Dear Lucy, In your last letter, you asked me how to show love to your parents. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

★Make a picture for them. Whether with pencils or paints, it'll be valuable to them forever.

★Cook them a dinner! It can be some rice, some cheese or some hot dogs.  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

★Tell them that you love them very often. Your love can make them feel warm and proud.

★ {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  Probably the biggest way to show them you love them is never to lie. This shows them that you not only love them, but also believe in and respect them.

★ {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Watch a film with your mom once in a while, or go to a sports match with your dad once in a while just to show them how much you care and want to be closer to them.

★If you do something wrong, say sorry to them and explain it! They will know your regret. You could do something for them to show that you want to make it up to them。 {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

Yours,

Agony

    China has a long tradition of tea-drinking. However, coffee has become a more p{#blank#}1{#/blank#} choice of Chinese people living abroad and in the big cities of China.

Su Beibei from China has been living in the United States for eight years. "I used to be a tea drinker before I came h{#blank#}2{#/blank#}," she said,"Many people around me are coffee drinkers. So, I like coffee more than tea now."

    Yang Lin is in Shanghai. She says she drinks both for different r{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. She and her workmates like staying in a cafe (咖啡馆)and drinking coffee. So, it is a social event f{#blank#}4{#/blank#} her. She says tea is more about family memories. The smell of tea r{#blank#}5{#/blank#} her of her warm family.

    John was a kind man. When he was young, he hoped {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(become) a singer. But he didn't have enough money {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (buy) books about music. And his parents didn't expect him {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) a singer. So his dream didn't come tree. At the age of fifteen, he {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (leave) his village and found a job in a small town. He worked there for five years. Later his mother became very ill (生病的) and he had to {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (stop) his work to come back and look after (照顾) her. Three years later his mother died and he wanted to leave his village again and  {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (work) in other places. However, John couldn't. His father was ill. John decided{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (stay) at home and look after him. Every day he {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (do) many things for his father. Day by day, John became old. But he still didn't forget his dream to be a singer. Now he has lots of time so he plans to learn to sing at a music school.

    My name is Anna King and I come from a small town called Madison in Wyoming in the center of the USA. When I was twenty, I {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to the east coast (东海岸), to a town just south of New York, and started a(n){#blank#}2{#/blank#} in a big store. One day, a young man with short brown hair came to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in the store. He looked at {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and asked, "Are you Michelle Golden?"

    "No," I said. "But do you mean Michelle Golden from Madison?" He said yes. I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} him that I was at the same school with Michelle. She wasn't much older than me and people often said that we {#blank#}6{#/blank#}like each other. Then the young man told me that Michelle and he were in the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} history class at university (大学).

      Six months later, I got a better job with another big {#blank#}8{#/blank#}and moved to the west (西部的) coast to work in San Francisco. One day on my way home from work, a young man {#blank#}9{#/blank#} short brown hair saw me in the street and asked, "Are you Michelle Golden?"

    "No," I answered. "You asked me that when we {#blank#}10{#/blank#}in a store thousands of (数以千计的) kilometers away, near New York" Then both of us laughed.

    My classmates talked about the winter camp. Everyone was happy except (除……之外) me. I didn't {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to go skiing (滑雪) at all. I wanted to stay at home but my parents asked me to go.

    When arriving at the camp our coach (教练) asked us to ski I thought I skied {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

than others but I still didn't do a good job. Ha, Ha! behind me，someone started {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

 I looked back {#blank#}4{#/blank#}who was laughing at me. To my surprise, I saw a girl. She did as {#blank#}5{#/blank#}as me. "I thought I'd be bad at this, but it seems {#blank#}6{#/blank#}than I expected!" she said.

    The next day I didn't want {#blank#}7{#/blank#} skiing. But my coach chose me to be the first one to ski down the slope (斜坡).This time I {#blank#}8{#/blank#}I was flying and it was wonderful. After that I wasn't afraid anymore. And I didn't {#blank#}9{#/blank#}what other people thought of me. That day my coach said I skied the most beautifully of all.

    From this I learned that we should try our best {#blank#}10{#/blank#}every challenge (挑战).