Mr. White was a doctor. One day a young man came to see him. The young man told him that he had a bad   (1)  . Mr. White examined him   (2)   but found nothing. So Mr. White said to the young man, “You are very   (3)  . There is nothing wrong with your head, young man.”_  (4)  _ the young man still felt painful. Mr. White asked   (5)   there was something that troubled him. The young man said that he borrowed 5,000   (6)   his cousin, but he had no money to return. Mr. White gave him some advice. A few days   (7)  , the young man came to Mr. White again. He said that he felt well. In the afternoon of the same day,   (8)   young man came to see Mr. White. He was well with his body, too. The young man said to Mr. White, “I am the cousin of the young man you  (9)   this morning. Could you give me some advice   (10)   away from my troubles?”

When I was a child, my father had to do three jobs for a family of seven. Every time I saw him come back late, looking tired, I promised myself that someday I would show my   (1)   to my father for what he had done.

Over the next twenty years, my father worked hard to   (2)   our big family and suffered a lot from a heart problem. One morning, my fatherˈs old car   (3)   and he asked me to pick him up after his medical examination. He had   (4)   refused when I offered to replace his old car. He said that he did not want something that he was unable to pay himself.

As he stepped out of the doctorˈs office, he looked unusually   (5)  . We drove in silence and he made me promise to keep the medical report as a   (6)  . I did this with a heavy heart.

 At that time, I was  (7)   a new car. I asked my father to go with me to pick one out.   (8)  I started talking with the salesman, I noticed my father admiring a brown car. I   (9)   chose a white car. My father took one final look at the brown car and seemed kind of   (10)  . Before leaving, I heard him muttering* to himself, “Really like that car. Wish I could   (11)   it.”

Several days later, I asked my father if he could go with me to pick up   (12)   new car. As we arrived, the salesman   (13)   him a key to his new car — the brown one — and explained that it was for him   (14)   me. My father looked at me in great   (15)  . I explained it was my childhood promise and smiled at this man, who had given up everything for his family.

My friend Jack always had accidents. He did not ____(1)____ attention to what he was doing or where he was going. A few months ago, ____(2)____ car hit him while he was on his way home from school. The driver was tired, ____(3)____ he did not see Jack. And Jack was talking on ____(4)____ mobile phone and was riding in the middle of the road. The car hit him. He ____(5)____ his leg and was in hospital for over a month.

   Last week, he was not looking ___(6)____ he was going as usually. As a result, he fell ____(7)____ a hole in the park. Some ____(8)____ people in the park helped him climb out of the hole and then took him to hospital. ____(9)____, he did not break an arm or a leg this time. At the hospital, the ____(10)____ gave him some medicine and then he went home.

After the two accidents, Jack changed a lot. Now he is very careful.

That’s Not My Problem!

A mouse looked through a hole in the wall. He saw that the farmer and his wife had a mouse trap (鼠夹) in the house. Wow! The mouse ran into the yard and   (1)  , “There’s a mouse trap in the house!” The chicken, the   (2)   and the cow were sorry for him. But they didn’t take it   (3)   and thought that it wasn’t their problem. That night, a sound was heard   (4)   the house. “  (5)   was caught in the trap? The farmer’s wife wondered. She   (6)   and ran to have a look. In the darkness, she didn’t see that it was a snake’s tail that was caught. And the snake bit her. The farmer took his wife to the   (7)   right away. Later she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows that chicken soup is   (8)   for a fever. So the farmer killed the chicken and made some chicken soup for his wife. But   (9)   that the wife was becoming worse and worse, so her friends and neighbors came to see her. To serve   (10)  , the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife didn’t   (11)   well at last and died. And so many people came for her funeral (葬礼).   (12)   the farmer killed the cow to get meat for the visitors to eat.

So what are you   (13)   now? The next time when you hear that   (14)   around you is facing a problem and you think that it’s not your problem, remember that when he gets into trouble, it really means that you are also   (15)   the way to trouble! So give a hand if you can! You are just helping yourself!

My cousin Alex is a university student.Last year he went to China and stayed there  (1)   two months. I was  (2)   that Alex could take such a long holiday  (3)  he never had any money.But he told me that he got a job. It was to give  (4)   lessons to an owner of a small shop. In fact, I knewAlex couldn’t teach him well, but the owner  (5)   to practice his English. He had a lot of foreigncustomers,  (6)   it was very important forhim to   (7)  English. Alex   (8)  three hours a day talking to him. In return the owner   (9)   Alex a room, three meals a day and   (10)   pocket money. When I asked if the owner learned much English, Alex said that he learned a lot of Chinese.

Judy is a student. She usually   (1)   up at 6:00 in the morning. Then she has breakfast at 7:00. She goes to school   (2)   about 7:30. She is never late for(从不迟到) school. Judy is a clever girl, but she doesn’t have   (3)   friends.

One morning, on her   (4)   to school, she finds a yellow cat. She thinks, “The cat can’t find   (5)   way home.”So she   (6)   it to the zoo.

Then she hurries(急忙) to   (7)  , but she is late. All the students and her   (8)   look at her. Her face looks red.

After(在……之后)class, her teacher says to the students.“Judy is a   (9)   girl. She finds a cat and takes it to the zoo.”Now all her classmates like   (10)  .

      My uncle Sid is a famous scientist. He likes to make __(1)_  predictions about the future. He says that __(2)_  100 years some things will be __(3)_  than now. For example, we won’t    _(4)_  do the dishes or clean the room because we’ll all have robots in our homes. Also, we won’t need to use paper money. We’ll all use credit cards(信用卡) __(5)_  things. We’ll have more free time, and traveling will be faster and cheaper than it is now. Maybe some people will    __(6)_  their vacations in space stations.

       However, Uncle Sid says that more things will __(7)_  in the future. If more people use cars, there will be more __(8)_  . Also, if there are fewer trees, the air will become dirtier. If pollution gets __(9)_  bad, maybe people will have to live __(10)_  Mars(火星). Uncle Sid says we’ll be sorry if pollution becomes worse.

A beautiful, well-dressed lady came to see her doctor. She said she was bored by her lifestyle, and her whole life was empty and   (1)  .

So the doctor called an old lady who cleaned the office floors, and said to the rich lady, “I’m going to ask Mary to tell you how she found   (2)  . You just need to listen.”

So the old lady   (3)   her brooms(扫帚), sitting on a chair to tell her  (4)  . “Well, my husband died of cancer(癌症) and months later my only son was killed by a car. I had nothing left. I couldn’t sleep; I couldn’t eat; I  (5)   smiled at anyone; I even thought of the death(死). Then one evening a little cat  (6)   me home from work. I felt sorry for the cat. It was cold outside, so I   (7)   to let the cat in. I fed it some milk, and it licked(舔) the plate   (8)  . Then it rubbed(摩擦) against my leg, and for the first time in months, I smiled.

Then I stopped to think: if   (9)   a cat could make me smile, maybe doing something for   (10)  could make me happy, too. So the next day I baked(烘烤) some delicious cakes and took them to a neighbor who was   (11)   in bed.

Every day I tried to do something   (12)   for someone. It made me so happy to see them happy. Today I don’t   (13)   about anybody who sleeps and eats better than I do. I’ve found happiness by   (14)   it to others.

When she heard that, the rich lady cried. She had everything that money could buy, but she had   (15)  the things that money couldn’t buy.

The word “hobby” is an interesting word. Almost everyone   (1)   some kinds of hobby. It may be something from collecting stamps to making model planes. Some hobbies are very expensive but   (2)   don’t cost anything at all.

My youngest brother collectsstamps. He has almost(几乎) 800 of them, but I wonder   (3)   they are worth any money or not. However, to my brother they are quite valuable. Nothing  makes him   (4)    than to find a special stamp for his collection.

To me, I enjoy listening to music.It can help me  (5)  . Mostbabies and young children like music, too. They would like someone  (6)   to them. When they get older, they like to sing songs themselves. In middle school, students  (7)   music lessons. And they become

  (8)    in pop music. It will make  (9)    happy.

Do you have a hobby? Can you share it  (10)   me?