— I __________________ the Fragrant Hill to see the red leaves yesterday.

    Romero has already reached the top of six other world famous high mountains. He climbed the first-Africa's Kilimanjaro(乞力马扎罗山)-with his parents when he was 10.

    Jordan said he had the idea of climbing those mountains when he saw a painting in his school. The painting showed all seven mountains.

    "I just wanted to do something big, and this was some- thing I wanted to do for myself," he said.

    His father, Paul, is an experienced mountain climber. But he said the idea was his son's. "We're just packing(收拾) the bags, going after him around the world," Paul said.

    Mount Qomolangma is 8,844 metres high. Jordan would climb with his parents and two guides. He said they would not take big risks(冒险). They would turn around if they saw problems such as bad weather. He hopes to reach the top by May.

    "This may be the first of many tries," he said. "It could take a few years, but I've made up my mind to do it. If I don't reach the top this time, I will try next time."

    The youngest person to climb Qomolangma until now was Temba Tsheri, 16, from Nepal(尼泊尔),in 2001.

    Mike and John are good friends. Both of them like travelling very much.

One day, when they were travelling through a desert, they quarreled(吵架) with each other. Mike was very angry and hit John in the face. John was hurt， ,he wrote in the sand, "Today my best friend hit me in the face.

Then they went on walking and found an oasis(绿洲). It was very hot, . John was not good at swimming and he started drowning(溺水) after a few minutes. . When John got up, he wrote on a stone, "Today my best friend saved my life."

Mike felt a little surprised and asked," Why, after I hurt you, you wrote some words in the sand, and now you wrote on a stone?" John smiled and said, "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand. . However, when something great happens, we should write it on the stone of our memory and remember it forever." . He learned what true friendship was.

    Let's learn to write in the sand and on the stone.