Dear Han Mei,

      Thank you for your letter. I  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  China very much. And I  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  to go to China with my parents. We want {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Beijing. I know something {#blank#}4{#/blank#} China from your letters. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. I don't know much about Chinese food. Could you tell    {#blank#}6{#/blank#} something about it?
I like  {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  and fish very much. You tell me you {#blank#}8{#/blank#} eat rice, vegetables and chicken.   And your {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  food is jioazi. What kind of food   {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  drink can I have in China? Please tell me.

      Learning English is not an easy job. Almost every student sometimes asks q{#blank#}1{#/blank#} like these: Can I really learn English well? Can I really learn it well e{#blank#}2{#/blank#} to talk with others?

      The answer is yes. From some studies we know that almost anyone can learn a foreign language well if he or she wants to. Some people might learn it f{#blank#}3{#/blank#} and some might learn it slower. But anyone can learn it well if he or she has the right w{#blank#}4{#/blank#}.

      Many students have their own special ways to learn English. Here are some e{#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

     Han Mei gets up early every morning and the first thing she does is to l{#blank#}6{#/blank#}to an English radio program(节目). This helps her a lot.

     Lin Tao often practises speaking English not only in c{#blank#}7{#/blank#} but also after class. At first he was very nervous. After trying several times, he found it was not as d{#blank#}8{#/blank#} as he thought. Now he speaks English b{#blank#}9{#/blank#} of all the students.

      Wang Bin likes to watch American m{#blank#}10{#/blank#}. If it is a good film, he will watch it many times. And he also likes to read English aloud. 

      There is nothing more i{#blank#}1{#/blank#} to life than the sun. W{#blank#}2{#/blank#} the sun, all living things on the earth would die. The sun is a star. In the sky there are t{#blank#}3{#/blank#} of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At night you can see many stars, but in the day you can o{#blank#}4{#/blank#} see one star-- the sun.

      The sun is much n{#blank#}5{#/blank#} to us than any other star. That is w{#blank#}6{#/blank#} it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance (距离) of the sun from the earth is as m{#blank#}7{#/blank#} as 150,000,000 kilometers. Most stars are thousands of light-years a{#blank#}8{#/blank#}from the earth.

      Do you know what a light-year is? N{#blank#}9{#/blank#} in the world travels faster than light. It travels 300,000 kilometers per second. And one light-year is the distance that light can travel in one y{#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

    I am a doctor. People often come to see me because they have colds or coughs. People {#blank#}1{#/blank#} come to see me because they are sad or nervous. Sometimes {#blank#}2{#/blank#} helps. Sometimes talking helps. But many doctors {#blank#}3{#/blank#} that music can help people feel better. I asked a few of my patients(病人) how music helps them. 

    "Sometimes I was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} when I was a child. My family said, 'Play your feelings on the piano!" Sometimes I play aloud {#blank#}5{#/blank#} on the piano. Soon I feel calm（平静的）. I can laugh and cry through my {#blank#}6{#/blank#} on the piano. It's natural for me. It's like breathing (呼吸）." "Listening to music helps me feel {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. I like to listen to music and dance when I {#blank#}8{#/blank#} my house." "I play the violin. I like playing at night {#blank#}9{#/blank#} it is quiet. After playing I am tired and I am happy. I always sleep {#blank#}10{#/blank#} after playing my violin." Are you a musician? Good! Keep playing. If you are not a musician, listen to music and sing or dance. It's good medicine.

    It was my first day at Grade 8. And the first lesson was {#blank#}1{#/blank#}English. When I was doing nothing, Mr. Li, our new English teacher, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} into the classroom. To my surprise, he held up a book, The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, and asked “Who{#blank#}3{#/blank#}it yet? “. I put my hand up, because Poe was my favorite writer. Mr. Li asked if I really understood what the author tried to say in his book. My reply made him smile, and he asked me{#blank#}4{#/blank#}an essay on that subject. Mr. Li said “You have a gift for writing, Tony.” After that, English classes became a new interest for me. And now I realize how{#blank#}5{#/blank#} English is.

    Tina and Vera are sisters. They live in a big city. Tina is not as old{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Vera. She is older than her. She thinks living in the city is much{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(interesting)than in the countryside. She likes the lights in her city. She thinks the lights in her city are the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(beautiful) in the world. She enjoys{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(read) and she reads{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(many)books than Vera.{#blank#}6{#/blank#}, Vera dislikes living in the city. She thinks living in the countryside{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(be) much better. She often{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(visit) her grandparents in the countryside and takes vacations there. She often takes walks{#blank#}9{#/blank#} supper. It makes her{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(feel) very relaxed.