Do you and your classmates like Doraemon? Yes, it is a popular cat.

    But you know, he is not a real cat but a robot（机器人）. The cat is a famous cartoon character（卡通人物）from Japan. Doraemon is from the 22^nd century. I love Doraemon and I also love his 2,000 amazing gadgets（小玩意）!

    Doraemon has a bamboo-copter（竹蜻蜓）. Put it on your head, and you can fly in the air. With a copter like this, I don't need to go to school by bike any more. The bamboo-copter flies at 80 km per hour. It's fast.

    Here is the jelly translator（果冻翻译器）. Eat this jelly and then you can speak and understand any language in the world. You can also understand what animals say.

    Doraemon has a great door. It can take you to any place you want. First say the name of the place, and then pass through the door. You can get to that place in no time.

    Doraemon also has memory（记忆）bread. Take a piece of the bread. Stick（粘贴）it onto a page of a book. Eat it, and you can remember everything on the page quickly. But I don't like this kind of bread. Learning new things is fun, but eating it isn't, right?

    How I wish I could have some of these gadgets!

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The New Year

    One New-year morning, Edward's father gave him two dollars. He left the house happily. He wanted to buy some books. On the street, he saw a poor family, the father, mother and three children. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, and they were shivering(颤抖).

    “Happy New Year!” Edward said to the man. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} . He couldn't understand English. But he pointed to his mouth. It seemed he was saying, “We have nothing to eat.”

    Edward understood. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} , and he gave one dollar to the man, and the other to his wife.

    Their eyes were full of gratitude(感激)! They said something in their language. It probably meant, “Thanks a lot.”

    When Edward came home, his father asked what books he had bought.

    “{#blank#}4{#/blank#},” said Edward, “I gave my money to some poor people. They seemed to be very hungry. I can buy my books until next New Year.”

    “My dear boy,” said his father, “Here are some books. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. I saw you give the money to the poor family. Be ready to help the poor and every year will be a happy New Year to you.”

A．He took out his two dollars

B．The children had little clothes on

C．I have bought no books

D．The man shook his head

E．I give you these books for your kindness

    Stonehenge is one of the oldest places made by man. It took about 700 years to build the oldest part of it is now believed to be 4,800 years old. It is located in the south of England near a small town called Amesbury in an area which has many other ancient monuments.

    Stonehenge consists of several circles. Some of them are made of stone, one is a ditch(沟渠)and one consists of 56 holes in the ground called “Aubrey holes”. Because many of the stones have fallen over or have been moved, it is difficult to see the full shape. The outside circle of stones once had 30 enormous (巨大的) stones, each weighing about 25 tons. On top of them used to be 30 more weighing 7 tons each, so that they made a circle of huge arches (拱形).Inside this was a horseshoe shape of five even bigger arches in which each of the upright (直立的) stones weighed 45 tones. Inside this was a bluestone circle of 60 stones, then a bluestone horseshoe of 19 stones. Finally in the middle was an enormous stone called the altar (祭坛) stones. The bluestone came from some mountains in Wales, 385 kilometers away, and even the other stones came a distance of at least 50 kilometers. Carrying the 80 stones to form the main circles probably took several thousand men several years.

    Nobody knows why it was built. It may have been a kind of church; it may have been a meeting place for the people who lived near. Some people say that it was a means of predicting the position of the sun, the moon and the stars. It has also been discovered that Stonehenge is located on some mysterious (神秘的)lines called “ley lines ” that seem to join together ancient buildings and places in England.

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    I was ten when I first sat with my grandmother behind the cashier（收银台）in her general store.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} I quickly learned the importance of treating customers politely and saying “thank you.”

    At first I was paid in candy.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} I worked every day after school, and during the summer and on weekends and holidays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. My father helped me set up a bank account.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} 

    By the time I was 12, my grandmother thought I had done such a good job that she promoted me to selling cosmetics（化妆品）. I developed the ability to look customers directly in the eye. Even though I was just a kid, women would ask me such things as “ What color do you think I should wear?” I took a real interest in their questions and was able to translate what they wanted into makeup（化妆）ideas.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    The job taught me a valuable lesson: to be a successful salesperson, you didn't need to be a Rocket scientist—you needed to be a great listener.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Except they are no longer women purchasing cosmetics from me; instead, they are kids who tell me which toys they would like to see designed and developed.

A. Later I received 50 cents an hour.

B. Before long, she let me sit there by myself.

C. I ended up selling a record amount of cosmetics.

D. Today I still carry that lesson with me: I listen to customers.

E. My grandma's trust taught me how to handle responsibility.

F. Soon I found myself looking more beautiful than ever before.

G. Watching my money grow was more rewarding than anything I could have bought.

    All over the world people enjoy sports.Sports help to keep people healthy and happy.

    Many people like to watch others play games.They buy tickets or turn on their TV to watch the games.Often they get very excited when “their” team wins.

    Sports change with the seasons.People play different games in winter and summer.Swimming is fun in warm weather, but skating is good in winter.

    Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them.Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. ⑶What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China or Australia! And think of people in cold countries.Think how many people love to skate in Japan or Canada.

     ⑷Some sports or games go back to thousands of years ago, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history.But basketball and volleyball are rather new.Neither one is 120 years old yet.People are inventing new sports or games all the time.Waterskiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

    other, but after a game together they often become good friends.

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    We did a survey (调查) about students' free time activities yesterday. One of our questions was about exercise and of course, it is the most important one. From the survey, we knew only 25% of the girls often have activities outside. Many girls do little exercise. They don't like P.E. classes and even don't play sports. These girls may face a lot of problems. They may get fatter and weaker, And they may get some kinds of illnesses(疾病) easily. Wang Jing, a 16-year-old girl, said, "I don't like doing exercise. I like watching TV on the sofa. I spend at least three hours watching TV a day. My sleeping time is no more than seven hours a day. I often feel tired

    Some girls said, "We don't have enough time to do exercise. We must help our parents with housework because they are very tired after a day's work. We do some washing, clean the house and finish the homework. We don't have time for doing anything else."

    Everyone may have these excuses(借口) for not doing exercise. However, we must know that if we don't do exercise, we will get sick easily. As students, we'd better exercise every day. That makes us live a healthy life.

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