Many years ago in a village,Harlem,Holland,there lived a young boy. His name was Hans and he was eight years old. One ________ day,Hans went across the reservoir（水库）to visit an old blind man.He took the man some biscuits and stayed there for a while. Then,Hans decided to ________ his home.

“The water in the reservoir usually gets ________ in autumn,” said the old man. “Be ________ Hans.” On his way home,Hans sang a song,watched the rabbits run around and picked some flowers for his mother. ________,the sky got dark and heavy rain began to fall. Hans felt afraid and started to ________. Just then,he heard the sound of water running away. He looked around carefully,and then ________ a very small hole in the dam（水坝）.

Hans felt scared ________ he knew what could happen. The ________ could get bigger and bigger. Then the dam could break and the whole Harlem would be covered by the water. Hans knew what to do. He put his finger into the hole,________ no more water could come through it. “Please,someone,help me!” Hans ________. But there was no one to help him. After some time,he began to feel very cold and tired,but he could not ________ the dam. All night long,Hails waited and waited…

The next morning,a farmer walked by and heard Han’s cries. “I am trying to stop the ________,”the boy said. “Can you help me?” The farmer called some other people and they quickly ________ the hole. Then,they took Hans home. Everyone was very proud of that ________ boy.

My brother is going to be 11and I am 14. My brother and I always get into fights.Whenever he does something wrong like hitting me, messing my room or taking my toys, he never gets in trouble.But when I do this kind of things, I’m always grounded and it’s not fair.

I tried talking to my parents about this and all they said was that they would try harder. However since they said this it has never happened.I don’t know what to do. I sometimes just try to get on the computer and there he goes. He starts saying he wants to use the computer even though we have 3computers in the house. But all that my dad says is to get off only for 30minutes. I keep telling him that he can use the computer downstairs but he complains（抱怨）that he is too scared.

I’ve talked to my friends about this and they don’t know what to say. I’ve tried talking to him and being nice to him but it didn’t work. He just doesn’t stop. He’s making my life terrible! My dream is to have an understanding brother.What should I do for that?

Help me please!

Kelsey

I arrived at the 57th St. Subway Station in New York City at about 10 p.m. one evening on my way home. The platform （站台） is long and there weren’t many people around. I could hear the weak sound of a violin. As I listened, it appeared to be coming from the other end of the station and it sounded like Mendelsohn’s violin concerto（协奏曲） without the orchestra （乐队）. I took a walk along the platform until I reached where the sounds came front. There was a young man playing the concerto and playing very well too. A small crowd had been there to listen and had become so interested in the music that they were letting trains go without getting on them. More people came to listen as a few passengers got off each train. At the end of the piece there was a stormy cheer from the listeners and we all left some money for him. I wanted to hear more, so I asked him to play the Bruch concerto, which he did while I let several more trains go without me. I finally went home, feeling the pleasure of such music.

A few weeks later, I read an article in the New York Sunday Times that a talented young violinist had been “discovered” playing in the Subway Station and there was a picture of our 57th St. violinist. He had been offered a job with the orchestra of the New York City Opera.

The health risks of smoking are well known,but kids and teens continue to smoke. Many young people pick up the habit every year—in fact, 90% of all adult smokers started when they were kids.

You might wonder why people smoke at all. Many people start smoking when they are kids or teens and they try it for many reasons. Maybe all of their friends were doing it or they grew up in a house where all the adults smoked. On the other hand, kids started smoking in order to look cool, act older, lose weight, or feel independent.

But no matter why they started, many smokers（ men, women, boys or girls）wish they could stop. Stopping smoking is hard, though, because there is nicotine （尼古丁） in cigarettes （烟）. Someone can get addicted to（沉溺于） nicotine within days of first using it. When something is addictive, your body and mind will tell you that you need it to feel OK. If you don’t get it, you might feel sick, stressed out, or get angry.

Stopping smoking mostly has two steps. The first step is to deal with your dependence on nicotine and the other is to break the habit of smoking. When you stop smoking, you may have to wait a few days or even weeks before the nicotine finally leaves your body.

Most importantly, we must make sure kids and teens understand the dangers of smoking as early as possible.

Can you always find what you want to find on the Internet? These easy-to-remember ways will help you to become a safe and smart searcher!

Several keywords will help to find better results. Use more than one keyword when you are doing a search. If you want to find out about seagulls, for example, search for bird seagull and not just seagull because seagull might also be the name of just about anything else, from a hotel to a documentary film.

Exact information can help you find what you are looking for. If you are looking for an exact sentence, e.g. “seagulls are very clever”, type (打字) it between inverted commas (“”), and only exact matches will be shown. This is very useful when you want to find something that you’ve already seen but lost.

Avoid common words like “a” or “the” in a search. These aren’t always helpful and usually unnecessary.

Add a minus symbol (—) if you don’t want some of the results. For example, “seagull-hotel-film” will leave out all information of hotels and films in the result.

Check out your spelling. Make sure that you spell every word in the search box correctly. The smallest typing mistakes can bring unwanted results, especially when the mis-typed word appears.

Have a filter(过滤软件). It’s a good idea to filter your online searches, especially when you are searching pictures. Ask an adult to help you add a filter. There are many kinds of them available.

Try different search engines(搜索引擎) until you find the one that’s best for you. Some search engines personalize(个性化) the results. So if you want to get different results, you’d better check out the search engines which don’t do this.

Harland Sanders was born in the USA in 1890, but his childhood was not a happy one. His father died when he was only six, so his mother needed to find a job. She went to Shirt factory and Harland stayed at home to look after his younger brother. That was when he first learned to cook.

He left home when he was twelve and worked on a nearby farm. After that he had a lot of different jobs and in 1930 he became a service station manager in Corbin, Kentucky. He started cooking meals for hungry travelers who stopped at the service station, and soon people came only for the food. Harland moved to a 142—seat restaurant across the street where he could serve all his customers. Over the next nine years, he developed the secret chicken recipe（配方）that made him famous.

In the early 1950s, he closed the restaurant and decided to sell his recipe to other businesses. The first official（正式的）Kentucky fried chicken（KFC）restaurant did not open until 1952. By 1964, there were more than 600 KFCs in North America. That year Sanders sold the company（公司）for 2 million dollars, but he continued to work as KFC’s public spokesman and visited restaurants all over the world. He travelled 250, 000miles every year until died in 1980 aged 90. Six years later, PepsiCo bought KFC for 480million dollars.

There are now KFC restaurants in more than 80countries and they sell 2.5 billion chicken dinners every year and the recipe is still a secret.

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