My grandfather loves to grow plants. He grows ___________ and fruits, and he takes great care of them. Last week. Grandpa gave me some green bean seeds（四季豆种子）. Now I can grow my own green bean plants.

I took the seeds home and ___________ them to my mom. She helped me to plant them. First, we put some soil（泥土）in a pot. Then we planted a few seeds in it. I ___________ grandpa told me that plants need water and sunlight to grow. So I put the pot in a ___________ place by the window. I checked on my ___________ every day. When the soil was ___________, I added more water.

Today I saw a small stem（茎）coming out. The plant was ___________! I took the pot to mom happily. Mom told me that more steins and leaves would grow over the next few weeks, and flowers would grow, too. Then I could get my ___________ soon.

I was so ___________. I thought they would be the most ____________ green beans because I grew them myself.

Mrs. Brown lives in London. She has two sons, One is James and the other is Bill. They were born on the same day and they look the same. Mrs. Brown likes them very much and always dresses them the same clothes, hats, shoes and even socks.

One day James lost his hat when he played football on the playground after school. His mother didn’t blame(责备) him because she loved him so much.

The next day after lunch she went to a shop with Bill’s hat. She hoped to buy the same hat for James as Bill’s. She wanted to have the same kind. She asked the shop keeper to bring out most of the hats. It took her more than one hour to find the same one. She decided to buy it and said happily to the shopkeeper. “Excuse me, sir. Could you take the hat to my car please?” I’m afraid I can’t, madam,” said the shopkeeper in a polite voice.

“Why?” the woman asked in surprise.

“It’s your hat, Madam,” the man said with a smile. “We don’t have a new one like yours here.

Jenny Lewis had bad hearing when she was four. At the age of five, she got a special disease. Her heels (后脚跟) could not stand anything heavy, or they would be broken, so she had to walk on the front part of her feet. When the pain (疼痛) came, she had to took her medicine. That was the only way to make her feel better.

Although everything seemed terrible, Jenny always wore a big smile on her face. She had fun at school and she also joined the school soccer team! How could she do that? She took a pillow (枕头) everywhere to make her feel better when she sat down to watch a soccer game. She carried water for every player in the team and shouted loudly for her team in every game. That was team which had a long history. When people asked why the team was winning all their games, one player answered, “Well, when you fall over and can’t move, you look up and see Jenny trying to do everything she can. It makes you finish anything!”

A bottle of water may not seem like much to you, but thousands of bottles will be of great help.

In 2010, there was very little rain in Southwest China. Some places, especially in Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou. Crops died, the land cracked, and rivers dried up. More than 20 million people had difficulty in finding safe drinking water.

After learning about the drought, many people around the country helped by giving water, money and other things.

Every member of the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers were encouraged to give one bottle of water to the drought-hit areas. Students in primary schools and middle schools quickly joined the activity. In Yuhua Primary School in Xi’an, 900 students bought over one thousand bottles of water with their pocket money. They also wrote their wishes on the bottles. The serious drought made students realize the importance of saving water.

Students from Nanshan Middle School in Huizhou in Guangdong went on the streets to tell people to take part in water-saving activities.

“I’ve heard that some children in drought-hit areas don’t have enough drinking water. They have to drink dirty water. I feel really sad about that,” said one student. “I decide to take a shower twice a week instead of every day to save water,” he said.