The story is about two mice. They are friends. One mouse lives in the country. The other lives in the city. One day they meet each other. The one in the country says, “Come and have look at my house.” They come to a house in a field. The country mouse gives the city mouse nice food. But the city mouse says. “This food is not good. You must come and live with me in the city.”

    So they go to the house of the city mouse. It is a very good house. Nice food is ready (准备）for them to eat. But just when they begin to eat, they hear a great noise. “Run! Run! The cat is coming!” the two friends run away quickly. After some time, they go out. The country mouse says to the city mouse, “I don't like to live in the city. It's dangerous.”

    I'm Tony. I'm a boy. I live in a big house with my family. I have a sister and a brother. My sister likes to draw pictures and sing. My brother likes to play football. We all go to school by bus. My mother works in a hospital. She is a doctor. My father has a farm. The farm is very big. We like to go for a walk together. I love my family.

    Joe is my pen pal. He is 12 years old. He is from Australia. He lives in Sydney. He likes Chinese. He likes reading Chinese books. His favourite food is Chinese food, too. Every week, he studies Chinese. He loves China. On the weekends, he usually does word puzzles and play football. He is an interesting boy.

Jacky's Timetable for Saturday

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The Twin's Birthday

    Today is the twins' birthday. They are twelve. Jim, Mike, Kate and Bill are the twins' friends. They want to buy some things for them. There is a big shop near their school. It sells a lot of things. From the shop people can buy some food, some drink and some school things, like cakes, apples, milk, oranges, hamburgers, exercise books and so on. The shop closes very late. So they can buy things on their way home. They buy a big cake, two boxes of colour pencils, an orange yo-yo (溜溜球) and some nice exercise books. They want to buy two dolls and two toy trains for the twins. But all the dolls and toys are too expensive.

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