Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Paper was first created about 2, 000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}But in those days, books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there weren't many books, few people learned to read.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 players.

    Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}No, I don't think the poster about Yao Ming on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a two-metre-high computer!

    Bill and Cathy wanted to go on a holiday. They chose a place called Maldives（马尔代夫）. And they decided {#blank#}1{#/blank#} there for two weeks in spring，because the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} there was perfect at that time. They thought they would have a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} trip. But their tip was more like a nightmare（噩梦）!

    The plane {#blank#}4{#/blank#} off twelve hours later because of the bad weather. And they couldn't fly to Maldives {#blank#}5{#/blank#} there was a storm. They had to fly to the capital city instead. There they stayed in a small hotel near the airport.

    The hotel was next to the sea, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the sea was so dirty that they couldn't swim in it. The food in the hotel was awful, too. For breakfast there {#blank#}7{#/blank#} only bread and milk! Because of the bad weather, they had to stay {#blank#}8{#/blank#} another night in the small hotel. And they had {#blank#}9{#/blank#} to do. It was so boring. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} , they arrived in Maldives three days later. And someone told them the weather there had been wonderful all the time!

Hi, I am Mary. Here is a box, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} some things for my family are in it. This is  a yellow eraser. It's my brother's. Is this black pencil {#blank#}2{#/blank#} his? Yes, it is. He often{#blank#}3{#/blank#} some nice pictures with it.

Look! This is the key to our house. I {#blank#}4{#/blank#} it yesterday. Luckily, I found it with the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of Ms. Lin. Look at the notebooks. Are these {#blank#}6{#/blank#}? No, they' re not. They' re my classmate Tom's. I borrowed them from him last night. Can you {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the watch? Whose watch is it? Yes, it's {#blank#}8{#/blank#} my father, because his birthday is coming. I think he will be {#blank#}9{#/blank#} when he gets the gift. What's that? It's a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. I usually use it to look up some new words.

 We often say," A friend in need is a friend indeed." Here is a good example. Once there were two good1 — Tom and Jack. One day, Tom wanted to borrow some 2 to build a factory. He went to the bank and the clerk said he should first3 a warrantor(担保人). Tom told Jack about it and Jack s a id he would like to help him. Unluckily, Tom did4 in his business. Finally, he had to close t h e5 and left his city without telling anyone. When the bank couldn't find Tom, they wanted Jack to pay off(还清) the money for Tam. Jack felt very 6 because he didn't earn much. So Jack 7 his house and moved to live with his parents. But he know Tom would return one day.

 Ten years later, Tom returned from Canada. He began to8 when he saw Jack. Tom said with tears in his 9 that he would give the money back to Jack, but Jack didn't accept.

"I have my own house now. I know you were in 10 trouble at that time. As good friends, we should help each other. Is it right?"

It's always a good thing to have a hobby. For Miss Patty, a school bus driver in Erie County, her hobby of knitting (编织) has made her really touch the community (社区). 

Miss Patty always wanted to do something with her free time to help the students. After a talk with one of the students, things took a turn from knitting one hat to knitting more hats. 

"The one boy gets on the bus, and he asks 'what are you doing?', I said, ‘I'm making a hat. 'He said, 'That would be great fun having such a warm hat in icy winter. 'So I said, 'What color would you like? That started everything, " Miss Patty told the local newspaper. 

Miss Patty has already knitted 7, 083 hats for students in her free time. Sometimes she will get the student's favourite color before she begins the project. 

What is more moving is that Miss Patty buys all the materials (材料) using her own money. Some people do give her gift cards around the holidays to help, but she still puts out a lot of her own money. 

Along with making hats for the students that will keep them warm, Miss Patty also gets praise (表扬) for being a trusted (可信的) friend to the students.