An elephant wants to make some friends. He sees a monkey in a tree and asks, “Can you be my friend?”

“You are too big. You can’t swing（摇荡）in the tree like me.”

Then the elephant meets a panda. “Please be my friend,” he says.

“How can I? Sorry, sir. You are too big and you can’t play games like me.”

The elephant is very sad. Then he goes home.

The next day, he sees all the animals running. He doesn’t know why. A rabbit tells him that there’s a tiger near here. He is coming to eat the animals.

The elephant goes to the tiger. “Mr. Tiger, don’t eat the animals, please.”

“Go away!” says the tiger.

The elephant is not happy and kicks（踢）the tiger. Then the tiger runs away. At last, all the animals know the elephant is strong and can do many things. So they all want to make friends with him.

Different people are good at（擅长）different things. Philip Crow likes playing football. He can play it very well. He often plays it after school with his friends. His friends call him Wang Jun. Sandy likes playing basketball. She is teaching her friends to play it. They call her Sun Ximei. Han Mei is very good at computer. She can draw pictures and email her friends on computers. She is emailing her American friend Lucy now. She can write her emails in English. Lin Tao does well in（在……方面做得好）drawing pictures, but he can’t draw on computers at all. He likes to write down his English name in the picture. He is writing his name Paul.

Nick Vujicic was born in Australia on December 4th, 1982. He was born with no arms or legs. His parents were very sad when he was born. How could he live in the future? Life must be very hard for Nick.

With his father’s help, Nick could swim when he was only 18 months old. And at the age of six, he could write. Later, he could do many things such as washing（洗）his head, use computers and play soccer. He could go to school and was good at many subjects.

Now Nick lives in America. He often goes to other countries to help people like him. He often says, “No arms, no legs, no worries（烦恼）.”

Nick has no arms or legs, but he doesn’t let it stop him. We should learn from him. He is so great.

Kristina Pimenova is from Russia. She was born in December, 2005. She has two big blue eyes and long brown hair.     46    She is a very nice girl.

She likes to dance very much and she can dance very well.     47    As for some food, she likes to eat apples and bananas.     48    Her favorite sports are running and swimming. Her favorite country is the USA.     49    She wants to go to America when she grows up（长大）.

Kristina’s father is a football star. And her mother is a model（模特）. When she was only five, she began her career（生涯）.     50    She now has lots of fans. She says she wants to be a world-class model one day.

John was born in London. He is six years old now. He can read and write     61     (good). But he can’t tell the time. He     62     /ˈɔːlweɪz/ says “breakfast time”, “lunchtime” and “teatime” instead of (代替) saying eight o’clock, twelve o’clock and four o’clock in the afternoon. His mother, Mrs. Brown teaches him many times,     63     he still (仍然) can’t tell.

One day     64     (John) aunt, Mary, comes to see his mother. His mother tells her about that. His aunt says, “Let me help you. I     65     /ges/ I can help him.”

When John comes home after school, Mary     66     (begin) to teach him.

“Can you     67     /kaʊnt/, John?” she asks him.

“Yes. One, two, three, four...” John says.

“That’s fine. Now I put the long hand on twelve and the     68     hand on one—that is one o’clock. If I put the short hand on two, what is the time?”

“Two o’clock.”

“Good. And on     69    ?”

“Three o’clock.”

Then it is four o’clock in the afternoon, and John’s aunt asks him, “    70     time is it now, John?”

“Tea time, Aunt, and I am very hungry (饿的),” John looks at the clock and answers.