According to a new American study, having dinner with children may help to reduce (减少) the number of problems that develop in parent—child communication. The1was done among about 5, 000 middle school students in Chicago public schools.

    The students were studied at the beginning and the end of the sixth grade and again at the end of the seventh and the eighth grade. They were asked2they ate dinner with their parents. They were 3 asked how often their parents had a conversation(谈话)with them that lasted more than 104, praised(表扬) them when they did well, asked them where they were going and asked how they were doing in school. The study5the more parent—child communication, the6problems between them.

    Family meals are a good opportunity to7in touch with children, said Jayne Fulkerson, a member of the study team. "You can get to know8going on in their life better."

    However, Fulkerson also suggested that parents9suitable(合适的) topics(话题). Topics10grades and homework are not good choice.

Dear James,

    How are you? I want to tell you about the ways (方式) my family go to work or school. My parents are teachers, but they are not in the same school. My father's school is far from our home. It's about five kilometers. He drives his car to school every day. My mother usually walks to her school, because her school is near our home. I have two brothers, John and Peter. John is a high school student (高中生). He likes taking a bus to school. He thinks it is fun, because he can meet his friends and tall with them on the bus. It takes him thirty minutes to get to school. Peter and I are students in a middle school. My mother is in the school, too. I always go to school with Peter. We ride our bikes to school for ten minutes every school day.

    What about you? How do you get to school?

Yours,

Amy

    It's Friday today and we have an art class. But we don't have it at school. Where do we have it? Do you know? We have the class in the1It is our first time to have a class outside, so we are very2

    In the morning, our art teacher, Mrs. Wang3the classroom and says, "Boys and girls, today we'll have a class in the zoo. You can see your favorite animals and draw pictures of4there."

    Then we take a bus to the zoo. After we5there, we see so many animals. Some6eat bamboo (竹子). They are so cute. Tom7a picture of them. Jenny's favorite animals are monkeys (猴子). She wants to see them first.8those monkeys are in the trees. They don't come9, so Jenny can't see them. She doesn't know what to do. Peter is very10.He asks Jenny to give (给) these monkeys some bananas. Then all the monkeys come to them. All of us are happy to have the class in the zoo.

    Welcome to our museum(博物馆). It is free and you can come only with your ID card. We don't ask you for any money, but we have some rules for you.

    First, don't bring any food to the museum. You can't eat in the museum. But you can bring some water to the museum. Second, you can take photos here, but you can't touch (触摸) the things. Third, keep quiet in the museum. Don't talk loudly. Fourth, don't run in the museum. Finally (最后), our museum closes at half past five in the afternoon. Please leave before five and we need thirty minutes to do some cleaning. Have a good time here! Thank you.

It is one of the most famous books in the world; yet it has no story and no interesting characters, no exciting beginning and no satisfying ending. And yet it keeps being printed-and it keeps growing!

It began in 1857 as just an idea of a group of people who thought the world needed one to show the history of English words from 1150 CE to the present. It wasn't until the late 1870s, however, when James Murray joined the project that it began to grow. He planned one of about 6,400 pages in four volumes(卷),completed in 10 years. He did most of his work in a small building where he and his workmates collected millions of pieces of paper, each one with a word and an example sentence written on it. Murray and his workmates worked hard, but after five years they had only reached the word ant! It was until 1928 that it was completed and came out. Unluckily, Murray did not live to see the completion of his life's work; he passed away in 1915. As soon as it came out, people started to update it. In 1933, it became 12 volumes. Between 1972 and 1986, four more volumes were added. In 2020 it was reprinted in 20 volumes. Three years later, all the volumes were put onto CD-ROM, and it can be bought online at present.

It not only is a record of where the English language has come from but also become an important part of the history of English-speaking cultures around the world.

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