Lisa has always been overweight. She wanted to lose weight, not just because she wanted to1more beautiful and be healthier, but also because it would make life easier. For example, it was2 for Lisa to find ready-made clothes that would fit. She had to ask a tailor(裁缝) to make clothes that were 3 enough. In school, she needed a special chair that was bigger and 4 than the other chairs. If she went for a walk, she got tired very 5. She was also unhappy about the way people treated（对待）6sometimes. “People look at me and even make fun of me. That's unfair! It's true that I'm overweight, but I don't think people 7treat me differently because I'm big. I can't enjoy having meals with my friends because I'm afraid of getting fatter.” Her friends and family never made fun of her. They tried to help her 8.They wanted her to be happy and healthy. Sometimes when Lisa was feeling sad, she didn't want to speak to9.

    10 now things are quite different. Last month her classmates were preparing for the School11Week. Someone advised Lisa to play the lead role of the proud Queen(女王)12was tall and fat. Lisa13and practiced a lot.

    Soon after the play, Lisa became the star! She did14well that everybody remembered the proud Queen. They stood around her and said “Congratulations” to her. She even won the School Best Actress Award for her wonderful performance.

    Now Lisa doesn't worry15being fat any more. She believes in the English saying “Every dog has its day.”

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Andy was about to throw an empty box when a woman and her daughter ran over.

"This smells 1 !" Andy said to the woman.

The woman said,"I just want you to 2 me the box. It's how my daughter and I survive (生存)."

"But it's just rubbish," said Andy.

"One person's rubbish is another person's 3 ,"the woman said, reaching out her hand."Can I have it?"

"4 you want it, just take it out of the rubbish bin by yourself,"Andy replied 5 . Then he threw the box and walked towards his 6 car. The woman didn't say anything and took the box.

Andy told his mother about the encounter(相遇) with the woman. His mother said in a 7 voice,"Andy, not everyone has good luck. Your father left us when you were two years old. We lived a hard life. I couldn't find a(n) 8 , so we had to live on the streets. One day, I met a lady and she 9 me to make money by recycling boxes. I followed 10 suggestion and our life changed after that."

Hearing this, Andy 11 the car and rushed to the lady."I'm sorry for 12 I did. You're right. One person's rubbish is another person's treasure." Then his mother came over and was 13 to find the woman was just the lady who helped them out of trouble a few years ago. She hugged the woman warmly and said,"You did so much for us. Now it's our turn to 14 you. Please come and stay with us, OK?" The girl and her mother were moved to tears.

There are always some people who give us unexpected 15 . So wherever we are, be kind to people around us.

I love bedtime stories. I can never fall asleep without having my bedtime stories. Every day, I can have two stories, one in English and one in Japanese.My mom's first language is Japanese and my dad's first language is English.Usually, Dad reads an English story to me first. Then it's Mom's turn to read me a Japanese story. In my family, though both my parents can speak the two languages very well, we speak English more often than Japanese, so I find listening to Japanese stories challenging. I ask many questions when Mom reads Japanese stories to me.

Mom is not very happy about my Japanese and she is thinking about sending me to a Sunday school to learn Japanese. I don't want to get too busy on Sunday. I need some playtime, so I tell Mom that I will read more Japanese books on weekdays. Mom agrees with me.

Mr. Hamel picked up a grammar book and read us our lesson. I was surprised at how well I understood it－everything he said seemed so easy! Mr. Hamel had never explained things so patiently. It was as if the poor man wanted to give us all his knowledge in one go.

After grammar, we moved on to writing. For this last day, Mr. Hamel had prepared new examples written in a beautiful style: France, Alsace. Everyone worked hard in dead silence. The only sound was the scratching of pens on paper.

Pigeons (鸽子) cooed softly on the roof. I wondered if they would be forced to sing in

German, too. Mr. Hamel looked at the things around him as if he wanted to remember everything in the small classroom. He had been in this same place for forty years. The desks and chairs were worn with use. The walnut trees in the garden had grown up. The flowers he had planted were now climbing up to the roof.

It must have been sad for the poor man to leave all these things behind. His sister was packing their bags upstairs. They were leaving the country tomorrow.

Mr. Hamel bravely kept on teaching the lesson to the end. After writing, we had history. And at the end of the day, the little children read "BA, BE, BI, BO, BU" together. The old man put on his glasses and read with them. He held his textbook tightly in both hands. His voice was shaking.

Suddenly, the church bell rang. Mr. Hamel got up from his chair. His face was pale, but he had never looked so tall before.

"My friends, I…" But something stopped him. He could only turn around and pick up a piece of chalk. As large as he could, he wrote "…"

"Today's lesson is over. You can go now," he said.

Last year a rainstorm came to a small village. Many houses were broken. Several people were badly hurt and taken to hospital. 

A student, Kate, said, "It was terrible. I was helping my mother make breakfast when the rain started to beat heavily against the windows. 

"I was eating with my family," a housewife, Jenny said. "I heard a loud noise. A few minutes later, our house fell down. We tried our best to get out. We were very afraid but safe."

Mr Green, an engineer (工程师), said that he was drinking coffee and reading a newspaper in the office when he felt that the building began to shake. He had to stay in the office. "There was no electricity (电) and I couldn't contact (联系) my family members," he said. "I was very worried about them at that time."

Volunteers were helping the people out of the village and giving food and clothes to them. They felt very tired but it was meaningful.