It's 7: 00 on Sunday morning. Some students are in the post office. They are1 a letter to their good friend Jeff now. He is a 13­year­old English boy. He wishes(希望) to come to China and have a good time here, 2 he doesn't know where the place is. These students write this letter to tell him.

    3 town is a beautiful place, so Jeff wants to visit it very much. He knows the town very early. There4a hotel in the town. Jeff can5 in it. A6 is near it. He can enjoy much nice food in it. He has lunch and supper in it, but he has to have breakfast outside. 7 the restaurant and the hotel there is a park. There are many beautiful trees and flowers in it. He can ask the8 for help when he has problems. He can go9 the police station.

    He must love this beautiful town. These students welcome him to this10 place.

    I stood in my grandmother's front yard with my son. He had a bottle of soapy water and a plastic loop (圈). You know the type. You dip (浸) the loop in the bottle, pull it 1 and blow it to make bubbles (气泡).

    My son dipped and dipped and blew and blew, but 2to blow bubbles. He handed me the bottle and loop and asked me, "Daddy, 3 you make bubbles?" I hadn't blown bubbles for years. I am a chemist by education. All my knowledge is 4 when it comes to trying to blow bubbles from a loop filled with soapy water. I had no more success than my son.

    After several tries 5the loop of soapy water, I gently (轻轻地)breathed on it. My son cried with joy as a big beautiful bubble 6 and moved slowly in the air. He grabbed (抓住)the loop, dipped and blew. No bubbles. I7 explained to him, "Son, you can't blow so hard; you must ever so gently breathe on the loop to make bubbles." He followed my8 and blew gently. This time he made a big beautiful bubble, then 9…

    There are some things that you can get with force, 10 there are other things that only come with the gentleness of a soft breath. The closer something is to higher spirit, the more it is like bubbles; it can't be forced.

Mike is a twelve-year-old boy. He lives with his 1 in a small town. One day, Mike has a fight* with one of his classmates. After school, he tells his story to his grandfather angrily."The boy is bad,"Mike says,"I don't 2 him."

The grandfather says,"Don't be angry. Let me tell you a story. When I am a boy, I also hate* others for what they do. I often fight with my classmates 3 lessons. That's why many classmates don't like me at all. It makes me so sad."

As the boy 4 carefully, the grandfather looks at him and goes on,"Later on, I think about this problem for a very long time. I find that there are always 5 tigers in my body. One is good and kind. He gets on well with everything around him. 6 the other is bad and unfriendly. He fights with everything all the time, and for no reason. He can't think carefully because he always hates others. It is 7 to live with these two tigers inside my body. They both try to control* me."

The little boy looks into his grandfather's eyes and asks,"8 tiger always controls you, grandfather?"The old man says slowly,"The one that I feed*. I always feed the good and kind tiger, so I 9 get angry or hate others now."

Mike says,"I'd like to feed the good tiger like 10 and someday I hope I can become the class monitor and other classmates will like me!"

Tony loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college-basketball the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he was sent to 1 . 

Tony's doctor told him that 2 his legs were broken, When he heard that , he knew His college basketball dreams 3 came true. Tony did what the doctors told him. 

But it didn't work when he left the hospital, Tony was sent to a recovery(康复）center. 

A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Though he couldn't move his legs, Sunny became a coach of a basketball team. It was a on- wheelchair（轮椅） basketball team, because 4 on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he 5 feeling sorry for himself. 

After becoming a part of the Suns, Tony improved quickly. Playing basketball was like6 for him. When Tony became sad or 7 ,Sunny was there to help him. The day before Tony 8 the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny 9 he could be so happy, even with his broken legs. 

Sunny smiled and said, "It's really quite 10 . When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows(影子） fall behind. "

One day, a father took his son to go back to their hometown. They visited the little boy's uncle who lived on 1 farm. They spent three days and nights on the farm. When they were 2 the way home, the father asked his son," How was the trip?"" It was 3 , Dad." said the son.

" What did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.

The son answered," We have one dog 4 they have five. We have a small pool that reaches the middle of our garden and they have a big river 5 has no end. We have some 6 in our garden and they have the stars at night. We have a small piece of land to 7 on and they have fields that go beyond(超出) our sight. We need to buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls to protect 8 , but they have friends to protect them. The boy's father 9 by his son's words.

Then his son added," 10 rich they are! Thank you for showing me what a poor life we live."