Many people can speak one or two languages, but 10-year-old Arthur can s peak many languages. He can speak English, Hindi, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Thai and Polish. Arthur is from Sydney, and he gets his skills (技能) from his parents. He also learns from DVDs by himself. Now Arthur is learning Luganda. It's a language of a country in Africa. Arthur says languages and music are his favourites at school. Arthur hopes his language skills can help him when he grows up (长大). He wants to be a doctor and go around the world to help people.

      A few years ago, the company I worked for sent my wife and me to live in New York for a year. I've always loved running, so I was happy when I found out the house we lived in was next to Central Park. This means I could go to the park to run every morning before I went to work.

      A lot of people had told me to be careful of robbers in the park, so usually I didn't take any money with me. But one morning, my wife gave me a $10 bill and asked me to buy some bread on the way.

      While I was running through the park, another runner knocked into me. Just as I was wondering what was happening, he said sorry to me and went on running. I thought it was kind of strange, and suddenly I thought of my money, so I checked my pocket and found that my money was missing. Without thinking twice, I ran after that runner. The minute I held him by the arm, I shouted, “Give my money back! Now!” I'm not usually a hot-headed person, but I got really angry this time. He seemed to be afraid and he took out the money and gave it to me. Then he ran away as quickly as he could.

      I bought the bread and went home. As soon as I got home, I began to tell my wife my story. “You won't believe what happened to me.” I started. She immediately stopped me, “I know, you left the money for the bread on the kitchen table.”

Betty collected a basket of seashells. She showed them to Amy." Look! They are all1 . These are big, and those are small. Some look like beautiful animals… Well, I can use them to make a birthday present for my Dad! How wonderful!"

Suddenly, Amy saw the sea water rising along the beach. She was 2 and cried," The waves! They will take your toys!"

" Put my seashells onto the bus, Amy!" Betty ra n 3 to get her toys.

Just when Amy was about to get the basket onto the bus, she fell down and the shells4 into pieces.

When Betty 5 , she saw the pieces and cried. Amy tried to tell her what happened, but Betty still looked 6 and didn't talk to Amy. Amy didn't know what to do, so she took them home.

The next morning at school, Amy found Betty on her 7 . She walked over to her desk and took out a frame(框) and a bag of seashells." Betty, I 8 some nice seashell pieces from the broken ones last night. Shall we glue(粘) them to the frame together? We can put a( an) 9 of your family in it. It will be a wonderful present." Amy said. Betty agreed. Together they made a beautiful frame.

" Sorry, I wasn't careful yesterday, Betty." Amy said."I know the shells are 10 to you."

"I should also say‘ sorry' to you. I like them, but you' re my best friend." Betty smiled.

Mrs Brown is from London, England. But she likes working in China. She says all her students work very hard( 努力地) and they are very friendly. She loves them very much. And the students love her, too. 

Mrs Brown has a son and a daughter. Her son's name is Jack. He is ten. Her daughter's name is Sue. She is seven years old. They study in China. They have classes from Monday to Friday. They like their school very much. On Saturday and Sunday, they often go shopping or play sports. Sometimes they help their mother with some housework. 

They have a happy family. 

In southwest China's Chongqing, more subway lines are travelling out to the rural areas around the city, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(special) Line 4 Known {#blank#}2{#/blank#}the "Vegetable Basket Line", Line 4 connects the city's northeast Shichuan town with the city center. Since its opening in since 2022, it {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (offer) local farmers near the town more ways to sell their vegetables. The vegetables used to be cheap in the town, but now they can {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (sell) at higher prices in the city. 

Every morning around 6 o'clock, the Shichuan town station is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (crowd)with farmers. They carry baskets filled with fresh vegetables on their {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (back), or us shoulder poles(杆) to carry the baskets. The station used to open at 6:15 am. Now it {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (open)five minutes earlier every day because the workers don't want the farmers to wait outside for too long. 

In Chongqing, people {#blank#}8{#/blank#} are over the age of 65 can take the subway for free. The opening of this subway line helps the elderly not only save money but also save time. According to an elderly couple, it used to take {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (they) more than one hour to reach the city center as they had to take several buses. Now, by taking the subway, they can get there in less than 30 minutes. And they can sell all their vegetables in less than three hours {#blank#}10{#/blank#}arriving at the market.