Hello, I'm Anna. This is my room. It is not very big {#blank#}1{#/blank#}it's comfortable(舒适的)and it's very {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.This is my bed. My desk and my chair are next to (在 ……旁边)the bed. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}are my pens? They're in my pencil box. What's that  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}the desk? It's a model plane. My parents are Alan and Mary, and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}room is next to mine.

    A female swimming athlete once set a goal ( 目标) for herself. She decided to swim across the English Channael before she retired. If she could succeed, she would be the first person in the world {#blank#}1{#/blank#} did it. On that day ,she jumped into the sea without any hesitation(犹豫) and swam towards the opposite bank without any {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. In the journey, she faced heavy fog, heavy rain and heavy waves. Though she was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} , she still carried on swimming. But in the end, she gave up. And she didn't know that the opposite bank was only one mile away when she gave up.

    Later she was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} about the reason. And she said, "The reason why I gave up is that I could not see the place which I was going to reach  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}" It was a great pity that one mile broke her dream.

    Since we were young {#blank#}6{#/blank#} , too many success stories have been telling us about courage and persistence(坚持). But they never told us where to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} courage and persistence. You can only have courage when you know where your goal is. You can only manage to persist when you know where your goal is.

    And that's because when you know where your goal is, you can, only prepare {#blank#}8{#/blank#} well in the mind. Courage and persistence never {#blank#}9{#/blank#} from the sky. They come from weighing between input and output.

    A life without goal is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a ship without a compass. It goes nowhere. There is no courage or persistence in a life without goals.

Dear Bill,

    I'm glad {#blank#}1{#/blank#} your letter. Thank you for {#blank#}2{#/blank#} for the weather and my health. But I am sorry to tell you that I have to stay at home because of the heavy fog and haze(雾霾).

    Since the winter last year, the fog and haze {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a lot of times. It has done great harm to our daily life. Many traffic accidents {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. More and more people were ill and the doctor said the serious disease{#blank#}5{#/blank#}by the fog and haze, quite a lot of flights have to be {#blank#}6{#/blank#} off , and a great number of people have to stay at home for fear of the poisonous(有毒的) air.

    According to the Chinese Academy of Science, driving cars and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} coals are two main reasons. People have been told: don't do outdoor sports. If you have to go out, wear a mask(口罩); wash your face and clean your nose as soon as you get home.

    People {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the importance of protecting environment. The government suggest everyone{#blank#}9{#/blank#} to work or school with the public traffic, such as the bus and the underground. Also we {#blank#}10{#/blank#} more trees.

Yours,

Li Hua