Roger was new in town, and he had no friends here. His birthday was coming. He wanted to have a big party, but he was1that other kids would not come to his party.

    One week2the birthday party, Roger and his3went to Benny's Pizza Store. It had the best pizza in the town. Roger wanted a large pizza. He4it very much.

    5, Roger got a great idea. "Will you teach me to cook pizza?" he asked Benny.

    "Benny is very6. He may not have time to teach you," said Roger's father.

    "But7loves his pizza!" said Roger. "8I can cook pizza like him, I'll be the most popular boy in school."

    "I will help you," said Benny. "Come here after school every day and you can learn to make it9!"

    Roger decided to have a10. After that he went to Benny's Pizza Store every day after school. Benny11him how to make pizza. At last, he could make very good pizza.

    Roger told the kids at school that his party would have pizza from Benny's. Everyone was 12. But when they came to Roger's13, Benny wasn't there. However, they saw Roger14 pizza himself. The kids didn't believe that Roger could make pizza. But when Roger took the pizza out of the oven（烤箱）, everyone agreed the pizza15just like Benny's. It might be a little bit better.

    Joy was working in a factory far away from his home. One day he wanted to send a(n) 1 to his wife. But he could not read or 2, and in the daytime he had to work. So he could only 3 somebody to write his letter late at night. A letter-writer called Johnson lived near here. But it was 4 when he found Johnson's house.

    Johnson was already in 5. He said," It is late. What do you want?" Joy answered," I want you to write a letter to my 6." When Johnson heard that, he was not 7. He thought for a while and then said," Does the letter have to go 8?"

    "What does that matter?" answered Joy.

    " Well, my writing is very strange, 9 can read it except(除了) me. And it will cost you a lot of money 10 I have to go a long way to read the letter to you wife." Hearing these words, Joy went away.

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How l've Changed!

How time flies!

There was a businessman who was deep in debt(债务) and could see no way out. He sat on a park bench(长凳), head in his hands.

Suddenly, an old man appeared before him and said, "I can see that something is 1 you. If you need someone to talk to, I'm happy to lend an 2 ". After listening to the businessman's story, the old man wrote out a check(支票), and put it in his hand, saying, "Take it and pay me back here exactly one year from today." Then he turned and disappeared as 3 as he had come.

The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, one of the 4 men in the world!

"I can pay off my debts in a second!" he realized. 5 , the businessman decided to put the check in his safe(保险箱). Just knowing it was there might give him the power to save his business, he thought.

He went back and worked hard to make his business successful. Within several months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the 6 . At the same time, the old man appeared. Behind the old man was a nurse. She spoke to the businessman and said that the poor old man was mentally(精神上) 7 , but sometimes he ran out of the hospital, telling people he was John D. Rockefeller, the United States oil king.

The businessman was 8 to hear this. All year long he'd been buying and selling, believing that he had half a 9 dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the 10 to achieve anything he went after.

There was a little boy whose name was Peter. He lived by the sea. The villagers built sea walls to keep sea water from the doors of the houses. But once the sea walls almost put the village in great danger.

One day, Peter was walking on his way back home along the sea wall when it began to rain. All of a sudden, he saw a hole in the wall, from which the sea water was running. Peter shouted for help because he knew the hole meant that the sea was making its way through the sea wall, but no answer came. He realized he should do something else as quickly as possible, or the sea water could be pouring over the whole village. He started to rush towards his village. At the same time, the rain became heavier and heavier.

It was getting dark, but Peter rushed on and on. He felt cold and hungry. In the rainstorm, he fell down over and over again. Many times he thought about giving up, but he fought on. He remembered his father's words, "Lots of strong men have made every effort to build the walls which can keep the village safe from danger. The sea walls are really important."

Finally, when the boy's father saw him, Peter had been black and blue all over. The boy told the villagers what had happened to the sea wall. They repaired it in time. "Thank God! He saved the village," they praised Peter. All the villagers called him "Peter the Guard" from then on. Peter's parents were really proud of him!

It's Sue's first day of school. The girl meets many kids in the beautiful school, but she isn't1 . She has to leave her best 2 , a lovely cat, at home. Dad says it can't 3 her. 

Now Sue is having her last 4 today. But she just wants to go home 5 to play with her cat. So she begins to put her school things into the schoolbag. 

Mr Green, the maths teacher, 6 this And he asks, "What is two and two, Sue?"

Sue 7 , but she doesn't say a word. 

"If your mother gives you two pencils. " Mr Green then says, "and I give you two, how many 8 are there in your pencil case?"

"Five, Mr Green!"

The teacher feels surprised(惊奇的) and says with a 9 , "You should have four, Sue!"

"I don't think so!" Sue answers. "I already(已经) have 10 in my pencil case!"