In a small town lives an old man. He has a nice house with a large 1. The old man takes care of his flowers every day. The garden is 2 beautiful that every passer-by will stop to have a good look.

    One day a young painter went by the old man's garden. He looked at the garden, thinking how 3 he would be if he lived in such a beautiful place. Then suddenly he found the old gardener was blind. The painter was 4 and went to the old man. He asked, “You can't see the flowers. 5 are you making them so beautiful?”

    The blind gardener smiled, “I can tell you four 6 .First, I was a gardener when I was young. Although I become blind now, I am still good at gardening. Second, although I can't see these flowers, I can touch them. Third, I can 7 the sweetness of them. At last, that's you. It's true that I don't know you. But I know many people will stop by the garden and the beauty of my garden will make 8 happy. It also gives me a chance to 9 with you here and enjoy these flowers together.”

    Every flower has eyes. 10 the eyes they can see the kindness of the old man. The blind man also grows in his heart. Failing to see the beautiful flowers come out, he surely can hear the sound of them.

    It was a Friday evening. I was waiting at the bus stop after school when a car stopped and the driver opened the door. It was my 1. “Quick, get in!” he told me. I was very 2, but I did as he said.

    At first, I was worried that something 3 happened. Then, I noticed my mother. She was also 4 the car and on the back seat. There were some bags of clothes and 5 food. My father was driving the car, but he was not driving 6. He was driving out of the town. “Where are we going?” I asked.

    It was a warm evening and lots of people were walking along the road. It was the 7 day of term. Did my parents have a big surprise for me? We were going somewhere special — 8 where? The next thing I can remember is falling 9. When I woke up, I saw the sea. We were at the beach. My father was smiling. “Here we are,” he said, “the summer holiday 10 now!”

    Have you heard of the Great Wall? It is one of the  1  wonders in the world. Every year thousands of  2 from all over the world come to visit this place of  3  in China.

    Last Saturday, I went to the Great Wall with some of my friends. It was a  4  day. On our way up, we saw many volunteers standing in the sun. They helped  5  with their bags. And they also helped some visitors  6 photos. They were very tired, but they didn't stop to have a rest. We were  7 when we saw this.

    Just at that time, we saw a little boy standing alone and crying. We went over and asked what happened  8 him. From his answer, we knew that he couldn't  9  his mother. We told him not to worry about it and then we tried to call his mother with the phone number he gave us. Twenty minutes  10  , his mother  11 . When she saw his son, she was very  12  and thanked us with tears in her eyes.

    That day we not only enjoyed the  13 of the Great Wall, but also felt the warmth of the society. If everyone can give a helping hand to  14 , the world around us will be  15 beautiful.

I'm a piano teacher. I can feel 1 how talent and hard work affect my students.

In fact, not everybody was good at playing the piano, For example, same of my students just2 two or three months learning to play the piano well, 3

others need to learn for years and talent doesn't always bring a goad4 .When playing, the piano seems easy to a student, he or she sometimes finds it boring and them gives up. And talented students sometimes have have other things they enjoy

5 so they give it up, too.

Some of my student work hard .But they still 6 play the piano beautifully. I teach them again and again, and7 practice for long.However, it just doesn't work for these students. In my eyes, it isn't necessary to do everything very well. When you really don't have any8 for something, the best way is to give up. Then you can9 what you"re truly interested in or good at, and put all your heart into it.

Both talent and hard work play important roles in 10 .If you want to do the best, you need to follow yow talent and work as hard as you can. Don't give up halfway.

This story is about a young man. He worked hard at his lessons. He was too busy. He didn't have time to rest, so he was ill. Every night, when he went to bed, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. But he couldn't. He thought, "I must go to see the doctor." He said to the doctor, "I can't go to sleep at night." "Try counting numbers. When you reach one thousand, you'll be asleep."

The next day the man came back to the doctor's office. "Well," said the doctor, "how are you today?" 

"Yes," he said. "I tried counting one, two, three … up to （直到)one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drank some tea. Then I went on counting up to one thousand. But I still couldn't fall asleep."