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Before I could do anything to stop it, the scream slipped from my mouth. "AHHHHHH!" I yelped as I stepped onto the roof. I started sliding around. The iReindeer opened its eyes to look at me. The one-use emergency cloaking machine on its back turned on and locked on me.   WHIRRRRR... Instinctively, I jumped up, grabbed the machine and tossed it into a toy sack. The sack suddenly disappeared with a loud SHWUNK! Down in the house, I heard sounds of "Who's there? What's that? Why won't anyone sleep on Christmas Eve?" I inched down the sooty chimney, sure that someone saw me. Sure enough, a small kid turned on the fireplace. I heard the rest of them spreading out. My feet were slipping through the soot, while the smoke was weakening and burning through my clothes. I tried to hold on, but my hands and feet were unable to find a grip on the sooty chimney walls. Suddenly, my boot soles slipped off and I dropped towards the fire. At the same time, my belt ...

           It was a bleary night. I trudged past barren trees and withering grass. I was trying to find my way through the desolate forest, as I had been trying to do the whole day. After what seemed like an eternity, I reached a mildewed hovel in a mossy grove.            Next to the hovel was a small stump. “Hello? Hello?” I asked. There was no answer. Afraid to enter the hovel in the dark, I rested on the stump until dawn came. I was growing restless, and wanted to explore the shack.            But when I tried to pull myself up, I couldn’t! “HELP!” I screamed. Pulling and pushing, I managed to scoot off the stump a bit. I kept pulling the whole day, but I just couldn’t pull my bottom off the stump. I was getting thirsty and hungry, too.            And then I had an idea… a brilliant idea! I started digging into the stump with the small pocketknife I kept wit...

           One of the biggest mistakes I have ever made is not thinking before I wrote.            My mistake happened on a school paper. I wanted to get over with the assignment, so I didn't think about how to write well. I finished very quickly, but my paper had many flagrant errors in it. I just told my parents that I finished my assignment, but in reality, I knew I didn't do a good job. I just pushed the thought out of my head for now and went to play.            My mistake was that I didn't put my best effort into my assignment. When I edited the paper, I would quickly run into trouble. The next day, I looked at the paper and wished I hadn't been so hasty yesterday. I now had to spend way more time editing the paper, time I could have used to do other things or finish my other homework. But I had to use it to rewrite the essay, using more time than the wasted time yesterday.     ...

          Everybody knows it isn't easy to control what you do when you first get your hands on money. And so my biggest mistake was when I didn't control myself and I spent money randomly on the iTunes Store.           I had connected my debit card to the App Store, so I could buy anything I wanted. But I abused this and started buying too many things. I bought a game one minute and bought another thing the next. I just kept buying things. In a few short days, I had spent more than $40. And I didn't even know about the overdrafts, which were $20 total. So I kept going until my mom and dad approached me and asked what I had been doing with my money. That was when I realized how much money I had spent.           This was a mistake because none of it would have happened if I had exercised self-control. I didn't even realize that I was spending so much money. When I looked at all the purchases on iTunes, I finally...

从前有一只叫啦啦牛的牛。她很喜欢唱歌。她有天在农场上举行了一个合唱会。但大家都觉得她唱得不好听。她老发出哞哞哞的声音，难听极了！大家都堵住了耳朵。但最后，啦啦还是唱得挺好听的。她练了很久，最后大家都喜欢听她唱歌了。

It was the biggest challenge she faced - winning the chess game. If she did, she would make it through the year with her winnings. If she didn't, she would starve. It was the same for me. The game was tense. She played as well as she could. She was a bit down at the start. The game went downwards from the opening, where she made a small positional blunder. It was going to be a great year. I had always wanted to earn some money so I could take chess lessons and eventually becoming the world champion. I frowned. There was nothing wrong with the opening I had played. And my opponent didn't do anything special, either. How could she have won? I ran through the game again in my head. At the fifty-second move, where I saw mate in five for her if I played a certain move. I didn't play that move, though. I had to go to the bathroom, so I excused myself. When I came back, my opponent was happily whistling. Something seemed to be wrong with the position. But I kept it to myself. Afte...

He would have to try again another time. I sat in the control booth watching the security cameras. They projected an image of him sneaking through the store in the shadows. Suddenly, I pressed a button and one of the cameras grew a small red barrel. Seconds after it appeared, the barrel started smoking. He fell to the ground. Later, he was sent to jail with a twenty-five year sentence. I had caught the infamous criminal at last! Store owners all over the world gave me rewards, accompanied with hearty congratulations. Now they would not have to worry about the criminal. The next few days were uneventful. After a few weeks, though, I noticed that some products were disappearing fast. I investigated and found that 50%  of them were not paid for. How could this be? It was possible that there was another thief! He was probably hidden in the deluges of people who came every day. So today I paid particular attention to the shampoo, which had been disappearing rapidly. Many customers ca...