Once upon a time, there was a man calledZheng.1lived in a small town. One day he wantedto buy himself a new pair of shoes. He measured (测量) his2with a ruler and then3downhis size on a piece of paper. After that he went shoe shopping.
When he arrived at the4,he reached into his pocket (口袋),5he found the paper was not there. So hesaid to the shop keeper, "I have left the paper at home and I don't knowthe size. I'll go back home to6it." With thesewords, he ran out of the shop.
He ran back home, found the paper and thenran to the shop again. But it took him7hours and the shop was8.He spent the afternoon on the way and did not buy his shoes at last.
Someone asked him, "Did you want tobuy the shoes9yourself?"
"Of course," he answered.
"Then why don't you10theshoes by yourself?"
"I trust the ruler more than my feet,"he answered.
Name | Personal information | |
Norman Bethune | ★Born in 1890in Canada ★Died in 1939in China | ★A doctor ★Came to China in 1938 |
Celine Dion | ★Born in Canada ★A singing star | ★In 1997, sangMy Heart will Go on for the film Titanic |
| Tu Youyou | ★Born in 1930 in China ★A Chinese medical scientist | ★Won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Bill Gates | ★Born in 1955 in the USA ★Owns Microsoft Company | ★Wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought |
| Hemingway | ★Born in 1899 in the USA ★Died in 1961 | ★A writer ★WroteThe Old Man and the Sea |
A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apples he grew.
One day, his friend gave the farmer a young apple tree and told him to take it home and plant it. The farmer was pleased with the gift, but when he got home, he did not know where to plant it.
He was afraid that if he planted the tree near the road, strangers would steal the fruit. If he planted the tree in one of his fields, his neighbors would come at night and steal some of the apples. If he planted the tree near his house, his children would take the fruit.
Finally he planted the tree in his woods (树林) where no one could see it. But without sunlight and good soil, the tree soon died.
Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a poor place. "What's the difference?" the farmer said angrily. "If I had planted the tree near the road, strangers would have stolen the fruit. If I had planted the tree in one of my fields, my neighbors would have come at night and stolen some of the apples. If I had planted it near my house, my own children would have taken the fruit."
"Yes," said the friend, "but at least someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have robbed (抢夺) everyone of the fruit, but also have destroyed (摧毁) a good apple tree!"
Myname is Tom. When I was young, I was always sad, and almost everything ended infailure. I completely lost my heart, sighing (叹息) unhappily all day. Having seen me likethat, my father decided to cheer me up.
Oneday, he gave me a cup of water and asked me to taste it. I found it salty. Myfather said he just put one small spoon of salt in the cup. And then, he led meto a lake, where he put a big handful (一把) of salt into the lake, picked up aspoon of water and let me taste it again. He asked, "Does it still tastesalty?" "Not at all," I said. My father said, "Now, you mayknow the reason of your pain: you are just a cup of water, but not a lake. Be alake and you won't feel sad any more."
Icame to understand my father's purpose; I feelfrustrated because myheart is as small as a cup of water. He hoped that I could be a person with aheart like a lake.
Recently, a foreign student in China gave a very touching answer to the question: What should China be (pride) of? It was widely spread online.
Emma is from Canada. She came to China four years ago. Now she is university student in Ningbo. The following is China in her eyes.
" (find) a job in China can be really simple. There are more job (chance) here than any other country in the world."
"Its public security (安全) is great. I have travelled to many countries so far, and I think China is really (safety)."
"About 400 million Chinese are studying English. China has become the country that has the (great) number of English speakers in non-English speaking countries."
"The speed of Chinese trains is high. On my (three) visit to my friend in Beijing, I took a train there, from Ningbo Beijing. The train runs 1,365 kilometers for only seven hours."
"I think there (be) many more things China should be proud of. I believe China will be much better other countries."
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways. The first important way is that (A) they provide man with food and wood. Trees provide not only man with food, but also many animals with food. (B) If there are no trees, man and animals couldn't live on the earth. The second important way is that trees bring us shade. On a hot summer day, people hope to have a rest under the shade of a tree after they walk a long way. The third important way is that trees help to prevent droughts (干旱).
However, in many parts of the world, man has not realized the third (C). _________People have cut trees down in large numbers. (D) In the end, they find that they have lost the best friends.
