It was a very hot day. A lion and a sheep were both thirsty (口渴的). The sheep found a small pool. Just when the sheep started to drink water from the pool, the lion came up to him and shouted, "I should drink first. I' m the king (大王) of all the animals. Get out of my way!"

    "No," said the sheep. "I should drink first. I found the water."

    "You will drink it all up," said the lion. "There won't be any left, and I' m almost dead (死的) with thirst.'

    "And I haven't drunk water all day," said the sheep.

    So they started to quarrel. They shouted louder and louder, and the lion even ran after the sheep to the top of a small hill.

    Suddenly the lion stopped. He looked up into the sky. The sheep looked up, too. A vulture (秃鹫) was there. All the animals knew and were afraid of him. He is Bird of Death, who likes to jump on the bodies of dead animals and eat them. The lion and the sheep knew it

    If we go on quarreling, said the lion, "we will both die of thirst, and the vulture will eat us. Go to the water and drink, but don't drink it all."

    The sheep did as the lion said, and the two animals weren't thirsty anymore.

    Joseph was born in an English family. Whenhe was 2 years and 7 months old, his mother started to1him to read every day. And he was very2to learn that.

    When he was three years old, he3tell some stories.

    At that time, he4the level (水平) of a five-grade student. When he was four years old,he began to5booksby himself without his mother's help. He often read lots of stories to hisparents and his grandparents.

    When he was six, he could tell more than3,000 stories.

To our6, he could recite (背诵) the stories7once he read them one time. His memory (记忆力) was8good that many reporters can't believe it.

On January 25th, 2015, one reporter let him read an article (文章)9three hundred words in it and he then recited it freely and he didn't make a mistake. What a10boy he is!

    Now he is called "a child prodigy (天才；奇才) "in the UK.

Hello, I'm Jim. I'm a student in No. 2 Middle School. Today is Saturday. I can stay in bed late. Usually I get up at six on weekdays, but at eight on weekends. Then I take a shower, brush my teeth and wash my face. At half past eight, I have breakfast. I often eat bread and eggs and drink a glass of milk. They are healthy food. I don't like hamburgers or noodles.

Then, I go to the park and do sports. I play basketball with my brother. He can play it well. After that, I go back home with my brother, and we watch TV together. I have lunch with my brother in a dining hall at half past eleven, because my parents don't come back home from work on weekends. And then I do my homework on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. Sometimes I go out with my brother. I like drawing pictures on Sunday afternoon in the open air with my brother. It's good to enjoy nature(自然).

On Sunday evening, I always take a walk after supper with my brother. That's very cool. I enjoy the beautiful night streets. Finally, I go to bed at around a quarter to ten.

What does running mean to you？For 21﹣year﹣old Wang Xueting and her father Wang Kequan，running is not only a kind of exercise but also a great experience（体验）.

Wang Xueting runs with her father every day now.Wang Xueting's 51﹣year﹣old father was born with an eye problem and that made him lose hope for his life.As a running lover，Wang Xueting didn't give up and decided to help her father.But running wasn't easy for her father in the beginning.Wang Xueting first bought a second﹣hand treadmill（跑步机） online for her father，but he couldn't use it because of his eye problem.

Then she decided to run with her father.At first，they ran in their community（社区）.Later they ran farther and more quickly.Her father slowly liked running.Because of it，he became healthier. "When I'm running，I feel like I'm not disabled （残疾的），" he said.Now running makes Wang Xueting and her father closer.

The story of Wang Xueting and her father moved many people after these people saw photos of their running on the Internet.

They joined a club﹣Running in the Dark for runners with eye problems.They are preparing （准备） to run a half marathon（马拉松赛跑）.Wang Kequan also volunteered （自愿做） to help other disabled people. "My dad is my hero，" Wang Xueting said.

①When I was in fourth grade, we would have reading circles. The other kids and I would sit in a circle and read aloud different parts of books. Then the teacher would ask us questions. I loved to answer those questions. I was an advanced(先进的) reader and a very fast reader. That meant that whenever the teacher would start asking us questions, my voice would be the first to call out the answers.

②This went on for a while, and everybody was pretty patient with me. Little did I realize, though, that the teacher was getting tired of my behavior(行为). Because I was not able to sit there and go with the other students, one dáy she put me in the corner, out of the circle.

③Did thisstop me? I am afraid not. I was simply excited about what I had read. From the corner of the room, I kept on-listening and reading ____ reading away. When the teacher would ask questions,I would still shout but the answers—— but from across the room.

④After I'd done this a few times, the teacher became angry. She decided to schedule a meeting with my parents.

⑤The next day, my mother came to school for the meeting She reminded the teacher that I was just trying to be a good student and that I needed to be challenged more. However, it was also made clear to me that there were other students in the class and they need a chance to talk, too.

⑥In the end, we worked out a solution. I would sit in the circle with the other students, but I would be given more advanced books to read. After the reading circle was over, the teacher would spend time talking with me about what I had read.

⑦And so, although I am embarrassed, I learned a lesson from it.