9. Last Sunday was a beautiful day. Paul went on a picnic to a mountain with his parents. They went to the foot of the mountain by car. Then they walked up to the top, and it took about one hour and a half. Paul was the first to reach the top, the next was his father, and his mother was the last. on the top of the mountain they saw some people who were enjoying hand gliding. Down below a lot of cows were eating grass in the field. Paul and his parents had a very good time at the picnic.

10. This is a story of one of the most famous men in the world. His name is Albert Schweitzer. When he was thirty years old, he began to study to become a doctor. He wanted to help many poor and sick people in Africa. In 1913 he went to Africa. He was very busy every day, because he had to take care of many people who needed his help. He did everything he could for them. They did not have to pay for his help. The 1952 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Albert Schweitzer.

11. Jack lives a small town in Texas with his father, mother and Betty, his younger sister. One day in the summer his mother asked him to go to the super-market to buy some cold drinks for the family. His mother handed him four dollars. He went to the supermarket by bicycle. It took him fifteen minutes to get there. He paid three dollars and sixty cents for four cans of orange juice and received forty cents in change. When he returned home, he gave the change back to his mother.

12. Miss White is from America. She lives in Taipei. She has been in Taiwan for six months. She teaches English at a university from Monday to Friday. She likes to teach very much. She tells her students a lot of things about her country in her classes. When she teaches, she tries to speak easy English very slowly. Her students can understand her easily. Since her first visit, more and more students have become interested in English, and enjoy studying it.

13. Tom got a surprise yesterday. When he got home from school, he couldn’t find his mother anywhere. His sister, Anna, said to him, “Mother is in the hospital. Out new sister was just born.” Tom went to the hospital in a hurry with Anna. They saw their mother. She said, “Now you have another little sister. We will call her Mary.” In the evening their father came to the hospital. He took Tom and Anna to see the baby. Mary was sleeping in a little bed. Tom thought she wasn’t very pretty.

14. Jack likes studying history very much. One Sunday morning he was planning to visit a museum. He hurried to the station to catch the 7:30 train. As soon as he got there, he tried to buy a ticket for that train. The ticket clerk said, “The 7:30 train has just left. The next train will leave in thirty minutes.” “Has the 7:30 train gone already? It’s 7:27 by my watch,” said Jack. The clerk said a smile, “Look at that clock on the wall. It’s already past 7:30. your watch is three minutes slow.

15. Arthur goes to school by train. One morning he was very sleepy. After he left the station, he remembered that he left his bag in the train. Some textbooks, a box lunch and a dictionary were in the bag. At school he telephoned the lost and found office of the station to ask about the bag. But “We don’t have your bag” was the answer. He was shocked. He returned home and told his mother about it. His mothe

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