My family lived in a big city, and we had no garden, but I often {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (go, went) to a small park near my home. There {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (are, were) a lot of trees in the park. Early in spring, those trees{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (get, got) green. I liked to see all the green leaves. In summer there were flowers everywhere. I often {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (read, reads) picture hooks on the bench. In autumn, the leaves turned yellow and red. I often {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (take, took) a walk with my parents. I also{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (like, liked) to walk after supper with my grandpa. He {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (know, knew) a lot of stories. Every time we had a walk together, he{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (tells, told) me an interesting story. When I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (am, was) young, I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (have, had) a good time in the small park.

    O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.

   When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison(监狱). During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.

   He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.

A horse fair was an interesting place. There were young horses and many beautiful horses from the country. But there were also a lot of poor and thin horses.

At the horse fair there was a man with a gentle voice and kind grey eyes. He offered 23 pounds for me, but the salesman refused. Then a man with a very loud voice came. I was afraid he was going to buy me, but he walked away. Then the grey-eyed man came back again and said, "I'll give you 24 pounds to buy him."

"Done," said the salesman. "He's an excellent horse and if you want him for cab (出租马车) work, he can help you earn more than you pay for him. The horse is well worth the price."

Half an hour later we set off for London, along country roads, until we came to that great city. There were streets to the right, and streets to the left. We went into one of the small streets, and then into a very narrow street, with small and old houses.

My owner stopped at a house. The door opened, and a woman, a little girl and a boy came out.

"Is he gentle, Dad?"

"Yes, Dolly, as gentle as a little cat. And you can pat him."

Dolly, the little girl, patted my shoulder without fear. It felt so good! They led me into a comfortable, clean room, and after a delicious meal I lay down to sleep, thinking "I'm going to be very happy here".

My new owner's name was Jerry. His wife was called Polly and they had two children, Harry and Dolly. The next morning they came to see me. I loved it when they patted me and spoke in gentle voices.

"Let's call him ‘Jack', after the old horse, shall we, Harry?" said Dolly.

"Yes, sounds great!" said Harry.

The first week of my life as Jack, the London cab horse, was very hard. The noise, the people and the traffic on the streets scared me. But Jerry was a very good driver, and that helped me a lot. Jerry soon found that I was ready to work hard and do my best, and he didn't whip (鞭打) me.

He kept me very clean, and gave me as much food as I wanted. But the best thing was that I had Sundays off.

Grace, Helen, Eric and Bob put their pencil boxes and jackets on the desk. The pencil boxes are white, blue, red and black. We know the boys' pencil boxes aren't red and the girls' pencil boxes aren't black. What color is Grace's pencil box? I don't know. But I know it is not blue. Bob says, "My pencil box is white." Then what color are their pencil boxes?

The green jacket is Grace's. The size(尺码) is L. The red jacket is Helen's. The size is L, too. The white jacket is Eric's and it is M. What color is Bob's jacket? It's brown. Its size is smaller(更小的) than Eric's. Do you know what size it is?

1. Where did you go?

2. Who did you go with?

3. How did you go there?

4. What did you do/ eat/ see?

5. How did you feel?

注意：（1）文中不得出现人名和校名等真实信息；（2）写作词数为80词左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

As a saying goes, "Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. So

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 Sam Smith has always been a hard-working student. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(然而), it was difficult for him to study English at the beginning of the term, and he was trying to catch up with his {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(问班同学). He was not good at speaking at first, but he tried to take an active part in the English class and have English {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(交谈) with his friends and me. During the break, I often saw him read English books, which helped him have a{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(宽阔的) view of the world. So I'm very pleased that at the end of this term, Sam Smith {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(改善) greatly and came top of our class.

 Besides learning English. Sam also made great efforts in sports games. In the last basketball Match {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (对) the Greenland School, he scored most! Now he has become a shining star on the basketball court by {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (训练) hard. I also find that Sam is a boy full of love. He helped look after the animals in the Animal Shelter. To {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (保护) more animals in danger, he wrote to the local {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (政府) and called on people to stop buying products made from animals.

Sam should be really proud of himself. I'm sure he will go to his dream {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (大学) one day if he keeps working hard. Best wishes to him!