Jim and Jack passed by a small house on their way home late at night. They saw thick smoke _______ out of its windows. “It’s on fire!” said Jim. “We _______ help.”

The two brothers ran along the road shouting, “Fire! Fire!” They knocked at the _______ of the next house. They asked the neighbors _______ the police and the firemen. Then they ran back to the house and saw _______ the window an old lady sitting in an armchair. It was _______ that she could not move. Jim and Jack tried _______ best to carry her out of the house. Some _______ came and helped to take some things out.

In no time the firemen as well as the policemen arrived. The fire _______ out. The old lady wasn’t hurt ________ she cried. She thanked Jim, Jack and her neighbors again and again.

   An 11－year－old boy Frank loved to read ghost(鬼) stories. Every time he paid a visit to the library and got back a horror story. And he liked playing scary tricks on his friends.

One day, Frank's friend Pavan asked him to come over to his house after school. Frank played there until very late. He walked along the road in the quiet wood. How dark it was!

Then he heard a noise that came from behind. “Guess what I can do with my long bony fingers and my long sharp teeth?” It was a human voice.

Hearing the terrible voice, Frank started to run, but the terrible voice still went after him.

Out of breath, he stopped, nervous. In a trembling(发抖的) voice, he asked, “Who's there?”

But all he heard was the voice saying: “Guess what I can do with my long bony fingers and my long sharp teeth?”

Frank started running again. When Frank arrived home, he gathered his last bit of courage and turned to ask, “Who are you and what can you do with your long bony fingers and your long sharp teeth?”

“Aha! Frank! Didn't you find that I was running after you all the time?” said his dad.

“Daddy? It's you? You mean the voice came from you? But why?” asked Frank.

“Well, I thought I would give you a scare for a change, just like you do to others after reading one of your stories!” said Frank's dad.

Frank looked at his father for a long time. And then they went inside the house together.

   It is not very easy to last a friendship with someone you cannot see or feel. This is the main problem that Internet friendship faces. Without the real communication, it is very difficult to form a friendship that would last forever. And the chances of cheat are very high in an Internet friendship. So, while making friends on the Internet, one has to be very careful and follow certain precautions (防范). There are some suggestions followed if you are going for online friendship.

Tips for online friendship:

★Do not disclose (公开) personal information to unknown people on the Internet, such as your telephone number, address, location, the jobs of your parents, credit card number etc. If you feel you are cheated, telephone the police at once.

★Disconnect (断开) the line if you feel the person is trying to know something important about your personal life.

★Do not disclose anything about your friends or relatives or other family members.

★Do not exchange photographs of yours or any family member on the Internet.

★Do not go to meet a person you have just met on the Internet. Consult elder people or someone who is experienced and if you have to go, take someone reliable with you.

   In South Korea, many schools hire English teachers from abroad, but as you know, there are not so many English native teachers in South Korea. A team of engineers has created a robot that they hope will take the place of foreign teachers.

Robots will save schools money. The cost to build a robot and hire a Filipino teacher to work with it is around $20,000 a year. That is about half the cost of supporting a foreign teacher in South Korea. What’s more, robot teachers can make students have more fun learning English.

The robot teacher is called Engkey. She is about one meter tall and is white, egg-shaped. She takes a screen as her face. She can move around the classroom while speaking to students, reading books to them and dancing to music by moving her head and arms. So this robot is more than a video screen on wheels. But Engkey’s voice is not her own. They are controlled by English teachers in the Philippines (菲律宾). There is a camera in each of the robot teachers. With the help of the camera, English teachers in the Philippines can see and hear the students.

Engkey’s creators say that they don’t know how successful the robot is as a teacher now. But they hope that some day all schools in South Korea will have a robot in the classroom.

We were going to play with a team from a country school. They didn’t come
41． the match nearly began. They looked
42． than we thought. They wore dirty T-shirts and blue jeans and looked
43． farm boys. We thought they had never seen a basketball before. We
44． that we didn’t need any practice to play with such a team. It was so late that they couldn’t have
45． time to practice. The match began. One of our
46． got the ball and he tried to give it to another one. But from out of nowhere a boy in a T-shirt caught the ball and he
47． and beautifully got the ball into their basket and had two points. To our
48．, they had another two points in a minute. Soon it was all over. The country team won the match.
49． course we knew that there was still another team better than any good team. But the most
50． lesson we learned this time was: One can’t tell a man or a team by the appearance.

   梦想有多大，舞台就有多大。人人都有自己的梦想，你的梦想是什么？请根据下面提示，以“My Dream”为题，写一篇英语短文。