Ann and her mother live in a small house. They don’t have much___________ . Next Saturday is Ann’s birthday. She wants to get a new ___________. But she doesn’t tell her mother. She knows it is_____________ for her mother to buy a new schoolbag for her.

One day, Ann’s_____________ often talk about their birthday presents（礼物）,“ My aunt will give me a computer” says Rita. “My father will buy me a nice watch,” says Linda. Then the two friends ask Ann, “_____________ is your birthday present?”Ann doesn’t say anything.

She always cares about（关心）her _____________ . These days, her mother looks___________ , because she works long hours. So Ann ___________ tells her mother what she wants for her birthday.

On Saturday morning, her mother leaves to ___________ at 6:30. Ann starts to do the ______________. She finds a beautiful new schoolbag on the sofa ______________ she is cleaning. It is red, her favorite color. There’s a note（便条）next to the schoolbag. It says, “Dear Ann, happy birthday! You are a ______________ girl. I’m really lucky to have a daughter ______________ you.”

Parents do everything for ______________ children. Similarly, children should also ________________ and care about parents.

In ancient Crete, there lived an inventor called Daedalus. The king of Crete, Minos, asked Daedalus to build a maze(迷宫) prison for a monster.

Later, a brave young man called Theseus came and said he would ________ the monster. The king’s daughter Ariadne saw Theseus and fell in love with him. When Theseus was thrown into the prison, Ariadne became very ________. Ariadhe didn’t want Theseus to die, so ________ asked Daedalus for help. With Daedalus’s help, Theseus ________ the monster and came out. Then, Ariandne ran away with Theseus. King Minos was very angry and he ________ his men to throw Daedalus along with his son Icarus into the prison.

“________, I hate this place — it smells terrible.” Icarus complained(抱怨).

Don’t worry. Let’s make wings from feathers and wax(蜡), “Daedius said. “We will ________ out of here!” So, they began to make wings. When they were done, Daedlus and Icarus climbed up to the highest tower of the prison. Daedalus warned Icarus, Son, don’t fly too ________, or the Sun will melt(使…融化) the wax in your wings.”

________, Icarus was very careful. However, soon he became so excited that he forget his father’s ________. He flew higher and higher. Suddenly, the wax in his wings began to melt and his wings broke. Icarus fell into the sea below and drown (溺死)! Daedalus landed safely, but he wasn’t happy at all.

One day a little mouse was thirsty. She looked around for water to drink. She climbed up on a table. And she saw a bottle on the table. The mouth of the bottle was _______. The little mouse looked inside the bottle. “Aha, there is _______ milk in it. That’s great.”She went into it and drank.

She drank and drank. After a moment she had drunk enough. Her stomach was too big and she couldn’t come _______ the bottle. She cried for help. Just then a cat came up to the table. _______ he heard the cry, the cat jumped onto the table so _______, “You’ll be my nice lunch.’’ The little mouse was very clever and she _______ for a moment and said, “Brother Cat, you mustn’t roll(滚) the bottle. “________” asked the cat. “I would get dizzy(头晕目眩的),” said the mouse. The cat said that he would let her die _______. So he began to roll the bottle. Suddenly the bottle fell down onto the floor and broke into _______. The little mouse ran ____________ as fast as she could. When the cat jumped off the table and ran after her, the mouse had already gone into her home.