Maria: Hello, Ben!

Ben: Hello, Maria! How are you?

Maria: Fine. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} And you?

Ben: I'm OK. Excuse me, do you {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a sister?

Maria: Yes. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} name is Beth. She is eight {#blank#}4{#/blank#} old.

Ben: Does she have a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} nose?

Maria: Yes. But her mouth is wide.

Ben: Can you help me to know her?

Maria: OK.

    Life in the future will be {#blank#}1{#/blank#} from life today. Between then and now many changes will happen. But what will the changes be?

    The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.

    Computers will be much {#blank#}2{#/blank#} and more useful，and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in schools then. People will work fewer hours {#blank#}4{#/blank#} they do now and they will have more free time for sports，watching TV and traveling. Traveling will be much cheaper and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. And many more people will go to other countries for {#blank#}6{#/blank#}.

    There will be changes in our food，too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep，so {#blank#}7{#/blank#} will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead，they will eat more fruits and {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. Maybe people will be healthier. Work in the future will be different，too. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} will do dangerous and hard work. Because of this，many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

Lei Feng Spirit Carrying on

    "It is not hard to do one good deed, but it is hard to do good deeds all your life." Chairman Mao {#blank#}1{#/blank#}said. And he called on people to learn from him. Do you know who the man is? He is Lei Feng.

    Lei Feng was born in a poor family in a little mountain village of Hunan Province, on December 18th, 1940. He didn't go to school{#blank#}2{#/blank#}he was 10 years old. At the age of 18, he became a steel{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. He was often praised for his good job. On January 8th, 1960, he joined the army and several months later, he joined the Communist Party. He loved the Party and the people, and kept doing something good for others. When he got{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, he always said, "It's my duty and it's just that some people need some help, there should be someone standing out{#blank#}5{#/blank#}them a hand." He became a model soldier one year later.  To our sadness, Lei Feng died in an accident in 1962.

    March 5th{#blank#}6{#/blank#}a "Learn from Lei Feng Day" since 1963. When Lei Feng's Diary came out, People began to know more about him than before. Now the term "Living LeiFeng" has become a name for anyone who is brave, anyone who has{#blank#}7{#/blank#}love for his country, anyone who works hard,{#blank#}8{#/blank#}anyone who is always ready to help others…

    Lei Feng's spirit will live in{#blank#}9{#/blank#}hearts. Lei Feng's spirit will be remembered by the{#blank#}10{#/blank#}nation forever. And we will surely practice his spirit in life as he did.

    Hi, I'm Wang Lin. This is "手机" in Chinese. Do you know (知道){#blank#}1{#/blank#} to say it in English? Cellphone! I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} spell it—C-E-L-L-P-H-O-N-E. The cellphone is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} . It's from (来自) Mom. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} pencil box is red. A ruler and a pencil {#blank#}5{#/blank#} in it. They are blue. Blue is my favorite(最喜爱的) {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. I have a blue jacket, a blue {#blank#}7{#/blank#} and a blue pen. Look! What's that? It's a quilt and it's{#blank#}8{#/blank#}, too! What's on the quilt? It's {#blank#}9{#/blank#} orange. It's for Linda. She likes eating (喜欢吃) {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. I will give (给) it to her this evening.

    George Wilson was the owner of a watch shop. One day he told his son James," I'll teach you all I know about watches."

    For the first few weeks, James looked after the front of the shop. He worked hard and was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to the customers(顾客). George was very pleased with(对...... 很满意) him.

    After about six months, James said to his father," "Is there anything else you want to teach me?"

    "Yes," said George," it's time for me to teach you how to make{#blank#}2{#/blank#} "

    "I know that," said James," you buy watches at one price and sell them at a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} price. That's how we get so much money."

    "That's true. But we don't make most of the money from it." He picked up a watch from the counter(柜台)."What do you think of this watch?"

    "That's a cheap watch. We can only get few dollars from {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  it."

    "You are wrong, my son," George said," those cheap ones get {#blank#}5{#/blank#} money to us than any other watch in the shop."

    "I don't understand," James said.

    "Because they are really cheap, they are always breaking, and we make our money from fixing them."