Rosa liked making up stories. She was so sure that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believe her! At first she supposed it was fun. Now, as she got up to talk 1 the class, she knew that make-believe stories had some ways of coming back to make you sad.
Rosa's parents were separated (分开) nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her 2 in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer 3, she went to her father's farm in Arizona.
The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and helped with some farm work. Her father, however, was so 4 that he couldn't find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would 5 her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the city, he would always buy her a present.
When summer came to a close, Rosa 6 to her mother. At school she 7 lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a 8 to talk about.
Not long after school began, Rosa was looking through travel magazine in the school library. They talked about many exciting places, like England and Germany. When Rosa's friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not true. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she 9 her classmates that she and her father had gone to England!
When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could 10 about her trip to England.