Simon was a smart boy in a single-parent（单亲的）family. Last year, his mother 1 him to learn the piano from me. Simon said that it was his mother's  2 to hear him play the piano.

    Simon played very hard, but he was really not good at it. He still went on 3.

    One day Simon 4 coming to my lessons. He called me and said his mother was in hospital  5 he needed to look after her.

Two weeks before a show from the students, Simon 6 my school. He told me he  7 stopped practicing the piano. He told me that he wanted to join us in the show. I saw something special in his blue eyes, so I said OK.

    Simon did very 8 in the show, and the show was on TV in the end. Later, Simon told me that his 9  was born deaf（聋的）, but she became better after watching the show on TV. It was a(n)   10 thing, wasn't it?

    One day, a woman buys some food in the supermarket. Later, she comes back to the street, gets into her car and wants to 1 home after shopping. At that time, she sees a yellow car behind (在……后面) her. A man is driving the car. When she turns right (向右转), the yellow car turns right, 2. When she stops, the yellow car also 3.

    It is not 4  for the woman to make herself relaxed. The woman is 5, so she drives 6 to the police station. A young man is standing 7 the police station (警察局). The woman is happy to see him. She knows that he is a policeman 8 he is wearing a police uniform. She 9 to him and asks him to arrest (逮捕) the man in the yellow car, so the policeman walks to the man. The man doesn't want to run away when he sees the policeman. He just says to the woman, "I think the watch is 10 and I want to give it back to you, madam. I find it in the street.

It's 9 o'clock onSunday morning. Betty and Tony are in Lingling's home. Betty likes collecting {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (硬币) and {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(英镑) and (纸币),such as British {#blank#}3{#/blank#} US {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (美元). She thinks they are {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (有价值的). She also collects {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (邮票)from all over the world.

Tony collects tickets,bus tickets and train tickets. He says he can't do anything {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (用)them, but old tickets {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (一定) be helpful to remember some wonderful places. Lingling agrees withhim. She says the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (价值) is not the most important. People collect old things{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (仅仅) to remember something important in their lives.

When they are talking,Betty finds a big collection. They are Lingling's favourite {#blank#}11{#/blank#} (扇子). People often give her some fans {#blank#}12{#/blank#} (作为)presents, and Lingling usually puts them on the {#blank#}13{#/blank#} (架子). But today the room is a bit of a {#blank#}14{#/blank#} (凌乱). Betty is very surprised at the collection, and meanwhile(同时)she begins to {#blank#}15{#/blank#} (使整齐)up the room. What good friends they are!

Last weekend, my friends and I went on a picnic. On the way there, my friend Mike and I broke our {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(自行车), so we had to walk and were a little late.

When I arrived, I saw everyone {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(有) a good time. Tom was telling a funny story, and it made us all laugh {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(开心). We were very {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(饥饿的), so we had a lot of fruit and bread. They were delicious!

During our picnic, we talked about our free time {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(活动). I said that I often help my parents with {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(家务) and do exercise when I am free. Lucy said she enjoys practicing singing every week.

After eating, we played some games. Tom jumped {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(高) than me in the jumping game. It was fun to see everyone so happy.

{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(然而), as the day went on, the sky started to get dark. We {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(决定) to go back home because it seemed {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(下雨). Though the weather changed, we all thought it was a wonderful day. I think it's necessary for us to spend fun time with friends!

Every year, Australia hosts a 543. 7-mile-long ultra-marathon(超级马拉松) race. 

In 1983, a potato farmer named Cliff Young showed up at the start of the race. People {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(意识到) that he was 61 years old and the race was dangerous for him. Cliff Young might {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(死) of tiredness, so some people tried to stop him. 

However, Cliff Young surprised everyone with an amazing {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(胜利). He not only won the race, but {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(设法完成) to break the race record. 

So how did Cliff Young make it? Well, he {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(继续) running throughout the night while other runners were {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(休息). He really had a very strong {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(意志). 

When Cliff Young was awarded the winning prize of $10, 000, he said he {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(实在；的确) didn't know there was a prize. He gave away his prize money to the rest of the runners after him. 

After the win, Cliff Young {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(参加) many ultra- marathon races to raise money for homeless children. His running style which is still popular {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(在国外) is called " The Cliff Shuffle". 

Zhi Nong was a photographer who was born in a small town in Yunnan Province. When he was young, he moved to Kunming with his mother. Feeling like a caged (笼中的) bird in the big city, he was bored with the busy and noisy city life and wanted to close to the nature.

His chance soon came. In 1983, be helped make a movie about birds. What he did before led him to take photos of flying birds.

In the 1980s, the Internet was not that popular in China and cameras were expensive. He borrowed a camera and began to study how to use it. During that time, the library have favourite place where he first read some and began to study how to use it. During that time, the library became his favourite place where be first read some magazines about nature. It opened a door to nature for him.

In 1992, a research programme was set up to protect a kind of unusual monkeys which only live in China. Usually, the home of these monkeys has half-a-year-long winters. It brought a lot of difficulties to Zhi Nong's work, but he never stopped. "I didn't see the monkeys in the wild until I went into the mountains the third time." said Zhi Nong. He went into the snow mountains six times just to get great photographs of the monkeys.

Three years later, his works won international prizes. People around the world began to notice the protection of wild animals in China. And he is the first Chinese winner of the World Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

In order to call up (号召) more people to protect wildlife with cameras, he started "China Wildlife Photography Training Camp". He hopes that more young people will join in for the nature protection.