When I was a twelve-year-old newspaper boy, an old lady who was my customer lived near my house. I _______ her name. On a winter afternoon, I was playing with my friend near the old lady's backyard. I found a _______ smooth rock and threw it out, but the stone _______ a small window of her house. Unluckily, I saw the old lady standing behind the window. We knew we were _______, and ran away quickly. We were scared about that we would _______ and didn't worry about the old lady with the broken window in winter. The next morning, she was _______ greeting me with a smile when I gave her the newspaper. I made up my mind _______ my money to correct my mistake. After three weeks, I had seven dollars. I put the money in an envelope with a note explaining everything and hoped that the seven dollars would cover the _______ for repairing the window. I waited until it was dark, and put the letter in her door. The next day, I _______ the old lady her newspaper and she thanked me for it as usual and gave me a bag of cookies. After eating several cookies, I found an envelope and pulled it out. When I opened it, I was surprised. Inside were the seven dollars and a short note that said, “I'm proud of you.” I smiled in relief. However, I ________ the lesson about forgiveness she taught me.

Hello，I am Linda. I am from Class 1, Grade 7. My Chinese teacher is Miss Zhou. She comes from Shanghai. She is very thin. She likes reading. My math teacher is Mr. Chen. He is strong. He is good at swimming and running. My English teacher is Miss Li. She has long hair. She is friendly. She likes playing the piano. Mr. Wang teaches us P. E. He is very tall. He likes playing basketball and volleyball very much. He often plays volleyball with us on the playground.

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What we have been aware of is that people from Italy speak Italian and people from Russia speak Russian. But have you ever wondered the reason why people speak Spanish in so many South American countries? Do you know why the brilliant footballers of Brazil speak Portuguese? And why is French the first language of some people in Canada? The answer is that all these countries belonged to European empires at one time. The next question is: how did these empires begin? To answer that question we have to probably go back to the 15^th and 16^th centuries, the golden age of European explorers.

Although this period is known as the golden age of European explorers, it was not the beginning of European exploration. As you probably know, Marco Polo travelled a long way to China at the end of the 13^th century and some people say that the Vikings discovered America long before Columbus set sail in 1492. However, it is during this “golden” period that some famous voyages took place. Columbus' voyage to America is the best known voyage of exploration, but Ferdinand Magellan sailed round the world in this period, and Spanish explorers such as Central and Pizarro reached South America. Cortez defeated the Aztecs in what we now know as Mesico and Pizarro defeated the Incas in what we now know as Peru. The roots of the Spanish empire were established and that is why he Spanish language is so widely spoken in Central and South America today.

When it comes to helping developing countries, we often think about offering money in order that they can build schools and hospitals, buy food and medicine, or find clean water supplies. These seem to be the most important basic needs in their lives. However, it's far from enough. We have to come up with better ideas.

A man called Nicholas Negroponte invented a cheap laptop computer, which he decided to invent after he visited a school in Cambodia. The laptop which Mr. Negroponte has designed is not the same as the normal one that you can buy in the shops. One difference is that it will be covered in rubber so that it is strong and won't be damaged easily. As an electricity supply can be a problem in developing countries, the computer also has a special handle in order that children can wind the computer up to give it extra power when needed.

This special laptop computer will cost less than 100 US dollars and Mr. Negroponte wants to produce as many as 15 million laptop computers in the first year. The idea is that these computers will help the children's education as they will be able to access the Internet. These computers might not benefit the people in developing countries immediately, but by improving children's education they should help people to find their own solutions to their problems in the long term.

Another idea to help children in developing countries is to recycle old mobile phones so that they can be used again in the UK and probably in many other countries too, millions of mobile phones are thrown away every year. The waste crested by throwing away these old phones is very bad for the environment, so it seems to be an excellent idea to achieve two important goals at the same time. We will reduce the waste we produce and help others, in other words, we will be able to "kill two birds with one stone" and that is always a good thing.

Hello, girls and boys! Let's look in the lost and found box. There is a pink bag     46     it. It's Betty's. The gloves are Betty's,     47    . Tim's ruler and Jim's wallet are here. Is this small watch     48    , Daming? Please be careful with your     49    ! Whose books are these? Oh, I'm   so sorry, they     50     mine.

假如你是小玲，上周日，你和你的美国朋友Betty在西山公园玩得很开心。现在请你根据下列表格的信息，议“A Happy Day”为题写一篇英语短文。