Hello, everyone. Here is something important for everyone going to London next month. As you know, you are going to stay with a family for two weeks. Now, the most important thing is money. You should take about $530 with you. I think it will be enough for everyone. Then, when you arrive, your new family will meet you. You must remember to wear a red shirt. So the family will find you easily. They've been told that you all wear red shirts. You'll also need to take with you 4 photos of yourself, and of course, it's very important that you take the school letter while you're there. If you have any problems, you can call Leech School office. I'll give you the office phone number now：it's 580—4436 and the person to ask for is Mrs. Belcher. She's in the office from nine o'clock in the morning until five in the afternoon every day. OK. That's everything. Have a good journey!

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    Have you ever counted the number of digits(数字) in your mobile phone number? Your number has 11 digits. You may sometimes find it hard to remember your number. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Why is that?

    The 11 digits can be divided into three parts. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}The first three numbers tell you which mobile phone service provider you are using. For example, 135 is for the China Mobile Communication Corporation and 188 is for China Unicom. The fourth to the seventh digits tell you which area the number is recorded in. And the last four digits are random (随机的).

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}We once had 10 numbers. But as our population grew, there were not enough numbers for us to use. So we began to use 11 digits starting from 1999.

    Eleven digits can be used to make tens of billions of mobile phone numbers, according to the Xinhua News Agency. That's enough for each person to have seven or eight phone numbers to use in China. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Usually, the service provider will reuse a canceled number after three to six months. If you call a number that you haven't contacted (联络) for a long time, you may find that its owner has changed.

    Besides China, Britain and Japan also use 11-digit mobile phone numbers. But their numbers always start with 0.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}Countries like the United States, Australia and India use phone numbers with l0 digits. Canada's mobile phone numbers are perhaps the world's shortest: they use seven digits.

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{#blank#}1{#/blank#}⑴My cousin Helen likes tennis. She thinks it is very interesting. She often 'plays it with her friends after school.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#}⑵I have five basketballs. I like basketball very much and I often play it with my classmates every Friday afternoon.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}⑶Cindy likes ping pong. She thinks it is easy for her. She has three ping pong bats and lots of ping-pong balls.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#}⑷Frank likes sports. He likes playing soccer and he has two soccer balls.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}⑸Amy likes sports, but she doesn't play them. She only watches the ball games on TV.

    Hello, I'm Lisa. I'm a middle school student. What's this on the table(桌子)? It's a photo of my family. Look! The woman with gray(灰色的) hair is my grandmother. And the man next to her is my father, Steve Black. He is a football player. The woman next to(在……旁边) my grandmother is my mother, Annie Black. She is a teacher. The little girl in front of (在……前面) my mother is my sister, Laura. And the girl in red is me! Oh, I also have a lovely (可爱的) cat. It's black and white. Where is it? It's on my bed, haha!

    As a mother of three young girls, Alison Cowan worried about her daughters growing up too fast. From asking for the latest toy to wanting to wear make-up, it seemed to Alison and her husband. Alan, that their children were never satisfied with what they had.

    The girls would ask for a toy, but would lose interest in it as soon as their friends had something new. Birthday parties were no longer just a few party games and blowing up balloons. All the parents seemed to invite professional performers and compete over who could give the most expensive party bag. At just seven years old, Amy and her friends were paying more and more attention to their appearance. It was a feeling that many parents would have.

    However, few would dream of leaving a comfortable family life and a comfortable house to move their family 3. 000 miles away to Africa in search of a simpler life. But last June, Alison and her husband, Alan, moved with their daughters to Kampala in Uganda, to show them a different lifestyle.

    For almost a year, the girls play in the red, dusty streets with local children and visit markets to buy fresh fish and vegetables for dinner. They have been able to play and use their imagination away from the distractions(分心) of the consumer-driven society. Now, instead of competing over who has won a computer game, the girls think about things like the frequent water shortages and electricity cuts in certain areas. "At times, we've been without water for five days. The girls always accept it, though. Their world before had been so small, but now they understand 93."