One day，a little boy came to a shop and said to the shop assistant, "I want to buy twelve exercise-books of 10 cents and nine pencils of 15 cents, four pieces of rubbers of 20 cents. How much shall I pay?"

The shop assistant wrote all numbers down on a piece of paper and calculated(计算).

Then she said, "You should pay 3.35 dollars all together."

"If I give you 5 dollars, how much shall I get back?"

"You'll get back 1.65 dollars. Shall I pack these things for you?"

"No, I don't buy anything" the boy looked at the piece of paper and said politely. "This is my maths homework. Can I take the answer away?"

  Kim went to a beautiful beach on Monday with his friends. It was sunny and hot. So they had great fun playing in the water. In the afternoon, they went shopping. But the shops were crowded（拥挤）, they didn’t really enjoy it.

    The next day, it was rainy, so they went to a museum. It was boring. Kim found a small boy crying in the corner. The boy was lost. He helped the boy find his father. Kim was very happy. But he had no money for a taxi. So he had to walk back to the hotel. That made him very tired.

On Wednesday, the weather was very cool. So they played tennis. They played all the morning. It was really fun.

Long long ago there lived many __  (1)  __ in an old house. They were free to do everything. They ate up a lot of food. So the owner of the house wanted to stop the mice _  (2)  __ food. He got a cat. _  (3)  _, some of the mice were killed. One day one of the oldest mice said, "All the mice __  (4)  __ come to my hole tonight, and weˈll decide _  (5)  __ next about the cat. "

Each of the mice arrived. They thought __  (6)  __ and did what they could to find a way to save their __  (7)  __ . They spoke, sitting face to face, but none of them had an idea. Finally a young mouse stood up and said, "Why __  (8)  __ tie a bell round the cat’s neck? Then, when the cat comes close, we will hear the bell and run away. Then the can wonˈt __  (9)  __ catch any more of us. "

"It sounds good! Who can do that?" the oldest mouse asked. At this very moment the hole was quiet and no one answered. At last he said, "Itˈs __  (10)  __ to say than to do. "

Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old female (女性的) scientist, became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in science on October 5. Before that, she ever won the 2011 Lasker Award for finding out artemisinin (Qinghaosu), which saved millions of lives. She was grateful (感激的) for the Lasker prize, but said, “It is just a scientist's duty. I will go on fighting for the health of all humans.”

   Tu kept her work in the 1960s and 1970s. In that age, malaria (疟疾) could took away people's health. Scientists all over the world had already tried over 240,000 times but failed. Tu Youyou, a member of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, began to study Chinese herbs.

   Before 2011, people didn't know Tu very much. Many friends played jokes with her “the Professor of Three None's”: no degree, no study experience abroad, not a member of any Chinese national colleges. But she is hard-working. She read a lot of traditional Chinese medicine books and did a lot of researches on the disease.

   In February, 2012, Tu was named National Outstanding Females (One of the Ten). Tu is now a model of Chinese medical workers.

Four years ago when I was a boy of 11, I got into the biggest trouble as a kid. It was a Saturday morning. Both my parents were out, leaving me and my 10—month—old sister home alone. Anyway, my sister was still asleep in her room. In fact I had the house to myself. I decided to do some drawing. Soon I gave up. Nothing was on TV, so I felt bored and touched the candles on the shelf…I had an idea! What would happen if I set fire to some kitchen paper? Well, of course it went on fire, but it wasn’t the tiny flame(火苗)I’d expected, and I couldn’t blow it out. I threw it on the floor, and then luckily got my dad’s boots(靴子)and stamped it out.

I thought I was safe until there was a HUGE hole in my room. When my mum came home later, she smelt the smoke immediately. She dropped the shopping bag, luckily for me, over the hole. I thought this meant she would never see it. However, after running round the house checking for a fire, she of course picked up the bag and saw the hole. Next I was grounded(关禁闭)and in trouble for months. Even worse though, the hole was still there, reminding me of what I did.

①The boy set fire to some kitchen paper.

②The boy did some drawing.

③The boy was grounded.

④The boy stamped the fire out.

⑤His mother checked for a fire.

How can we get great photos of our kids? Famous Russian photographer Elena Shumilova says the most ____(  (1)  ____ thing is to photograph them often—every day. By photographing them ____(  (2)  ____, the kids become comfortable around the camera, and you'll get better photos of your kids. She also tells a story of almost ____(  (3)  ____ her most famous photo: ____(  (4)  ____ I took this photo, my confidence was at a pretty low point. I had tried for a photo of my ____(  (5)  ____ and dog 14 other times, but failed every time.

   I was just feeling upset (沮丧的) that day and didn't even want to bring my ____(  (6)  ____. But something told me to bring it. And on that ____(  (7)  ____ day, it all just came together.

   This dog of ours is now famous, but he's actually a pretty difficult dog to ____(  (8)  ____ with. From the unsuccessful photo shoots, I'd learned what angles (角度) and body compositions (构图) work for ____(  (9)  ____ and my son.

   It's easy to get upset. It's easy to ____(  (10)  ____, “Oh, why brother. It won't work anyway.” Thanks to those 14 photos! They're what made the fifteenth one possible.

Bill was 18, but he didn't want to live ____  (1)  ____ himself because he wanted to enjoy the comfortable life in his parents' home. In fact, he had ____  (2)  ____ to find a job but there never seemed to be one good enough for him.

   Bill's father, Mr James, worked far from home, ____  (3)  ____ he had to leave home early and got back home late. When he got home in the evenings, Bill was usually out, so they could ____  (4)  ____ meet on weekdays.

   When they sometimes ____  (5)  ____ at weekends, Mr James often asked Bill to change his ____  (6)  ____ of living. But Bill didn't agree with his father. He wanted to be popular with his ____  (7)  ____.

   One Saturday morning, they had an ____  (8)  ____. Mr James later told Bill that his father was very ____  (9)  ____ with him and he was brought up in a quite different way. Bill said that his grandfather must have been a ____  (10)  ____ old man.

   “Not at all!” Mr James was so angry that he said, “I had a much nicer father than you'll ever have!”

Charles Dickens, one of the greatest English writers, ____  (1)  ____ in 1812, in one of the small towns of England. When he was nine years old, the family moved ____  (2)  ____ London, ____  (3)  ____. There were several younger children in the family. Their life was hard, ____  (4)  ____ he couldn't go to school. ____  (5)  ____ until his father was out of prison could Charles go to school. ____  (6)  ____ that time he was already twelve. But he did not finish school. Two years later he began to work. He often went to the library to read books. He read ____  (7)  ____. Dickens ____  (8)  ____ lots of novels and stories all his life. Dickens died ____  (9)  ____ than a hundred years ago, but people are still reading his books ____  (10)  ____ great interest.

I went home one Saturday afternoon in the autumn of 1993 to get some work done in the garden. While sweeping leaves on the ground, my five-year-old son Nick came over and asked me to write something on a piece of paper to make a sign for him.

    “What for?” I asked.

    “I’m going to sell some of my stones.” he answered.

    Nick was fascinated with stones and had collected many stones (石头) from all over. “I’m too busy to do that for you. Go and ask your mum for help.” I said.

    A short time later, Nick returned with a sign, reading. “Stones. One Dollar Each”. He took the sign, a small chair and 4 0f his best stones and walked to the road in front of our garden. There he put the stones in a line and sat down on the chair.

    After half an hour, nobody passed by. I walked to him and asked him to go back, but he didn’t.

    Another half hour later, a small car came down the road. I watched as Nick stood up, holding his sign up. A woman rolled down（摇下）a window and read the sign. I couldn’t hear their talk, but I saw the woman turn to the driver and the man reach for his pocket.

    I sat in the yard, as Nick ran to me. Waving the dollar, he shouted. “I told you I could sell one stone for a dollar – if you believe in yourself, you can do anything.”