Fred is eight years old. He goes to school near his home. He always goes there and comes home on foot. One day he comes home from school late. His mother sees him and asks him, "Why are you late, Fred?"

    "My teacher is very angry and asks you to go to her office tomorrow."

    "To her office? Why?" his mother asks. "Because she asks a question in the class." Says Fred. "Nobody can answer it, but I can."

    "You are so clever, my son." His mother says with a smile.

    Her question is "Who puts the tomato on my chair and makes my trousers dirty?" says Fred.

    Inside Out is a 2015 American 3D movie produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells us an interesting story of emotions and is quite popular with both children and adults today. Here is some information for you.

    Director: Pete Docter

    Language: English

    Released on: June 19, 2015

    Main characters: a girl called Riley, five personified emotions—Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust.

    Story: The girl called Riley was born in Minnesota and is a sunny and outgoing girl. In her mind, there live five personified emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger. Each has different work to do: Joy makes sure that the girl is happy, Fear keeps her safe, Anger keeps her life fair and Disgust stops her from being poisoned. They usually work together to help Riley enjoy the beautiful life. But Sadness is not sure about her work. She could do nothing but make Riley cry.

    When Riley turns eleven, her family moves to San Francisco because her father gets a new job there. The little girl has to live in a new place and get on with new classmates. Then something bad happens. Because of the working problem of the five emotions, Riley becomes difficult and often gets angry easily. Everyone is worried about that…

    How could they solve the problem? Go to the cinema and find the answer by yourself!

    One afternoon, Mrs. Smith decided to visit her friend Mrs. Green. Mrs. Green lived in a nice house with a large garden in the countryside. Mrs. Smith took her dog with her. While the women were having coffee outside the house, the dog was running around in the garden. The two friends were surprised when the dog appeared with a dead rabbit in his mouth. Mrs. Green began to feel sick because she knew that her neighbor kept rabbits in a hutch (兔窝) in his garden. As the dog and the rabbit were both covered with dirt, the woman took the rabbit and carefully cleaned it in the bathroom. When it got dark, they went quietly into the neighbor's garden and put the dead rabbit into the hutch.

    The next afternoon, Mrs. Green's neighbor found her in the garden with the dead rabbit. She walked to the neighbor and she felt very afraid. Because she knew she did something wrong. “You know what?” her neighbor said. “Yesterday morning I found one of my rabbits dead in the hutch. So I put it in the ground in the garden and this morning, it's back to the hutch! I'm going to take it to a right pet cemetery (墓地).” he said secretly.

    Dr Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They combine(结合) funny words, pictures, and social opinion. Children enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.

    Dr Seuss wrote his first book for children in 1937. It is called And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. A number of publishers refused to publish(刊登) it. They said it was too different. A friend finally published it. Soon other successful books followed. Over the years, he wrote more than forty children's books. They were fun to read. Yet his books sometimes dealt with serious subjects.

    In 1954, life magazine published a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children's books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.

    In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old should be able to read it. The story is about a cat who tries to entertain(娱乐) two children on a rainy day while their mother is away from home. The cat is not like normal cats. It talks. The book was an immediate success. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words, which is called Green Eggs and Ham.

    In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖). He was honored for the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents.

    He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide. People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, "I do not write for children. I write for people.

    Bob was only seven years old. One night Bob was at home alone while his parents were out for a party. He had often stayed alone before, so he wasn't afraid. As he waited for his parents to return home, he watched a film on TV. His eyes became heavier and heavier as time passed by.

    Suddenly Bob's eyes opened wide- what was the sound in the next room? Bob heard the window being opened slowly. For a minute, Bob was so frightened that he could not move, and his body felt like ice. He knew that he couldn't lose his head and began to think of the things he could do.

    Again he heard the sound of someone trying to climb into his home through the window.

    Bob's drums were standing in the corner near the TV. "Wait, maybe there is something I can do," thought Bob. He beat his drums as hard as he could. The sound was so terrible that Bob surprised even himself. He also surprised the man in the window, who ran away as fast as possible. How clever he was!

    July is the time for some students to say goodbye to their mother schools. Every time it comes, I will think of my old deskmate, Xiaowei. She is the most unforgettable classmate in my junior high school life. It has been many years since I graduated, but she is still in my mind clearly.

    Xiaowei was a lovely girl with long black hair. On hot days, her hair was sometimes seen to be tied up. She was always wearing a sweet smile. She was an artistic(文艺范的)girl who showed up before me every day. She loved reading novels and drawing.

    She liked reading different kinds of novels, especially on history. She could finish reading a historical novel as thick as our Chinese textbook at an amazing speed.

    Whenever she had free time, she would take out a drawing note and start drawing cartoons with a pencil. She drew from characters' heads to eyes and to faces, but the characters were always long-haired and wide-eyed. One day I couldn't help asking," Why don't you colour them?" She answered simply, "Because I don't have enough time." She kept her works as a secret and never talked about them with others. When we were told that she had won a prize in the drawing competition in her group, my classmates felt surprised.

    There is a folk song called My Old Deskmate, which is sung widely among people of different ages. It was created because the creator, Gao Xiaosong, had never forgotten his deskmate. Whenever I hear it, I will think of Xiaowei. How are you, my old deskmate?