Tom and Mike had a very good time last Sunday.That morning，they1at six o'clock and dressed(穿衣)themselves.2having breakfast，they went to the park.It's in the centre of the city. In the park.there were a lot of nice flowers.Mike wanted to 3one，but Tom stopped(阻止)him.He told Mike it was not.4to pick flowers.Then they went to the lake.By the lake,they saw a small5.They jumped into it and started a tour on the lake.Two hours6,they left the lake and walked up the hill(小山)near the lake.They got to the top at half past eleven.There they had their lunch.7did they have for lunch?Eggs，bread and oranges.In the afternoon,they 8home.When their mother asked them about the morning，9answered，"It was great.We10ourselves(我们自己)all the morning."

    The ladies club(妇女俱乐部) always 1 a meeting 2Friday afternoon and someone came to talk to them about 3. After that, they had tea and asked 4.

    One Friday a man came and talked to the club about the food problem. "There's not 5 food in the world for everyone," he said. "More than half of the people in the world are hungry. And when they have 6 food, they have more babies, 7 they never 8 being hungry. Somewhere in the world, a woman is having a baby every minute day and night. What are you going to do about it?" He 9 for a few seconds. Then one of the ladies said, "Well, why not 10 that woman and stop her?"

    Dorothy lived in a small house in Kansas, with her uncle, aunt and a little black1called Toto. Sometimes there was a cyclone（飕风）in Kansas. It could, blow everything away. 2usually there were cellars（地窖）under all the houses. People went into their cellars when a cyclone came.

    One day, a cyclone was coming. So they3went into the cellar, but the dog Toto was so4that he ran under the bed. Dorothy had to pick5up. But6she got to the cellar door with Toto, the cyclone arrived and the house was moving！It went slowly up into the sky. Dorothy was afraid. “But we7do anything about it, ”she said to Toto, “So let's wait and see. "Soon, they went to sleep.

    When Dorothy8, the house was on the ground. She opened the door and found she was in a new place. Then, she saw three short men and a little old woman9a white dress. The woman walked up to Dorothy and said, "Thank you！You killed the Witch（巫婆）of the East, and you10us. "

    Dorothy was really surprised.

    I come from a small village in North China. Every year, when the Spring Festival comes, people can see red flowers on the windows of my house. Of course, these flowers are not real and they are paper flowers. But 1 the cold winter days, these wonderful flowers make us feel 2. They can 3 my family and make us feel happy. But do you know who cuts them? It is my grandmother and she is 70 years old now. With a few cuts, she can 4 pieces of paper into a beautiful work of art.

    When my grandma was a little girl, people 5 her as the most clumsy(笨拙的) child in her family. But one winter night, she saw her new neighbor could cut some beautiful red paper flowers. She was so 6in it and decided to learn from the new neighbor. Lots of paper was wasted and her fingers were cut many times, but she7 practicing. It took over ten years before my grandma could learn the 8 of making paper art. The red flowers, blooming (盛开)like burning fire, make her happy. Now, my grandmother is famous for her paper flowers and almost 9 in the village loves them.

    The story of my grandma has shown us the way to succeed. As we know, happiness comes from hard work. 10we want to achieve our dreams, we must work hard.

On the day of the interview, I got up at 6:00 in the morning. I got to the interview place without having1. l was the 24th interviewee(应聘者) and the 22nd was a short ordinary- looking girl. I greeted her by2my head. I asked her where she graduated. She told me in a low3, "I graduated from a junior college， the only one without getting a bachelor' s degree(学士学位) among the 50 interviewees.

I didn't4he interview would last so long. As I didn't have breakfast, my stomach started to ache. I had to sit by the table for a5. Just at that time, the girl asked me6happened, I told her, "I didn't have breakfast this morning, so my7comes to me.

    After a while, a worker came in and8me a bottle of milk and a piece of bread. It was certain that they were bought by the girl. I felt9all over my heart because I hadn't imagined she would be so nice to help me- her rival(竞争对手).

Luckily, I got the job. The first day I went to work, I was10to see the girl there. She also got the job. Later I asked her why she got the job. She said11a smile, "That day when I bought you the12, an interviewer went to the toilet with papers in hands. He asked me13I could help him to copy those papers while he was in the toilet. I helped him. After I came back to him, he asked me why I took the food in hands. I told him the14. Then I got the job." At that moment, I came to know that when the girl helped me and the interviewer, she also helped15.

    Helping others will benefit yourself as well.