Many people today read stories about UFOs. But what are UFOs? The most popular explanation for UFOs is that 1 carry visitors coming from other planets. They seem to fly much faster than planes on the earth. The explanation is believed by some UFO scientists. It is even believed that 2 UFOs reached the earth and space visitors were living among us. Sometimes people 3 mistakes when they say they have seen UFOs. They 4 see a weather balloon or a strange plane, or the light they see in the sky comes from the ground. Sometimes they see the moon shining on water vapor(水蒸气) in the air. However, there are a lot of 5we can't explain. It may take many years to find a clear answer.

    Joe wanted a computer. He asked his parents for the money and they said he must get it by himself. But how did he get it? He 1 about this when he walked home. Not many people wanted to ask children to work for them. Maybe he could take away snow {or the neighbours. But it was not winter. He had to wait a long lime for that. He couldn't cut the grass for their gardens2 he bad no tools to do the work with. Then he saw one of his classmates, Dick, delivering(送) the newspaper. "I could do that," he thought. "Maybe 1 could even get the computer right away(马上). I could pay3it a little each week." He ran to catch up with Dick. Joe asked him a lot of questions. He learned that it was possible to get twenty -five dollars each week.  He learned that the job took 4 three hours each night. Dick 5him the phone number of the newspaper manager. Joe almost flew home. After he had told his mother what he thought, she smiled. "I think it is a 6 idea," she said. "I'll call the news paper..." "Wait, Mum," Joe said, "I'll call. After that, I'm going to be a businessman." Joe's mother smiled happily.

China is a country with a rich culture in calligraphy(书法). 1computers are everywhere in our life, Chinese people should not2the skill of writing with hands.

Now the computer can help people to write. People are3computers more often than before. So many people are forgetting how to4Chinese characters(汉字). People often make a lot of mistakes in handwriting.

Today, China is trying to help students and teachers to5their handwriting. We6that teachers can write well on the 7and students can write well on their exercise books, too. Teachers should make their teaching plans and students should8their homework by writing with their9. We are sure our handwriting can become10and better in this way.

In ancient times, a King had a big stone placed on a roadway. He then hid himself behind a tree and watched to see if anyone would 1 the stone out of the way. Some rich men and an official (官员) came by and just 2 walked around it.

Many people wished the King to keep the roads3 again, but none of them did anything to get the stone 4 the way.

There a/an 5 came along. He was carrying some vegetables. When he reached the stone, he 6 his vegetables and tried to push the stone out of the road. After much pushing and pulling, he finally 7.

After the farmer went back to pick up his vegetables, he noticed a purse (钱包), lying on the road where the 8 had been.

Inside the purse, there was 9 money and a paper from the King, "The 10 is for the person who gets the stone out of the roadway."

When I was a little boy, my mother sold flowers in London. She couldn't 1 me at home, so I had to go with her. As I grew older, I began to 2 her and I really enjoyed it.

Things changed (改变) when I was 14. My grandma 3 me a book for Christmas. It was about making candles. I loved it so much that I spent all my free time on 4 of all shapes and sizes. I made hundreds of them.

One day, my mother was ill so I had to go to the 5by myself. I decided to take some candles with me and see if I could sell them. To my 6. they were sold out in 20 minutes ! The next week, my mum gave me some 7 to buy some wax (蜡)  to make more candles. They were sold out quickly, too. Nine months later, we decided to stop 8 flowers. My mum and I couldn't make enough candles during the week, so some of my school friends started to help us. I 9them one pound for every candle, and we sold them for much more money. It was very 10 and my friends worked with me happily.

When I was 22, my uncle lent me some money and I opened my first candle shop.

My class is like (像) a big 1. I like all my 2. One of them is Suzy, a girl from Wenchuan. But now she lives 3 Nanjing.

Suzy is a good student. She learns (学) all her 4 well. Her favourite place is the 5.

She thinks books are like food and help her 6 lot. 

On Wednesday afternoons, she always goes to a nursing house (敬老院). She 7with the old people there. "I can't do much for them now, 8 I can tell some interesting stories to them," Suzy says, "I 9 a lot of love in Nanjing. People in Nanjing teach me10 to love. I want to give them love, too."

One day, a young man went to a company. He wanted to find a 1.Many people also wanted to work there.

After a 2 quiz, only three men could go to see the boss. Then the boss of the company wanted to talk with them. In this way, he could 3the best one, because he only needed one person to do the job.

He talked to the first man by asking the following question, "Now if I want you to 4 one hundred books for me, one book is ten dollars, how much money should I give you?"

"One thousand and ten dollars, sir," the first man answered 5 and told the simple reason. He said, "It is not difficult at all".

Then the boss asked the second man the same question. The answer was one thousand and twenty dollars, and he didn't tell the 6.

At last, the boss asked the young man the question, too. He thought for a 7and then answered, "That will be one thousand and eighteen dollars. One hundred books will 8 one thousand dollars. And I have to ask a 9 to carry them. It will cost ten dollars. Then I have to ask someone to take them down. It will cost eight dollars...". The manger was 10with his answer and smiled to him.

The young man won in the end.

There is lots of rubbish in cities every day. It is very important for people to deal with (处理）it in time. Why should people do this?

For one thing, rubbish may make a lot of. 1. It may pollute the air, the water and the places we live in. It is not 2 for our life. For another, too much rubbish is bad for people's 3. It may make people become ill.

In our city, people deal with the rubbish 4. First, people think there are two kinds of rubbish. They can 5 the good kind of rubbish again. For example, you can collect old newspapers and glass. As for the bad kind, of rubbish, people bury them under the 6. What? s more, before the waste water goes into rivers, people will make it become 7. In our city, the government also makes laws (法律）against rubbish. But that's not 8. We all must try our best to 9 rubbish from polluting the Earth. We have only one Earth. It is important for us to 10 our living place. Let's start right now.

    A man had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. He  1warm milk. It would not come down.

    The tree was not  2enough to climb, so the man decided that if he tied a rope to his 3and pulled it until the tree bent down, he could then 4and get the kitten.

    That's what he did, all the while checking his progress in the car.  He then thought if he went just a little bit 5, the tree would be bent low enough for him to reach the kitten. But as he moved the car a little further forward, the rope broke.

    The tree went “boing!” and the kitten was nowhere to be found.

    The man felt  6. He asked people he met if they'd 7a little kitten. No. Nobody had.

    A few 8later he met a neighbor at the store. He happened to look into shopping basket and was 9to see cat food.

    This woman was a cat 10and everybody knew it, so he asked her,"11are you buying cat food?" She replied, "You won't believe this," and then told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat,  12she kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child had begged again, so the Mom finally  13her little girl, "Well, I'll let you keep a cat if it falls from the  14."

    She told the man, "I watched my child go out in the yard, and look straight into the sky. And really,  15won't believe this, but I saw it with my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came flying through the air, and landed right in front of her."

    I have two older brothers, Matt and Martin. They love me very much. Perhaps it is because I am the 1 child and the only sister they have.

    Both Matt and Martin have thick and dark hair. They look alike (相像) with 2 short hairdos (发型) and big eyes. They are also very tan (晒黑的) because they enjoy outdoor 3 . For example, Matt likes football and Martin is a tennis player. They are much taller than me and I always have to look up when I 4 to them. They both love to 5 , so Mum often says that they could eat a horse.

    Their personalities (性格) are very 6 . Matt is very active and lively. He often takes part in club activities and gets along 7 with people. He also likes to play jokes on others, especially Martin! Sometimes Mum is not very 8 with Matt because he plays so much and does not listen to his teachers carefully when he is in class.

    Martin, on the other hand (另一方面), is the quiet one. He is less active than Matt, 9 he has a really close group of friends. He also does well in his 10 because he works very hard on his studies. Mum never has to worry about Martin.