Jack Green is 75 years old. He is not in good condition. "I think I'm ill," he tells his wife, "I feel awful. I've got a headache and I don't feel like eating."

    "You've put on a lot of weight recently. You should see the doctor," his wife says, "ask him how to lose weight. It's not good for your health."

    "OK," says Jack. He goes to see a doctor.

    The doctor checks his heart and weighs him. Then he says, "You are too heavy. You need to do some excercise to lose about 30 kilograms. Run two miles a day for the next 100 days. Then call and tell me your weight."

    A week later, the doctor receives a call from Jack. "Doctor, I ran two miles every day and I feel much better. But I have a new problem."

    "What's that?" asks the doctor.

    "I'm 14 miles away from home, and I can't find my way back."

    One Sunday, Jim went to town to buy new clothes. First he tried on a sweater. He didn't like it, so he returned it to the storekeeper. Then he tried on a T-shirt that had the same price as the sweater. Jim was satisfied with the T-shirt, and he left the store with it. Before he climbed on his horse to go home, the storekeeper and the assistant ran out at the same time.

    "You didn't pay for the T-shirt!" said the storekeeper.

    "But I gave the sweater in exchange for the T-shirt, didn't I?" replied Jim.

    "Yes, but you didn't pay for the sweater!" said the storekeeper.

    "But I didn't buy the sweater." said Jim,

    "I am not so stupid to pay for something that I have never bought."

Max is a very clever boy. He is only three years old but he learns1 . His mum teaches him 2 things and he remembers all of 3 .

One day, his mother said to him, "Max, there is a very important telephone number. It is 911, You must keep it in mind. If anything 4 and you need help, this is the number to call. People in America will dial 911 if they need help."

One morning. Max and his mother were at home. His mother was ill, so she took some medicine. But the medicine 5 down from her throat and made it difficult for her to breathe. When Max saw this, he remembered what his mum6 him. He picked up the phone and called 911 at once.

"Hello. Mum is dying. Please help us," Max cried. "Don't be afraid, little boy. Tell me name and7 you live," the woman on 8 end of the line said. Max told her and in ten minutes a car came 9 Max's house. The doctors took Max's mother to the hospital.

Now you see it is important 10 some important telephone numbers in mind.

Today is Grandma's 85th birthday.

"I'm giving her a photo," says Brian."I took it with my new camera (照相机). {#blank#}1{#/blank#}" he asks his brother Joey.

"I don't know." says Joey."I don't have a camera. So I can't take a picture."

{#blank#}2{#/blank#}His mom is busy making something." Mom, what are you going to give Grandma?"

"{#blank#}3{#/blank#}" says Joey's mom.

"I can't make cakes. I don't know how." says Joey.

Joey goes to the living room. His dad is sewing (缝) a blanket(毯子)."{#blank#}4{#/blank#}" Dad said.

Joey then goes and sits next to Grandma on the sofa." Everyone has a gift for you, but not me. I can't take a photo, make a cake or sew. I don't have anything to give you." says Joey.

Grandma put her arm around Joey." {#blank#}5{#/blank#} That's what you can give me," says Grandma.

Joey smiles." Happy Birthday," he says.

Brenda was a girl with one big dream. She wanted to play the 1 in a band. But there was one problem. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to 2 a lot. But she lived next to a lot of old people. The sound of beating drums would make them feel 3 .

 Brenda was a very kind girl. She tried to find a way to practice her drums 4 bothering(干扰) other people. 5 she tried playing in the kitchen, and even in the bathroom. But there was always 6 who could hear the noise. That made her feel sorry so she spent most of her time playing on books and boxes.

 One day, while watching a 7 program on TV, she heard that sound cannot travel in space because there's no air. At that moment, Brenda decided to become a 8 astronaut.

 After a lot of hard work, Brenda built a space bubble. It was a big glass ball connected to a machine. The machine could draw(抽出) out all the 9 inside. All that would be left inside were drums and a chair. Brenda 10 the space suit(宇航服) she made, entered the bubble, turned on the machine, then she played the drum 11 .

 Soon, Brenda became 12 . So many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly after, she started to give concerts. 13 , Brenda was a real musical astronaut, and went far beyond her first dream of playing the drum in a band.

 Years later, when people asked her 14 she could achieve all this, she thought for a moment and said," These people next door are old and I need to 15 about their feelings. If not,I wouldn't go such a long way to find a solution, and none of this would have ever happened."