A rich American went into a shop in London. He wanted very much __31___ a nice looking watch. He saw a watch and liked it __32_____much that he decided to buy it. But the owner of the shop insisted five hundred dollars for it. When the American was hesitating, a young man suddenly came into the shop, took___33__out of the owner’s hand and ran out with it. It all happened in few seconds. When the owner ran out ___34____the street, the young man was already disappearing among the people. The American went on. At the next corner, he saw ___35_____with the stolen watch in his hand. “Don’t you want to buy a fine watch, sir?” he asked in a low_____36____ , “It’s only a hundred dollars.”
“The young man doesn’t know _____37____saw him stealing the watch just now,” he thought. The American paid at once and went ___38______back to his room with the watch. He told his friend about the fine watch. His friend took a look at the watch and started laughing. He said, “You are ____39_____. The watch isn’t worth ___40______ten dollars. I’m sure the shop owner and the young man planned all this together.”

Dear Kitty,
I am sorry that I did not write to you earlier because I have been very busy. I was helping    with a charity show to raise money    31   Project Green Hope. A lot of work needed to be finished, so I did not have much free time.
I felt very happy when I    32   to be the host. It was exciting,    33  I was also very nervous. I know that lots of people would come    34   the show and many pop stars would come, too. My job was to    35   each star and I also had many other duties.
We practiced a lot before the show. I had to remember to look at the right camera at the right time. At first, I thought I would never be    36   to remember all the words.
The big day came very quickly, and I was so excited. Twenty minutes before the big event, we    37   the doors and many people came into the theatre to watch the show. The fans of the pop stars were making a lot of noise, so I had to speak    38  .
A lot of    39   has been given to Project Green Hope. I hope more events like this will be organized to raise money for charity and I think more people should be    40   to take part in them.
See you soon .
Best wishes!
Ricky

Look at the girl. She is   31  good friend. She is  32  English girl.   33 name is Kate.   34  twelve. My   35  is Fangfang.    36  a Chinese girl. I’m eleven.
Kate  37   a small sports collection. She has   38  tennis racket, three basketballs, and five baseballs, but I only   39  a soccer ball. Kate and I both (都)  40 sports every day.

One’s education starts from family, especially from his or her mother. Here is a story__26__ happened in my childhood.
One Saturday morning, I was watching TV in the living room with my two brothers. My mum__27__ several apples of different colors and sizes. She put all the apples on the table, then __28__me and my younger brothers, “Which do you like ?”__29__ my younger brothers and I wanted the biggest one. __30__ I could say “ The biggest one”, one of my brothers stood up and said what I wanted to say.
My mum __31__ the biggest apple and said to us, “It is __32__to get the biggest apple. Many people want the best thing, but few really get it. Now let’s start a __33__. Look at the lawn(草坪) in front of our __34__. I’ll divide it into three parts. Each of you must finish pruning(修剪) __35__own share. The best and quickest one will be__36__the biggest apple.” I won the apple finally.
Since then, I have learned to try my best to succeed whenever I get a chance. I work __37__to get what I want. That was what my mother advised me to do. I feel very thankful to my mum because she taught me a very basic but the most __38__lesson. It is quite fair that we can get what we want __39__competing (競爭). My mother kept teaching us in this way and we followed her __40__ all the time.
I do believe that mother is the first teacher of children, who can teach them to be a No.1 pursuing person.