Henry comes from America．He likes1 a lot．He's visited many2 ． Last summer,he went to India，a county3a long history.During the trip there，he met something4from his culture(文化)．

    One day,he wanted to visit a palace．He went out of the hotel and5a taxi.When he told the driver and palace's name，the Indian6his head．Henry said

    again and the driver shook his head again．Henry,of course，got7 ． "Why did you always refuse (拒绝)me?"he shouted．"Please drive me to the palace'"The driver answered"Yes．sir!"and shook his8again．The taxi started and Henry didn't say a word．He9it，and then he said to himself,"I see, 'shaking the head' means'10 'here."

On July, 27th, 2018, the comedy Hello, Mr. Billionaire (《西虹市首富》) came out. Many people went to the cinema to watch Shen Teng, who played the1 of the main character, Wang Duoyu. He acted so well that people just couldn't stop laughing 2 the movie.

The movie 3 the story of a man named Wang Duoyu, who is poor and nameless. Then he will become very 4 overnight (一夜之间) because his grandfather 5 to give him 30 billion yuan. 6, he has to use up one billion yuan within a month first, or he will get 7. It is not easy for him to do that. Wang Duoyu tries many times but 8 almost every time. When he is about to succeed, he finds his girlfriend kidnapped (绑架). To save her, he decides to 9 the money. Later, he finds out that it is only a test, for his grandfather wants to make sure he is a dependable person. Finally, he gets both the money and his girlfriend's love.

Some people think Wang Duoyu's story is too 10 to be true. They say there is no such thing as a free lunch. In my opinion, if you don't take the movie too 11, it is fun to watch. Besides, I learn from it that money is not everything. In other words, there is always something more important than money, such as 12. Wang Duoyu makes the right decision when he is asked to 13 between love and money. I also have a better understanding of human nature (人性). It doesn't matter if you want to be rich, but how to become rich makes a 14. Wang Duoyu doesn't get rich at the cost of (以……为代价) losing his girlfriend. 15 these reasons, Hello, Mr. Billionaire is a great comedy that is worth watching again and again.

    Mike was the kind of guy you love to hate.He was always happy and always had something interesting to say. If someoneasked him how he was doing, he would reply, "Couldn't be better!" Hewas really a care-free young man and never felt tired.

    Mike used to say, "Each morning I wakeup and say to myself, 'Mike, you have two choices (选择) today. You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be upset.'I choose to be happy. Each time something happens, I am always ready to learn agood lesson. I choose to learn from life."

    I tried to understand what he said. Indeedlife is all about choices. Every situation is a choice. The bottom line is: You'reliving your life and you make it either happy or sad.

    Several years later I had a car accidentand my legs were seriously injured. When I was lying on the ground, Iremembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or choose to die. Ichose to live.

    People like to say, "Choosethe one you love and love the one you choose." Why not choose the one welove and live happily?

A gift in a wrong place brings unexpected happiness. 

Since 1cameto my new neighborhood，1 have been glad to meet a few neighbors. They seem to be quite1 people. For Christmas, I thought I would do2 nice for each of the neighbors that I know. I sat down and counted. 

There were nine neighbors, and I also knew which houses they lived in.

However, I decided to3 one more person to my list, the lady I met every morning walking to work as I drove down the street. She always smiled at me,4 I had no idea which house she lived in.

My gift idea was to make small5 baskets and leave them on each of my neighbors' front porches (门廊) on the night of Christmas Eve. I kept the last one for the friendly lady, since I was still not sure where she lived — 6 the house where I met her each morning. Finally, I decided to put it there. My neighbors really enjoyed the baskets and a couple even came by to7 me.

This morning 8 my way to work, I put my mail in the mailbox and noticed a Thank You card. I opened it and read the 9 which really made me surprised.

The card said, "Thank you for those lovely apples and strawberries you left on the porch of Tod. He 10 on January 19th, but he never stopped11 how nice it was that someone remembered him in his time of illness. He really enjoyed it." I was very surprised. I didn't know who Tod was or that 12 had been seriously ill. I left that nice lady's basket on Tod's porch by accident. I believe that Tod never expected to have that basket. I feel13 that the nice lady did not get a basket from me this Christmas, but I believe that if she knew what happened, she would 14 me.

I feel lucky to have helped Tod be more cheerful in his last days. This just makes me further believe that sometimes 15 in life are beautiful.

My sisters and I recently returned from visiting our beloved parents in Florida. For six days, we spent about six hours on the beach 1 . We really 2 ourselves there.

I usually read books on the beach while my mom and sisters enjoyed 3 shells(贝壳). This time they 4 their pockets and bags with seashells, and then took them home. On the last day of our trip,I joined the family 5 of collecting shells too. I grabbed handfuls of(一把) sand and picked out shell treasures. Having 6 so many shell handicrafts(手工艺品) made by my mom and sisters before, I used to take shells for granted(理所当然). But I couldn't help but feel 7 at the shells in Florida. Some were big and in different 8 while some were no bigger than a nail, which was unbelievable.

 Many people know there's a beach full of 9 in Western Australia, which is over 74 miles long! It's called Shell Beach. But nobody exactly knows 10 seashell species(品种) there are on the beach:11 as many as 200,000 different kinds. However, very few of the shells have pearls(珍珠) in them. 12 The Science Network,"A finished pearl takes 15 to 20 years to make, which 13 why a ton of shells might produce as few as three pearls. The probabilities(概率) of them being 14 pearls are, exactly, one in a million."

I was lost in thought. The chances of finding a pearl in a shell are more than one in a million. Compared with shells,15 isn't so hard. The shells with pearls are valued by people and so is the person who gets to the top. So try to be a pearl on the beach!