1 . A few years ago, my wife and I had a chance to live in New York for a year. I’ve always loved jogging, so I was really happy when I found the apartment we lived in was next to the Central Park. I could go for a run before I went to work every morning.

Because a lot of people had told me to be careful of robbers (抢劫者) in the park, I didn’t usually take anything with me. How could they rob me if I didn’t have anything? But one morning my wife asked me to buy some bread on the way home, so I put a $10 bill in my back pocket.

While I was running through the park, another jogger ran into me. He apologized and continued running. I thought it was kind of strange, so I checked my pocket and found that the money was missing. I immediately started to run after the jogger. I finally caught up and took him by the arm. I started shouting and demanding that he should give me the $10 bill. This seemed to frighten him, and he quickly put his hand in his pocket and gave me the money. Then he ran away as fast as he could.

I bought the bread and went home. As soon as I got home, I began to tell my wife my story. “You won't believe what happened to me,” I started. She immediately stopped me, “1 know. You left the money for the bread on the kitchen table.”

My daughter and I went to a supermarket where was two blocks away to buy some fruits. While she was queuing at the check-out，my daughter waited on a benches nearby. When finished, my daughter was seated next to elderly woman. I had a talk with her and find out that she was waiting for a bus to go home. I offered to take her home. She glad agreed. It was a nice chance to give up someone a ride when needing. The nice thing was what my daughter and I gained a new friendship. And we promised to visited and have lunch with the elderly woman.

Katie Steller, a hairdresser, is one of my neighbor. She drives to the city to give free haircuts to the homeless for every two weeks. Up to then, Steller has given about 150 haircuts to people around city. When asked why she enjoyed doing this, she always answers, "It is something what is meaningful to me. " She wants it to being a way not only to show kindness and also to get to know more people. Any of the homeless even get jobs because of their good haircuts. Katie said she felt very happily when some people recognized her on the street.

7 . It was two days before we would leave our house. I thought back to the old days in the house. However, we were saying ______ .

My husband said some things like the rocking chair and the kitchen table wouldn't ______ in the truck. I said, "But we have to ______ them!"

"But there is not enough room," he said.

We lived on the east side of Mississippi and our parents were in the west, so we always ______ to move out there to be with the people we missed. When a ______ came for my husband to work in the west, we decided to______.

"Could we get a bigger truck?" I asked, ______ trying to bring everything along with us.

“Amy, this is the biggest truck," my husband said. I stood in the garage. ______ that we had to leave behind some furniture, I felt ______ . So I called my mom.

"Hi, honey. How's the ______ going?" my mom asked.

"Some furniture is not gong to fit," I said, trying to keep my voice ______ and not to burst into tears. "It's ______to leave them behind. I sat in that rocking chair and read stories to Azure. I sat at that kitchen table with my ______.”

"Honey, these things are not the _______. You don't need the rocking chair to remember______to Azure. You don't need your kitchen table to remember family dinners. You'll always ______ those memories whether the things come with you to your new ______ or not. And you don't have to ______ about losing the memories." my mom said.

My mom was ______ . We've been very happy in our new home. Though we have half as many things we did before, we have not ______ the memories of our old home.

8 . Spaghetti and meatballs is my favorite food. And reading is my favorite hobby. When you ^are deeply absorbed in a book, you stop paying attention to what’s going on around you. People describe it as being “lost in a book”. It’s a wonderful feeling, but it can be risky.

One day I was home alone doing two of my favorite things: Eating a huge plate of spaghetti and meatballs and reading. At the time, my family had a pet bird, a big white cockatoo named Luke. He was free to leave his perch (栖木)and fly around inside the house. Luke enjoyed “talking” to people, but he wasn’t trained to use real words.

As I was reading and eating, Luke was talking to me, but I was lost in my book. So Luke decided to get closer. He flew from his perch, and before I knew it, he’d landed right on top of my spaghetti and meatballs!

I was so surprised that I didn’t even have time to think. My reaction was the same as yours would be: I shooed (发出嘘声赶走)him off my food! This wouldn’t have been so bad except for one thing: When Luke had landed on my plate, he had grabbed (抓住)my spaghetti with both feet. So when Luke took off again, the spaghetti-still in his feet-went flying everywhere, landing on my shirt and hitting me in the face. Red sauce splattered (泼溅)up the wall and onto the ceiling. As I pulled noodles out of my hair, Luke flew back to his perch, dropping spaghetti sauce all the way.

He wasn’t hurt, except for his dignity-the sauce in his beautiful white feathers turned him orange for several weeks. So next time if you find a spy novel at the library with red, spots on two pages near the middle, you’ll know that I’ve read that book ,too!

9 . One summer, when I was young, my dad built me a lemonade stand. On sunny days I would set up outside the local car wash with a cooler and my little black safe. I didn’t get many customers but I always had fun, whether I was reading a book or adding paint decorations to the safe and signs.

One customer I did have was an elderly gentleman who lived across the street from the car wash.

He would come every day where I set up and buy a glass of lemonade for his wife. Even though I only charged 25 cents, he always paid me with a $1 Sacagawea coin. I built up quite a collection by the end of the summer!

Now, as a college student, I make a point of stopping at as many lemonade stands as I can, always paying more than the kids charge me. This has been going on for almost three years now but this week, I didn’t have any money with me when I stopped at a little girl’s stand. I dug around in my car thoroughly and eventually opened up one of my moving boxes showing a black safe covered in soft cloth painted rainbows and hearts. I opened it up and sure enough, there were my Sacagawea coins. I almost shut the lid again because they mean so much to me, but then I realized that this is exactly why I had to pay with the coin. When I gave that little girl the shiny gold coin, I said, “You hang on to this one; they don’t make them any more!” And her face lit up. As I drove away, I saw her running to her sister to show her the gold coin and I knew that I had made her just as happy as I was when I was a little girl.

Last summer, my friend and I hired (租)a car and headed for Toronto. We didn’t book (预订) a hotel room because it was at the    1    (begin) of September and we thought it would be easy for us    2    (find) a hotel.

We have been driving for six hours when the weather changed and it looked as if a thunderstorm (雷暴) was coming. We got lost and both were    3    (hunger)when I saw an old lady    4    (park) her car. I stopped and asked if she knew a hotel nearby. She said that there was a hotel down the road,     5    it had been closed. It was the old lady    6    looked at me and said,“Why don’t you girls just stay the night at my house? I’ll cook for you.”

We ended up going to a little island in Lake Muskoka,     7    her family lived. We slept in the    8    (comfort) beds they built for their kids, and they cooked for us. We    9    (stay) at their house for three nights in all and also met their friends. Those days were the    10    (good) part of our three-week trip! We were glad that we got lost and met the old lady.