11．　　"Please stay," I asked. Ann was my best friend, and I didn't want her to go. She looked around and a toy bear caught her eye. The bear was the (1)       that Aunt Reba gave to me and I loved most.
　　"I'll stay if you give me this," Ann said. I frowned (皱眉). I couldn't (2)       parting with the bear. "But Aunt Reba gave it to me," I said in a low voice.
　　I really loved Aunt Reba. She (3)       spent time staying with me after work. We saw each other almost every day. The day she died, I cried for hours, unable to (4)       I would never see her again. Now, as I held the soft bear, I could see her smiling face.
　　"Come on," said Ann. "I'm your best friend."
　　At that moment, I wanted someone to play with so much that I (5)       the bear to Ann.
　　That evening, I didn't have dinner. Once upon in my room, I began to really miss the bear! I couldn't help crying when mum asked what was wrong. I told her how (6)       I felt. She hugged (拥抱) me and encouraged me to listen to my (7)      .
　　Alone in the dark, I asked myself. Why I ask Ann to stay? What should a best friend be like? And is Ann really my best friend? I knew what to do.
　　The next day, I found Ann at her house. I took a (8)       breath and asked for the bear. She looked at me for a long time. "OK," she said finally, producing the bear from her pocket. "I didn't like it anyway."
　　I looked into her eyes and asked, "Do you think the best friend can take away others' favorite toy?" She stayed in (9)      . After a few good seconds, she looked up at me and (10)       her head. We both smiled.
　　Since then, we have come to understand that best friends are people who want to spend time with us but they ask for nothing in return.

12．　　Spring Festival is celebrated not only in China but also in other parts of the world. The traditional holiday is the most important to Chinese both home and abroad.

13．A Glass of Milk
　　A poor boy Tony lived in a small town. He sold flowers from door to door because he had to pay for school. One day, he had only one cent left, and he was hungry. He decided that he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, when a young woman opened the door, the boy was shy, so he just asked for some water. The woman knew he was hungry, so she bought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much should I pay for it?" "You won't pay for it. My mother has told me that it is good to help the people who are in trouble," she replied. The boy said, "Then I thank you from my heart. May I have your name?" "I'm Kate Smith," the woman answered. As the boy left that house, he felt stronger. He knew he had many things to do.
Many years later, Kate Smith became seriously ill. The local doctors couldn't save her. So people had to send her to a hospital in a big city, where Tony worked. When Tony knew who the woman was, he was excited and tried his best to save her life. He succeeded. Kate needed to pay for the medical bill. Tony learned that she couldn't afford it. So he paid for her medical bill. He also wrote something down on the medical bill. Kate read the bill, "You have paid it with a glass of milk. Your kindness once helped a poor boy."

14．The Boy Who Always Won
　　Allan liked nothing more in the world than to win. He loved winning at whatever it may be: football, cards, video games … everything. And because he couldn't stand losing, he had learned to cheat in practically every situation, even in video games or playing alone. He could win without ever being caught.
　　He won so many times that almost no one wanted to play with him. He was just too far ahead of everyone. One person who did play with him was Reggie, who was a bit younger. Allan really enjoyed himself, always making Reggie look stupid.
　　But Allan ended up getting bored with all this. To find excellent players to play against, he decided to take part in the national video games competition. He was eager to show his skills in the competition. But when he tried using all those cheats he knew from a thousand different games, none of them worked. The competition judges had prevented any of the cheats from working.
　　He felt deeply ashamed. He was a good player, but without his cheats, he couldn't beat a single player. He was soon out, and sat there sadly. Finally, they announced (宣布) the name of the winner. It was Reggie. The one he had always beaten!
　　Allan realized that Reggie had been much cleverer than him. It hadn't mattered to Reggie if he lost and got a good beating. He was learning from each of his failures. And from so much learning Reggie had become a real master and won the competition.
　　From then on, the boy who had loved winning gave up wanting to win all the time. He didn't cheat any more, because he was no longer afraid of losing. In fact, he was quite happy to lose sometimes, because that was when he would learn how to win in the really important situations.

15．My Choice for Keeping in Touch
　　Many people like to think of the past experiences and I am one of them. When I go on trips I keep everything from bus tickets to leaflets (传单) and I always take hundreds of photographs to look at when I get home. I love thinking of happy memories and remembering exciting adventures I have had. Having something to look at makes this easier. One of the most interesting ways to remember things is to read old letters, either ones that you have sent to yourself or letters you have received from someone else.
　　Living abroad this year has really made me think about how I keep in touch with my family and friends. One of the things I enjoy doing most is writing them letters. I sit down with a cup of tea and write down everything exciting that has happened to me in the past few weeks or since I last spoke to them. It forces me to think about all the wonderful things which have happened. Writing them down can help remind me of how lucky I am to be able to experience so many new things.
　　Not only is writing letters an excellent thing to do, but I always think the best part is when you receive a letter in reply! There is something so exciting about receiving post, especially when the address is handwritten and you can see that somebody has put time and effort into staying in touch with you. It is so special to have a box full of old letters, and reading them back years later reminds you of all the exciting things you once did.
　　In a world where we update (更新) our friends very often over social apps, it is easy to forget to reach out to people individually (单独地). I think that by writing a letter, even just a note on the back of a postcard, you remind people that you are thinking of them.
　　In ten or twenty years we are still going to be able to look back our memories and see what we were doing. Are we going to be able to reread our conversations with family and friends? Nobody knows, but having something physical to hold such as a letter means you will always have those memories.

16．A Box of Biscuits
　　Tom brought a box of biscuits to a summer camp. He ate a few and placed the rest under his bed. After lunch, he found the box was gone. (1)      .
The next day, the coach saw a boy eating Tom's biscuits behind a tree. He came up with an idea to solve the problem. He found Tom and said to him, "I know who took away your biscuits. (2)       ?"
　　"Well, yes … are you going to punish him, sir?" Tom asked. "No, I am not," the coach explained patiently, "That would only make him hate you. (3)      ."
　　Tom received another box of biscuits by mail from his mother a few days later. "Now," said the coach, "Go and share them with the boy who stole your biscuits." Tom didn't understand the coach's purpose, (4)      .
　　Half an hour later the coach saw the two boys come up the hill, arm in arm. The boy was trying to ask Tom to accept his toy robot in payment for the stolen biscuits. And Tom was refusing the gift from his new friend. He said that a few biscuits were not so important.
　　In some situations, forgiveness (原谅) is better than punishment.

17．　　School was over. Usually David's mother would take him home from school but today she was not here. David decided to go home alone (1)             foot, and it took him about half (2)             hour.
　　When he got home, he couldn't get in (3)             he did not bring his keys. He knocked on the door, but no one answered. David thought his mother (4)            (be) in the toilet, so he waited patiently for her. After a few (5)            (minute), David knocked again, but still no one answered. "What is happening? Is there anything wrong with my mother?" he thought to (6)            (he) and got worried. Just at that moment, he heard the (7)            (friend) voice of his neighbor, John. David told him that no one was home, and John asked him (8)            (stay) in his house. Two hours later, when David's mother got back, he (9)            (play) games with John. (10)             happy he was to see his mother!

23．为响应我市“创建国家卫生城市”的号召，6月3日，5000多名市民以绿色出行的方式参与了“生态鄂州 —— 环洋澜湖健步走”活动。请以“共建绿色城市”为主题，根据以下文字提示，并适当发表自己的观点，写一篇英语短文。

要求：
1. 80—100词 (开头的首句已给出，不计算在总词数内)。
2. 文中不能出现自己的姓名和所在学校的名称及其它相关信息，否则不予评分。
参考词汇：吐痰spit ；垃圾箱dustbin ；交通拥堵traffic jams； 环境environment
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