“Cool” is a word with many meanings, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} As the world change, the word has many different meanings.
“Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car on the street, maybe you will say, “It's cool.” {#blank#}2{#/blank#} You can use “cool” instead of many words. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall(瀑布) they had visited.On one student's paper was just one sentence,“ It's so cool.”{#blank#}4{#/blank#} But the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏) of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I can. And I think they are also very cool.

    Jack is 15 years old. He wants to take his family—his parents and his sister Jessica out to lunch, so he wants to make money (挣钱) by helping his parents do some things.  

    Jack gets up at 6: 30, and then he cleans the house. At about 7: 00, he eats breakfast and then goes to school. He has four classes in the morning and three in the afternoon. At 5: 30, Jack goes home and he helps his mom buy food, or cleans the car for his father. Sometimes, his sister helps him. Jack has 95 dollars now.  He still (还) needs 55 dollars. He is very happy. When he takes his family out to lunch, he will pay the bill.  

    I once believed that a friend is a friend all the way. Now I have changed my ideas about friendships.

    1). Friends of convenience(便利). They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children's closest friends. Friends of convenience are good indeed. They'll help us when we need it. They'll look after our cats when we go on holidays. But we don't ever get too close or tell too much. Between us, we'll talk about being overweight but not about being sad or disappointed(失望). However, people still find it necessary to make friends like this.

    2). Special-interest friends. These friendships aren't deeply personal or emotional(感情上的). They lie in some shared interests, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.

    3). Historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when…maybe we were back in the second grade of primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown. He or she was the first, the only friend we told our secrets to.

    The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. But we're still a personal part of each other's past. We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened(矫正), and our getting together makes us think of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and never lost.

    4). Cross-generational friends. These are friendships that from across generations(代). I have in my own life a precious(珍贵的) friend, a woman of 65, who is clever, who listens well, and who means not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I'd like to be when I grow up.

    Best friends, I believe, totally love and help each other.

    ①If you don't have time to eat breakfast, why not take some money and get some on your way to school or work?

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} some food on the road if you have no time to eat breakfast at home.

    ②On New Year's Eve, people in Rome(罗马), Italy throw all the things they no longer want. You can find old chairs, beds, clothes and dishes...... everywhere in the streets.

    Throw {#blank#}2{#/blank#} things. You will see them here and there in Italy's streets on New Year's Eve.

    ③Our flat is not very big. There is a bedroom for my mother and father, one for me and one for my brother. There is a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. I like it very much.

    There are {#blank#}3{#/blank#}bedrooms in our flat. Although it is small, I like it very much.

    ④Before exams, I study very hard, too. I buy lots of books and do the exercises. I think if I practise more, I can do better.

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    ⑤Every Saturday and Sunday, she likes to spend time in a zoo nearby. She loves to watch the monkeys climbing around and the elephants giving a show.

    Amy likes spending time in the zoo. She usually gets there at {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and has fun with the animals there.

    There was a little boy called Peter. He lived in a village close to the sea. The villagers built seawalls to keep sea water from the doors of the houses. But once the sea walls almost put the village in great danger.

    One day, Peter was walking on his way back home along the sea wall when it began to rain. All of a sudden, he saw a hole in the wall, from which the sea water was running.

    Peter shouted for help because he knew the hole meant that the sea was making its way through the sea wall, but no answer came. He realized he should do something else as quickly as possible, of the sea water could be pouring over the whole village. He started to rush towards his village.

At the same time, the rain became heavier and heavier.

    It was getting dark, but Peter rushed on and on. He felt cold and hungry in the rainstorm, he fell down over and over again. Many times he thought about giving up, but he fought on.

    He remembered his father's words, "Lots of strong men have made every effort to build the walls which can keep the village safe from danger.

The sea walls are really important. "Finally, when the boy's father saw him. Peter had been black and blue all over. The boy told the villagers what had happened to the sea wall. They repaired it in time. "Thank God! He saved the village." They praised Peter. All the villagers called him "Peter the Guard" from then on. Peter's parents were really proud of him!