【推荐3】Mary wanted to buy a birthday present for her mother. But she didn’t have any money. She was very sad. She thought and thought. She had an idea. She could make a present by herself. So she used a piece of paper to make a card. On the front, she drew a beautiful pictures of birds and flowers. On the back, she wrote, “To my dearest mom in the world. Happy birthday!

On her mother’s birthday, Mary gave her the card. After she saw the card, tears (眼泪) fell down from her face. “Why are you crying?” Mary asked. “You don’t like it, right?” “Of course not,” she said. “I love it very much. I am the happiest mother in the world. I have such a great daughter.”

【推荐3】It was a perfect June day. My family and I decided to go whitewater rafting (急流泛舟). My father decided to bring us to go without a guide at this new, hard situation. Mom and I were upset by my dad’s decision, but my brother was pleased with it. Then we took a bus to the icy cold water. Having received the training, we began our own rafting.

Within the first hour, we got stuck on two rocks. Another raft had to hit ours to get us off the rocks. After about two hours, we saw a huge rock on the right side of the river. It was coming out of the water about ten feet high and about fifteen feet wide. Somehow, we ended up on top of this rock. Then water started rushing towards my brother. When he started falling into the water, I tried to pull him back. Unfortunately, we fell off together. My mother jumped in after us, but she could only get to my brother. My dad jumped onto the bank of the river to see where I was. At that moment I was picked up by a man in another raft. I kept crying. Thankfully, everyone was fine.

When we got back in our raft, we had only two paddles for four people. We all knew it was going to take long to get to the end. One of the guides for another raft told us that there was an earlier place we could get out, but we had to carry our raft and walked for a mile. At that point, no one really cared if we had to do anything after we got out of the water. We finally got to the ending point, wet and cold.

To this day, I have never felt so cold in my life. I have not been rafting again. All of this happened because my dad did not hire a guide.

【推荐2】Today is Sunday. Tim has no classes. He wants to play baseball with his friends. So he says to Mother Cat, “I’m sorry, I can’t take your children to the park near here. But you can take them there. It is not far from here. And the park is very beautiful. I believe you’ll have a good time! But don’t forget there are five cats in the park.” Mother Cat is very glad. She takes her four children to the park soon. Now they are playing games. Mother Cat is counting the number of the cats, “one, two, three, four …” She is worried. “There are five cats here. But now there are only four cats. What can I do?” Mother Cat is crying. She is looking for the fifth cat. “Where is it?” Oh dear! Where is the fifth cat?