My name is Lisa Gibson. I am from America. I am 12 years old. And I am a student at No.2 Middle School in Beijing. Mrs. Wang is our Chinese teacher. My friend is also(也) a student here. Her name is Maria Smith. She is from England. She is 13 years old. Maria and I are new students in No.2 Middle School. We like our Chinese class.

    A young man went to a job interview in a big company. The director discovered that the young man's college grades were great. He wondered who paid for the young man's education. The young man told him that his parents did and they worked as clothes cleaners.

    The director found that the young man's hands were smooth and perfect. "Have you ever helped your parents wash clothes?" the director asked. "No. My parents always let me study. Besides, my parents can wash clothes faster than me."

    The director asked him to go back home and wash his parents' hands. When he got home, he asked his parents to let him clean their hands. His parents felt strange but happy. Then the young man began to clean their hands slowly.

    His tears fell as he did that. He found that his parents'hands were so old and pale because of long time in water. There were also so much hurt in their hands. He knew the hurt had much to do with his school fees (费用). After cleaning his parents' hands, the young man quietly washed all the rest clothes for them.

    The next morning, the young man went to the director's office. The director noticed the tears in the young man's eyes. He told the young man that he was accepted.

Hello! My name's Mike. I'm a robot(机器人). I'm from China. I live (住) in a nice Chinese family. And there are 1 members(成员) in our family: my father, my mother, Bob and I. In our house(房子), Father, Mother and Bob are very 2 . So I help them.

On weekday mornings, I give morning calls to everyone. Then I cook(烹饪)3 for them.   My father's favorites are eggs, milk and bread. My 4 likes fruit j uice and bread. Bob has beef(牛肉), milk and bread for breakfast. So you can see they all like 5 . After they go to work and school,I wash the dishes(盘) and clean 6 rooms. I have a good rest(休息) and then cook lunch for my family. In the afternoon, I cook dinner for my family. At night, I ask Bob to finish homework(家庭作业) and 7 on time. And I read newspapers for Father and Mother.

On weekends(周末), my family are at home 8 me and play games. We often have 9 weekends because of me. I can find all things in my head and do the things at the right time every week because there is a small 10 in my body(身体).

Ivan sat 1 the floor deep down in the sea． He was bored and 2 ． He watched other pretty fish 3 in and out of rocks． They were laughing and dancing happily．" Why am I so different？" he said to 4 ．
"You are an octopus（章鱼）， Ivan． That is special．" The sweet5 of Leo，a beautiful white dolphin， always made Ivan 6 better． Ivan looked up at the white dolphin and   7 ．Leo said，" Let's play games together．" They were having a lot of 8 and they didn't know they were already far away9 home．
Suddenly Leo saw a large shark（鲨鱼）10 above them，"It is Big White…the 11 ，most terrible shark in the sea，" he shouted to Ivan． Leo looked at Big White12 ． It was very fast．Leo was very afraid and he couldn't swim．He couldn't swim． Just at this moment， Big White rushed down towards them． An idea came to Ivan． He quickly sprayed（喷） a very dark cloud of black water to the shark's eyes． Then Ivan and Leo swam away 13 they got home safely．
"Are you OK？" asked Ivan．"Yes． I am lucky to have you as my friend!" Ivan's face turned red．"I guess being 14 others can be so cool sometimes，" Ivan said．"That is 15 I try to tell you，" Peter said．

I never loved soccer. Not because I didn't find it interesting, but because I never understood the game. Quite silly if you asked me! Two teams kicking a ball into a giant net. In the 90 minutes they did this, I could read through an interesting book!

I was a disappointment to my father. He even gave me a football with Pele's name on it for my birthday. Funny looking thing. It was in the gift paper and there was a card that read "Happy birthday, Xolisa, love from Mum and Dad". I put the ball, still in its gift paper, on my study table—just to look at.

One day, my new friend came to visit. "Don't you go out to play?" he asked. "No!" I answered as quickly as I could. He rolled his eyes and fixed them on the football on my study table. "Whose is that?" he asked excitedly. "Mine,"I said. He reached for it. He took off the paper and bounced the ball all over the place. "Come on, let's go. We'll play outside with this!" I nodded. It was my ball so I followed him! I left my book on the bed.

I had no idea what I had to do, standing in the middle of the field. I just stood there, looking at my new friend as he played happily with my ball. He kicked the ball to me. I didn't know what to do. I picked up the ball and ran with it. "Kick it at me!" he screamed from across the field. So I placed the ball near my feet and kicked it as hard as I could. It was a bad kick and the ball hit the girl standing in front of me. How embarrassing! Luckily it didn't hurt her!

Soon, other kids joined us. Everyone quickly got into two teams. I didn't know the rules then, but watched others and ran just to keep up in the game. I quickly learnt. I didn't kick a goal, but that didn't matter.

To my surprise, I enjoyed the experience— even the sweat and the mud. Afterwards, I dribbled (颠)the ball all the way home. When Mum saw me, she could hardly speak. Then she smiled and said,"Take off those shoes here, mister. I don't want mud in my house!"I ran inside, hopping(双脚跳) all the way to the bathroom.

From that day onwards,        ▲    .