One day, my lite daughter Annie came to me with a difficult problem. "Helen hates me!" she cried. "She wants me only to be her 1.You tell Helen that I want to be her friend, but I can have other friends, too!"

    Oh! I looked at her for a few 2wondering what to do, when suddenly an idea came to me.

    I picked up two 3from the living room. I put the small basket inside the big one and said. "When everyone is born, he or she has a little basket. The lite one is 4.The big one is mine. Your little basket is inside mine.5do you think that is?"

    She looked at me 6and said nothing

    I continued, "Your little basket is in mine because when you were born, there were too many things you couldn't do for yourself. I fed you, bathed you and I7 everything else you couldn't do on your own.8 I put your basket in mine. As you grew older, when you learnt to tie your shoes, that went in your basket You 9want me to tie your shoes now, right?"

    She said softly, "No, I can tie my own shoes."

    As you grow older, there will be 10things you must do by yourself." As I spoke, I took her basket out of mine and handed it to her." You will finally 11 your own basket with things only you can do, like deciding who you want to be friends with, what college you will go to, who you will marry."

    She 12it for a while and said," I understand. There are some things that I have to do for myself because they are in my basket."

    I hugged her and continued, "One day when I become 13, you will take things out of my basket and place them into your basket. Finally, you'll take my basket. Just like I do for my mom and grandmother now." I gently 14my basket with hers.

    Life is a 15. As she watched the little basket in my hand and smiled, she understood

    There was once a boy. He liked watching TV so much that wherever (不论哪里) he went, he 1 arrived late. He couldn't wait to go back to the front of TV, so he never 2 his breakfast or homework.

    One day, the boy got a box, but he didn't know 3 sent it. In the box, there was a pair of glasses and a piece of paper, it said," With these you'll be 4 to see time."

    The boy didn't understand. He 5 the glasses, looked at his brother and saw many flowers on the top of his head. 6 it wasn't just his brother. When he looked at anyone through those glasses, the same thing happened. The only difference was that the older (越老) the person was, the fewer (越少) 7 were on their heads.

    The next morning, when he wore the glasses, he found the flowers on his head go 8 the TV.

    The TV had a big mouth and it ate all his flowers! He was  9 to see that.

    So the boy knew that it was not 10 to watch TV for a long time. He decided not to watch TV like before.

When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in a new soldier school in Ashland and not sure if I could make it home for the holidays. On the afternoon of December 23, we were told some of us would have three-day holidays posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers.

It was Christmas Eve when I arrived home, and a light snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see over her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights all colors shining in the green of the tree.

"Where did it come from?" I asked.

I asked the gate boy to cut it" my mother said. "I wouldn't have had one just for myself, but you called in such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon."

The tree was almost as tall as the room, and the Tree Top Star was in its place. A few branches reached about a little disorderly at the side, I thought, and there was a big bare branch（树枝） showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with the pleasant smell of Christmas.

"It's not like the one you want to find, " my mother went on. "Yours were always in good shape and you were good at it. I think the gate boy didn't know where to look for a better one." "Don't worry." I told her. "It's perfect."

It wasn't, of course, but at the moment I understood for the first time, all Christmas trees are perfect.

Do you like traveling? You can see many different landscapes(风景)along the way. Sometimes, the landscapes is so {#blank#}1{#/blank#} （绝妙的）that you'd like to bring it home.

Kathleen Vance is a(an) {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (艺术家)and she can help you make it come true.Living in the city is great for many people. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (然而)，Vance thought differently. She often felt disconnected(脱节的) from the natural world so she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (不喜欢)the city life. Then she {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (努力) to bring the natural world into people's lives. She would put some earth(泥土),flowers and water into suitcases(手提箱)and make them into the landscape when she traveled. After her trips,she would show {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (那样的)landscapes in the suitcases to her neighbors.

If you open Vance's suitcases,you will see {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (小山),small forests and rivers.But you can't find roads or {#blank#}8{#/blank#} （建筑物）. It's Vance's special way of showing the natural world.

Now, people can see Vance's "Traveling Landscapes"in art shows around the world. But you don't need to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (等待)for them to come to your city ,because Vance often shares them on the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (互联网).

Frank has a good friend. His 1 is Paul. They like 2 . Frank likes baseball. He thinks baseball is 3 . Paul 4 to play tennis. He 5 tennis is relaxing. They don't play 6 . They think soccer is difficult. Frank 7 watch TV. He thinks it's boring. Paul 8 a computer game. He likes to play it. Frank and Paul can 9 volleyball. They play it with 10 classmates after school. 

My name is Helen. I study at a middle school in Nanjing. My school is not far away from my home, so I usually go to school on foot. Sometimes, I go there in my father's car. My school is nice. Of all the buildings, I like the school library best. It's a new building in my school It's so big. It has four floors. Every school day, it's Open from 9 am to 6 pm. I like storybooks best. And I also like geography books. Every month, there are interesting activities in the library. I love them too.