My friend John is a university student. Last summer, he went to Germany and stayed there for two months. I was surprised that John could stay there for so long, because he was quite poor. “How did you do it, John?” I asked, “I thought that you could only stay there for two weeks.” “It was easy,” John answered, “I got a job there.”

“A job?” I said in surprise. “What did you do?”

“I gave English lessons to a shopkeeper,” John said.

“But you are not a teacher,” I said.

“I told the shopkeeper that I couldn’t teach,” John said, “but he just wanted me to talk with him in English. He asked me to talk to him three hours a day. In return he gave me a room to live in, three meals a day and a little pocket money.”

“Did your student learn much English?” I asked.

“Well, I don’t know,” John said, “but I learned a lot of German.”

Did you hear about the Blood Type Diet (血型饮食)? According to Peter D’Adamo, you’ll lose weight, have more energy, and stay healthy if you follow his advice. Here’s what D’Adamo recommends (推荐) for each type:

The Blood Type Diet also recommends exercise according to your blood type. For example, it suggests jogging (慢跑) or riding a bike for an hour a day for Type Os. It’s hard to tell whether (是否) the Blood Type Diet works or not because there haven’t been any studies about it.

Li Gang was ill. He had to spend all the day in bed in the hospital. Doctors didn’t allow his friends to go near him, or they would catch the same illness. Li Gang felt sad. Every day he just looked out of the window.

One day, he saw something very strange (奇怪) outside the window. A panda was eating sandwiches and a monkey was playing the violin. He was very surprised. Later, he saw a dog wearing a pair of glasses acting like a teacher. He began to laugh and could not stop. After a while, more and more things were outside the window. He didn’t tell anyone about this because he thought nobody would believe (相信). But those funny animals brought happiness into his heart. Soon he got well and went back to school.

After class, when he wanted to tell his classmates about all the strange things, something came out of Wang Tao’s bag. It was a fancy-dress (假面) toy. He open Wang Tao’s bag and saw many fancy-dress toys. Wang Tao and his friends used them to cheer him up.

From that day on, Li Gang always did his best to make sure that no one around him was sad.

Dora was in the bathroom. The tap was     68    .

“Turn that tap off,” said an angry     69    . “You’re wasting water.”

Dora looked     70    , but there was no one there.

“Who are you?”

“I’m a     71     of water. Do you know where I come from?”

“From the tap?” asked Dora.

“A few days ago, I was in a     72    ,” said the drop of water. “Then I     73     into a river and ran into a reservoir. Then it was     74     for people to clean me.”

“Clean you?” Dora asked.

“Yes, I was     75    . They cleaned me and     76     some     77     to me. Then I travelled through the     78     under the streets and now I’m here.”

Dora asked, “So is this the end of your     79    ?”

“No. People will make me clean again. I’ll go into a river and then into the sea again.”

“Again?”

“Yes. My journey starts there.     80     not to     81     or pollute me. I’m     82    .”

Dora turned the tap off and came out of the bathroom.