Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The day after it has been known as Black Friday. It is the start of the holiday shopping season，and it has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the US since 2005.Most stores offer big sales on Black Friday. They open their doors quite early in the morning. They try to attract shoppers with big discounts. Some items(商品)like TVs and clothes are much cheaper than usual. Stores may even lose money on these items. They hope that shoppers will buy gifts for other people while they are in the store. Black Friday is a great time to go shopping. However，there are problems. The biggest one is that there are not enough low—priced items. Each store may only have a few. So people stand in long lines to get them. They may wait three to four hours before a store opens.

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    My name is Lucy. I come from American. I am now in China. I study in Hangzhou No.4 Middle School.There are many clubs in our school. They are an English club, an art club, a music club, a ball game club, a swimming club, a chess club and a computer club. There is a “Show Yourselves!” Festival in our school on May 9^th every year.On that day, students from different clubs show their talents(才能) in different ways(用不同的方式). They can sing English songs, draw beautiful pictures. They can play the guitar, the violin, the piano and the trumpets. They can also play chess and show us their swimming skills(技巧). They like this festival very much. I join the art club, and I draw the ad.s for them. Giving(付出) help makes me happy.

    Do you know about Xiong'an? It's a new city near Baoding. There is a big lake in Xiong'an. Yes, it is Baiyangdian Lake. It is very big. In summer, you will see many beautiful lotus flowers on the lake. Some are red. Some are pink. Many people like them. There will be many boats on the lake. And there will be many birds singing in the grass. Xiong'an is beautiful and new. You can come here by bus from Baoding. And you can come here by train. You will play in the water with your friends. You will eat delicious fish. You will take many wonderful pictures. You will have a nice trip in Xiong'an.

    Look, this is a picture of my new house. It's a big and nice house. The doors are blue. There are two bedrooms. The big one is for my father and mother. The small one is for me. Beside the big bedroom, there is a big living room. Can you see the sofa in it? It's red. I like it. The kitchen and the study are not big but very nice. In the study, there's a computer（电脑） on the desk. There are a lot of books on the desk too. There isn't a garden（花园） in my house. But there are some tall trees and flowers behind the house. I like my house very much.

    The students take many nice photos at Century Park. Jill, Alice and Rose are showing them.

Rose: Look, these are my photos. This is Peter. He has a cap. It's yellow. He is beside the pond. He's watching the ducks and the fish. They are swimming in the water.

Jill: These are my photos. Look, Kitty is in the plant house. She is drawing a big tree near the flowers. Miss Fang is helping her.

Rose: Look at my photos. Steven and Jim are near the fountain. The fountain is small, but it's nice. They are sleeping under the big tree.

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Saturday, 18th March

    It was fine today. Lily and I visited the Science Museum. It is far away from our homes, so we met (meet过去式) at my house and went there by underground together.

    We arrived at the museum at 9 o'clock. At the museum, we saw a lot of interesting things. We touched a wall, and it became a window. The robots there were amazing too!

    We met some classmates and friends there. We learnt a lot about science.

    We left (leave过去式) the museum at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

    We enjoyed ourselves very much.