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—I agree with you.
—No, there are only 3 ____ in our class. The others ____ are from other countries.
—____, thanks. I just prefer a glass of water.
—OK, we're coming.
—Congratulations. He did well playing football when he was very young. I hope he'll be the best player in our school.
—Dear, I think you can.
—I left home at 18, Neil. I____your city for five years.
Sally is eighty-six years old. She has no sons 1 daughters. Her husband died ten years ago. But she didn't move into a nursing home. She would like to 2 herself every day.
Every night she spends two hours 3 kids with math. All kids living on her street can get her help without payment(报酬). She was a famous math 4 before she retired(退休) from a middle school.
She gets up early in the morning, then does sports, goes shopping or helps cleaners 5 the street. And she does these happily.
When the kids come for help, she is always 6 and tries her best. People asked her 7 . She said, " I love it. It makes me happy to help them. "
She is always happy every day and always says hello to people around her 8 a smile.
" I 9 to love everything around me. So I'm happy to do something. I'm thankful for those kids who come to me for help. Each kid is my 10 . I love each day to help them, " she said.
Mary is an African elephant. Now she is 16 years old. She lives in the zoo. Mary has produced more than 50 drawings since last year. She has made over $2, 500 for the zoo. Zoo leaders said Mary first showed the art ability (能力) about 4 years ago. Zoo workers watched her make the marks (痕迹) in the sand with her trunk (象鼻). She rubbed out (抹去) the marks, then made the new ones. The zoo workers gave her brushes and paints. Soon Mary was drawing pictures. Newspaper reporters wrote about Mary, and then people went to buy her pictures. And in this way she made a lot of money for the zoo by drawing.
This is how Mary does the drawing. A zoo worker holds different color paints and Mary touches the colors she wants. Then the worker gives her chosen color to the brushes in her trunk and Mary begins to paint.
Mr. Hunt's family is very poor. Because of that, he is in school for only three years and he has to stop to help his parents though (尽管) he is good at his lessons. When he is sixteen, he comes to the city and begins to work in a small factory. He learns from an old worker and six years later, he becomes a good worker. The old worker likes him and marries (嫁) his daughter to him. The young man does not have a house so he has to live with his parents-in-law (岳父母). His mother-in-law always thinks he isn't rich and often chatters (唠叨). It is one fine Sunday. The old woman wants to have a trip on the top of the hill. She tells Mr. Hunt to drive her car. But sometimes she tells him to turn left (左转) and sometimes to turn right. The young man has to listen to her. At a crossing, the lights turn red but she makes him turn left. The policeman stops them. "If I did wrong, sir," says Mr. Hunt, "It is my mother-in-law's fault (过错). She is driving the car though she sits behind me. "
1 Mr. Hunt and his mother-in-law go to a hill. ② Mr. Hunt comes to the city. ③ Mr. Hunt begins to live with his parents-in-law. ④ The policeman stops Mr. Hunt's car.
When he was small, Hill was a famous bad boy.
At the age of 9, his father married his stepmother. At that time they were poor in the countryside while his stepmother was from a wealthy family.
His father introduced Hill to his stepmother as he said, " Dear, I hope you notice in the entire shire this is the worst boy, who has made me have no other way. Maybe before tomorrow morning he will throw a stone at you, or do a bad thing you will never imagine. "
To Hill's surprise, his stepmother went up to him with a smile, held up his head and looked at him carefully. She then turned around to tell her husband, " You're wrong. He is not the worst boy in the entire shire, but the cleverest and creative boy. Only he doesn't find a place to show himself. "
His stepmother's words warmed his heart, his eyes full of tears. With this, he started building friendship with his stepmother. And this became the drive of his life, making him create 28 successful golden rules, which helped tens of thousands of ordinary people walk on the road to success.
Before his stepmother came, no one praised (赞扬) him, and his father and neighbors considered him as a bad boy. However, his stepmother's words changed his life.
When Hill was 14 years old, his stepmother bought him a used typewriter(打字机) and said to him," I believe you will become a writer. " Hill accepted his stepmother's gift and expectation(期待), and started writing things to a local newspaper. He understood his stepmother's strong feeling of interest in his family while he saw with his own eyes she had changed his family. Therefore, he would do as well as she expected him to.
The strength from his stepmother made him a rich man and famous writer in the United States and one of the most important persons in the 20th century.
Praise will never be unnecessary, especially for children. A sincere (真诚的) praise may be better than 10, 000 bad words.
It was a dark and cold night. The taxi driver didn't have even one passenger all day. When he went by the railway station, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he quickly opened the door of the car and asked, " Where do you want to go, sir?" " To Star hotel, " the young man answered. When the taxi driver heard this, he didn't feel happy any more. He knew the young man could give him only three dollars because the hotel was not far from the railway station. But suddenly, he had an idea. He took the passenger through many streets of the big city.
After a long time, the car arrived at the hotel at last. " You should pay me fifteen dollars, " the driver said to the young man. " What? Fifteen dollars! Do you think I'm a fool? Only last week, I took a taxi from the railway station to this same hotel and I only gave the driver thirteen dollars. I know how much I have to pay for the trip. I won't pay you one dollar more than I paid to the other taxi driver last week. "
Emma: What are you doing, Li Lin?
Li Lin:
Emma: I have read it before. What do you think of the story?
Li Lin: Yu Gong found a good way to deal with his problem.
Emma: Really? It seems impossible to move a mountain.
Li Lin: But the story is trying to show us that anything is possible if you work hard. Yu Gong kept trying and didn't give up.
Emma: I think we should try to find other ways to deal with a problem.
Li Lin: But what could Yu Gong do except moving the mountains?
Emma: He could build a road.
Li Lin: We have different opinions about the story. There're many sides to a story and many ways to understand it.
Emma: Yes, that's right.
A. Don't you think it's a little silly? B. I'm reading a book called Yu Gong Moves a Mountain. C. That's better and faster than moving a mountain. D. In my opinion, it's really interesting. E. Do you prefer to read stories? F. I still don't agree with you. G. How about you? |
Why you a dress?
The weather in Britain is warm .
Have you the story your friends?
I've a water park.
He is one of teachers in the school.
参考词汇：communicate 交流；The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (《汤姆·索亚历险记》)； fairy story 神话故事
Dear Jack,
How is it going? Good to hear from you.
Write back soon.
Yours,
Zhang Jie
