People say the lion is the “King of Animals” because we are very strong. So people watch us live in zoos behind bars or in parks when they drive in cars. But we are not happy there. We should live in grassy land in Africa. We live in families, too. In a lion’s family, there are usually about 12 members. We live and work together to get food and help the small ones. The mother lions usually get food for the baby lions . The father lions sleep most of the day. But you don’t think we are lazy. We are listening and watching all the time.

Now there are only a few thousand lions in the world. People are killing us.

   Harry Peter taught science at a high school. Once he went to a bookshop and bought some books. All of them were expensive ones. He left them in his car in a quiet street. Then he went to buy some fruits in the market. At six o’clock he came back to his car. He was surprised to find one of the windows was open, and the books were gone. Harry drove back to his home in Lake Street. That night he wrote a letter to a newspaper. The next day he went to the police.

On Friday people read an advertisement（广告） in the newspaper:

Books wanted

Have you any books that you no longer want? I buy old and modern books. Open all day on Saturdays. Harry Peter,18 Lake Street.

Harry stayed at home on Saturday. His first visitor came at nine o’clock. Harry took him to the kitchen（厨房）. He was sure that another man was coming. At ten o’clock, the second man arrived. He had a bag under his arm.

“Mr Peter?” The man asked.

 “That’s right,” Harry said, “Can I help you?”

“I have some books. You buy books, don’t you?”

“Yes. Bring them in. I’ll have a look at them.”

Soon the books were on the table. “Come in now,” Harry called out, “And bring the list（目录）.

A policeman came in. He read the titles（书名） on the books, and then those on the list on his hands. They were the same. “Come with me, sir,” the policeman said to the man.

   It is the fifth day. Robinson Crusoe is all alone on a small island. He feels hopeless. He is tired and hungry. Now he can catch fish for food but he doesn’t have a fishing rod ling enough. He sleeps in a cave but he also has some unfriendly visitors at night. Every day he stands on a rock by the sea. He can not see a boat or a sailor. He can only feel the wind from the sea and the waves under his feet. How he misses his beautiful hometown! How he wishes to be away from this place! But he can not, just wait to die! Robinson Crusoe tells himself, “I have to do something!” the next day he starts a long walk around the small island…..

   You can probably all ride a bike well. I’m an exception (例外).

I started riding a bike when I was three. It was a tiny toy bike with four wheels. I loved it very much and rode it every day.

When I was 5, my cousin gave me a pink bike. It was a true bicycle with just two wheels! At the time, my parents were too busy to teach me how to ride it. So I had to learn to ride by myself. I practiced hard on weekends and during vacations, although I still didn’t know how to make turns.

One summer vacation, I borrowed an old bike and rode it with my friends on a country road. We sang and practiced our riding skills. Suddenly, a small boy ran into the road. I was shocked and couldn’t control the bike at all. My bike ran into the boy and he fell. He didn’t get very seriously hurt, but his grandma was too angry to accept my apology. My cousin appeared five minutes later and saved me from the mess. But the experience frightened me: I no longer dared to ride a bike.

Then, last year, free bikes were offered to children. My mother tried to teach me how to ride. But the traffic made me so nervous that I had to ride really slowly. But I’m not going to give up. One day, believe me; you’d see me riding a bike in a big street.

   During the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, people had to send gifts to the emperor(皇帝). Once, a man called Mian ____ to take some swans(鹅) in cages to the emperor.____  he was passing a lake, he found that the swans were hot and dirty. He wanted to let the swans loose so they ___ have a bath in the lake._____the swans flew away as soon as they were let out. Only a few feathers(羽毛) were left. ___ frightened the man was when he saw that. Suddenly, he got_____idea. He picked up a feather from the ground and left for the capital.

   The emperor  was accepting valuable gifts from officials. Everyone was surprised when Mian ____ his feather. Mian then began to sing, “I’ve come a thousand li____ you the gift. But I lost my swans at a lake. My gift is not __, but my love and respect for you are true.” The emperor was pleased at Mian’s wit(智慧). Instead _____punishing him, he gave him a big reward.

People then drew the idiom（典故）“a swan feather sent from a thousand li away.”

   A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody _______ his own language by remembering what he _______when he is a small child. Some boys and girls who live _______with their parents seem to learn two languages almost as _______ as one. In school it is not easy to learn _______language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other _______, too.

A man’s mind is rather_______a camera. It takes photos not only of what we see, but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. _______we take a real photo with a camera, we have much to do before the photo is finished and ready to _______ to our friends. In the same ________there is much work to be done before we can take a picture forever in our mind.