Thirty years ago, I walked into a bakery (面包厂) to buy some cakes to sell in the street. At that time, I was 12 years old. A kind lady served me that day. She gave me twenty _____ without taking my money and _____ me good luck.

I took the cakes and went out to sell them. It took me all day, _____ I sold them all. And I made some money. I felt I was the ______boy in the world when I walked home that evening.

The next day, I went to a bike shop. I paid a deposit (定金) for a new _____. And then I started my job as a newspaper delivery (投递) boy. Soon I could _____ the rest of the money for the bike and the bike was mine. I was so proud of myself.

Today I ______ work in the delivery business. I have a truck to send things all over the country. I live in a beautiful house, but I don’t ride a bike these days. I drive a nice large car.

I don't know who that ______was. But because she gave me the start, I have become a ________ man. I’d like to show my _____to her.

   When Mr. Smith retired (退休), he bought a house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a ______ life in it.

But to his great ______, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays ______ it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to evening there were ______ outside the house. They kept ______ the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. Smith’s garden. This was too much for him. He ______ to drive the tourists away. So he put up a ______ on the window. It said, “If you want to come in and look round, pay 20 dollars.”

Mr. Smith was sure that the tourists would stop coming, but he was ______. More and more visitors came and he had to spend every day showing them around his house. He was very tired and he said ______, “I came here to rest, not to work as a guide.” In the end, he ______ the house and moved away.

   Many children like to go hiking (徒步旅行). Why? Because they can be free from school and their homework. They can also enjoy beautiful nature, play with friends or family. If you want to have a happy hike, you must pay attention to the following:

First, find a good day. Fine weather is the most important for a happy hike. If the weather is good, you can do a lot of things, like riding horses, going bike riding, swimming in the river, flying kites and playing ball games.

Second, go with the people you like. If you go hiking with the people you don't like, you won't have a great time. So, find the person who has the same interest as you.

Third, find the right place. Different people have different ideas about the places. For me, I would like to go to the beach for a hike. I like to walk along the beach, listening to the sound of the sea and watch children playing.

Lastly, think of what you need to prepare before going hiking. To have a nice hike, you must have comfortable shoes, enough water and some food. Now you can go hiking!

   It was on a cold winter night that I knew my mother was dying. I travelled miles from home to spend the last night with her. I sat right next to her sick body, reading her long-loved books. It was one of the most difficult and painful times in my life. After she died, for many days, I stayed alone in her room, with a lonely and empty heart.

Everything was in silence. But one evening the silence was broken. I heard crying outside. I opened the door to find a little dog on the steps. He was thin and poor. I brought him inside and fed him with some fish, and then he fell asleep.

The next morning, I learned that the dog’s owner had moved out, so the little dog was there all alone, just like me. As I walked back to the house, I tried to work out what to do with him. Takingcare of something seemed like the very last thing Iwantedto do.ButwhenI openedthe door, he ran to me and jumped into my arms. It was clear that he didn’t want to go anywhere. When the time finally came for me to return home, I had to decide what to do with him. There was no way I would leave without him. From then on, things grew easier. With him around, time seemed to pass much faster.

Five years has gone since my mother died. Over the years, many people have said how nice it was of me to save the dog. But I know that we saved each other. I may have given him a home but he gave me something greater.

Personal computers and Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.

Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but the new technology will also let them communicate more with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.

Email makes it easy to work at home. I spend most weekends and evenings at home. My working hours aren’t much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before email became such a practical tool.

The Internet also makes it easy to share ideas with a group of friends. Say you do something fun — see a great movie perhaps and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you use a telephone to call each one, you may tire of telling the story. With email, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and send it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.

Email is also an inexpensive way to communicate with people who live far away. More than a few parents use email to communicate with their children at college every day.

We just have to keep in mind that computers and Internet offer another way of communicating. They don’t take the place of any of the ways.

As a saying goes, “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” Friendship is one of the best things in our life. A true friend is
56． by our side and gives us his or her help and comfort when we
57． them.

It’s not easy for everyone to make a true friend in the daily life. Be
58． to choose a friend. We should choose someone
59． has a good character（性格）. We also should avoid those people who aren’t honest. If you hope that
60． friendship can last for a long time, please choose a good friend at first.

We all know that friendship is very precious（珍贵的）.A true friend can always be
61． and respected. If you tell a friend your
62． , he or she won’t tell anyone else. Good
63． always help each other when they are in trouble and cheer each other 
64． when they are sad. In a word, don’t
65． him or her when you have made a good friend! Let’s value our precious friendship.

假如你是李华，你的高中生活即将开始，你的英国笔友Sam询问你高中的计划，请你用英语根据以下内容和要求写一封电子邮件回复他。

I am glad to tell you my senior high school plan.

Yours

Li Hua