A little boy loved to play around a tall apple tree every day. Later, when he grew up, he no longer played there.
One day, the boy came and he looked 1. When the tree knew the boy wanted some toys, she asked the boy to pick up all her 2 to sell. So the boy did it and left.
Another day, the boy turned into a man and got back, "Come and play with 3 !" the tree was excited and said. "4, I have to build a house to live in," the man said. "You can 5 off my branches to build your house. " So the man did it and left 6.
One hot summer day, the man came. when the apple tree knew that the man needed a boat to go sailing, she let him 7 her trunk(树干).
After many years, the man came again. "Sorry, my boy. But the
8 thing left is my dying roots," the tree said. "I just need a place to rest 9 I'm old and tired after all these years," the man said.
"Come! 10 tree roots are the best place to rest." The man sat down and the tree smiled with tears.
Mary is an American schoolgirl. She is now in Beijing with her parents. She doesn't know Chinese, but she is trying to study and speak it. She often tries to speak Chinese to her Chinese friends. Sometimes they don't understand her, because she can't speak Chinese well.
It's Saturday morning. Mary goes out. She is on her way to the park. She is going there to see a flower show(展出). But she doesn't know how to get there. She asks a Chinese boy. The boy can't understand her. Then she takes out a pen and some paper. She draws flowers in it, gives the picture to the boy and says something about it. The boy smiles and then shows Mary the way to the park.
While in Shanghai, please come and take a walk around some of our nice places.
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Yu Garden These famous Ming gardens are often full of people. Don't forget to try their delicious snacks. Pay to enter. Open: 8:30 a. m. ~5:00 p. m. |
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Lu Xun Museum This is a great place for booklovers. There are photographs of the famous writer, some of his books and many letters written by hand. A very interesting place for a few hours. Very cheap. Open: 9:00 a. m. 44:00 p. m. (from Tuesday to Sunday) |
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Shanghai Natural Museum Everything is about the natural world and science. You can study dinosaurs, hundreds of animals, plants, rocks( 岩石) and more, and see many unusual exhibits (陈列品 ).Very cheap. Open: 9:00 a. m. ~5:15 p. m. (not open on Monday) |
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Shanghai Museum You must visit this beautifully-designed museum. It is a wonderful place to study Chinese art and history. There are treasures (珍品 ), paintings and wonderful Chinese sculptures(雕塑品 ) from all ages and many other things for you to enjoy. It's free. Open: 9:00 a. m. ~5:00 p. m. |
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Power Station of Art An interesting building was once used as a race club and library. Drop in and see the latest show. There are shows by painters from all over the country. The museum also encourages research into art. Pay to enter sometimes. Open: 11:00 a. m. ~7:00 p. m. (not open on Monday) |
Every morning, a woman baked bread for her and her family and an extra piece for a hungry passer-by. She would always put the extra piece of bread on the window sill.
She noticed that a hunchback(驼背)came every day and took the extra piece. Instead of saying thanks to her, he would say, “The bad you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you!"
This went on, day after day. Finally, the woman got very angry. ”He is so impolite!” she said to herself.
One day, she added some poison to the piece of bread she prepared for him! When she was about to put the piece of bread on the window sill, she stopped. “What am I doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the bread into the fire, prepared another one and put it on the window sill.
As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the bread and said those words to her.
That evening, there was a knock on the door. It was the woman's son, hungry and weak.
Looking at his mother he said, “Mom, I was too hungry to walk any further a mile away. But just then, an old hunchback was kind enough to give me a piece of bread.”
Then the woman realized the meaning of the words, “The bad you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you!”
①The hunchback picked up the piece of bread.
②The woman's son came back home alive.
③The hunchback gave the piece of bread to a hungry man.
④The woman put a piece of bread on the window sill.
In America, when people say "man's best friend", they don't mean another person. Instead, they are talking about a lovely animal--a dog! These words show the friendship between people and animals. Dogs and other pets can give joy to people's lives. Some people think of their pets as their children. Some people even leave all their money to their pets when they die!
Animals can help people too. Dogs can be taught to be the "eyes" for a blind person or "ears" for a deaf person. Scientists have found that pets help people live longer! They make people happier too. Because of that, they bring pets into hospitals for "visits".
Americans hold "Be Kind to Animals Week" in the first week of May. Pet shows are held during the week. Even if you don't live in America, you can also do this. How? First think about how animals make your life richer. If you have a pet, take more time this week to play with it. Remember to give it delicious food.
If you don't have a pet, be kind to animals around you. For example, if you see a street dog, just leave it alone, or make friends with it. If others around you do bad things to animals, try to speak up. As people, we must protect animals who can't speak for themselves.
There are many kinds of animals in the world, but not only the humans. We live in the same world, and we should be friends. As everybody knows, the humans are the rulers of the world today, so we should protect our friends--the animals!
But how can we protect them? First, I think we must stop killing birds and other animals, especially the young ones. Second, we have to protect the environment, to make the sky blue, to make the grass green, to give the animals a comfortable place to live. It's not only for the animals but also for ourselves. At last, we should tell more and more people why we should protect the animals and how to protect them, so that we can make everyone do this.
It was Tree Planting Day yesterday. We (go）to the hill to plant trees our teacher. There we learned how (plant) trees. We also learned a lotplants. For example, trees can(help)clean the air. They give us food like apples,(peach), orangespears. People and other animals need (they)to live. We planted many trees yesterday. We were very(tiring), but we felt very (happily).
