Gary and Gavin were twin brothers who worked in a store owned by their father. After the father had passed away, they took over the store. Everything went well until the day a twenty-dollar bill disappeared. Gary had left the bill on the cash register (收银台). But when he returned, the money was gone.

    Gary then asked his brother Gavin, "Did you see that twenty-dollar bill on the cash register?' Gavin said that he had not. But Gary did not let it go and kept asking. "Twenty-dollar bills can't walk away by themselves! Surely you must have seen it." "I said I didn't see it!" Gavin replied with anger.

   The quarrel divided the young men and they could no longer work together. Later, a wall was built in the center of the store. For twenty years, hostility (敌意) never ended.

    One day, a strange man came to the store. He walked in and asked Gary, "How long have you been here?" Gary replied that he'd been there all his life. "Then you are the person I'm looking for," the man said. "Twenty years ago, I was totally broke and hungry. I entered this store from the back door and saw a twenty-dollar bill on the cash register. And I took it. All these years I haven't been able to forget that. I had to come back and apologize for that.

    The stranger felt shocked when seeing tears well up in the eyes of the middle-aged man in front of him. "Would you please go next door and tell the same story to the man in the store?" Gary asked. Then something surprised the stranger even more--after hearing his story, the two middle-aged men hugged each other and cried together in the front of the wall of the store.

    After twenty years, the wall that separated them finally came down.

When my daughter was in primary school, she brought home four small twigs(细枝) from school to plant. None of them looked very strong and lively. But with hope for the future, I planted them somewhere in our backyard which could give them enough sunlight. Over the years, because of the poor soil(土壤), three of them died. Only one lived at last.

It grew crooked(不直的) and very slowly. In fact, it looked more like a fat bush than a tree. Later, I noticed that it was starting to die. The branches(树枝) were becoming bare. Only the top third of the tree was still green. I did my best to save it by feeding it a lot of fertilizer, but it didn't work.

Later one morning, I went out and looked at it again. I was thinking if it would be better to just cut it down. It would make the yard look cleaner. As I walked over to take a closer look at it, however, I noticed something moving within the leaves. It was a bird patiently building a nest in the topmost branches. I smiled when I looked at it. I thought maybe this old tree was still useful. It might not be healthy or pretty, but it was still giving a bird a home.

This tree let me know that all of our lives have a purpose. It doesn't matter if we are young and strong or old and sickly. Until our last breath, we have things to do, love to give, and joy to share. We can help to make this world a better and more beautiful place.

During the summer vacation, some boys came to a tall tree. They wanted to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree first. Their mothers sat there, looking at the children. 

David was one of the boys. He was young and short. No one thought he would win the game. When the game started, all of the boys tried to climb as high as they could. They all made it halfway (在中途) up the tree before David got to the top of the tree first in the end. 

His mother was amazed to see it. She asked, "David, how did you get to the top so quickly? "

David said, "The other boys kept looking down as they climbed. When they learned how high they were, they got scared and were afraid of falling down. But I only looked up. When I saw how close I was, I kept climbing. " It's true in life that if we keep moving forward (向前) without looking back, we will get close to our dreams. 

My name is Tina. I'm 13. I'm in No. 2 Middle School in Wuhan. I have a sister and her name is Rita. She is two years older than(比......年长) me. She and I are in the same school. We go to school together every day.

Rita likes dogs. She has a dog. Her name is Coco. Can you spell her name? Yes, it's C-O-C-O, Coco. She is smart. She can sit down and stand up on command(根据指令). She can put her "hand" in my sister's hand too. And she can open the door(门). My sister and I both(两者都) like her. We like to play with her after school.

Li Yue is a 16-year-old boy from China. In January this year, the young boy reached the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}of the highest mountain in Africa. The boy completed the climb {#blank#}2{#/blank#}his father and thre guides in five hours. 

The climb began early at 2 a. m, and it was still{#blank#}3{#/blank#} at that time. So they had to wear heard lamps to light{#blank#}4{#/blank#} way up the mountain. About one-third of the way up, Li began to feel sick. He slowed down and even fell onto the ground. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, afer a short break, he decided to keep going. Witha strong will, he got over the dificulties{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. He was also the first in his group to reach the peak (顶峰）

Standing at the top of the mountain, Li finally{#blank#}7{#/blank#} one of his greatest dreams. As he wrote in his diary, "I thought I woud fail, but I'm so{#blank#}8{#/blank#}I succeeded. " From this expeience, Li has developed a strong{#blank#}9{#/blank#} in mountain climbing. He also plans to climb another high mounain in Europe next year. 

Mountain climbing can not only help children exercise, but also{#blank#}10{#/blank#} them the spirit of never giving up. "It will greatly influence their future growth and development. " his father said. 

Taihang Grand Canyon National Forest Park is a natural wonder. It lies in the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} part of Huguan County. There are some sweet springs, silver chains—like waterfalls, deep pools, clear streams, interesting karst caves and forests spreading all over the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

I always remember the journey to go there. In the early morning, we began to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the canyon. At first the canyon was silent. With more and more people coming, the canyon became noisy. There were so many trees and we didn't know most of them. Some signs along the paths told us something about different sights. We heard the loud waterfalls {#blank#}4{#/blank#} we were far away from them. When we got near, we {#blank#}5{#/blank#} cool at once. The waterfalls were high and pretty. We also visited some other sights and had great fun there.