①Charles works in the city center and wants to take up a sport that he can often do during his lunch break. He enjoys a game in which he can play with his workmate on the desk to relax. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 

②Isabel, aged 17, is a Chinese girl who studies in the US now. She never misses any matches played by Houston Rockets. She hopes to follow in Yao Ming's steps. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} 

③Alex likes water sports very much. He is good at showing different styles, such as butterflies, frogs and so on. Believe it or not, he can dive under water for 2. 5 minutes. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 

④Tara comes from America. Now she teaches English in a middle school in Beijing. In her free time, she would like to go in for a traditional sport so that she can learn more about China. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} 

⑤Toby is a student in charge of PE lesson in Riverside Middle School. These days he is training hard for the coming sports meeting. He wants very much to break the school record of 175cm. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} 

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    Many young people would like to go to west China to help children to study. One of them, Lu Yi, was a university student. One day, when she went to a small village in Guizhou, she saw the poor children herself. She felt sad. She thought she should do something for them. So she decided to stay there and to be their teacher. Money is the biggest problem for her. But she didn't give up. She worked hard and her students like her very much. After graduation(毕业), she went back to that village at once and she worked as a volunteer teacher for five years. She worked hard and her students liked her very much. When the journalist at the CCTV Station interviewed her, she said she liked being a good influence(影响). She said she hoped to change the poor children's lives. She enjoyed the time as a volunteer very much. She would try her best to help the poor children.

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    There are four students talking about their favourite {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Michael likes {#blank#}2{#/blank#} because it's important and interesting. Lisa likes English and her English teacher is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} {#blank#}4{#/blank#} likes history and he has two history classes every week. Amelia loves art because of {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

    I used the new machine to wash the clothes. Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

    The next morning I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in. We began the class. When I turned round to write on the black-board, the class broke out a roar! They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much that I was afraid that the headmaster would be in to see this. I asked the class to stop, but the more I asked, the more they laughed. I decided to go on with my lessons and I wrote on the blackboard. When I did this, they roared even more.

    At last the teacher who had the room next to mine came in to see what had happened. When he came in, he started to laugh, too.

    "Oh, dear!" I said. "Will someone please tell me what is so interesting?"

    "God," said the teacher, "You have a brown sock on the back of your skirt!"

    So that's how I found my husbands missing sock.

    Rainforests are magical(神奇的)places on earth, full of life and beauty. They are homes, to millions of birds, insects, animals, and plants. These forests are the world's natural treasure(财富).

    Most rainforests are near the equator(赤道). Some of the largest are in Brazil, South Asia and Central Africa. There are several kinds. Each has different levels of rainfall and different types of soil and temperature.

    In equatorial rainforests, the temperature stays between 25 and 35 degrees during the year. These rainforests get a lot of rain-as much as 4, 000 millimeters per year. Monsoon rainforests are very different. They have long dry periods. Also, their temperature can change a lot from season to season.

    Rainforests are important for many reasons. One is their great diversity(多样性)of life. There are millions of species of insects, animals, and plants. Scientists still don't know about most of them yet. Many rainforest plants could help us make new medicines. Rainforests also keep the soil strong. And they may be important to the earth's climate.

    Unfortunately, rainforests are getting smaller every year. Farmers burn down trees for land. Large companies cut down trees for their valuable wood. Other companies build mines near forests.

    Environmental groups are trying hard to save the rainforests. Hopefully they can, before they're all gone.