Every year, more than nine million people all over the world come to visit London. They go to the museums and theatres; they look at interesting old buildings or have a drink in a park.

    A quick and easy way to get to different places in the city is to take an underground train. The London underground is one of the best and most widely used transport networks（网状组织）in the world. The trains run all day and most of the night. (3)You'd better not take the underground between eight o'clock and ten o'clock in the morning, or four o'clock and six o'clock in the afternoon. (4) The trains are so crowded that you can hardly move or find a place to sit.

    London's famous red buses form a big part of getting around in London. Although the London underground is the fastest and the simplest way of getting around London, the buses play their part and are an experience you should try at least once. By sitting on the top deck (层) of the bus, you can get a great sightseeing (观光的)  experience of London as well.

    Some special visitors' buses take you to many of the interesting places in the city on one journey.  It takes about one and a half hours, but you can cancel your journey and get off (and on again) at the different places you want to visit.

    London taxis are called "black cabs”. Most of them are black, but some are not. You can stop one if it has a "For Hire (供租用的)n sign on it. The drivers are friendly and helpful.

    In a word, London is a big and beautiful city with Lots to see and to do. Welcome to London.

    What are most 14-year-old boys doing? Going to school, playing sports with friends and doing their homework. But life is much more colorful for the TFBOYS members.

    TFBOYS is a singers' group started in 2013. Its full name is The Fighting Boys. It has three members, Wang Junkai, Wang Yuan and Yi Yangqianxi. Wang Junkai, the group leader, is 15 years old. The other two boys are both 14 years old. When most boys at their age are spending their whole day in the classroom, the three young singers present（展示）themselves to thousands of people. They had made three albums（唱片）and won two singing awards（奖）. Now the three boys are among the most popular singers in our country.

    Many students are interested in TFBOYS, because they are friendly and good at singing. They are still junior high school students. During the week they study at school with their classmates. On the weekends and holidays they have singing class, dancing class and other training. Most of their fans are teenagers. “We are of similar age,” some fans said, “TFBOYS feel like friends to us and we love their songs.”

Northern fur seals

    Northern fur seals spend winter in the warm waters near California. There is lots of food for the seals, but there are also lots of predators. When spring comes, the Northern fur seals go on a long trip to islands near Alaska. These islands are a safe place to breed, as there are not many predators. The male seals arrive at islands first. They fight for the best females to arrive. The females arrive about four weeks later. They each give birth to one seal pup. In the next few days, the seals mate again. When they return to the islands, one year later, the females will give birth to next year's seal pups. After three months, the females and the young seals set off back to the warm waters off the coast of California. Soon after, the males also leave the islands. The fur seals travel about 10,000 kilometers on their trip from California to Alaska and back again.（改编于《七年级新理念第三册》）

    A mouse was surprised to discover that the farmer and his wife had a mousetrap(老鼠夹)in the house. It ran to warn everyone, "There is a mousetrap in the house!"

    A hen raised its head and said, "Mr. Mouse, this mousetrap is only for you. I won't be worried about it. "The mouse turned to a pig." I am sorry, Mr. Mouse, but the mousetrap has nothing to do with me, either! "the pig said. Then the mouse turned to a cow. "It sounds like you have a problem, not me," the cow said. The mouse returned to the house with its head down and it was very sad because no one would help.

    That night the farmer's wife heard a loud sound and she rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness she could not see that it was a snake. The snake bit(咬)the farmer's wife. The wife caught a bad fever and the farmer thought the best way to treat a fever was having chicken soup. So the farmer killed the hen for the soup. The wife got worse and her friend came to visit her. The farmer had to kill the pig to feed them. But the wife didn't get better and died. Her friends came and the farmer had to kill the cow to feed all of them.

    So remember when any one of us is in trouble, we may be in trouble.

    Hello, my name is Kate. I'm in a middle school. This is my schoolbag. It's black. What is in it? There are two books. Are these books mine? No, they aren't. They are my teacher's. What are those? They are two pens. One is red, and the other (另一只) is blue. The red pen is mine. The blue pen is Lily's. There are some keys and a map in my schoolbag, too. They are not mine. The keys are my mom's. Whose (谁的) map is it? Oh, I can see a name on(在…上) it, M—I—K—E. It's my good friend. I can call him(他). His phone number is 456—9898.