—It’s very ________ of you to work out the problem for me．

—That’s all right．

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　　John is an English boy. He is eight years old. His parents 　1　 five years ago and he is now living with his grandmother in London.

　　One evening, Alan, one of his classmates, came to his home 　2　 an exercise book in his hand Alan live in a house not far from John's. They often go to school 　3　.

　　“Would you help me with this maths problem?” Alan said as soon as he came into the room. “It's too 　4　 for me and I can't work it out.”

　　“Let me try,” John said. “I 　5　 it isn't too hard for me.”

　　John tried his best but he couldn't work it out, either.

　　“If we had a computer, all the problems would be 　6　 for us to do.” Alan said.

　　“A computer…” John thought for a minute, then he said, “I've got an idea, We can buy one in a shop!”

　　“A computer is very expensive, and we don't have enough money.”

　　“That's OK.” said John. “We can ask the new president 　7　 some money. He said he would help anyone in 　8　. I'm sure he will help us. He is very rich, you know.”

　　So they decided to write a letter to the new president. Soon the letter was finished and they hurried to the post office.

　　In front of the post office stood a small box. They dropped the letter into the box carefully and went home 　9　.

　　The next morning, when they passed the post office on their 　10　 to school. They found, to their surprise, the box was not a post-box but trash-box.

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Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.
I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don’t know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.” He hasn’t forgotten them. He’s just decided that he’s not going to use them. She confessed(坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.
Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.
“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.
【小題1】 This text is most probably written by ______.