London is a very big city. More than 8,000,000 people live in London. London is a green city.

    ⑴．       The biggest parks are: Hyde Park, St. James's Park and Regent's Park.

    London's famous zoo is in Regent's Park. In the zoo there are many animals and birds from different cities and countries. There you can see monkeys, elephants, lions, giraffes and tigers and a lot of other animals⑵.        The English people love going to the zoo with their children.

    In English parks, you can do a lot of things and have a very good time: you can sit on the grass, you can play football and other games, ride horses, watch ducks, and you can walk and have a talk with your friends or read some books. ⑶．        

根据材料内容完成下列任务。

任务一：将A、B、C三个句子填入文中(1) (2) (3)空缺处。任务二：回答(4) (5)两个问题。

    Barbie was designed(设计)in 1959 by an American lady named Ruth Handler.

    When Ruth traveled around Europe in 1956 together    ①   her children Barbara and Kenneth，she saw a German toy doll   ②    Bild Lilli.Bild Lilli was pretty popular at that time，  ③   it was a paper doll.It made Ruth Handler   ④    to design a kind of adult-looking(成人模样的) doll for girls.With the help of her friends a beautiful doll was born.It was thin and   ⑤   big eyes and blonde hair(金发).Ruth named the doll Barbie after her own daughter Barbara.

    Barbie was introduced to the world at the American Toy Fair in New York City on March 9th，1959.This date is also used as Barbie's birthday.

    Now Barbie is known all over the world.About 150 countries sell Barbie dolls.Every second(秒)three Barbie dolls are sold around the world.

    When we talked about the space, we know the universe means the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars and so on in space. Many of the stars are so far away that we can't see them.

    Through our geography lessons, we know the earth ①goes around the sun, and the moon goes around the earth.

    We have day and night because the earth keeps moving all the time. Just because the moon is closer to the earth than the sun, it looks much bigger than the sun. ②The sun is bright enough to give out very strong light. The moon can't give any light at all, but it looks quite bright, too. Why? In fact, the light from the moon comes from the sun. ③But in fact the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon.

    ④在宇宙中仍然有许多其他的行星。But of all these planets, only on the earth there are living things. People on the earth have studied the space all the time. They've sent many spaceships into the space many times. On November 3 and 14,2011,Chinese scientists let Shenzhou Ⅷ successfully dock with(对接)the Tiangong Ⅰtwice. This is one of the greatest events in the history of China's space.

    Now students' English handwriting(书写)gets worse and worse. That makes their teachers feel worried. Is your English handwriting beautiful?{#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Use paper with lines

    When you write English words or sentences, you can use paper with lines. That will make your handwriting straight.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Be sure to fill the lined space completely. And make sure these capital letters (大写字母) are written properly.

    Slow down

    If your writing is hard to read, just slow down a little.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}If you write too quickly, it's hard for you to stop where you should, and you may make more mistakes easily.

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    When you hold your pencil in the correct way, writing is much better. Some kids press down really hard when they write. That makes the handwriling bad. Try to be relaxed and don't hold the pencil so hard. Let your writing appear nice and clean. If you do so, people will guess you are a student with a good habit.

    Draw more pictures

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}While you are drawing pictures, you need to use the skills to cuntrol (控制) your pencil better. Even though you have no chance to draw at school, you can practice by drawing at home.

    Handwriting is very important. Imagine you are a famous movie star or a well-known sports player, whad do you do when your fans run up to you? Givethem your autographs (亲笔签名) , of course!

From the Other Side

Lara and Tara are twins. They look like each other, but they are very different in everything else. For example, hot food is Lara's favorite, and Tara has a sweet choice.

However, this isn't the problem with the twin girls. They always argues that the opposite one was wrong. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, while Tara thought mornings were fresh and it was difficult to stay up till midnight.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#} To put an end to their fights, their parents decided to create a small drama. They wanted the girls to understand that they were both correct from their own point of view. Their parents covered the girl's eyes with black ribbons (带、条), and brought them to the dining room. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Lara was asked to stand on one side of the board and Tara on the other. They couldn't see the other side of it. When the ribbons were taken away, they were surprised to see a huge board between them.

Now, their father asked Lara, "What's the color of the board?" She replied, "It's black!" {#blank#}4{#/blank#} She replied, "It's white!" The two girls began to argue again. While Lara was confident it was black, Tara was sure it was white. Then, they were asked to exchange (交换) their places. They couldn't believe their eyes. Tara, who insisted (坚持) it was a white board, saw a black one. Similarly, Lara, who argued the board was black, was surprised to see a white one. They understood that each of them was right in her own view. Most of us are like Lara and Tara. We are right most times, but insist that others are wrong!