— Sorry, Mum. I'm making a paper toy. I will      after a moment.

— Sure.

—Me too. I don't think he can take care of      .

— Sure, I'd like to. But I have to ask my mother first. If she    , I will go with you.

    This is' a story of a man who worked in a big factory. I got to know him many years ago, but I never paid any attention to him. He always wore an old red hat and carried a rubbish bag. He usually spent his break time and lunchtime walking around in that old big factory to collect the unused tins.

    Today, I was fixing one machine in the factory when this "tin man" came with his bag. As usual, he picked up the tins. My manager was standing there to watch me. He asked the "tin man" what he was going to do with those tins. I never thought about this question, because I always thought that he'd sell those tins for money.

    The "tin man" answered, "I will give these tins to my neighbour. He is ill and he cannot work." I was so surprised to hear that, so I asked him, "You collect all those tins just to help your neighbour? I know this does not help much," he said. "But I will try my best to help him."

    At that time, I found myself standing in front of a great man. This "tin man" only wore a T shirt and an old red hat and carried a rubbish bag, but he was a great man.

    We shouldn't judge a man by his appearance(外表). We should look at his heart.

    Hi! I'm Maria. I have two boys. Tom is three years old and Tim is one year old. My family moved into an apartment a few months ago. Our house is on the second floor. But our neighbour downstairs complains at least once a day and we have got her note, saying "Please stop running and jumping on the floor."

    Since then, I have to do everything to keep the boys busy or out of the apartment during the day, but this can't stop my kids from making noise. They are just children under the age of four. Now the lady downstairs often bangs the walls when my boys run and jump in the rooms.

    However, she often plays movies loudly late at night. The noise wakes up my children at night and makes them cry.

    At the same time, we have another problem. The person on the third floor often walks too hard and wakes up my boys at 5:30 a.m. , but I think we have to face it.

    Usually my boys are sleeping from about 8:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. the next day. At least they don't annoy the neighbour downstairs during the hours.

    After six days of spring rain, a (run) river appeared near Nancy Brown's farm. When she tried to get her cows to a  (high) ground, she fell down and hit her head on a fallen tree. Then she fainted(昏倒) in the river for a few minutes. When she woke, Lizzie, one of  (she) oldest and favourite cows, was licking(舔) her head. The water was rising. Nancy got up and began walking  (slow) with Lizzie. The water was now getting higher and higher. It was hard  Nancy to move her feet. Finally, all she could do was throw her arms around  (Lizzie) neck. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie successfully pulled Nancy out of the running water and onto a small island in the middle of the river.

    Even though it was about noon, the rain was so heavy that it took people two  (hour) to find Nancy. Soon she was taken to a hospital.

    When the flood left two days later, Nancy went back to the island at once. She  (find) that Lizzie was gone. She was one of the nineteen cows that Nancy had lost. "She saved my life but lost hers," said Nancy tears.

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2）What kind of person is she/he?

3）How do you like each other?