Benedict's explorations are often dangerous，but he likes them. One of his favorite explorations was in 2001. He wanted to be the first person to travel alone across the ice from Siberia to Alaska. So he went to Siberia and lived with the Chukchi people. He learned how to live like the Chukchi people and drive a dog team. He traveled 622 miles with only a dog team. The weather was really bad. There was a lot of snow, wind and ice，so the journey was very difficult. Benedict almost lost the dog team，and he almost died，so he ended his journey early. It was scary, but he learned a lot.

    One day a dentist was starting his morning work. Suddenly a man ran in. His face was red and he could only say "Quick! Quick!" The dentist thought he must be very ill. His assistant helped to make the poor man sit in a chair. The dentist gave the man some medicine to make him sleep. Then, he looked into the man's mouth and pulled out all the bad teeth. As soon as the man woke up, he said in a low voice, "Quick, doctor, quick."

    "It's all right now," the dentist told him, "It's over."

    "You don't understand," said the man, "I came to tell you your house is on fire."

Dear Jennifer,

    It's Tuesday, February 11^th. I'm really busy today. At 8 o'clock I have a math class.I don't like math class. Then I have a science class. It's difficult, but It's interesting. Next, at 10:00, I have a history. It's boring. But I have PE at 11:00. That's my favorite subject. I have lunch at 12:00. After lunch. I have a music class. I like my music teacher, Mr. Morgan. He is a fun teacher. School is over at 2:00. After school I do sports for two hours. I'm so tired, but I'm very happy.

Yours,

Linda

How do you deal with the difficulties you meet? For some people, they always tell themselves, "I can't do it." Is that right? After a special lesson, I found my 1 .

One day, our teacher Donna asked us to fill a paper with something we couldn't do. We were 2 at first but followed her. A student beside me wrote on his page, "I can't make a choice between staying at home and going out." I also began my 3 . So did Donna and even the things—"I can't let every student 4 reading…". We first knew that she had the same "Can'ts".

Then Donna asked us to fold the paper and place our "I Can'ts" papers into an empty box. She took the 5 and we followed her to the corner of the playground. "Today we'll bury (掩埋) our ‘I Can'ts'!" Donna said. 6 the hole was about three feet, the digging ended. Thirty-one students stood there to see "I Can'ts" disappearing 7 making any sound. Some students asked Donna why we did this.

Donna said that we shouldn't repeat our "Can'ts" because they 8 stop us from moving forward. A more useful way is to keep 9 . "I Can'ts" should give way to "I Cans". Maybe someday, with our "I Cans", we will make an even bigger mark on the world. Then we may not 10 that how great changes have taken place to us and the people around us.

Once upon a time, a hippo(河马) lived river next to a big tree.

One day, a bird came and nested(筑巢) in the tree. The songs of the bird filled the hippo with so much envy(羡慕) that he couldn't think of anything else. Every day he would think why he wasn't born to be a bird even though the bird told him many times he was so lucky to be so big and such a good swimmer.

Finally, the hippo made up his mind that he would come out of the river, climb the tree, and art singing. However, when he tried to the tree, it was very clear that the hippo didn't have wings or claws to climb with.

Realizing that he would never climb up the tree, he angrily hit the tree until it came crashing to the ground, Then he stepped onto the leaves of the fallen tree, and began singing.

Unfortunately, hippos can't sing either. All that came from his mouth were terrible noise and when the other animals heard this came around to make fun of the hippo.

He was so ashamed of this. He also felt bad about having knocked the tree over. He used all his strength to raise the tree back up again, and looked after it until it completely recovered (康复).

Billy Ray Harris is a very happy man. Just a few months ago he was a homeless beggar (乞丐) on the streets of Kansas City in the USA. Now he can afford a1 of his own. Even better, he has found his long lost 2 .

This surprising story wouldn't happen3 Sarah Darling didn't stop in the street to give Billy some money. She only4 later that as well as the coins, she had also5 a large diamond ring into his cup! She had put her ring in her wallet because it was a little loose (松脱的).

When Billy saw the ring, he thought about6 it to a local jeweler (珠宝商). However, he decided to 7 it to the owner if possible. When Sarah came back the next day, he 8 the ring with a smile. Sarah and her husband wanted to reward (奖励) him for his9 , so they set up an online page to raise money. As the story 10 , the public gave more and more money.

After a few months they had 11 more than $190,000. Meanwhile, Billy was becoming a national 12 . 490 miles away, in Texas, his sister, who hadn't seen him for sixteen years, 13 his face while she was reading the 14 online. Not long afterwards they were reunited live on a TV show.

This wonderful story 15 proves the old saying "Honesty is the best policy"!