Wallace had a different summer vacation. He went to visit his aunt by train. On the half way, some cowboys (牛仔) got on the train. They took Wallace to their cow camp and asked Wallace to join them. Wallace thought it was exciting and said yes. He wrote to his aunt and told her that he would be there soon. Then he started to learn to be a cowboy. He put on new clothes, learned to ride a horse and make a fire. At last, he called his aunt to visit him. When she was there, the horses went mad (发疯的). Wallace tried his best to save his aunt. He felt like he was a hero (英雄).

Hey, stop here! Is it true? Sorry, it is not. The English teacher asked the class to write a story about their summer vacation. Wallace didn’t want to talk about his boring vacation, so he made up the story. Isn’t it fun?

There were once two birds who were not good with each other. On a cloudy day, they wanted to know who could fly higher.

At last, they decided to have a contest to show who would fly higher.

“We will have the contest to find out who can fly the higher while carrying a bag,” the first crow said. They argued for some time over the size of the bag. Finally, they agreed that the first bird could fill his bag with cotton and the second bird would fill his bag with salt.

The first bird thought he was being smart to have this idea because salt is much heavier than cotton.

At last, they were ready for the great contest. With their bags, they flew up into the sky.

They had not been flying for long, however, when it began to rain—as the second crow thought it would.

As the cotton got wet, it became heavier and heavier. However, the salt just dissolved in the rain, so the second bird was able to fly higher than the first one.

Have you ever wanted to be in a TV show or movie? There is a new app that lets you put yourself in your favorite shows. But some people are worried about this app.

The app is called ZAO. A tech company called Momo released (发布) it last month. It lets users to put their face over another person’s face in a video or photo. Users can put themselves into popular TV shows and movies. For example, you can put your face into the movie Titanic. Your face will replace Jack’s or Rose’s. It looks very natural. Since the app came out on Aug 30, it has been the most-downloaded free app in China as of Sept 10, according to App Annie, a website that tracks app data.

But some people worry about how the app could be abused. People can use the app to make themselves look like politicians or celebrities (名人). They could also violate (侵犯) celebrities’ right of publicity (公开权) by using their faces to make videos. People could also make videos for illegal (不合法的) use.

Other people worry that they might lose their facial recognition data (面部识别数据). It is possible that hackers (黑客) could steal (窃取) this data from app companies and use it to break into users’ phones and steal their money.

Change your photos

There are other apps that use photo-editing technology to do interesting things.

FaceApp

This Russian app can change your face to make you look much older or much younger. It can also make girls look like boys or the other way around.

Prisma

This Russian app can make your photos, such as your selfies, look more special. It makes them look like they were painted by hand.

Hello, everyone! I’m Lucy. I’m tall and have     61     hair. My best friend is Anna. We both like sports. I play tennis well and she is good at     62    . We often read     63     and study together. In some ways, I’m quite different     64     Anna. I’m quieter than her. But I think friends are like books. You don’t need a lot of     65     if they’re good.

Mr. Smith has two sons. One is seven years old, and the other is five. One morning during the vacation, when he cleaned the car, his younger son     66     and asked him for some money for sweets. “It’s bad for your teeth,” Mr. Smith said without (没有)     67    , “Take these two oranges instead (代替), and you should     68     one to your elder (年长的) brother.” But one of the oranges is much bigger than the other one. Because the small boy liked     69     oranges very much, he kept that bigger one for himself and gave his brother the smaller one.

When the other boy saw that his brother had a much larger orange than his, he said to him, “It’s selfish (自私的) to take the bigger one for yourself. If father gives me the oranges, I will have the     70     one.”

“I know you will,” answered his brother. “That’s why I took it.”

Shopping for clothes is not the same for men as it is for women.     76     He knows what he wants, he can decide what to buy before shopping. So most men simply walk into a shop and ask someone for what they want. If the shop has it and the price is good, they often finish shopping in less than five minutes.

For a man, some problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants.     77     He offers(提供)something that is almost the same as the thing the man wants. Good salespeople say, “    78     Sir, but would you like to try it for size? Maybe you like the color.” Most men don’t care about this and may answer, “This may be the right color and the right size, but I won’t waste(浪费) my time trying it on.”

For a woman, it is different.     79     She doesn’t decide what she wants before she goes shopping. She just goes to “have a look around”. At first, she thinks about finding something that everyone will say, “It looks good on you.”     80     A woman may easily spend an hour or more looking at dresses before deciding on the dresses she wants to try on. It is boring. And most clothes stores provide chairs for the waiting husbands.