— OK, I'll give it up.

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   Happy Time is a program on ABC Radio. John Brown is an announcer of the program. Most of the girls and boys like the program. They also like John Brown. Some of them often make calls to him and thank him for his work. There are lots of letters to him every day, too.

    John Brown gets up at 6:00 am every day. He leaves home at 6:30 am and gets to his office at 7:15 am. The program begins in fifteen minutes. He always plays some new songs for his listeners.

  John finishes his work at 6:30 pm. He drives home every day. He likes reading newspapers and listening to music in the evening. Sometimes he takes his dog for a walk after dinner.

— How lucky you are! He is good at teaching table tennis.

This is a story from One Thousand and One Nights.

  A long time ago, there were two   1  , Cassim and Ali Baba. When Ali Baba grew up, he cut wood to make a living. One day, when he was   2   wood in a forest, he saw forty thieves go to a cave(山洞). When the thieves said “Open Sesame(芝麻)”, the   3   of the cave opened. When they said “Close Sesame”, it closed. After the thieves left, Ali Baba went into the cave and took some  4   away. But Cassim found it and made Ali Baba   5 him everything. Cassim wanted to steal some gold, too. When Cassim went into the cave, the thieves   6   and killed him angrily. Cassim’s   7   was very worried about Cassim. She asked Ali Baba to   8  her husband. The next day, Ali Baba went to the cave and found that Cassim was   9 . Ali Baba took his brother’s body away. So the thieves knew there was someone else. They followed Ali Baba and   10   to kill him, too. But Ali Baba was very clever and killed all the thieves instead. Finally, Ali Baba gave all the gold in the cave to the poor.