Good morning, boys and girls. I 1 your English teacher. My name is Alice Brown. Alice is my 2 name, and Brown is3 last name. Look! What's this? Yes, it's a photo of my4. This is my husband. He is a teacher,5. He is6 P.E. Teacher. But he is not in our school. I have a son and a daughter. This is my 7. His name is Jim. And that is my daughter.8name is Gina. They are9the same grade, but in different10 . Jim is in Class 3, and Gina is in Class 7.They like sports very much, and they often do sports 11 their friends after school. Jim likes Yao Ming . So 12 is his favorite（最喜欢的）sport. Look at his T-shirt. Its size（尺码）is 13. If（如果）you want to play and need help, call 14. Gina loves books. She is always in the 15.

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    The Sun shone high in the sky．When a little boy was playing in the garden of a house，a deer suddenly rushed into．It took the boy away．This made the little boy afraid and shouted．His mother came out，seeing the deer running off towards the mountains with her little boy．

    The boy's mother was so worried. She ran after the deer，as fast as she could，but not too far away，she found her little boy sitting safely on the grass．His mother was so happy that she cried．

    When she went back home with her son，she was amazed at what she saw．The big tree in the back of their house fell down when she was out looking for her son．The whole house was broken．The chickens and dogs in the house were all dead．If she and her little boy were at home，．．．

    Then the little boy's mother remembered the deer．About a year ago，it ran into her house because a hunter(猎人)wanted to catch it．She felt sorry for the poor deer，so she covered it with some clothes．When the hunter rushed in，he couldn't find it．He thought it must go out of the back door, so he kept catching it，and when he was far，far away，she let it return to the forest．

    She never imagined that the deer could remember her kindness(友善)．

    Ann is a newspaper reporter. She chose this1so she could travel around the world. The work has taught her many unforgettable (令人难忘的) lessons. She has seen wars, earthquakes and death. But she has 2 seen courage, hope and happiness.

    Last year, she won an award for her reporting in Africa. She was very proud 3 it. At first, she thought she got the award because of her good work. But then she realized that she should thank many other people for 4 help.

    Ann was born in Jamaica. Her family was not poor, but it was not 5 , either. Her parents had to 6 hard so that she could go to school. At school, Ann was not a good student, 7 she enjoyed writing because her English teacher said, "Ann, you are a wonderful 8 " The teacher encouraged her all the time.

    Later, Ann went to university in Canada and then 9 a job. It was very difficult. Then, one day, she went to see the editor of a newspaper in Ottawa. The editor gave her a job. "Everyone needs a 10 at first." he said.

    William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his1famous plays are Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. He was born in 1564 in England.

    At school he liked2. He decided3an actor when he finished school at the age of fourteen. He married in 1582 and had three children.  4twenty-eight he5London and6a theatre company. He became a successful actor and started writing plays. Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ7Shakespeare's plays.

    In 1599 the company opened the Globe Theatre 8the River Thames in London. You can go to the Globe Theatre today.

    William Shakespeare died at the age of fifty-two. He was rich and9. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous10in the world.

    I was born with a heart disease. As I grew up, parts of my heart started to1and I was often out of breath. So when I was eight, the doctors opened up my chest to2it. When they saw the state of my heart, they told my parents, "We don't expect him to3 the night. "I was in and out of a coma (昏迷)for three months. Every day the fact that I wasn't4 was a good thing.

    Finally, the doctors5I'd be better off at home—saying that I wasn't going to live long. But I carried on and had something close to a   6childhood. As a teenager, I began to7 heart failure again. But I was 8to go to college, become a manager and get married to Jo.

    I started my own9so I could work flexible(灵活的)hours, 10. Jo and I had two children: Josh and Liam. I11to keep a good standard of life for everyone, 12when I was waking up feeling sick every morning. By January last year, my heart failure was so13that I often couldn't walk more than a few yards.

    I was worried about not being around for my 14I had to explain to Josh that the call telling me an organ(器官)had been found could come any time and I'd be 15to hospital, perhaps before I could say goodbye. A few days later, the phone rang and Josh said, "Is that the doctor with your new16?"However, it was  17a salesman.

    May 4 was the day a transplant(移植)18was found. I was out of hospital within five weeks and within a few19, feeling much better. By October, I was taking part in a 30 mile bike ride.

    These days I spend a lot of time talking to kids with heart20. I want to support others who have had a hard time.

A man was1 because he tried hard but always failed. He went to the 2 and met a wise hermit(隐士). The man asked, "Why should I keep trying?"

"Look," the hermit said, pointing towards3 plants. "Do you see that fern(蕨) and bamboo there?"

"Yes," the man nodded.

"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. Within a short period of time the fern 4 grew from the earth," the hermit continued. "But even though the bamboo seed was cared for years, there was no sign of 5 . But I did not give up on the bamboo seed and continued to water and take care of it. By the fifth year,a very small sprout(芽) came out from the earth. And within six months, the tree grew 6 tall. It was as tall as a seven-storey building."

"Did the bamboo stay still for four years and then grow a lot in the fifth?" asked the hermit. The man didn' t know what to say.

"It's simple," said the hermit. "It was making 7 roots underground. These roots helped it grow big in the fifth year and keep growing."

"Did you know that all the times you had been struggling(挣扎), you were growing strong 8 ?" said the hermit.

 The man learned his9 that day. He understood that persistence and hard work can10 , even if it takes time. The fern and the bamboo stood right in front of him as he walked towards his life to continue to work on his dreams.