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    I'm Mark. I live on a farm. There are some elephants on my farm. They can play soccer and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. They are very smart. I use them to carry things, sometimes, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    I'm Sue and I'm from India(印度). The Indian people look up to cattle. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. When you come to India, you can see cattle walking along the streets, and eating fruits and vegetables in the shops.

    Hi, I'm Judy. I live in Australia. My family has three shepherd dogs(牧羊犬).  These dogs are not big but {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. They can run very fast.

    I'm Leo and I have a parrot. Her name is Susan. She is beautiful and interesting. And she can speak, too. When my friends come to my home {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Susan likes eating carrots. And she likes singing when she feels happy.

    Once an old man who had four lazy sons fell sick and was counting his last days in bed. He was very worried about his sons' future because they always believed in luck {#blank#}1{#/blank#}of hard work.

    The old man decided to play a trick{#blank#}2{#/blank#} he died to make his sons realize the importance of work. He told them that he would leave them a treasure box {#blank#}3{#/blank#} gold coins and wanted them to share the treasure.

    The young men asked where his father had placed the treasure. The old man replied," I can't exactly remember{#blank#}4{#/blank#}place. However, the treasure is buried in our land."

    After a few days, the old man died. The sons decided to{#blank#}5{#/blank#}the land to find the treasure box. They worked very hard, but they couldn't find the box. They dug even{#blank#}6{#/blank#}, but they still got nothing.

    Later, one of their neighbors {#blank#}7{#/blank#} by and saw the loose (松的) soil. He suggested that the sons should turn it into a farm. Soon, good fruit and vegetables grew out of the land. The four sons sold them at a good{#blank#}8{#/blank#} and made lots of money.

    Then they realized that the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} box their father mentioned was hard work in fact. The father successfully played a trick to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} his sons how important it was to work hard. What a clever father!

My father was busy fixing Belinda's spaceship all afternoon. In the evening, I went to the landing place. "Dear Father," I said politely. "Have you found Belinda's parents yet?"

"Not yet, my dear." He shook his head.

I felt relaxed. I didn't want to meet Belinda's parents—they might be ten times as loud and bossy as she was.

But Belinda had followed me.

"Not yet?" she shouted. "Why not? I'll send them a message! They'll listen to me!"

Belinda ran to the radio. She shouted into it so loudly that I had to cover all my four ears. "Mummy! Daddy! I'm on an awful spaceship full of purple people! Come and find me now!"

"Poor Belinda!" my sister came and said. "Her parents must be missing her."

"Huh!" I snorted (发出哼声). "Missing her? You're joking! Who would want such a bossy kid back? They probably lost her on purpose."

Belinda's face clouded. I thought she was going to shout again, but she didn't. Instead, something very strange happened — her eyes began to water!

"Oh, help!" said Roa. "Is she dying?"

I felt terrible. "Don't die, Belinda! I didn't mean it."

Then Belinda opened her mouth wide and shouted, "What if it's true? What if they've gone away and left me here forever?"

We were all so busy comforting Belinda that we didn't notice the soft knock of a ship landing outside. We didn't see two tall people come out of it until Belinda ran out in excitement.

"Mummy! Daddy!"

Belinda's parents were even uglier than she was, but they looked polite. "Hello, dear," the female said. "We're sorry we kept you waiting."

We smiled as the three of them boarded their spaceship. "Goodbye!" shouted Belinda. "Goodbye! Thanks for taking care of our baby girl!" said her father.

None of us answered. We waved (挥手) cheerfully as the ship took off and went far away into the stars.

Last year, we took a trip to New York City. When we 1 our hotel, it was around 1 a.m. My son Joseph looked out at the lights of Times Square and said he wanted to go 2 . I told him it was too 3 to go out, but he kept looking out of the window and said, "Just for two minutes." 

My wife and I just looked at each other, 4 and said "Two minutes". We got 5 and walked to the center of Times Square. When we got there, my son pointed at the lights and said "Dad, look!" and then started to fall asleep.

It took us 20 minutes to 6 the 20 seconds we spent outside, but it made our son happy and that meant a lot to us. That night, I learned a lesson about 7 . We sometimes can have happy moments (时刻) in our lives, 8 we often find an excuse to do something else. 

Because of my son, I learned that I am the 9 enemy (敌人) to my own happiness. Happiness is a door that is always 10 . However, we are the ones who have to decide if we are going to walk through the door.

Friends are very important in everyone's life because friends are always there when we need them. It's great to have many friends, and I can't think about my life without my friends. 

My best friend is Lisa. She is one year older than me. Now we are in the same class. She is tall and quite thin. She has long curly hair and blue eyes. I am not so beautiful. Sometimes I wish I could be as beautiful as she is. 

My name's Molly. I am tall enough but a little fat. Lisa and I like doing a lot of things together and talking about different things. She always helps me with my Maths and I sometimes help her with her history. I had to do a report on science once, but I didn't understand what the teacher said. The next day, I read it in front of the class. But the teacher told me that my report was wrong and all my classmates laughed at me. I felt very sorry for myself. Lisa was the only one who didn't laugh at me. She tried to be nicer than anybody else and make me happy. 

I am a shy person and sometimes I feel that people don't understand me. Lisa is friendly and everybody loves her. She is also smart and she can deal with （解决） everything. I am happy to have a friend like her.