One day at the end of the class, a clever teacher told the students to bring a plastic bag and a bag of _______ to school.

The next day she told her students, “From today on, if you don’t like anyone in your lives, you can choose a potato, write the person’s name and then _____ it in the plastic bag.” A few days later, some of the students’ bags were full of potatoes and very _____. She told them to carry the bag with them everywhere for a week. The students would put the bags inside their quilts（被子）_____, on the seats when they sit in a car or on a bus, and next to their desks at school. They had to pay attention to（注意）them all the time. This _____ the students feel too tired. They get to know the weight they were carrying in their minds. As time passed by, the potatoes were bad ______. They all want to throw them away.

We always think of tolerance (宽容) is a gift for _____ people, and it is also a gift for ______! If we choose to keep our sadness and bad things in our ______, we will have to remember and carry them all our lives. We won’t feel happy ______ we forget them.

Kim went to a beautiful beach on Monday with his friends. It was sunny and hot. So they had great fun playing in the water. In the afternoon, they went shopping. But the shops were crowded (拥挤), they didn’t really enjoy it.

The next day, it was rainy, so they went to a museum. It was boring. Kim found a small boy crying in the corner. The boy was lost. He helped the boy find his father. Kim was very happy. But he had no money for a taxi. So he had to walk back to the hotel. That made him very tired.

On Wednesday, the weather was very cool. So they played tennis. They played all the morning. It was really fun.

Betty is an American school girl. She is very happy because her parents will take her to China for a visit. They are going to fly from New York on June 30 and get to Beijing on July 1. They will stay at Lido Holiday Inn. Their Chinese friends will show them around Beijing. They are going to visit the Palace Museum, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall. They will also visit some Chinese homes and try some Chinese food. They will spend a week in Beijing and then go to Xi’an, Guilin and some other places for sightseeing. The whole trip will take three weeks and she is sure she will have a great time in China.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived in a small house near London with their child. Sometimes Mr. Brown came back from work very late when his wife and the child were asleep, and then he opened the front door of his house with his key and came in very quietly.

But one night when he was coming home very late, he lost his key, so when he got to his house, he rang the bell. Nothing happened. He rang it again. Again nothing happened. Mr. Brown knocked all the bedroom windows, he spoke to his wife, he shouted, but she didn’t wake up. At last he stopped and thought for a few seconds. Then he began to speak like a small child “mother!” he said, “I want to go to the lavatory (厕所)!” He spoke very quietly but at once Mrs. Brown woke up. Then he spoke to her, and she opened the door for him.

Nobody likes staying at home on vacation—when the weather is fine. Last August we decided to spend the day in the countryside. The problem was that millions of (数百万) other people had the same idea. We moved out of the city slowly behind a long line of cars, but in the end we came to a quiet country road. After some time, we stopped at a farm near the town. We had carried enough food with us and we got it out of the car. Now everything was ready so we sat down near a path (路) at the foot of the hill. It was very quiet in the cool grass until (直到) we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill. What we saw made us pick up (捡起) our things and ran back to the car. There were about two hundred sheep (羊) coming towards us along the path.

Zhang Xiang is my brother. He is younger than me, but he is as     67     as me. His hair is long, but my hair is     68     than his. He is much more outgoing than me, so he has many friends. He often     69     out with them. However, I like to     70     at home. He has cooler clothes than me. He is less hard-working, though. So he often gets worse     71     than me.

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