—No. She always takes ________ subway.

—By boat.

—I want to be a singer like Zhang Jie.

—About half an hour.

—It's about two kilometers.

    Now, people can go to work or school by bus, car or subway. If you go to a place(地方）and it's very1, you can take the plane or the train. If you don't go too far 2 seventy and one hundred kilometers, you can take the bus. You can also 3 the subway. It usually goes very 4. You can also 5 your bike. It is 6 for your health. In some places of South China, people can also go out by boat because there are many 7 there.

    My parents and I 8 in a small village. My home isn't far from my school. 9 takes me about twenty minutes to walk there every day. Sometimes my father isn't 10. He will 11 me to school. My 12 is to have a bike. But my 13 thinks it is not safe(安全的）for me to ride a bike. He asks me to take the bus to school. But I like to go to school by 14. I think my dream will 15 this year.

    My name is Daisy. I live my parents in an apartment(公寓). apartment is on the sixth floor of a tall building. There  fourteen floors and a car park in the basement(地下室). My father parks his car there. apartment isn't in the center of the city. Do you know far it is from the center? It's five from the center. My father works in the city, so he goes to work bus every morning. It takes him twenty minutes there. He doesn't drive his car. He uses(用) his car on weekends. Then he us to the country or to the beach.

    Kacey Tucker is a 17-year-old girl. Her dad works in Saudi Arabia(沙特阿拉伯), so she and her family live there. Kacey usually rides her horse(马)to school.

    "I have two horses there, Jacob and Donald," she says. "My sister, Melissa rides them now."

    Kacey finishes all her middle school classes. She wants to go to a university(大学) in America. "I want to ride a horse to my school in America, "says Kacey. "And my cousin's university has a really clean and big barn." So Kacey joins her cousin's university. Kacey's cousin Amy is 14 years old. She's a university student in America.

Kacey buys a horse in America. His name is Winston, and Kacey takes the horse to the university. She can ride the horse after school every day.

    Mr. and Mrs. Smith are from England. Now they live in Beijing. The Smiths don't like to stay at home on weekends. They usually go to their friends' homes and they have lots of friends in China.

    Mr. and Mrs. Smith have a son and a daughter. Their names are Peter and Julia. Peter is in Grade Eight and Julia is in Grade Seven. The children usually go to school in their father's car.

    But today Mr. Smith needs to wash his car. So he tells his children to walk to school. Then Peter and Julia have to go to school on foot. The school is a little far from their home. It takes them 35 minutes to get there. When Peter and Julia get to school, they are very tired. But they think it's good exercise to go to school on foot.

    It seems that traveling is very important in modern(现代的) life. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. You can travel by plane to a place that it took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.

    Traveling by train is slower than by plane. But it has its advantages(优势). You can enjoy the scenery of the places you're traveling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining cars.

    Some people like to travel by sea sometimes. There are large liners or river boats. You can visit many other countries and different parts of your country on them. Ships are not so fast as trains or planes, but traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.

    Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. You can stop wherever (无论哪里) you wish--at a place where there is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why traveling by car is popular for pleasant trips, while(然而) people usually take trains or planes when they are traveling on business.

    My name is Joe. I'm a student in No. 3 Middle School. They are Tony and Mary. Every morning, we get up at half past six. At seven o'clock, we have breakfast with our parents. Then we go to school. Tony's school is about two kilometers from our home. He thinks it's healthy. He needs about ten minutes to get to school. Mary is in No. 6 Middle School. She takes a bus first. Then she has to take the subway. It takes her forty minutes to get to school every day. I usually walk to school because my school is only about one kilometer from my home. So I'm never late for school.

A: Hi, Lisa. Is he your father?

B: He usually drives me to school.

A: How far is it from your home to school?

B:

A: How long does it take you to get here?

B: It takes me half an hour.

A: I ride my bike. Look! That is my new bike.

B: Wow! It's so cool.

A: My mother.

B: Where does your mother work?

A: She always takes the bus to work.

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