Tina woke up at midnight. She looked out of her window and saw a yellow light in the sky. It suddenly dived towards the ground. She heard a noise and saw a red light.

    The next morning, Tina mentioned it to her brother Tom. "I'm sure something landed in the forest near the hills as I heard a loud noise last night" she said, "Let's go there and have a look after school."

    At 6 p.m., Tina and Tom reached the forest. They heard some voices speaking a strange language, so they hid behind some gees and kept quiet. Then they saw an alien! It was tall, with a round head and a silver body. It was standing next to a long spaceship.

    The children were frightened. Suddenly, another alien appeared from the trees in front of them. It discovered them and made a terrible noise! The children ran away in fear.

    The next morning, Tina and Tom told their parents about the strange aliens. "They were very ugly. They had some hair, but they didn't have any feathers." said Tina.

    "There was something written on the spaceship," said Tom. "It looked like this. I wonder what it means." He drew some lines on a piece of paper.

    But Dad said, "Since no one else saw these aliens. I refuse to believe you. Now go to school!"

    The children opened their wings and flew to school together.

    Dad looked at the piece of paper with the strange marks on it. "It looks strange," he said, as he looked at the word "EARTH".

One day, Wald went to the supermarket to buy some groceries (杂货) for his wife Layla. On the way home, he stopped at an art gallery where people were holding a pop-art exhibition.

Then, being so moved by what he saw, he left the bag of groceries on the floor and went home. When Wald rushed back to the gallery, the groceries had been awarded the first prize in the exhibition.

"We've been looking everywhere for you," the gallery owner said. "Why didn't you sign your name of art?"

"What? It's not a work of art. It's my dinner for tonight!" Wald replied.

The gallery was suddenly full of laughter. "He's not only a great artist, but has humour as well." A judge said. "You can see that in his work," another judge cheered, "How the bottle of tomato ketchup is leaning against the pork and beans! He is a genius (天才)! Notice the way the bottle of peach is lying on its side! Even Artist Andy Warhol wouldn't have thought of it!"

"Did you notice the way that he pressed the cheesecake on the bottom of the bag? I think that's why he can win the first prize. It makes Artist Picasso feel ashamed." A lady said excitedly.

"Look," Wald said. "I'm very thankful for all these praises, but my wife is waiting for these groceries, and I have to get it home."

"Get it home?" The gallery owner said surprisingly, "I've just sold it to that couple over there for 1,500 dollars."

"But the groceries cost me only 18 dollars," Wald said.

"It isn't a bag of groceries. It's what you did with them. The thought you expressed in your art is even more meaningful than Artist Auguste Rodin showed through his "Thinker"! You have said what Artist Rembrandt tried to say in 1,000 paintings with this bag of groceries!" The gallery owner said, "Here is your money!"

With a burning face, Wald stood still and could not say a word. Finally, he accepted the money and that night he took his wife out for dinner.

The next day, he went to the supermarket and bought another bag of groceries, much more expensive. He immediately took the bag to the gallery. But the reviews were terrible to him. Some leading critics even said that success had gone to his head but his talent was gone, and all that was left was a bag of tasteless groceries.

Yan Mingyou is 93 years old, but he still works as a music teacher in Anhui.

Yan is from a small town of Anhui. He has worked as a rural (乡村的) music teacher for about 40 years. When he reached the age of 60, he retired. But after he learned some rural schools were short of music teachers, he decided to go on teaching. "I usually have six music classes at a school and five classes at another school every week," he said. To make his classes more interesting, Yan started to learn to play the piano when he was 77 years old. At the age of 80, Yan felt he was too old to teach music. However, the children wanted him to stay. "Students wanted me to teach music, so I would go on teaching," Yan said.

Yan often uses some of his money to help students in need. Liu Dandan is one of the students he has helped. About 10 years ago, Liu, a student in Grade 5, had to stop getting an education because her family didn't have enough money. When Yan heard about that, he helped the girl. "I just try my best to help children in need," he said.

"I'm happy to teach music," Yan said. "For rural children, music is a way to help them make their dreams come true."

Here are some suggestions to Jack from different people. 

Last month, I took a vacation to the seaside. I was excited and swam very far, past some boats and out to the sea.

Then I saw a shark(鲨鱼) moving to me! I was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} scared. I tried to swim back to the beach. But I couldn't get to the beach quickly because the beach was too far away. Suddenly I saw another two animals in the water. They were {#blank#}2{#/blank#}! They pushed(推)me away from the shark. I sat on {#blank#}3{#/blank#} back when they swam to the beach.

Soon we were near the beach. The shark did not follow us. When I {#blank#}4{#/blank#} at the beach, they swam away. I will never forget how these {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and beautiful, animals saved my life.