I need your help. I am a ________ elephant. When I was a baby, I lived in the forest with my parents. But some people killed my mother, and they caught ________. They used a car to carry me to the circus (马戏团).

Many people enjoy ________ my wonderful tricks. I have to work eight hours a day. I really don’t like doing this. I ________ play tricks in the forest. I don’t enjoy any of the tricks. I play tricks because the people in the circus tell me ________ them. And still I hear ________ people want to see me because they love me. ________ most people are just thinking about themselves—what they want and what they like.

Please think about me. I need to be free, and to be with my family. And people can watch me on videos, DVDs and web pages.

Can you help me come back to my family?

Once upon a time, a good-looking hawk (鹰) lived in a tree ________. He felt lonely because he had few friends.

One day, he saw a beautiful she-hawk and wanted to many (和……结婚) her. But the she-hawk said “no” because he had no friends. “Will you be with me if I make three friends?” he asked. She answered “________”.

The hawk flew to ________ friends, Along the way, he met some ________, including a huge bear, a fox and a tiger. He asked them if they could make friends with him. They said, “Of course. Call us when you need ________ and we shall come to your side.”

The hawk was very happy. He flew back and became the she-hawk’s ________. Ten months later after they married, they got two baby hawks and had a happy life.

One day, two hungry hunters (猎人) came and sat under that tree. They had ________ to eat. Suddenly, they heard the baby hawks crying. And then they decided to ________ them and eat them.

The parent hawks became afraid, so they had to ask their friends for help. With their help, the two hunters ran away, and the babies became ________.

The hawk thanked his three friends. Although they didn’t see each other for nearly a year, they came to help him at once. He found that the she-hawk was very ________ in telling him make friends before marrying.

This story is about a junior high school student. His name is Peter. He works hard at his lessons. He is very busy and doesn’t have time to rest, so he doesn’t feel well. Every night, when he goes to bed, he closes his eyes and tries to sleep. But he can’t. One day, he told his mother about it. His mother said to him, “You must go to see the doctor.” Then they went to the hospital. He said to the doctor, “I can’t go to sleep at night.” “Try counting numbers. When you reach one thousand, you’ll be asleep.” The doctor said.

The next day Peter came back to the doctor. “Well,” said the doctor, “how are you today?” “Not well,” he said, “I tried counting one, two, three… up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some coffee. Then I went on counting up to one thousand. But I still couldn’t fall asleep.”