Mrs. Zhang is my neighbor.     1     (She) house is next to mine. She is a warm and     2     (friend) person. She is popular among us. She always likes to help other people     3     are in trouble. And she often     4     (ask) people what she can do for them. She often says hello to me     5     the front of the garden when I come back home. She plants different     6     (kind) of beautiful flowers in her garden. It was Mrs. Zhang’s birthday last Saturday. She held a party and invited all the neighbors. She made     7     very big cake with fresh flowers on it. It was my     8     (one) time     9     (see) such a cake. I thought it was the nicest cake I had ever eaten. We sang, danced and talked     10     (happy). It was really a great time!

【推荐3】There once was a boy who loved eating candy. He always asked his father for candy. It made his father     1     (worry).

The father thought hard about how to stop the boy from asking for so much candy. There was     2     very wise man living nearby. The father decided to take the boy to him.

The boy and his father went to meet the great man. The father asked the great man to help him. The great man was     3     difficulty because candy was his favorite. How could he ask the boy to give up     4     (ask) for candy? He told the father to bring his son back after one month.

During that month, the great man stopped eating candy, and when the boy and his father returned after a month, the great man     5     a talk with the boy. From then on, the boy didn't ask for candy anymore.

The     6     (boy) father felt surprised and asked, "Why didn't you ask     7     son to stop eating candy when we came to you a month     8    ?" The man answered, “ How could I ask him to do that when I loved candy     9     (well) myself? In the past month I managed to stop eating candy?"

A person's actions are much more powerful     10     just his words. When we ask someone to do something, we must do it ourselves too. We should not ask others to do what we do not do ourselves.