Father is always busy with his work. He knows nothing about housework. He never eats if everyone doesn’t cook for him.

One day, Mother was ill in bed. Father had to cook himself. First， he had to go shopping. But he didn’t know what to buy. So Mother wrote all these things on a piece of paper：

（1）cake（2） egg （3） tomato （4） fish （5） milk （6） salt （7） chicken

Father went out with the paper in his hand. Half an hour later he returned home, with a smile on his face. He brought out all the things: ONE cake, TWO eggs, THREE tomatoes, FOUR fish, FIVE bottles of milk, SIX bags of salt and SEVEN fat chickens. Mother was very surprised and she couldn’t say a word.

Many men are happier when they do some housework according to a new study.

The result surprised the workers who started the study .“We wanted to find out that men got more problems and that their life became worse when they did more housework after work，” a worker at the University of Cambridge said.The study was made in seven European countries with thousands of people. They were analyzed how much time they spent on chores such as cooking，washing，cleaning，shopping. The workers put the surprising result down and find that more and more men like doing the housework and women are more confident than they were in the past.

“In the past, men might feel sad, because doing some housework might influence their work. Women also had the problem for a long time，” the studyˈs report said. “Now some men live a better life after doing some chores.”

At 9:00 am on October 15,2003,our country launched (发射) its first spaceship, Shenzhou Ⅴ,into space at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. It took Yang Liwei and his spaceship about 21 hours   (1)   the earth 14 times. Yang Liwei is China’s first astronaut. He  (2)   Liaoning Province and   (3)  an air force pilot (飞行员) since 1983.He was chosen  (4)   14 pilots after many difficult tests.

The life of an astronaut is hard to imagine for many people.   (5)  on a spacesuit takes him 15 minutes with the help of others.Sleeping in space is not easy,   (6)   .He  (7)  sleep in a special sleeping bag on the wall because there is no gravity (重力).Yang can eat chicken and rice.It’s specially made   (8)  in space but tastes just like the real thing.

“I‘m feeling very good in space, and it looks wonderful here,”said Yang.“I have looked at our beautiful earth and recorded  (9)   I have seen there.”

China has became the third country in the world to send a person into space.We are all   (10)  our mother-land.

Blake threw the toy across the room. It broke into pieces. “Blake!” his mom shouted. ”  (1)   did you do that?” She took him to the corner of the room and made him face the wall. “You have to stay here for fifteen minutes and think about what you did. The broken pieces can   (2)  someone.”

When fifteen minutes had passed, he turned around and said sorry to his mom, and then he was  (3)   to go out to play. His mom walked over to the corner where Blake had faced and   (4)   her hands on the wall. “A frog,” she said in surprise. She smiled and   (5)   to do something surprising.

While he was gone, his mum got busy with her  (6)  . The hours passed quickly and soon Blake was home again. It was supper time. His mom put the plates of food on the table. Blake just   (7)   his. “I don’t like salad. I hate it.” He wasn’t   (8)  .

“Just try it. I didn’t give you much.”

“No, I don’t want salad.”

Mom was   (9)  . “You go and stand in the corner for five minutes and think about how lucky you are to have  (10)  .”

When Blake got to the corner, he started to smile. “Frogs!” He looked at the wall. His mom had   (11)  the green frogs on the wall, each sitting on a lily pad, their long tongues sticking out, trying to   (12)   flies. Blake laughed. When it was time for his coming back, he still stayed at the corner.

“Why hasn’t Blake come back to eat his supper?” Dad wondered.

“He must be  (13)   the frogs.” Mum laughed. “Go and look.”

They both got up and went into the other room. “He   (14)   to spend so much time these days facing the wall. I thought it might make it a little less   (15)   for him.”

“That’s a gift of love,” Dad said, smiling.

There was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee (委员会), the students would be in fear, for he was seldom pleased with the answers they gave. A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the room and got seated before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not be so easy to get through the exam at all.

   The professor began to ask. The student was required to describe a certain illness, his description of which turned out to be OK.

   Then the professor asked about the cure (治疗) for illness, and the student also answered just as right.

   “Good,” said the professor, “and how much will you give the patient?”

   “A full spoon,” answered the student.

   “Now you may go out and wait for what you can get,” said the professor. At the same time the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer. “A full spoon is too much,” he thought to himself. Anxiously, he opened the door of the room and cried, “Mr. Professor, I’ve made a mistake! A spoon is too much for the patient. He can take only five drops.”

   “I’m sorry, sir,” said the professor coldly, “but it’s too late. Your patient has died.”

Policemen do cry. Movies and television show that policemen are tough and hard. But policemen do cry.

           Ken Knapcik had been a policeman in Chicago for 20 years when one of his fellow policeman was shot during a drug arrest, and died. Shortly after, he returned home after work to find a note from his 15-year-old daughter on the dining table.

Dad

 This poem came directly from heart. I love you so much. It scares me that you go out every day and risk everything to provide us with all that we have. I am also very proud of you. I wrote this to express how much I love you and how lost I’d be without you.

Laura

P.S. Hey, be careful out there.

           Laura’s poem was called “The Best Policeman.” It was dedicated (献给) “To all the policeman in the world who have daughters who love them with all their hearts, especially to my father had been shot. Part of the poem reads: “ Daddy, my Daddy, can you hear me? Oh, God, I need my Daddy. Please don’t let him die!”

           Knapcik stood alone as he read the poem. “It took me several minutes.” he said. “ I’d got through part of it and have to stop before I could go on. I was weeping（哭泣）. She had never told me she was scared.” He took the poem to work the next day and showed it to his fellow officers. “I ‘ve never seen so many grown men cry. Some couldn’t even finishing reading it.”

           Knapcik keeps Laura’s poem in the pocket of his police jacket. He takes it with him every time he leaves the house to go to work. “I don’t want to be out there without it,” he said. “I’ll probably carry it with me forever.”

Around the world, cars are becoming more and more common. But the problem is that cars is one of the main causes of climate change. One possible way of dealing with it is to make green cars take off.

One kind of green cars that have received lots of attention is the hybrid car. This kind of car uses two kinds of power: gas and electricity. It still burns pollution-causing gas, but it uses less of the gas because it runs on electricity sometimes. Hybrid cars have become one of the most popular green cars, but they aren’t perfect and are more expensive than the usual ones.

Electric cars are one of the oldest kinds of green cars. They just use electricity, and the batteries(电池) need to be recharged(充电) when they are parked at home. Electric cars have been around since 1970s, but they have never become popular. The biggest problem is that there are almost no public places to recharge the batteries when the drivers are on the road. However that may change. The US and China have said that they will provide much money to help their people to use electric cars.

The Apollo Solar Car Team has been developing solar-powered(太阳能) cars since 1998. They have created a 250-kilogram car with three seats. It can travel with a speed of up to 70 kilometers per hour. With a few hours of sunlight, the car’s batteries will be fully charged and can power the car for three hours.

Another choice of the future is air-powered cars. It sounds a little impossible, but scientists will have good ways to make it come true. The perfect cars hasn’t been developed yet. However, researchers never stop trying their best.

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Mr. Hunt had a bookshop near a hospital. But he never went to see a doctor when he was ill He usually took some medicine. One day, when Mr. Hunt carried a box of books with his hands, the box fell down and hurt one of his feet.

“Go to see the doctor” says Mrs. Hunt.

“No,” he said. I’ll wait until a doctor comes here next time. Then I’ll ask him about my foot. In this way I’ll pay nothing to him.” A few days later, a doctor came into his shop and bought some books. When Mr. Hunt got the books ready. He asked the doctor about his foot. The doctor answered him at once.

“Here are your books, sir,” Mr. Hunt . “You must pay two pounds for them.”

“I’ll pay nothing for them.”

“Oh, why?”

“I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. Bye.”

Many people likeanimals. So theykeep(饲养)  (1)   as pets. Usually people like tokeep dogs, cats, fishes and   (2)   animals as their pets.Many young people keep animals  (3)   they think these animals are   (4)  . Some old people keep petsbecause  (5)  children don’t live   (6)   them and they   (7)   lonely(孤独的).

Mr. Li is an old man.He is apetdoctor (医生). He is friendlyto all people and their pets. Peopleinthe neighborhood love  (8)   very much.People usually call him “The Pet Doctor”. Whenpeople’spets are sick(生病的),they oftenask Mr. Li for   (9)  . Mr. Li can always help the sickpets get well soon. So he is   (10)   popularin the neighborhood.