This term(学期) we have a new teacher of English. His name is Mr. Peterson. He is American. He is not very tall and he is thin. He has a round face and small blue eyes. He wears glasses and they make him look smart. He has dark brown hair.

    Mr. Peterson works very hard. In class, he has many good ideas to make the class very interesting. We all like his class. After class, he always encourages us to speak more English. Sometimes, he plays games with us. He is very strong and he can play basketball and football very well. He is good at sports. Sometimes he plays table tennis with us, but he doesn't play it very well.

    Mr. Peterson loves living in China very much. He enjoys lots of things in China. He really loves eating Chinese food. He loves traveling in China too. He is going to visit Xi'an next month.

    Once, Einstein gave a lecture in a university. After his speech, the audience started asking questions.

    A girl asked, "Do you think you're a giant of science？" Einstein said with a smile, "A giant is a person who is tall in height. You see I'm so small, how can I be a giant? Maybe I see a bit farther, only because I stand higher！"Then a boy asked, "You mentioned you stand higher than the others. It reminds me that you had a talk with a lady on the top of the Alps (阿尔卑斯山).I don't want to ask what you talked, but I want to know whether you realised you have been a top in the history of science when you stood on the top." Looking at the boy carefully, Einstein replied, "Well, my height cannot become a top. And there is no top that no one can get to, so we don't want to be a top, but we want to be a person to climb the top!"

    Then he took up a piece of chalk and wrote on the blackboard, "Standing on the top, you are not tall, but even smaller！"Then he said, "Though I stand tall, in the eyes of the world I'm still small! Finally, I can tell you a sentence, which was the last one I told the lady on the top of the Alps, 'Any top can be reached, for there is no giant in the world but the one who stands higher！'"A storm of applause(掌声) sounded. The lady who listened to Einstein's instruction on the Alps that year was no other than Madam Curie!

Dale has a new baseball hat. It is from his sister Helen. The hat is blue and it is beautiful. Dale loves it. He wears(戴) it every day. When he doesn't wear it, he always puts it on his desk. This morning Dale wants to go and play baseball with his friends. He wants to wear the hat, but the hat is not on the desk. Where is it? Dale looks for it under the sofa, under the chair, in his schoolbag, just everywhere. But he can't find it.

" Do you see my hat?" Dale asks his family. No one sees it.

Dale is not happy. He thinks his hat is lost. At that time, his dog Puppy comes. And the hat is on his head! He loves the hat, too.

Dale is very happy. He gets the hat and leaves(离开) home.

Jay and Joan like to spend {#blank#}1{#/blank#}the winter holiday with their mum and dad. This morning they were all going sledding (滑雪橇).There was a heavy{#blank#}2{#/blank#} snow last night. The hill at the park was great for sledding. Jay and Joan asked their parents to take them out .Their parents agreed(同意).

They all put on{#blank#}3{#/blank#} warm clothes and boots (靴子).They brought hot drinks{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, put the sleds in the car and drove to{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the park.

Jay and his dad went down the hill on one sled. Joan and her mum went down on the other sled. They went fast{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. The snow flew on their faces{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. They laughed and laughed. Sledding was fun.

After playing for two hours，they took a short break. They wanted to have a hot drink to get out of{#blank#}8{#/blank#} the cold，so they went into a warm house. They talked about{#blank#}9{#/blank#} their fun day there.

Soon it was time to go back{#blank#}10{#/blank#} home. Jay and Joan were very happy today.

Early in May, a man took me to a new home at Birtwick Park. The owner called mc"Black Beauty". Here I met my friend, another horse, Ginger. One day, my owner decided to visit some friends. His groom(马夫), James, drove him.

 As evening fell, we stopped at a large hotel. A stableman brought us into the stable(马厩) and two grooms looked after us. One groom, Towler, had a pipc(烟斗) in his mouth.

"Towler, get these horses something to eat. Put your pipe down first!" said the stableman.

"All right," said Towler.

 At night, I felt uncomfortable and woke up. Ginger was coughing. It was dark, and I could see nothing.____ . It was full of smoke(烟) and hard to breathe. I was very afraid.

 The stableman came in and wanted to lead the horses out but they were in fear. Then he tried to pull me out, but I did not want to go. Finally, he left the stable alone.

Certainly, we were very silly, but danger seemed to be all round and there was nobody we could trust. All was strange and unsure.

"Black Beauty, come with me!" James ran to me and said. He always gave us hope. His voice made me calm(镇静的). He put his scarf over my eyes and led me out of the stable. Then, he ran back inside. I shouted at him worriedly when I saw him go. Ginger told me later that she heard my voice and became brave enough to come out. Then I saw James coming out with Ginger.

 The next morning, we felt sad when hearing that two horses died in the stable. Towler was responsible(担责任的) for the fire. The night before,a man saw him in the stable with a pipe in his mouth. At Birtwick Park, the rule was"no pipes in the stable" and it was a very good rule.

(Adapted(改编) From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell)

 Do you know the Silver Flower Silk(银丝花)? It's a1 handmade made work of art which has been passed down for more than 1700 years. The Silver Flower Silk Craft(工艺) is divided into the north style and the south style. Beijing stands for the north style,2 Chengdu stands for the south style. The south style, which still keeps the natural color of silver, was a very popular3 among collectors after the 20th century.

 Dao An is the only inheritor(传承人) who has 4 the full set of the Silver Flower Silk Craft. For more than 40 years, she has made efforts to 5 Chinese culture at home and abroad.

 Born in 1962, Dao An became 6 in drawing from childhood. Since junior high school, she had taken school subjects during the day and studied 7 at a night school. In 1980, she received a job 8 a Silver Flower Silk Craft Company. Because of her excellent painting ability, she began to9 Silver Flower Silk works on her own. However, she was not satisfied with them. In order to make better Silver Flower Silk works, Dao An had been studying hard for more than ten years.10 , she has become one of the very few masters of the Silver Flower Silk Craft in China.

 By the late 1990s, however, influenced by the market, many Silver Flower Silk 11 had been shut down. Dao An didn't want the skill to go away, so she decided to 12 a workroom. She wanted more people to have a(n)13 to own their works of the Silver Flower Silk. "The silver has no temperature, but the Silver Flower Silk Craft makes the metal 14 ." Dao An said. "And 15 is worth being known by more people. We should stick to spreading this craft and have good creativity to develop it better."