—Sure. Mom will be mad if she sees this         , I think.

    Tom has a strong and faithful(忠诚的) dog, Bruce. The dog likes playing with Tom. Sometimes he also follows Tom's father to work.

    One morning when Tom's father worked in the field, he took off his coat and put it on the ground under a big tree. He turned to the dog and said, "Watch my coat, Bruce!"

    Bruce sat down on the coat. Later Tom's father remembered he had to buy some food. So he hurried to the shop. After shopping, he went home directly and forgot all about his coat and the dog.

    Late in the evening Tom looked for his dog everywhere in the house, but he couldn't find him. At this time Tom's father suddenly remembered his coat and the dog. He went back to the tree at once. He found that Bruce was still sitting on the coat!

—Don't worry, Mum. I can              with a few things.

The cowboy without a horse

    A cowboy rode into a town and stopped at a cafe for a drink. When he finished his drink, he 1 his horse was stolen(偷窃). He went back into the caf6.held his gun up into the air and fired a shot(开枪)  2 even looking. "Which one of you 3 my horse?" he shouted loudly.

    4 answered. "Alright," the cowboy said, "I'm going to have 5 beer, and if my horse isn't back outside by the time I finish, I'm going to do 6 I did in Texas! And I don't like to have to do it. "

      Some of the people in the town were very 7. After the cowboy had one more beer, he walked outside His horse was back! He   8 his horse and started to ride off.

    The waiter went  9 the café in a hurry and asked, "Tell us, 10 you go, what happened in Texas?" The cowboy turned back and said, "I had to walk home."

    Many parents think that it's very difficult to get their children to do chores(杂务).（1）But I don't think so.

    My daughter is ten years old. At night, I write down her chores for the following day. Then I stick（贴）the paper with chores on her door. Usually she gets three to eight chores a day. It depends on（依靠）how she does chores. If she does all of her chores well, she can get fewer chores the next day. The chores are some easy ones, such as s________（2） the floor, folding the clothes and cleaning the table after dinner.

For my other two children, the chores are different because they are very young. They both know how to put their empty dinner plates in the dishwasher. My 19-month-old son helps me put the dirty clothes in the washing machine（洗衣机）when I am doing the h________（3）．They can also help me when I'm working in the yard. They help me pick up the sticks（树枝）and throw them away.

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