E.  We have the right to be happy and to be treated with understanding.

    My name is Alice. I'm 13. I like sports very much. I have a basketball and a football at home. They are under my desk. I often(经常)play balls with my friends. I like vegetables. I often have tomatoes and carrots for lunch. I like ice-cream, too. My parents are doctors. They like watching soccer games on TV.

    My name is Charlie Street. I'm a boy. I'm not twelve. I'm eleven. I'm not in Grade(年级) Eight. I'm in Grade Seven. I'm in Class Three. My phone number is 665582. I'm from the U.S.A.. My school is Beijing No.14 Middle School.

A Student's Card

    The table above shows the sleeping patterns (模式) of people doing {#blank#}1{#/blank#} jobs. It is clear that there are big differences among them. For example, students continuously (连续地) sleep for {#blank#}2{#/blank#}each night because they go to school during the day. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} are busy and stressed out, so they only sleep for 6 hours. But they also sleep continuously during the night. Truck drivers sleep 6 hours and doctors sleep the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} hours among the five. However, because of their jobs, they have to divide their bedtime into different periods. Finally, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} mothers sleep when their babies do. They often have to wake up during the night to comfort (安抚) their babies. It is important to consider sleeping patterns when choosing a job.

    Young children don't have the skills or knowledge to stay safe in heavy traffic. The following tips (忠告) will be helpful for you to keep your children safe in heavy traffic. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} As parents, make sure that you always set good examples. Your children will follow you and think it's OK to do like you. Teach your children to pay attention to traffic lights {#blank#}2{#/blank#} This helps them understand when it's safe to cross. Make sure that you walk between your children and the traffic, and hold their hands all the time.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} you can start to tell them the importance of traffic knowledge. Let them start to understand the reasons why they need to be so careful. Talk with them about road signs and traffic rules.

    Ask your children to play in a safe place. Never let them ride bikes on the road without an adult present at rush hour.

    The most important thing you can do is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} so parents encourage them to follow traffic rules. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} they'll volunteer to obey them. In this way, they'll be careful enough to keep themselves away from danger.

Give water, save lives

A bottle of water may not seem like much to you, but thousands of bottles will be of great help for people who live in drought-hit(遭受旱灾) areas in China.

Since last autumn, there has been very little rain in Southwest China. Some places, especially in Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, have experienced a serious drought. Crops (庄稼) died, the land cracked(裂开), and wells (井) and rivers dried up. More than 20 million people are having difficulty in finding safe drinking water.

After learning about the drought, many people around the country helped by giving water, money and other things.

Last week, every member of the Communist Youth League (共青团员) and Young Pioneers(少先队员) were encouraged to give one bottle of water to the drought-hit areas. Students in primary schools and middle schools quickly joined the activity. In Yuhua Primary School in Xi' an, 900 students bought over 1,000 bottles of water with their pocket money. They also wrote their wishes on the bottles.

The serious drought has also made students realize the importance of saving water. Students from Nanshan Middle School in Huizhou, Guangdong went on the street to tell people to take part in water-saving activities.

"I've heard that some children in drought-hit areas don't have enough drinking water. They have to drink muddy ( 含有泥土的 ) water. I feel really sad about that," said one student. "I decide to take a shower twice a week instead of every day to save water," he said.