My name is Wang Hua. I have a new friend. Her name is Linlin. She lives in New York. Linlin is eleven years. She likes playing ping-pong. My hobby is playing ping-pong, too. She often goes goes to school by bus. Her mother is a doctor. She goes to work on foot. Her father is a teacher. He goes to work by car. Every evening Linlin does her homework. Her mother watches TV and her father reads newspaper. Linlin will come to China soon. She is in the UK now.

Jack wrote a report about the plants he learned.

    Today, we learned about t{#blank#}1{#/blank#} different trees. They are a mango tree, a banana tree and a peach tree.

    The peach tree grows for 10 years. It is o{#blank#}2{#/blank#} than both the mango tree and the banana tree.

    The banana tree is 2 metres t {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. It is t{#blank#}4{#/blank#} than the mango tree but s{#blank#}5{#/blank#} than the peach tree, so the peach tree is the t{#blank#}6{#/blank#}.

    How h{#blank#}7{#/blank#} is the peach tree? Oh, it is 150 kiIograms. It is h {#blank#}8{#/blank#} than the mango tree and the banana tree. It is the h{#blank#}9{#/blank#}.

    Look at the mango tree and the banana tree. They are the same age. Which is s{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(更强壮的)?

    My name is Lucy. I want a new friend. He /She should be the same as me. I can speak English and Chinese. I can sing English songs. I can dance. I can swim. I can cook. I can play ping-pong. I can't do any kung fu. But I can play the pipa. What can you do? Please send me an email at Lucy@ urfriend.com.

    I'm Tom. I'm a healthy boy. I play sports every day when I come back from school. My habits(习惯) are very good. I try to eat a lot of vegetables. I eat fruits and drink milk every day. I never drink coffee. Of course, I like junk food. But I seldom(很少) eat it. Oh, I sleep nine hours every night. So I do well in my study. Good food and exercise help me study well.

    I like to paint on T-shirts in my spare time. I often paint after finishing my homework. I got this idea two years ago for my brother's birthday gift.

    I wanted a special T-shirt for my brother's birthday gift, but the shop wanted $20 for a special design(设计)on a T-shirt, so I decided to do it myself. I bought a white cotton T-shirt and some paints, and I painted a lion in the front. It only cost (花费)$6.

    When I gave it to my brother on his birthday, he loved it very much. You needn't be a great artist, and you can just paint simple things. The T-shirts are the most expensive part of my hobby. And you need to buy good-quality(质量) brushes. I love my hobby because I can make T-shirts that no one else has. I give a lot of them away as presents to my family members and friends. They love them very much.

Americans think much about time. From children they learn to value (珍惜) time. As children they are taught to be on time to go to school, to work and to do everything. When they are having a good time, they say that time flies. When a person is dying (垂死的), they say he is living on borrowed time.

Time is money. Time is knowledge (知识). Time is everything in America. A working American has to work hard for eight hours a day or forty hours a week. This is the working time. In his spare (空闲的) time, he also works hard for more money. Even on Saturday or Sunday he also works hard as usual. In the street you can not see that a man walks slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they are running. They love time because time can bring them money and a lot of things. But sometimes they also hate time, because they feel that they have become servants (仆人) of the clock.