Father came to Jack's bed and sat down beside him.
"1was your day?" asked Father.
"It wasn't a very good day for me," Jack answered. "I had a2with Tom. The teacher sent a note home about me. And I talked back to Mother. "
"Yes, part of the day was3."his father said. "But tell me about the best thing that you had today."
Jack thought for a minute, and then smiled. "After school I went4alone, " he said. "I didn't think I would have any5. But I did. I caught a fish!"
"I'm glad you enjoyed yourself," Jack's father said. "Think about it until you go to bed. Now I'm going to turn off the light. Have happy dreams. "
Every night, Jack answers the6question, "What was the best thing that7to you today?" Every night, Jack thinks about the best part of his day. This8him many happy dreams.
Sometimes he has to think hard to find the best thing. Sometimes it is a very9thing.
But he always finds one good thing to think about. Jack's father10him to end his days in a wonderful way.
A blind man took out a small blackboard and put it near him. It said, "I'm blind. Please help me. Some people walked by and gave him some coins （硬币）. When the coin touched the ground, it made a little noise. And the blind nodded his head （点头） and said "Thank you".
Then a young woman came up to him. She cleaned the words on the man's blackboard and wrote a new sentence. Guess what? Many people gave the blind more coins. And the coins made much more noise. He had no time to nod his head and say thank you.
At last, the woman came back. She stood in front of him without a word. The blind knew it was her. He asked, "What did you write on my board?" The woman smiled and said, I did nothing, but just made your words beautiful. " It said, "It's a beautiful world. But I can't see it!"
Oh, the rain! How Sara hates the rain! She cannot go outside to meet her friends for a game. Her mother says to her, "You may catch a cold if you play in the rain." But Sara shouts, "It's raining, but it's very hot outside!" Her mother still doesn't let her in the rain.
Sara goes up to her room and lies down in front of her window. In fact, she has many things to do in her room. There is a TV, some books and toys. But she doesn't like any of them.
Sara sits by the window. She does everything to make the rain go away. She opens the window so the rain can hear her. She wishes the rain away but that doesn't work. She asks it to go away but that still doesn't work. She stands up and shouts at the rain but that still doesn't work.
"Well, if you're going to be here and ruin my day, you can find something interesting for me to do." She shouts and again she gets no answer.
So, she sits back down on the window. It is still raining. "Fine," she thinks, "I can go swimming, ride my bike and play with my friends when the rain stops. " She thinks about her ideas again and again. How she wishes the sun to come out! Soon she falls asleep on the window.
When I was a boy, I liked swimming very much. One year my two brothers and I spent the summer holidays with my uncle and aunt in their house by the sea. It was only twenty metres from the water. Every day we put on our swimming shorts before breakfast, and then ran down to the sea and jumped in soon after we finished it. When our aunt rang the bell, we went back to the house for food, but we ate it in our swimming shorts and were soon back in the sea again until late in the afternoon.
The water was warm, and the sun was bright every day. Sometimes there was a light wind. It was good for swimming. We all swam very well. We were tired but how happy we were!
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Mr. and Mrs. White and their children are going to London for holiday today. And they have to be at the airport at eleven forty. "It us thirty minutes to get there in the taxi, "Mr. White says." So we have to be ready by eleven o'clock. Nobody should be late. "
At ten to eleven they are still running around doing things, except Mrs. White. She quietly on a chair in the garden and she isn't in a hurry. At eleven o'clock the taxi and Mrs. White says to Mr. White and the children, "Well, I know that this , so before I went to bed last night, I all our clocks and watches ahead twenty minutes. So now we can go to the airport quietly without about being late. "
