Nasruddin(阿凡提) was a very clever man. When a nobleman named Shah heard Nasruddin's stories, he decided to ask some questions to puzzle him.

    On a sunny morning, Shah rode his horse and set off. When he got to a crossroads, he saw a man coming to him. He stopped his horse and asked,“I say, Mula（对有学问的人的一种尊称）. Do you know Nasruddin? Where does he live? Tell me.” Shah had a habit of asking the way when he saw every scholarly-looking man. Luckily, this man was Nasruddin.

    Nasruddin looked up at the nobleman on the horse and asked,“How did you know I was a Mula?”

    “How did I know?” he bragged（自夸）.“Well, I am a mind-reader. That's how.”

    “I am very pleased to meet you,” said Nasruddin with a smile,“I live in the next door to Nasruddin. I know his address. Since you are a mind-reader, read my mind and find the way to his house all by yourself.”

    One cold winter day a little girl and her father arrived in London. Sara Crewe was seven years old. She sat in the taxi next to her father and looked out of the window.

    "What are you thinking about, Sara?" Mr. Crewe asked. "You are very 1." He put his arm round his daughter. "I am thinking about our2in India," said Sara. "I don't think I like 3very much, Father." "But you must go to school in London, and I must go back to India and leave." said the father.

    "Yes, Father, I know," said Sara. "But please come to school with me! I can help you with your lessons."Mr. Crewe smiled, but he was not4. He loved his little Sara very much. Sara's mother was dead, and Sara was his only child.

    Soon they arrived at Miss Minchin's School5Girls and went into the big house. Miss Minchin was a tall woman6a black dress. She looked at Sara, and then gave a very big smile. "What a7child!" she said. Sara stood8and watched Miss Minchin. She thought. "I am not beautiful, so why does she say it?" Sara was not beautiful,9her father was rich. And Miss Minchin liked girls with rich fathers,10it was good for the school. "Sara is a good girl," Mr. Crewe said to Miss Minchin. "Her mother was French, so she speaks French well, and she reads books all the time. But she must11with the other girls and make new friends, too." "Of course," said Miss Minchin. She12again. "Sara is going to be very happy here, Mr. Crewe."

    Mr. Crewe13in London for a week. He bought many beautiful, expensive dresses for his daughter. He bought books, and flowers, and a big14with beautiful dresses, too.

    When Mr. Crewe 15from London, Sara was very sad, but she did not cry. She sat in her room and thought about her father on the ship back to India.

    "Father wants me to be happy," She said to her new doll. "I want to be a good daughter, so I must be happy." It was a very big, and beautiful doll, but of course it couldn't answer. Sara soon made new friends in the school.

    I'm Dingding. I 1from Beijing. I have(有) four2. They3 Helen, Sally, Michael and David. Helen and Michael are4the U.S.A. They are both(两者都) thirteen5 old. They are6Class One, Grade Eight. Sally7 from England. She is 8, too. She is in 9. David is from Canada. He and I are the same(相同的) age. We are fourteen. We are in Class Two, Grade Nine. Helen, Sally, Michael, David and I are in the same 10.

Hello, I'm Zhang Xia. I have a good friend. He is English and his name is Jim. Look! This is 1 bedroom. It is a 2 nice room. A clock 3 some pictures are4 the wall. 5 are on the desk. There is a schoolbag on the chair. It's not his schoolbag. It's his sister's. 6 schoolbag is on the bed. Where is7 baseball? It's behind the door. What's that? 8 a cat! Its9 Mimi. It10 a hat.

As students in Grade 9, there is only few months left before you graduate. How will you record your memory of the past three years?

Students at a school in Hangzhou {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to make a class magazine by collecting some articles and photos. "We have {#blank#}2{#/blank#} for the magazine for a long time. We hope that the articles can make us think of the important moments, and it's a great chance to look back on our {#blank#}3{#/blank#} growth too. It is a meaningful and wonderful gift for me. I will put it at my {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. So I can read it easily, " Tony said. "When we go to university or start working in the future, the magazine will remind us of our happy years when I feel {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, " the other girl said. 

Hope you can come up with more ways to memorise your secondary school life. 

Mr. Black and Mr. White were two very famous artists in the city. Their drawings were also very popular in the city. But they tried to see who could draw the best picture. 

One day they asked an old man to be the judge. Mr. Black drew an apple tree. He put his picture in the field. Soon the birds came and tried to eat the apples. The old man saw it and said， "You have certainly won. Mr. White cannot draw so good a picture as yours. But we'll go to see his picture. "

They went to Mr. White's house. There was nothing but red beautiful curtains（窗帘）on the wall. The old man asked， "Where is your picture，Mr. White? " He said， "Lift the curtains and you will find my picture there. "The old man tried to lift the curtains but found that they were drawn there. They were Mr. White's picture. The old man said， "Birds thought the apples were real. Men thought the curtains were real. So Mr. White won. His picture is the best one. "