Friends are very important in everyone’s life because friends are always there when we need them. It’s great 【小题1】 (have) many friends, and I can’t think about my life without my friends.

My best friend is Lisa. When I first 【小题2】 (meet) her, I was five. She is one year 【小题3】 (old) than me. Now she is in the same class 【小题4】 me, in the 7th grade. She is tall and quite 【小题5】 (thin). She has long curly blond hair and blue eyes. I am not so beautiful. Sometimes I wish I could be as 【小题6】 (beautiful) as she is.

My name’s Molly. I am tall enough but a little 【小题7】 (fat) than Lisa. Lisa and I like doing a lot of things together and 【小题8】 (talk) about different things. She always 【小题9】 (help) me with my math and I sometimes help her with her English and history. Lisa is 【小题10】 (friend) and everybody loves her. She is also smart and she can deal with everything. I am happy to have a friend like her.

Same hearts, same minds

A boy named Reggie was well-known in his hometown because he couldn't hear anything. He was born deaf. Although people liked him a lot, they also treated him much 【小题1】 (different) than other people. The other children worried that they might hurt him while they 【小题2】 (play) together. Adults acted like he was incapable of understanding them, as if he was a baby.

However, this year, people got to understand Reggie a little better. On Reggie's 【小题3】 (nine) birthday, everyone in town would wear earplugs (塞) so that they couldn't hear anything, 【小题4】. This day came to be known as the Day of Silence. People realized 【小题5】 difficult life could be when they couldn't hear anything. They also learned that Reggie had some amazing skills.

On that day, no one thought of Reggie as just a deaf person. People saw a whole new side of him. More attention 【小题6】 (pay) to the things he said. They were also surprised by his intelligence, 【小题7】 (creative), and his ability to find a solution to nearly any problem or challenge 【小题8】 he faced. They realized that he had always been like that, and that he 【小题9】 (simple) needed to communicate with others in a different way. In the end, he was really just like any other little boy. On the Day of Silence, people came to know Reggie's true nature. They learned that although most of us are different 【小题10】 each other—sometimes in big ways—we are still mostly the same in our hearts and minds.

One day, a father and his daughter was flying a kite in the park.When they 【小题1】 (stop), the daughter asked her father: “Daddy, Look! There 【小题2】 (be) an old man selling apples. Can you buy me some? I 【小题3】 (feel) hungry.” The father didn’t bring much money with him, but it was enough to buy two apples. So he bought two apples and gave them to his daughter.

His daughter held one apple in her left hand and the other in her right hand. Then the father asked her 【小题4】 (share) one with him. When the girl 【小题5】 (hear) this, she quickly took a bite (咬) from one apple and then a bite from the second apple quickly, too.

The father was surprised. He thought maybe his daughter was too young to understand sharing and giving. It made him 【小题6】 (feel) unhappy.

Then suddenly his daughter with an apple in her left hand said “Dad, please 【小题7】 (have) this one. This one is much sweeter (更甜).” The father smiled after 【小题8】 (know) why his daughter took a bite from each apple.

Don’t judge (评判) anything too quickly. Always spend more time understanding things better.