English can change by borrowing words from other languages. The word "tomato" was borrowed from Mexico, and “tea” came from China and so on. Now new words are formed by joining two words together. "weekend" and "cookbook" are made up of two parts. A latest one "brunch" comes from breakfast and lunch. Do you have brunch every day? Sometimes new words are shorter forms of older words. For example, the word "photo" was made from "photograph" by cutting off the end of the longer word. "Plane" and "phone" were made by cutting off the front part of "aeroplane" and "telephone". The names of people and products can also become new words. Our "sandwich" was named after a man called Sandwich who invented it and "cello" was a name given by the company that first made the product.

Can you find more examples for each of these ways to make new words?

A: Have you read today's newspaper?

B: No.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}

A: Yes.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

B: How did it happen?

A: Two pupils were playing football on their way home {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

B.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

A. They were taken to the hospital and the doctors began to operate on them at once.

B: How are the children now?

A: They were saved at last and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

B: I hope everything goes well .

A: I hope, too.

    How do you feel when you are fooled by others? No doubt, feel bad. There is nothing worse than falling for a joke and being a fool except one day. Yes, that's April Fool's Day. Nobody will be angry to be an " April Fool".{#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    The headmaster at my school decided to play an April Fools' joke on the students when I was in high school. On March 31, she announced that our school would hold a "Dress to Impress" day.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

    Girls were told to wear formal dresses and smart jackets, while a suit jacket and tie for each boy would be best. The teachers, we were told, would do the same.

    On April Fool's Day, many of us students came to school dressed in our best clothes. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}In the morning, all of us got together on the playground, waiting for the headmaster. She would speak to the students. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Instead, she wore jeans, running shoes and a T-shirt. The teachers also got dressed casually like her.

    "April Fools!" she said, with a big smile on her face. "We just wanted to remind you that teachers have a sense of humor, too!"

    Surely, all the teachers weren't April Fools.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}

{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Thanksgiving Day is coming. Bruce wants to buy his grandma a small present. But he only has $60. His grandma's eyesight is so poor that she sometimes can't see the clock clearly.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Father's Day is several days away. Ann is thinking about the gift for her father. Her father is a sports lover. He enjoys riding bikes to the countryside at weekends. But he always suffers from back pain from biking.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Frank's grandparents live in an area which is very cold in winter, but they have no heating system in the room. Frank wants to send them a gift that can make their bed warm all night long.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Emily's aunt is a writer. Emily decides to give her a present. But she can only afford things that cost less than $40.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}Joe's father's birthday is coming. Joe wants to buy a gift for him with $1,800 she made from the part-time job. Her father used to be a football player and his back aches from time to time.

    Ben was hoping for a video game for his birthday. There was also a board game he wanted. Finally, he wanted some comics.

    He got the board game and some comics, but what was in the last package? It was from his sister, Karen. He slowly unwrapped the package. It didn't feel like a video game.

    It was a purple sweater. Purple was his least favourite colour. He smiled and thanked Karen nicely, but he didn't want 'to wear that sweater. He couldn't wear purple!

    He quickly put the sweater away in his room. Then he ran off to play his new board game with his family.

    One day a few weeks later, Ben's mother asked him about the sweater. "Why don't you wear your purple sweater today?" she asked him. "Your sister made it just for you!"

    "I'm not cold," Ben said without thinking. That day he was cold all day.

    Then one day they were going out to dinner as a family. His mother asked him to wear the sweater again. "I don't want to wear it because I hate it," he quickly replied.

    "Ben," said his mother," I know it's not the nicest sweater in the world, but think about how important Karen is to you. You know she will be proud if you wear it just this once."

    Ben walked slowly to his room. He knew she was right. He wore the sweater to dinner.

    His sister smiled all night.

    There was an old pear tree in a man's garden. In the past, the tree fruited every year, so the man would get many pears. But now, the tree got old. There were no more pears for the man. So the man decided to cut the tree down.

    When he walked toward the tree with an axe in his hand, the tree said to him, "Please don't cut me down. I have born so many pears for you in the past years."

    "I'm sorry, but I have to do so," the man said, "because I need wood to make a chair." Then he began to wave (挥动) his axe. At that moment, a bird in the old tree shouted at him, "Don't cut it down! Every time you go out and your wife feels lonely, she will come out to the garden and sit under the tree to enjoy its cool shade (树萌), and I sing songs to make her happy. We give much pleasure to your wife."

    The man didn't listen to the bird and drove it away. Just as he was about to cut the tree, some bees flew out of it and said, "Listen! If you agree not to kill this tree, we will give you delicious honey every day. Would you please leave the tree with us?"

    The man got moved. He said, "You are so kind to the tree, although it has become old. Now I see that I shouldn't cut it down. It has done so much for me and my wife. Let the tree stay here, and let the bird continue to sing songs here." With these words, the man left.