It takes a lot of skills and hard work to set a world record in pumpkin-carving(雕刻南瓜). Steve Clarke, a sixth-grade teacher from Pennsylvania, is a famous carver(雕刻师). Clarke has set many world records for carving pumpkins quickly. When he competes, he must cut our two eyes, two eyebrows, a nose, a mouth, and two ears as fast as possible. But Clarke knows something else about pumpkin-carving. It's easier to get a record than to keep it.

    He took the title in 2000 when he carved a pumpkin face in 74.8 seconds. That time was 19 seconds faster than what Jerry had set. From then on, Clarke broke his own records five times. In 2006, he set his best time in Florida. His winning time was 24.03 seconds!

    The only problem is that someone finally beat that mark. On October 7, 2010, David set the new record with 20.1 seconds. Clarke was not able to break that record this year, but he has planned to break the record. After Halloween, he will go to local pumpkin farms to practise designs and new skills.

    Clarke is popular because of his super pumpkin-carving skills. In 1999, he carved more than 30 pumpkins at the Halloween party for then vice-president Al Gore.

    One day, my father and I were in line to buy tickets for the circus(马戏表演). And a family was standing in front of us.

    The family had eight children. Their clothes were not expensive but clean．The children talked about the clowns(小 丑), elephants, monkeys and other things excitedly. It was their first time to go to the circus.

    The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly answered, “I want eight children's tickets and two adults' tickets, so I can take my family to the circus.”

    The ticket lady said the price. The man's wife lowered her head and there was no smile on th e man's face. He quietly asked, “How much did you say?”

    The ticket lady said the price again. The man didn't have enough money. How could he tell his eight kids the bad news? My dad put his hand into his pocket and pulled out a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground．(In fact, we were not rich!) Then my dad said, “Excuse me, sir, this dropped out of your pocket.”

    The man knew what was going on. He looked into my dad's eyes, held my dad's hand in his, and took the $20 bill. “Thank you, sir, thank you. This really means a lot to me and my family.”

    My father and I went back home. We didn't go to see the circus that night, but we didn't care.

My name is Gina. I'm twelve. I have some 1 . They are Mike, Jack. Mary and Kate. We are in Yuying Junior High School. This is 2 Green. He is our English 3 . We like him very much. This is4 classroom. You can see many(许多)desks in the classroom. They are green. I like the 5 very much . A blackboard(黑板)and a6 of China are on the wall(墙). On the desk you can7 some pencils. The red one is8 . The green one is Kate's. Mary's pencil isn't there. Her pencil is in her9 . Look! This is my desk. You can see some 10 on it. They are my new books. 

 Ara, 5 years old, helps watch the 1 in the green fields every day. She asks her parents, "Can we 2 one of them?" Her father says, "You need to do much work. You need to learn about cows first."

 First, they go to a good farm. Green and fat grass is everywhere. The clean cows are eating grass happily. They milk a cow, and get lots of 3 . But the second farm is different. The cows are not 4 . When Ara asks about the milk, the farmers shake their heads.

 Ara wants to do things to help the 5 cows. Finally, she gets a plan(计划) with her parents. She asks the first farmers to help the second farmers, and they say 6 . So they have a meeting and the first farmers share 7 experience(经验). Their advice is very helpful, and everyone learns a lot.

 Weeks later, the 8 farm becomes clean. The farmers get much milk. They 9 Ara and plan to pass the help to other people. Ara's father says to her, "You really did a good job!"

 In the end, Ara doesn't keep a cow, 10 she is happy because she helps those cows and farmers to be better. "One can have good change to the world at any age," she is so glad for herself.

The Person I Respect

 We have a lot of respectable people around us. The person I respect is 

One day when I was six, Grandpa sent me into the woods to gather pecans for us to enjoy.

Pecan picking was really tiring work and my little basket was only half full. When I was in {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, something attracted me. A large brown squirrel a few feet away picked up a pecan, hurried to a tree and disappeared in a large hole in the trunk. A moment later he crawled out of his hiding place and climbed down to the ground. Once again, he took another pecan back to his home.

No more a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, I thought. I dashed over to the tree and looked into the hole. It was filled with pecans! Handful by handful, I scooped all those pecans into my basket. Now it was full! I couldn't wait to show Grandpa all the pecans. "Well, well, how did you find so many?" He asked. I told him what I did.

Grandpa congratulated me on how smart I'd been in observing the squirrel and his habits. Then he did something that {#blank#}3{#/blank#} me. He handed the basket back to me, "That squirrel worked very hard to gather his winter food," he said {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. "Now that all of his pecans are gone, do you think the little squirrel will survive the cold winter? A good person should {#blank#}5{#/blank#} take advantage of someone else's hard work."

I felt so guilty that I hurried back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.

I didn't eat any pecans that night, but I had the satisfaction of knowing I had done just the right thing.