In 1990, when I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) nine years old, I wanted very much to find {#blank#}2{#/blank#} pen friend. I found Ashley's address in a magazine, and decided{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (write) to her. I sent off my letter with a little hope. Very quickly, I received her letter. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} my surprise, Ashley was only one month {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (old) than me. I learned some new expressions from her. I {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (real) liked this new friend.

Letter after letter, year after year, Ashley and I continued to write to one another. A letter would be received and I'd write back right away. We would send each other birthday and festival {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (gift).

Eight years later, my parents decided it was time {#blank#}8{#/blank#} me to meet this friend. They drove me down to Mississippi for a few days. We {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (have)a fun time together. We did the things that teenage girls love to do.

Twenty—five years after the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (one) letter, Ashley and I still have an amazing friendship. Although we don't write letters now, we communicate through mobile phones and the Internet.

I'm Eason. I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in "New York with my family. I like reading very much, and I have many books at {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, I'm in the school book club now. There're{#blank#}3{#/blank#}students and three teachers in the club. We meet from 7:00 to 8:00 {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  Wednesday afternoon. We usually{#blank#}5{#/blank#}about one book together. Our teacher {#blank#}6{#/blank#} asks us some questions about the book. All of us want to answer them, because it's interesting {#blank#}7{#/blank#}a game. We can borrow (借) a book from the club, but we must take it back {#blank#}8{#/blank#}  It's fun joining the book club, because we can also make {#blank#}9{#/blank#} friends here. There's a new book {#blank#}10{#/blank#}every month in the club. I like the show very much and I never miss (错过)it!

Ye Shengtao was a famous Chinese writer. He created the first collection of fairy tales(童话集) named The Scarecrow(《稻草人》) for Chinese children between 1921 and 1922.

Ye was born in 1894 in Jiangsu. He once worked {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a teacher in a primary school He often told his students stories from Chinese and foreign classics. His students were all happy {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (listen) to those stories.

In 1921, Ye {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (begin) to write fairy tales for a magazine. He finished his first fairy tale Little White Boat in November of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} same year. In the following seven months, Ye wrote {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (many) fairy tales than before. And they made up The Scarecrow we see today.

There are two kinds of stories in the collection. The {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (one) story is about children's innocent smiles and beautiful feelings like Little White Boat. People's hard life like The Scarecrow {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (describe) in the second story. In the story, the scarecrow often sees poor people's difficulties in life, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} he isn't able to stop them from happening or give people a helping hand. He feels very helpless and falls down in the field at last. Ye wanted children to care about what happened around {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (they). And he hoped children could understand adult's {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (sad) after reading the collection.

Good works always stand the test of time. Nowadays, Ye's fairy tales are still popular with children.

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 Hello, I'm Eric. I am

"Why do I live? Why do I wish for anything, or do anything? Is there anything in my life that will not be broken by my death?" Like Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, many people ask these difficult questions. Tolstoy spent his whole life trying to answer these difficult questions. 

As a young man, he thought people could be perfect if they tried hard enough. So he worked very hard to be the best in everything. He thought that he would find the meaning and the truth in success. 

In the 1850s, Tolstoy wrote his first stories. He wrote about his life when he was a soldier. He also told stories about his childhood. These works were published (出版) and Tolstoy became a well- known writer. He got the respect he always wanted. Many rich and smart men met and talked with Tolstoy. But soon Tolstoy recognised that these men were not perfect and they could not answer his questions. 

So in the 1860s, Tolstoy tried a different way to find the meaning of life. He opened a school for the children of his serfs — the people who worked on his land. These workers were very poor. He wanted to help them because he thought they were more honest than the rich people he knew. 

Tolstoy learnt a lot from his workers. He understood how they worked hard to support their families. He began to believe that marriage and family would give his life meaning. So in1862, Leo Tolstoy married a young woman named Sonya Behrs. 

 The next 15 years were the best years of Tolstoy's life. It was during this time that he wrote his most famous books— War and Peace and Anna Karenina. In these books, Tolstoy believed humans should live a simple life and take care of their families. Tolstoy thought this would satisfy him and bring him happiness. 

A group of students visited their teacher after leaving school for many years. All of them talked about {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(problem) in their work and lives. It seemed that they were not satisfied with themselves. 

Then {#blank#}2{#/blank#} teacher went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and many kinds of cups — china, plastic and glass. He told them {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(help) themselves to the coffee. 

When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the teacher said {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(slow), "Have you noticed that all the nice-looking and expensive cups have been taken and the common ones have been left behind? Maybe it is not wrong to choose the best things {#blank#}5{#/blank#} yourselves. However, it is the source(根源) of all your trouble. Does the cup itself add anything to the coffee? Of course not. It is just a tool to hold {#blank#}6{#/blank#} you drink. "

"It was coffee that you really wanted, not the cups, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} you all went for the best cups and then began to watch others' cups. Life is the coffee while jobs, money and the social positions are the cups. Coffee is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(important) than cups. The cups don't decide what your life is. " All the students understood {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the teacher said. 

Sometimes if we pay attention to the cups, we will not enjoy the coffee. The people {#blank#}10{#/blank#} are the happiest in the world may not have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.