Dogs are people’s friends. They will do anything their masters(主人)ask them to do and they do their duty（职责）very well.

Curly is my black dog. He is big and strong. He is  (1)  to carry me on his back. He likes running and playing with me. He likes to  (2)  my father around in the fields, too.

One day my father took off（脱下）his coat, put it on the ground  (3)  a big tree and said to Curly,“  (4)  my coat.”

 Curly sat down on the coat. Then my father remembered he had to  (5)    dinner for the family.  (6)  he went home and forgot all about his coat and dog.

Late in the evening I  (7)  my dog and looked for him everywhere in the garden. I called，“Curly, Curly！” But Curly did not answer.

Soon my father wanted something in his coat pocket(口袋). Suddenly he remembered  (8)  he did. Quickly he went back to the big tree. What do you think he saw? Curly was  (9)  sitting on the coat! He was afraid someone would take it  (10)  .

   I was six when I joined my father and two elder brothers at sunrise in the fields of Eufaula, Uklan. From the time I was eight I was helping Dad fix up old furniture. He gave me a cent for every nail(钉子) I  (1)  out of old boards.

I got my first real job, at JM’s Restaurant in town when I was 12. My main responsibilities were clearing up tables and washing dishes, but  (2)  I helped cook.

Every day after school I would  (3)  to JM’s and work until ten. Even on Saturdays, I worked from two until eleven. At that age it was difficult going to  (4)  and watching my friends run off to swim or play. I didn’t really like work, but I loved what work allowed me to have. Because of my job, I was always the one buying when my friends and I went to the local（当地的） Tastee Freez. This made me feel  (5)  .

Word that I was hardworking and trustworthy(讲诚信) got around the town. A local clothing store offered me a credit card  (6)  I was only in seventh grade. I immediately bought a $68 sport coat and a $22 pair of shoes. I was  (7)  only 65 cents an hour, and I already owed(欠) the store—keeper $90! So I learned gradually the danger of easy credit. I paid  (8)  as soon as I could.

My first job taught me self-control responsibility and brought me a level of personal satisfaction that  (9)  of my friends experienced. As my father, who worked three jobs, once told me, “If you  (10)  responsibility, there are not many things in life you can’t have.” How right he was!

About ten years ago when I was a student at college, I   (1)   my summer holidays working at a museum.  (2)  was hard for me then. Dad had lost his job and Mum was sick  (3)  . I was  (4)  if I would be able to go on with my study the next term.

One day while I was working, I saw an old man come in with a little girl  (5)  a wheelchair(轮椅). As I looked  (6)  at this girl, I found that she had no arms  (7)  legs. She was wearing a little white dress and she  (8)  had a hat on.

As the old man pushed the wheelchair up to me, I was busy with my work. I  (9)  my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼). When I took the money from her grandfather, I looked back at the girl,  (10)  was giving me the prettiest, largest smile I have  (11)  seen. Suddenly her handicap(生理缺陷)  (12)  and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile almost gave me a better understanding of what life is all about. She  (13)  me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her  (14)  of smiles, love and warmth.

I’m now a successful business and  (15)  I get down and think about the trouble of the world, I think about that little girl and the unforgettable lesson about life that she taught me.

A famous violinist enters the stage to perform a solo in the music hall of New York City. Getting on the stage is not a small ____  (1)  ____ for him. A brain disease he got as a child forces him to walk with crutches(拐杖).

    Seeing him walk across the stage is hard to forget. He walks painfully, but gracefully, until he ____  (2)  ____ his chair. He sits down slowly, puts his crutches on the floor and places his legs in the correct place. Then he ____  (3)  ____ the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and starts to play.

    But suddenly ____  (4)  ____ goes wrong. The violinist finishes the first few parts of the piece, but one of the strings(弦) on his violin breaks. Everyone hears it clearly.

    People think the violinist will stop to ____  (5)  ____ another string or violin. But he doesn't. ____  (6)  ____, he stops for a moment, closes his eyes and goes on. He plays from where he stopped, with a passion and power that people have never seen before.

    It is ____  (7)  ____ to play with only three strings, but this violinist refuses to give up. He seems to play the violin in new ____  (8)  ____ to make the sounds he needs from the missing string.

    ____  (9)  ____ he finishes, everyone in the hall bursts into applause.

    He smiles and says, "Sometimes it is up to the musician to find out how much music he can make ____  (10)  ____ what he has. "

My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I never wished her to come to my school, One day I was terribly ill. My mother came.“Your mom only has one eye?!” asked some of my classmates. I was so embarrassed(难堪的).I wished my mother would just  (1)  from this world. “If you make me laughed，why don’t you just die?” I shouted   (2)   her, not looking at her sad look on her face. She gave me some medicine and then left, without saying  (3)  . At that time, I felt good to say what I always wanted to say, and I didn’t think I had hurt her feelings very much. That night I saw my mom  (4)  in her room, so quietly. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a  (5)  : I must study hard and leave my mother.Years later,I was quite successful and lived  (6)  . I never thought of going back to see my “ugly” mother  (7)  one day I got a letter: “Dear son… I’m sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into an accident and lost your eye. As a mom, I don’t want you to live with only one eye.   (8)  I gave you mine. I was never  (9)  with you and I never regretted(后悔) what I did because I  (10)  you…”. I cried out aloud. I knew my mom was the most beautiful woman in the world.

People like dolphins because they are both lovely and clever. They have a(n)   (1)   IQ (智商).Dolphins can ‘talk’. Scientists try to ‘talk’ with dolphins, and the   (2)   make them surprised. They find dolphins may understand them so well.

Most animals enjoy playing, but dolphins like to make their games different. On a beautiful day in 1997, scientists on a beach   (3)   a little dog going into the sea. They were surprised to see the dolphins come up to the dog and then start throwing (扔) it into the air. The dog   (4)   the ‘game’ and kept playing with the dolphins for over an hour. 

Dolphins live in  a very different world from   (5)  , but they are very good at our ‘IQ tests (测试)’. For example, in the picture above, a dolphin jumps   (6)   the water when he hears a whistle noise (哨声). He does this because he will get a fish   (7)   an award.

There is   (8)   much to learn about these lovely friends.  

I can’t remember when I started collecting litter. But it was when I got tired of   26 litter nearby that I realized no one else was going to pick it up.

I live near a forest inOhio, America. I can walk there 27 three minutes. I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was 28 much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided to clean up the forest, and I wanted to 29 happy when I went there again. I made my first trip to clean the forest that afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes   30 I started to pick up litter, my bag was full! There were cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers in it.

From then on, I 31 to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I often stay there for three hours. It makes me feel 32 to do something for the environment. After each trip, I look through all the litter that I’ve collected. If 33 of it is recyclable (可回收利用的), I’ll keep it. I can’t understand why people drop litter. But I will keep on picking it up 34 they stop dropping it. I know I am only doing a small bit 35 the earth, but I still think it is important.

How did we help to save our earth this week? Let me tell you.

       First, my family tried to save electricity. We never left the lights   (1)   when leaving the rooms. We   (2)   the TV when nobody was watching it. Mum only used cold water in the washing machine.

       Second, we started recycling（循环，回收）this week. We tried to write on   (3)   of our paper, not just on one side. We also divided (分成) our rubbish into   (4)   bags for bottles, paper and food. Mum kept the plastic shopping bags from the supermarket to use them again as rubbish bags.

       Third, my family started to save   (5)  . We stopped   (6)   long baths and had short showers   (7)  . We washed the toilet with used water. Mum and dad used less water to do the washing. My sister and I didn’t leave the tap running when we brushed our teeth.

At last, mum and dad began to save gas. Mum used to   (8)   us to school, but now my sister and I started riding our bikes to school. It’s hard work   (9)   good exercise! This week dad and a few of the people in his company also started to go to work in one car and share the   (10)  .

These are great ways to help protect our environment.

A thousand years ago Hong Kong was covered by a thick forest. As more and more people came to  (1)  in Hong Kong, these trees were cut down and burnt. Now there is  (2)  forest left, though there are still some small areas covered with trees. We call these woods.

Elephants, tigers and many  (3)  animals were living in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the  (4)  began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and  (5)  pigs and chickens in the valleys. They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed  (6)  to keep themselves warm in winter, to cook their food and to keep away the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough food for them.  (7)  did most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon     (8)  in the same way.

    You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong  (9)  in the zoos. But there are still about 36 different animals  (10)  there. One of the most interesting of Hong Kong’s animals is the barking deer. These are beautiful little animals  (11)  a rich brown coat and a white patch under the tail. They look like deer but they are much smaller. They are less than two feet  (12)  .They make a noise rather like a dog  (13)  .In Hong Kong the barking deer has only a real enemy—  (14)  .People hunt these little animals though it is illegal. There are now not many barking deer left. So it is important  (15)  people to protect wild animals.