The French owner of a rooster called Maurice was taken to court by neighbors who insisted the rooster is too noisy. An elderly couple from Limoges, complained that the rooster cut short their sleep with its dawn crowing (啼叫) next to their home. The couple wanted it 【小题1】 from earshot.

The rooster’s owner, a retired waitress who has been on the island for 35 years, argued,   “A rooster needs to 【小题2】. ” Her lawyer added that the complaints were ridiculous because crowing roosters were part of the country life. 【小题3】, many people signed petitions (请愿书) in support of Maurice and his 【小题4】 to crow.

Mayor of the main town on the island where they live, said, “Today it’s the rooster, but what will it be tomorrow? The noise of the wind? Our accents? ” He has issued a municipal law showing the need to “preserve the rural feature of the town.”

Finally, the court rejected the neighbors’ complaints of the noise pollution and ordered them to pay E1, 000. 【小题5】, the France’s most famous rooster can carry on with his dawn chorus.

Everybody can be a great ... because anybody can 【小题1】. You don’t have to have a college 【小题2】 to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul 【小题3】 by love.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mark was walking home from school one day when he saw the boy in front of him fall over and drop all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a basketball, a glove and a Walkman. Mark stopped and helped the boy pick up these things. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of his   【小题4】. As they walked, Mark discovered that the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved computer games, basketball and history, that he was having lots of 【小题5】 with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.

They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was invited in for a Coke and to watch television. The afternoon passed happily with a few laughs and some 【小题6】 small talks, and then Mark went home. They continued to see each other at school, had lunch together once or twice, and then they both graduated from that middle school. They ended up in the same high school where they had brief 【小题7】 over the years. The long awaited senior year came at last, and just three weeks before they finished high school, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.

Bill 【小题8】 to remind Mark of the day years ago when they had first met.“Did you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker (储物柜) because I didn’t want to leave anything for anyone else. I had stored away some of mother’s sleeping pills and I was going home to 【小题9】 suicide. But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I began to understand that if I killed myself, I would have 【小题10】 that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life.”

Alice likes cats 【小题1】 than any other animal. Although she is still young, she has experience of 【小题2】 after cats.

When she was a child, she 【小题3】 with her grandparents. At that time, her grandparents already had an old cat, about 11 years old, 【小题4】 she was only 4 years old. It was a good friend for her in her childhood. It was very 【小题5】 to her and never hurt her. One day, however, it left home and never came back again. It must be 【小题6】. She was so sad that she was 【小题7】 for it for a long time.

Now Alice has four 【小题8】. She takes good care of them and makes them live comfortable. But she is afraid to take her cats out of the house. She says it is too 【小题9】 for animals to go outside 【小题10】 she thinks that they must be hurt.