Why do we like drinking water from plastic bottles? Some people think it is healthy and clean. Others drink bottled water because it's easy--you can carry it around with you. In hot countries, like Greece, we often buy bottles of cold water in the summer.

    However, making lots of plastic is not a good idea for many reasons. First of all, we need a lot of oil for plastic products. We usually use oil as a resource of energy. If we reduced the number of bottles we made, we wouldn't need so much oil. Plastic bottles also pollute the environment. If we recycled all our plastic bottles, we wouldn't need so much space for rubbish dumps. But in Greece, we don't recycle much of the plastic we use. In 2006, Greeks recycled only about 10% of plastic waste. The rest became rubbish on land and in rivers and seas.

    So next time you want to throw away a plastic bottle in the litter bin, stop and think. If you recycled it, you would help the environment. But what can you do when there isn't a recycling bin near you? Well, there are lots of useful ways that you can use your bottles again. For example, an empty bottle makes a great piggy bank for your pocket money, and if you cut in half, you will have a plant pot. Go green! You can make a difference.

    Height is just one of the thousands of features your genes decide. In fact, because you have two parents, your genes provide you a height that usually lands somewhere between the height of each parent. If both your parents are tall, then most probably you will be tall, too, but if you have questions about how tall you're going to be, ask your doctor if he or she can help you find it out.

    But genes don't decide everything. For example, eating an unhealthy diet can keep you from growing to your full potential(潜力). Getting plenty of sleep and enough exercise will help you grow to the expected height.

    No doubt you're wondering how fast you should grow. It depends. There's no perfect or right answer. Generally speaking, kids grow about 2 inches (6 centimeters) a year between age 3 and the time when they start puberty (when your body starts changing and becoming more grown up).

    Your doctor will know how your growth has been going over the years. Two centimeters here and 2 inches there are not nearly as important as the height you're at now, how you've been growing up to this point, and what other changes your body may be going through.

    Don't be scared if you seem to have grown a lot in a very short time. Everyone has a growth spurt（高峰）during____The age for starting puberty is about 10 for girls and about 11 for boys. But it can be earlier or later —between 7 and 13 for girls and 9 and 15 for boys.

    You'll usually begin to notice that you're growing faster about a year or so after your body starts to show the first changes of puberty.

Mr. and Mrs. Green have three children. They are all girls. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Sue is fifteen, Rose is twelve and Kitty is eight. Their father, Mr. Green, is an English teacher. Their mother, Mrs. Green, is a nurse. They love their children very much.

Sue, Rose and Kitty all like fruit. But they don't like the same fruit. Sue likes apples. Rose likes pears and Kitty likes oranges. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Sue likes red. Rose likes yellow. And Kitty likes purple. They often have clothes in different colors. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} They call Sue "Apple", Rose "Pear" and Kitty "Orange". The children like their nicknames (绰号) very much. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Do you like their names?

A. They like different colors, too.

B. They are Sue, Rose and Kitty.

C. So you can know them from their clothes.

D. Now Mr. and Mrs. Green don't call their names at home.

E. They think the names are interesting.

 One early morning, I woke up by a telephone call. It was from a taxi driver. He told me he had my {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (friend) cell phone . My friend Michael {#blank#}2{#/blank#}( leave) it in the taxi the night before. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} driver called others, but I was the first one to answer his call.

 It was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} . rainy morning. For taxi drivers in this big city, it's the best time {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(make) money. He asked me where he could drop the cell phone off. I told {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(he) the streets where I lived. Then I {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(quick) jumped out of bed and got dressed, so I could meet him at the corner

 When he arrived, I thanked him. And I was even {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (happy) than my friend. He moved to this country a few weeks ago— and I could only imagine how important his ceIl phone was to him! I asked the taxi driver for his name, so my friend could thank him. He said my {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(thank) were all that he needed. Then he drove off.

I e-mailed my friend telling him I had his phone. In the evening, he came to my home and I told him {#blank#}10{#/blank#} I got it. My friend was very excited to get back his cell phone. He said he would help others as much as possible.

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Dear Mary,

How is everything going? Now I am writing to introduce my classmate Zhang Bo to you.

… …

I'm sure you will be good friends.Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Hua