and we know each other very well.

    Tom likes music very much, and he likes JJ Lin's songs best. He wants to be a singer like him when he grows up (长大). After dinner, Tom tells me he wants to go to JJ Lin's concert tomorrow, but we have lessons. So he calls our teacher Mrs. Green on the phone.

    "Hello, Mrs. Green," Tom says, "Tom is ill and needs to stay at home tomorrow." "I'm sorry to hear that," says Mrs. Green. "Who is that?"

    "This is my mother, Mrs. Green."