Dear Carmen,

　　It is early afternoon and I sitting in the small restaurant

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closed to my work. It is a nasty day in New Orleans. It is

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raining and I am feeling of homesick. I am thinking of you and

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all my friends in Mexico. I miss everyone. Outside, the side-

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walks is crowded with people. All of them are wearing coats

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and carry umbrellas. Everyone is in a hurry to get to a dry

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place. Bus and cars are moving up and down the street. Inside,

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it is warm and pleasant. I attend classes in every morning. I

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don't have much more free time. But I like my life here. I hope

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that you are good and happy. Please write soon. I enjoy your

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letters with news from home.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  Your friend,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Maria

　　Not all crows（乌鸦）can talk. But some can. One crow that talks named Pick. Why? Because he

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picks things from people's pocket. He's a pick-pocketer.

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　　Sometimes Pick eats that he finds. But if he

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finds nothing, he calls out,“Go to grass.”

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One day Pick played a joke on a farmer, that

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was driving his horse on a field, Pick sat in a

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tree.“Whoa.”said the farmer. His horse stopped. Then,“Giddyap.”The horse started again. But then comes Pick's voice from the tree.

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“Whoa.”The horse stops.“Go away.”called the farmer.

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　　Pick lives with Mr Beck for five years.

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Then Mr Beck moved to a big city. Pick returned the woods, and lived with his friends.

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　　There are so much road accidents every day.

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'They are often caused by carelessness. But there

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are many rules that help to make the road safe.

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　　Here are some rules what we ought to know: In Hong

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Kong traffic keeps to the left. Before across the

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road, we must stop or look at both sides. Look

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right, look left and look right again. If road

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is clear, it is safe cross the road.

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If we saw small children or very old persons,

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or blind people waited to cross the road, we can

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help them to cross the road safely.

　　Wherever people have been spread in the

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world, they have killed wolves, usually

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protect their own animals such as sheeps and

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cattle. As a result, the numbers of wolves

have greatly reduced. They die out in many

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country. In Britain, for example,

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wolves died out about 1650.

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　　Similar, there used to be many thousands

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of wolves in America. Now there are less

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than 2,000. If people had not come to

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　　America, wolves will not have disappeared.

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　　Everyone has his own favorite game or sport. My

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favorite sport is the football because I think it is quite a

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good kind of sport. Besides football, we also like baseball

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and basketball. I liked to play football with my friends

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since I was ten years old, but we have formed a football

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team. We play a game on every Sunday. Last Sunday, our

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football team play a match in our village. In the match, I

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scored a goal. It was an only goal of the match and was

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scored a few minute before half-time. I kicked the ball

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through the right top comer off the goal into the net. I

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like football even better after this match.

　　One evening, I was about to go to bed then I heard

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a voice coming from the garden, 1 went to the window

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that overlook the garden. In the darkness I could see

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nothing besides a piece of wet ground. I went back to

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bed, but I couldn’t fall sleep. I sat up in bed to listen

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carefully and waited the sound to come again. Soon it

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returned back. I went to the window once more. To

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make sure whether something happened, I Lighted my

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torch (手电) and noticed a tree fell sideways (在路旁).All

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of a sudden, I heard the snapping (咔嚓声) of branches.

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The cause of the mysterious noise was found in the end.