Once upon a time, there lived a teacher in a small town. He often taught his students in special ways. Once he sent four of his students to go to a small farm to see apple trees in different seasons. The first student went in winter, the second in spring. The third in summer. And the last in autumn.

    After the four students came back, the teacher called them together. They pictured (描述) their feeling to the teacher. The first student said that there were no leaves on the trees. It made him very disappointed. The second student said his eyes were full of light green. It made him feel hopeful. The third one disagreed. "What are you talking about? How pretty the trees were! The sweet smell of the beautiful flowers spread(传播) here and there." The last one shook his head. He only saw a lot of apples on the beautiful trees.

    The teacher smiled and told his students none of them were wrong. They each just saw one season. He continued, "The trees are not the same in different seasons. You can't judge (判断) a tree by only one season. Don't let the regret of one season destroy the beauty of the rest.

    Everything has different sides in our life. Don't hurry to make a conclusion(结论) before seeing the whole of it.

    There was once a musician. He said he was not afraid of dangerous animals, "Even a bear would be as quiet as the friendliest cat when hearing my music." But he had never played the game, and no one believed him.

    A chance to show his words arrived just when a circus (马戏团) came to the town. The musician came to the ringmaster (领班) and told what he could do.

    "Wow, that's interesting." The ringmaster said. "We just have three new lions and they haven't worked with the lion tamer (驯兽师) yet. Let's see what you can do with them." The musician agreed and the whole town crowded the hall to see what would happen.

    The musician was standing quietly in the center with a smile. Then the ringmaster opened the door of the cage and jumped out angrily a huge lion, shouting and showing his teeth. Everyone was too nervous to breathe.

    Still with the smile, the musician began to play. The beautiful music rose, then the lion sat down and began to enjoy the music. Everyone lost themselves in the music. The lion did, too. For the second lion, ________________.

    Then it was the third lion's turn to appear and everyone there was waiting for the lion to be quiet just like the other two. But the lion ran up to the man and ate him.

    All the people were surprised. The other two lions asked angrily, "What have you done! We were enjoying the music!" The third lion put his paw (爪子) to its ear and said, "Sorry, I can't hear you. I have been deaf for 5 years."

It was a lovely spring afternoon. My classmates and I were playing happily on the playground when I let out a cry, "Ow! Ow! Something in my shoe is biting me."

Everyone was shocked by the cry. They took me into a classroom and were about to take off my1 . "Which foot is it?" One asked "let us have a look."

Suddenly, I remembered the holes in 2 socks. My family was very poor during those years. I wore welfare socks, which cost only a little, but those 3 welfare socks didn't last long. They soon had 4 at the bottom.

I refused to take off my shoe. I 5 stand others seeing the holes in my sock. I tried to hold back my tears. Yet, each time the thing 6 my shoe bit me, tears raced down my face.

My teacher, Miss Diane, hurried into the 7 , "What's wrong? " She asked.

"Something is biting her right foot, 8 she doesn't let us take off her shoe," One of my classmates answered.

Miss Diane lived next door to me. She 9 everything about my family. She put both hands on my shaking shoulders and 10 into my painful and hopeless eyes.

"Oh, yes, it must be a sock-eating ant," She said, as if she had 11 seen the thing inside the shoe. "I had a bite from one of those ants. By the time I got my shoe off, it had 12 almost the whole bottom off my sock." My classmates nodded while they were listening to the teacher 13 , although they all looked a little puzzled.

Miss Diane took off my right shoe and sock and shook them over the dustbin. Two red ants 14 it.

"Just what I thought. The ants have eaten part of her sock." When she stroked an alcohol cotton ball on the bites, she added, "You are such a 15 girl to take so many bites."

The alcohol felt cool on the bites and a little girl's pride was saved by the "sock-eating ant " story.

In a certain period of time, every family should have only one child. But nowadays many families can choose {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (have)a second or third child. More children bring happiness to their parents, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} they also add to the living cost. So the parents have to work even harder for a good life. 

Liu Ling, a mother of three, is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} good example. She is one of the hard- working and wise Chinese {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (woman). Liu Ling was born in Jiangxi Province. When she {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(grow) up, she worked in a clothes factory in Hangzhou. 

After she got married, she moved to Xi' an. Now she is working in {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (she) husband's family business. She is a mother who has three children. In order to give them a good life and education, she works as hard {#blank#}7{#/blank#} she can. 

She does really {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (good) in her work. She has to carry window frames(窗框) which are {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (heavy) than her. At present, Liu Ling has a window and door factory in Xi' an and enough products every year. She can make 50, 000 yuan per month, but she {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (hope) she can make more money as her children grow older. 

Have you ever heard of Zhang Guimei? She is not only an excellent teacher, but also a great woman in {#blank#}1{#/blank#} heart. Because of her efforts, a lot of girls in the mountains have got a good education and achieved a better {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

Zhang Guimei was born in 1957 in Heilongjiang. She went to Yunnan to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} build the less developed area in China in 1975. Eight {#blank#}4{#/blank#} later, Zhang became a teacher. She found that some girls there couldn't get a good education because of their {#blank#}5{#/blank#} families and wrong ideas. She was so {#blank#}6{#/blank#} about them that she wanted to try her best to change their ideas. Unfortunately, Zhang was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} ill in1997. However, she never gave up and then set up Huaping High School for Girls in 2008. Thanks to Ms. Zhang's help, thousands of girl students have been brave enough to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} out of the mountain s in the past14 years.

As we know, Zhang Guimei has devoted her {#blank#}9{#/blank#} life to her educational work. Also, her experiences have {#blank#}10{#/blank#} many people and made them pay more attention to education for the girls in poor areas. What a great woman she is! She is the very person that I admire most.