Paul was a rich young man. When his father died, he ________ Paul a beautiful forest manor (庄园). However, ________ Paul could sell it for a lot of money, a lightning strike（雷击） caused a fire that destroyed   it. Watching the beautiful green trees ________ into ash (灰烬)overnight, Paul felt his heart break. He felt ________. He wanted to bring back the forest manor’s beauty, Paul tried to ________money from a bank. But the bank said no to him, for the bank didn’t believe he’d ________ it back. Then he felt so ________ that he didn’t want to eat or drink. So he stayed in his room for ________. His wife ________ about him and asked him to take a rest outside a few days later.

Paul went for a ________. When he turned at the first corner, he saw a ________ with many people. People were lining up to buy charcoal（木炭）to make their rooms ________in winter.

Then Paul’ s eyes lit up (露出喜色). He ran home and found some charcoal workers to process (加工) the forest’s burnt ________ into charcoal. After his charcoal went on the market, it sold (卖) out quickly. Paul sold more than 1,000 boxes of charcoal.

The next year in the spring, he ________the money to buy a large number of seedlings (树苗). After a few years, the forest manor came to ________ again.

There is a new trend (趋势)—letting kids choose their punishments (惩罚) when they do something wrong. Sally’s mum said that she used it and her daughter once chose having her computer taken away for a month as her punishment. Do you think this is a good way?

Confucius lived in the Kingdom of Lu, which lies in Shandong Province. He lived during the Spring and Autumn Period. He had a hard childhood. His father died when he was only 3. His mother brought him up. As a child, he had to work to help his mother, but young Confucius didn’t give up studying. He visited many famous teachers and learned music, history, poetry and sports.

Later, he became a teacher and started the first public school in Chinese history. At that time only children fromnoblefamilies could go to school, but Confucius believed everyone should go to school if they wanted to learn. He had about 3, 000 students in his lifetime.

Today, people still follow Confucius’ lessons. He told us that we all have something worthy to be learned. “When I am with three people, one of them must be better than me in some areas. I choose their good qualities and follow them.”

He also taught us that thinking is very important in study. “All study but no thinking makes people puzzled (困惑的). All thinking but no study makes people lazy.”

Confucius is not only a great teacher, but also a famous thinker with wise thoughts about the world and society. His most important teachings are about kindness and good manners. “A person should be strict with himself, but be kind to others.” he said.

“Wake up, everybody.” Robin shouted. “It is time for us to find another rich guest to pay for our feast.” Little John woke up slowly.

“You go west, and I go east. We try to find the richest man and bring him here!”

Robin walked for miles and saw many people but none of them were rich. But when he was eating, he saw a knight.

Robin said hello to him. The knight stopped, but said nothing. His face was full of sadness. “You need a good feast to cheer you up!” said Robin. “I have no reason to be happy,” said the knight “My name is Robin Hood. Who are you?” For a moment, the knight’s eyes grew wide. He knew all about Robin Hood’s feasts. “I am Sir Richard Lea,” he said, “but I have no money to give you for your feast.” Robin asked, “You are a knight, and knights are rich men.”

Sir Richard sighed. “My son killed another knight by accident and I had to pay a huge fine. To get the money, I had to borrow from the Priory of Emmet. Now I must return that money to the Priory or lose my land and my castle.” Robin felt sorry for the knight. “Come with me and Perhaps I can help you.” he said. Sir Richard agreed and followed Robin back to Sherwood Forest.

When they arrived at the camp, Robin told him to enjoy himself. Then Robin asked Little John. “Did you find a rich guest?” Little John laughed. “Yes, I did.” and brought forward his guest and Robin recognized(认出) him at once. It was “The Bishop of Hereford!” Robin said. “We meet again. Welcome to our feast.” The bishop was furious(愤怒的), but he didn’t say anything. He was too afraid of Robin.

Just then Robin saw there was a box tightly held in his hands.

Robin shot the box with his sword. The box hit the ground and thousands of gold coins fell out of it. Sir Richard came forward and Robin pointed to him, “Do you know this man?” Robin asked the bishop “Yes,” replied the bishop. “Does he owe you money?” “He owes money to the Priory of Emmet and I am the bishop for the Priory.”

Robin said, “Many people say you are the richest bishop in England.” Robin started to count the coins and said, “I think you have plenty of money and you want to help Sir Richard.” When there were five hundred gold coins in Robin’s hands, he gave them to Sir Richard. “Take this,” he said, “and pay your fine.”

Soon, Sir Richard left with the five hundred gold coins. He thanked Robin Hood and said, “One day, I hope I can repay your great favour.”

After that, Robin freed the bishop. The bishop left the camp quietly without all his money but when he was far away and no one could hear him, he said: “One day, I am going to make Robin Hood very, very sorry for stealing all my money. Wait and see.”

Let’s face it, all of us have our own bad habits. We may bite our nails (指甲). Others might break into others’ words often. Young people always stay up at night.     41     Have no fear! Today I will teach you to beat your bad habits.

    42    . Those bad habits would make bad influences (影响) and would finally lead to bad results. So pay attention to yourself on personal development and build your social circle.

Recognize (认识) the bad habit you want to break.     43     If you don’t believe you have a bad habit or you don’t know why some things just keep happening to you over and over, get answers from the people around you. They may help you recognize whether your habit is bad or not.

Decide how serious you are about breaking the habit. If you know it clearly, you will be able to make it. You can write down when, where and why you do the habit.     44     Think about what you wrote.

Think about a healthy habit that could take the place of your bad habit.     45     Catch yourself doing the bad habit and stop yourself. Practise the healthy habit instead. Practise this as often as you want. The more you practise a behaviour (行为), the sooner it will become a habit.

There are a lot of interesting c    51     in Australian high school. One of them is a commerce (商业) course. We have an activity called “Market Day” where we sell things to the whole school. All the teachers and students come to it. Our school holds this activity o    52     a year.

This year, we decided to do ice cream sandwiches and named our business “Ice Cream Cookie Cottage”. Each person in the group s    53     $20 buying materials from stores. And then we made the cookies o    54    . We also made an advertisement to introduce our sandwiches. At last, we s    55     all of our sandwiches. How happy we felt!

Once, a student complained to his teacher about his unhappy life. The teacher decided to teach him a lesson.

One day, he asked the student to get some salt and a glass of water.

The student returned with a glass of clean water and a handful of salt. The teacher asked the young man to put the salt into the glass and drink it.

"How does it taste?” the teacher asked.

"It tastes bitter (味苦的),” the student replied.

The teacher didn't say anything else, but asked the young man to get the same amount (数量) of salt and follow the teacher to a nearby lake.

"Put the salt into the lake,” the teacher said. The young man did what the teacher said.

"Now, taste the water from the lake,” the teacher said.

As the water dropped down the young man’s chin, the teacher asked, “How does it taste?”

"Fresh and a bit sweet,” the student said.

"Do you taste the salt?” the teacher asked.

"No,” the young man shook his head.

The teacher sat beside the young man and said, “The pain of life is like salt — no more, no less. However, the amount of bitterness you taste depends on the container (容器) you put the pain in.” The amount of pain in life stays exactly the same. So when you are in pain, the only thing to do is to open up the mind. Stop being a glass, become a lake.

71. 假如Andy是一位来自美国的交换生，目前就读于你所在的中学，通过两个月的接触，你们成了好朋友，请你根据下面的提示，以A Friend From the USA为题介绍一下他。开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

A Friend From the USA

Andy is my new friend from the USA. He is ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________