My name is Betty. I am twelve. I have some {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. We are middle school students. We are in Class Two, Grade Seven. This is Miss Green. She is an American teacher. She {#blank#}2{#/blank#} us English. Her classes are very {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. We all like her.

    This is my new classroom. In the classroom you can see many {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and chairs. A blackboard, a clock and a map {#blank#}5{#/blank#} China are on the wall. On a desk, you can see some pencils. The red one is mine. The green one is {#blank#}6{#/blank#}.

    Look! You can see a ball under the desk. That's Kate's desk. The ball is{#blank#}7{#/blank#}, too. This is my desk. You can see a {#blank#}8{#/blank#}on it.

    I' m David, a baby penguin (企鹅). It is snowing outside. I am staying{#blank#}1{#/blank#}my nest (~) and waiting for my parents. They went out yesterday to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}food for me. I feel so cold and hungry now because we don't have any food at all. In the last few years,{#blank#}3{#/blank#}developed the economy (发展经济), but they forgot the{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    They cut many trees down and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} lots of factories. The{#blank#}6{#/blank#} from those factories soon changed the climate (改变气候). So it's harder for my parents to find food. What's worse,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} penguins died because of the climate change. But now, people in the world seem to know their mistakes (错误) and begin to do something to save the world. I think we can live a better life in the{#blank#}8{#/blank#}

    On December 14, 2017, the famous Chinese poet (诗人) Yu Guangzhong left this world in Taiwan. The news made many people sad. "Mr. Yu's poems often {#blank#}1{#/blank#} my heart when I read them...,"Mai Luoluo, a famous writer for{#blank#}2{#/blank#}, said on Sina Weibo.

    Yu was born in 1928 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Then he moved to Taiwan{#blank#}3{#/blank#} his family in the 1950s. After that, he lived and worked there{#blank#}4{#/blank#} he died.

    Xiangchou (Nostalgia) is Yu's famous poem. People{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the poem easily if they open Chinese textbooks in senior high school. It was written from Yu's {#blank#}6{#/blank#} experience. In it, he showed how much he missed the Chinese mainland when he was in Taiwan. The poem came out in 1971. It {#blank#}7{#/blank#} became popular with all Chinese around the world. Yu is also a great translator (翻译家). And he once translated English poet Siegfried Sassoon's poem In me, Past,

    Present, Future Meet into Chinese. Most of people think it is the{#blank#}8{#/blank#} translation of all. The famous line “心有猛虎，细嗅蔷薇” just comes from his translation.

    You spent all {#blank#}9{#/blank#} life on the things he liked. Once he said, "Just because of my passion (热情) for the Chinese language, I always try my best {#blank#}10{#/blank#}something." He then added that his love for his mother and his motherland made this passion forever. Let's remember this great man.