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And Serena Tsai Words Counted: 2101 - 2 - Chapter 5 Finding the Thief …………..14 Chapter 7 School President………….…26 Chapter 3 Daisy’s friend, Betsy……... 9 Chapter 4 Honest Daisy ……………….….12 Chapter 9 Graduation……………….………33 Chapter1 Ditsy Daisy …………….…….…..4 Chapter 2 School Life …..…………….…... 6 - 3 -
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And
Serena Tsai
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Words Counted: 2101
Words in Oxford 3000: 96%
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Contents
Chapter1 Ditsy Daisy …………….…….…..4
Chapter 2 School Life …..…………….…... 6
Chapter 3 Daisy’s friend, Betsy……... 9
Chapter 4 Honest Daisy ……………….….12
Chapter 5 Finding the Thief …………..14
Chapter 6 A New Classmate ……….….22
Chapter 7 School President………….…26
Chapter 8 The house on fire…………..30
Chapter 9 Graduation……………….………33
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Chapter 1 Ditsy Daisy
Mr. and Mrs. Cheever are both
well-educated. Mr. Cheever is a
famous doctor. Mrs. Cheever teaches
chemistry in the university. They have
only one daughter, Daisy, who is
thirteen years old. She is a junior high
school student. People might think she
must be smart like her parents, but
actually she isn’t. Every student called
her “Ditsy Daisy,” at school, but it
didn't bother her so much.
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Mr. and Mrs. Cheever spent lots of
time teaching Daisy. They treat her
very strictly. They forced Daisy to
learn many talents. For example, play
the piano, violin, and swim. It didn’t
make her better, she is still not smart
like her parents.
Her parents are very worried about
her, but they don’t known how to
teach her.
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Chapter 2 School Life
When Daisy came to school for the
first time, her teacher, Mrs. William,
asked everyone some questions at the
first time in order to get to know
everyone.
“What is your birth date?” the
teacher asked Daisy.
“September 15,” Daisy answered.
“And in what year?” said the
teacher.
When Daisy replied, “Every year,”
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all the classmates and the teacher
started laughing at her.
The joke didn't happen only once.
Another time, a classmate mentioned
he was going to take a trip to Australia
for summer vacation.
“Oh, you are going to Australia!”
Daisy exclaimed. “Be sure to come
back!” Again, all the classmates
started laughing.
Although her classmates laugh at
her, Daisy still didn't get angry. She
refused to get angry or criticize
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anyone. Daisy had a happy attitude, so
most students liked to make friends
with her. Some of the boys even had a
crush on her.
At school, Daisy had many friends.
Betsy Jenkins is Daisy’s friend, and
she also lives next to Daisy’ house.
They are only friends but also
neighbors. They go to school and walk
home together every day.
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Chapter 3 Daisy’s friend, Betsy
Betsy is much smarter than Daisy.
She has the ability to be a great
student. She was smarter than most
of her classmates. Unfortunately, she
had a bad habit. She was lazy. She was
terrible slacker. If there is a test
tomorrow, her parents will ask her
study hard to get a good grade.
Instead of studying, she passed the
time doing nothing at her desk. Her
parents got very disappointed when
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they saw Betsy get bad grades.
When the weather got warmer,
Betsy spent time lying in the backyard.
She closed her eyes, and sunbathing
with daydreaming. During the cold
winter, she always stayed at home and
curled up in her room. In her free time,
she spent time reading comic book and
novels. At the end of semester, Mrs.
Jenkins received Betsy’s report card,
and she was very disappointed.
“Betsy, you have great talents. Please
don’t hide them. I know you can do
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better next time. Please don’t let me
down,” Mrs. Jenkins said.
“It’s difficult for me. It’s not easy
to change my bad habits,” Betsy
replied.
“Please try your best. OK!” Mrs.
Jenkins said.
That’s all Mrs. Jenkins said. She
didn't want to push Betsy to hard. She
was afraid Betsy would stress out and
then drop out of school.
Betsy’s mother didn't need to have
to worry about that. Betsy never
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stressed out about anything. Betsy
and Daisy are very alike. No wonder
they are good friends.
Chapter 4 Honest Daisy
Daisy didn’t do well studying, but
she is very honest. She knew things
what she did was good or bad very well.
Although, Daisy could improve her low
grades by cheating, she refused to do
so. When other students let her copy
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their homework or test answers, she
refused all their offers.
“I would like to study by myself. Yes,
my grades are not very good, but I’ll
try my best. Thank you for your
consideration,” said Daisy.
Once, Daisy found a wallet on the
street. It contained over 5000 NT
dollars. Instead of keeping this wallet,
she brought the wallet to the police
station. The owner of this wallet was
surprised that he could get his wallet
back. He thanked Daisy very much for
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returning the wallet with the money,
and he gave Daisy 500 NT dollars for a
reward.
Chapter 5 Finding the Thief
Daisy and Betsy had one similar
thing. They liked to find missing things
such as pets and bicycles.
One day, when Daisy and Betsy went
home together, they saw some police
officers in a famous jewelry store.
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Last night, someone pilfered them
from the store, so the police officers
investigated. Daisy and Betsy wanted
to help the police officers to find the
thief, but the police officers turned
down their request. The police
officers thought they were just
children. This is not suitable for
children. But a week passed, and the
police officers hadn’t caught the thief.
The jewelry store’s owner, Mrs. Jones,
was depressed had lost a lot of money.
She heard Daisy and Betsy are good at
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finding missing things, so she asked
them for help.
“I spent lots of time running this
store, but now it’s empty. I have
nothing now. I was so disappointed
that I did not eat anything and did not
sleep very well,” said Mrs. Jones.
“Don’t worry. We will try our best to
find the thief,” Betsy said.
Daisy and Betsy walked through the
store. They examined the store very
carefully. The store was a little dirty
and had some dust.
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“I’m sorry. I am also too busy to
sweep the floor,” Mrs. Jones said.
“That’s all right. It doesn't bother
us,” said Daisy.
There is a big mirror hanging on the
wall in the store. Betsy moved it away.
Behind the mirror was a hole in the
wall. Mrs. Jones was very shocked.
“Why does there have a hole?” asked
Mrs. Jones.
“This hole must have been cut by
the thief,” Daisy said.
Mrs. Jones finally realized that her
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expensive jewelry had disappeared
through that hole.
“What’s next door?” asked Betsy.
“It has been empty for a while. No
one lives there,” Mrs. Jones replied.
“Someone might use that place to
steal from you,” Daisy said. First, the
thief decided to steal the jewelry
from you. Second, they might think
many ways to steal. Finally, they got a
idea to make the hole from the other
side. When you were out or slept at
night, they used kind of a long pole
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through the hole and grabbed the
jewelry,” Betsy said.
“Now, you can call the police to
catch the thief,” Daisy said.
When the police officers came, they
felt very embarrassed. They thought
Daisy and Betsy were not be able to
find the clue so quickly, but actually
they did.
“What made you think of looking
behind the mirror?” the police asked.
“There was unusual red dust on the
floor below the mirror,” Daisy
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answered. “Dust from bricks! Someone
cut the hole carefully, even so, some
of the dust dropped on this side.”
Finally, the police caught the thief
whom involved in many theft cases,
and sent him to prison. All the jewelry
was found in the thief’s house, and
which now return to Mrs. Jones. Mrs.
Jones thanked Daisy and Betsy’s help
very much.
“Excellent!” Mrs. Jones said. “You
two are very smart. Now come over
here and pick out some jewelry you
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would like for yourselves.”
“Really! We can choose jewelry we
would like?” asked Betsy.
“Sure, you can,” Mrs. Jones replied.
“That’s great. Thank you, Mrs.
Jones,” Betsy and Daisy said happily
together.
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Chapter 6 A New Classmate
Every student in school heard about
Daisy and Betsy finding out the thief.
They were proud of Daisy and Betsy.
Their parents were also happy with
them. The president gave them a
certificate of award in front of
everyone.
One day, there was a new student,
Peter, in Daisy’s class. He also had a
terrible habit. It wasn’t smoking, and
it wasn’t drinking. It was
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procrastination. He never did things
when he was supposed to do them.
When he had homework to do, he
always said, “I will do it later.” Then
he wasted hours playing games on his
computer or watching TV. When his
mother asked him to do some little job
around the house, he said, “OK! I will
do it tomorrow.” But when tomorrow
came, he would postpone things until
the next day, and the next day, and
the next.
Mrs. Williams, their teacher, was
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very worried about the three students,
Daisy, Betsy and Peter very much. Mrs.
Williams knew all their bad habits. She
wanted them to change. She employed
different methods to help Peter get
things done on time. For example, she
told Peter there will be tests or
assignments before she told every of
student. But even though he had more
time than other students to prepare,
Peter was never prepared. On the day
before the exam, would he begin to
study for the exam on the bus to
school. He often tried to complete
assignments while eating breakfast
before going to school. Mrs. William
could tell which assignment was his
without looking at the name on his
paper. She recognized his paper by
the food or drink spilled on it. Mrs.
William almost wanted to give up.
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Chapter 7 School President
One day, Daisy was worried about
her future. She told Mrs. William her
problem.
“After graduating from school,
should I attend a good university?”
Daisy asked.
“Sure, if you can. You can try,” Mrs.
William answered. “But I don’t think
you could attend a good university. You
also can do whatever you are
interested in doing,” Mrs. Jones said.
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Daisy was passionate about her life.
After talking with her teacher, she
realized that she needed some dreams
to realize.
There is going to be a school
president election next week. Because
Daisy needed dreams to realize, she
attended this school president
election. With the help of Betsy,
Peter and other classmates, she began
her election competition. She spent
many hours meeting and talking to
students about voting for her.
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Three days before the election,
there was a big meeting for all the
students. Everyone who wanted to be
school president had to make a
five-minute speech. Daisy was very
nervous. When she walked onto the
stage, she fell down. Every student
laughed at her. She didn't care about
that, and she began to talk. Everyone
wondered what she was going to say.
They thought it might be silly.
“Good morning, students,” Daisy said.
“I am a candidate number three for
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school president, Daisy. I wanted to
do something that nobody thought I
could do. I thought nobody would think
I could become school president.
That’s why I’m standing here. If you’d
like to see someone do something
nobody thinks she can do, then please
vote for me. I won’t let you down. I
promise! Thank you.”
Finally, Daisy was voted school
president. And she really did
something for the students.
“Don’t just be everything you can be.
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Be more!” Daisy said to everyone.
Chapter 8 The house on fire
Once afternoon in summer, Betsy
was sunbathing in her backyard. Her
mother has cooked some food on the
stove, but she had to leave home to do
something. She asked Betsy to check
every five minutes. Betsy said “OK. “
Betsy was very comfortable reading
the comic book and lying in the
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backyard. Suddenly, she fell asleep.
When she woke up, she smelled
something burning. It was the food on
the stove. She has totally forgot
about it. She ran toward the kitchen
and she found that the kitchen was on
fire. She quickly put out the fire. The
house was saved. Her mother was very
angry at her, and Betsy felt very sorry.
Because of her laziness, her house
would burn to the ground. She realized
she had a terrible habit. She tried to
give up her laziness. She began to
study hard and help her parents. She
became the best student in her class.
Her parents were proud of her
improvement, and Mrs. William was
surprised.
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Chapter 9 Graduation
Betsy also wanted Daisy’s grades to
increase, so she taught Betsy after
school every day. Finally, Daisy’s
grades got better. Their teacher, Mrs.
William wasn’t worried about them.
She just worried about Peter. He
didn't give up his procrastination; he
still did the things until the last
minute. Finally, he graduated. Daisy,
Betsy and Peter started their new life
after graduating.