Long long ago，there was a prince．There was a big tree in his garden(花园)．Many animals lived in the tree．Every morning when the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}woke up，he heard these animals'nice {#blank#}2{#/blank#}．Every evening he sat on the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}under the tree to enjoy his mom's stories．

    Slowly, the prince grew up．He got {#blank#}4{#/blank#},and had some children．But he began to hate the tree，for it became old and dry．One day he asked some people to cut the tree down．

After the tree was cut down, the animals left．The prince was sad．He wanted to know where the animals {#blank#}5{#/blank#}．He asked many people but {#blank#}6{#/blank#}knew．He thought these people  were  very {#blank#}7{#/blank#}．And he was angry with them．He decided to kill them．Luckily ,a {#blank#}8{#/blank#}boy stopped him and explained that it was because of the tree that those animals went away．The boy advised the prince to plant more trees so that more animals would come．

    Everybody knows that it is dangerous to cross the street without looking both ways in China. However, I had a different experience in Berkeley, a beautiful city in California, US.

    I didn't know what to do when I had to cross the roads{#blank#}1{#/blank#}my first couple of days there：I wondered whether I should let the car go first or not？Based on my old experience back in China, I would certainly let the car go. "Who wants to be knocked down by a car？"I thought to{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    One day. I was checking for cars while I was waiting to go to the other side of the road. An SUV came fast toward me, so I stopped and{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. However, to my great surprise, the car stopped right in front of me. To be honest. I was a little confused because in China drivers usually try hard to drive as{#blank#}4{#/blank#}as possible to cross the road before people step out. Not knowing what to do for a moment, I saw no sign the car was going to move, so I offered a "signal" to let him go first.

    An interesting new sport in the United States is sky diving(高空跳伞) . Some people like this {#blank#}1{#/blank#} very much. They often form(成立) a club. The members of the club get into airplanes and fly high above the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. When it is time, each person jumps from the airplane and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} toward the earth at a very high speed. All of the members have parachutes(降落伞) but they do not open the parachutes {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a long time.

    From the ground they look like big birds. The sky divers(高空跳伞运动员) say that they {#blank#}5{#/blank#} also feel like(感到好似) birds. Some people like to swim in the ocean or to play in the snow, but the favorite place for sky divers is the sky.

—Usually it comes at 4：00 p. m.