A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had loved a beautiful sports car, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

    As Graduation Day came, the young man waited for the good news of the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his study. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. Curious and disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely ,leather—bound(用皮包装的)Bible《圣经》,with the young man 's name on its cover. Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" He then rushed out of the house, leaving the Bible.

    Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. But he realized his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could set off, he received a telegram(电报)telling him his father had passed away. He needed to come home immediately and deal with things.

    While searching for his father's papers, he found that new Bible. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible, It had a note with the salesman's name, the same man who had the sports car he had hoped. On the note was the date of his graduation, and the words :“PAID IN FULL.”

I know how hard it is to make friends in a new school. I once joined the football team and the music club in my school of Toronto. I was very popular at that time and made a lot of friends. It made me very happy and my school life was very great.

Everything became different when I was 16 years old, because my parents decided to move to    Florida. Who can quickly adapt to (适应) a completely strange environment? So changing to a new   school was not easy for me. At the beginning, days in the new school were much more different than I thought. The class schedule (时间表) was different, and the teachers and students were strange and fresh to me. Some kids tried to be nice to me, but I was afraid to have a talk with them.

After staying in the new school for a few weeks, I realized that no one tried to communicate with me anymore, so I began to feel lonely. Two months later we had a course that required teamwork. Then, all the students came to study and even tried to help each other. I realized that they were hard-working and friendly just like me. I began to make friends with them. Several years later, we still keep in touch with each other and they have become a great treasure to me.

Sometimes, if we can't change the environment around us, change ourselves in time. And try to get used to the life in different places.

There are a lot of famous cartoon characters. Here is some information about them.

Last week I went to an art show. A painting caught my eyes. To my amazement, it was painted by Steven, one of my {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Then many things about him came into my mind.

Steven was from a poor family. His parents{#blank#}2{#/blank#}not afford to buy him some basic things that he needed. Once our school provided gloves for poor children. I put Steven's name on the list. He was so {#blank#}3{#/blank#} when he received a pair. He loved to wear them and they were always {#blank#}4{#/blank#} than anybody else's. 

Steven had a gift(天赋) for painting and he could {#blank#}5{#/blank#} understand what I described in class. But he didn't have money to buy the paper for painting. So sometimes, I {#blank#}6{#/blank#} him some. He parctised hard. And I often showed his paintings of the class. He was greatly {#blank#}7{#/blank#}.

One day just before the summer vacation, he came to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} some art books. When the new term began, he showed some of {#blank#}9{#/blank#} paintings to me. I felt shocked . They were very good. Then we talked a lot. He said he would keep on. 

Later he was admitted(录取) to a famous art university. After graduation, he had many difficulties, but he never gave up. He was always {#blank#}10{#/blank#} his best to improve himself. His hard work and strong mind led to his success.

Mrs. Grady welcomed her class back into the warm, cheerful room. The children sat down at their desks, still talking about what they did over winter vacation. It took a few minutes for Mrs. Grady to get them 1 down. 

 "I'm glad to see you all back! Since it's the 2 of the new year, I thought we'd talk about something people do at this time. It's called making resolutions. Does anyone know what that means?" Mrs. Grady asked. 

Liamput up his hand, "You mean like when my mom says she's going to 3 eating chocolate, but she eats it anyway?" Some of the students laughed 4 , Mrs. Grandy put her hand in front of her mouth and made a "shh" sound, she seemed to disagree with this answer, moving her head from side to side. 

"Any other ideas?" she asked, 5 the students who were still laughing. Olivia put up her hand. "It's when you decide to do something 6 for the new year," "That's 7 !" Mrs. Grady said. "In fact, you can make resolutions whenever you want to. The point is that you make a 8 start to make yourselves become better or try new things."

Ashley spoke up. "My dad said his resolution is to keep 9 every day!" "That's a good example of making a healthy resolution," Mrs. Grady said. "But let's think of resolutions for 10 ." Hands went up, and students came up with things like eating more vegetables, drinking more water and so on. Mrs. Grady 11 those were good ones. 

Max put up his hand. "I'm going to learn to play basketball." "That's a great resolution," Mrs. Grady said. "trying new 12 is a fun choice."

Then Emma asked, "What about being nicer?" Mrs. Grady smiled. "Yes, being 13 is a wonderful resolution."

Lots of hands went up. The students were excited to 14 all the different sports and activities they took part in or would be starting soon. 

"Those are all 15 of good resolutions. Now, I want each of you to write about a resolution you could make this year." The children got to work.