Once there was a lovely vegetable field with a very big tree in it. Both of the vegetables and the tree made the garden look wonderful.

    One day, the vegetables and the tree couldn't get on well with 1. The vegetables disliked the tree because they thought the tree didn't leave them enough 2 by covering them with its thick leaves while the tree thought that the vegetables drank nearly all the water before it could reach him.

    The situation became worse and worse. One day the vegetables decided to 3 all the water in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree fought back by refusing to offer the vegetables shade(树荫). Soon they both began to dry up under the hot sun.

    Neither of them expected that the gardener would stop 4 his vegetable field because he thought it was 5 to save the vegetables. When the gardener did that, the tree and the vegetables really felt how 6 they were. There seemed to be no way to solve the problem. Then a small pumpkin decided to do something to change the situation. The small pumpkin did all he could to grow 7 there was little water and it was too hot.

    Finally, the gardener 8 the growing pumpkin among the dying vegetables. 9, he started to water the field again because he still wanted to make a(n) 10 to win the beautiful pumpkin. At the same time, the tree and the vegetables were saved. Since then, they realized that it was better to help each other than to fight, and they lived in harmony with other plants.

    When I was 7 years old, I went to the USA with my mom. I can still1 the first Halloween holiday I had in the USA.

    2 the morning of Halloween, we paid a visit to a pumpkin（南瓜）farm. Each of us brought a pumpkin to school for us. I used my pumpkin to make a lantern which had two round eyes and a scary mouth.

    In the afternoon, we3the Halloween costumes （服装） and had a parade （游行）in school. Some of the costumes were funny, but some of them4scary. I chose to wear a Superman costume.

    I did a lot of things that day, but the part I liked 5 was" trick or treat" in the evening. After dinner, I went outside with a bag. I hoped to get a lot of candies from my neighbors. At first, I was a bit nervous,6when I knocked at the first door, my heart was beating very fast. A lady came out, and I said carefully to her, "Trick or treat. "My voice was very low, so low that I could hardly hear myself speak. To my surprise, the lady was so kind that she gave7two candies, and I was so excited. I thanked the lady and moved on. I can't remember how many houses I visited, but I can remember how many8I got - I got 91 that day, and I was so happy.

    What a happy Halloween I had! And I wish we could have Halloween every month!

    Time is very important in our lives. But it never had any importance in my life until I1a watch from my father that made me responsible（有责任）. It2me the importance of time in my life.

    I got this gift on a gray-sky day. I had to go to the3 at 9:00 a.m.to pick up my uncle Ali and take him to my father's house. However, I forgot it4I was playing with my friends. Later on that day, around 11:00 a.m., I5my uncle, but I was late for him. He had got out of the plane and 6 a taxi to my father's house.

    I got to my father's house at 2：00p.m.7.My father looked at me angrily. I said "hi" to him and my8uncle. My father asked me to sit 9 him and handed me this watch which was a gift from10 . It weighed 8 oz and all of it was made of silver. Then he said, "Essa, did you have fun11your friends today?

    What you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your12."I felt sorry and told my father that I wouldn't do it again. Then he said," This watch will be a reminder（提醒物） for you. I hope today you have learned something13.”

    I learned a lesson from my father to respect（尊重） time and14be late. The watch is important to me, not because of its15, but because of the lesson that I learned from it.