On his first day he was inside a church taking photos when he noticed a golden telephone on the wall with a sign that read "$10,000 per call". Jay wasintriguedso he asked a priest (牧师) what the telephone was used for. The priest told him that it was a direct (直接的) line to heaven（天堂） and that for $10,000 you could talk to God. Jay thanked the priest and went along his way.

    Next stop was in Des Moines, and there at a very large church, he saw the same looking golden telephone with the same sign under it. A nearby nun（修女）told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 he could talk to God.

    Jay decided to travel to Australia to see if they had a similar phone. He arrived at Western Australia, and again, in the church he entered, there was the same looking golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read "40 cents per call."

    Jay was a little surprised and asked the priest about the sign. 'Father（神父） Brian, I travelled all over the world and I saw this same golden telephone in many churches. I know it is a direct line to Heaven, but in all of them price was $10,000 per call. Why is it so cheap here?'

    Father Brian smiled and answered, 'My son, you're in Australia now - this is Heaven, so it's only a local call.'

A man lived happily in a village because everyone praised him.

One day, he happened to hear some people talking about him.1 what they said made him sad. They said he was too proud. From then on, whenever he heard others2 , he thought they were saying something bad about him. He was 3 all the time. His wife noticed this and took him to a wise old man.

The wise old man said, "Stay in my house tonight. "

The man 4 . When he went to sleep at night, the croaking(呱呱叫声) of frogs fell in his 5 . A pool was behind his room. The more he wanted to ignore(忽略) the sound, the6 the frogs seemed to croak.

The next morning, the man told the wise old man, "I couldn't sleep well last night. It felt like there were  7 of frogs in that pool. You must also have trouble because of them. Can I take them8 and put them far away?"

The wise old man agreed.

To the man's9 , only ten frogs were caught.

The wise old man said, "Even at night there were only ten frogs. Because you paid too much10 to the noise, you thought there were hundreds of them. It is the same in your life as well. There's no need to care too much about others' talks. Be true to yourself. "

Dogs really are man's best friends, and they are very useful in some ways. 

A new study said that dogs can smell(闻) if people are feeling stressed(有压力的). They can smell the difference in breath(呼吸) and sweat(汗液) from people. Then they can tell if people are. stressed or not. It could be 93.75 percent right! A study from scientists at Queen's University Belfast, UK, said this. 

Scientists got breath and sweat from people both before and after doing a hard maths problem. They looked at the people's heart rate(心率), blood pressure(血压) and stress level(压力水平) in the study. The dogs found stress in 675 of the 720 people, that is 93.75 percent of the people, reported Australian news. 

Stress makes people's breath and sweat different. Dogs can smell that difference, said the study's writer Clara Wilson. In the study, she also said this finding helps us know how dogs may know people's feelings. 

Dogs are always man's best friends, and they have special ability(能力), do you think so?

Do you know that the colour words have other meanings？Now let me tell you. 
First，some colour words can be people's last names，such as Brown，Black，Green，White and Red. 
Second，some colour words have interesting meanings. For example，blue means unhappy. Green hand means you are new to something. If someone meets a "black cat"，something unlucky might happen to him. Black sheep means bad people in a group. Black coffee means coffee without（没有） milk. White coffee is coffee with milk. If someone tells you to put something "black and white"，they want you to write it down. In China，red is known to be a lucky colour. But you may be surprised to know that British culture（文化） is also full of the colour red. If someone "sees red"，they are angry. A company "in the red" is losing money. 

My dad is a big fan of tea. He always asked me, "Lingling, how about having a cup of tea with me?" I always refused and felt {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

That day, as usual, Dad made the tea {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Through his quiet moves, I felt the steam water into the teapot and the tea leaves opened slowly. Then the water turned green little by little.

I took a cup and tasted it. It was a little bitter (苦的) at first. But when I tasted it again, the tea left a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} taste. I even felt sweetness.

I suddenly realized that life is just like a cup of tea. The world around us is like the boiling water and the people are like the leaves. The leaves give off their delicate fragrance (香味) only through hot water. Similarly, we must also meet with {#blank#}4{#/blank#} in our life. Maybe we must face bitterness in the beginning, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} we can choose to fight for the sweetness ahead.