One day town mouse Mike went to visit his cousin Tom in the countryside. Mike lived a rich life and he loved his cousin a lot. Tom was 1 but he loved his town cousin, too. So he made his cousin Mike very welcome.

    For dinner that night Tom took out 2 he had: water and potatoes. Mike said, "Cousin, how can you eat food 3 this, but of course you can't expect anything better in the countryside! Come with me and I' 11 show you how to 4 in the big beautiful town."

    The two mice set off (出发) for the town and 5 the Town Mouse' s home late at night. "Let's have something to eat and drink after 6 long trip," said the Town Mouse. They went into a big dining room. There the two mice had fruit, meat and cakes and drank milk and juice.

    Then they 7 a loud noise (响声). "What's that?" asked Tom. "It is only the dogs of the house," answered Mike. "Only?" said Tom. "I don't like that 8 at my dinner."

    At that time two large dogs came in the dining room. The two mice ran away 9 and hid (隐藏) under a chair.

    "Goodbye, Cousin," said Tom.

    "What? Are you 10 so soon?" said the other.

    "Yes," Tom answered. "I think it's better to enjoy my potatoes at home than meat here."

    When we talk about the universe, we mean not only the sun, the earth, the starts, but also the moon. Do you know1 about the moon? The moon is smaller than the earth, but the sun is much bigger than the earth. The moon is2 from the earth. It's 380,000 kilometers away. On the earth we see that the moon3 like a cake. It is round. There is4 air or water on the moon, so there is no living5 there. The side of the moon towards (朝，向)the sun is very hot, while the other side is very6. People can jump7 on the moon than on the earth and we can walk very8 there. It takes more than three days to get to the moon9spaceship (宇宙飞船). Now some countries including10 can fly to the moon. I'm sure we can go to the moon in the future one day.

    A group of frogs were traveling through the forest, but unluckily two of them fell into a hole. The other frogs tried to help them. When they saw how 1 the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could not be saved. The two frogs didn't 2 and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other frogs 3 saying that they were sure to die. 4, one of the two frogs, who heard what the other frogs were saying, 5. Then he fell down and died.

    The other frog, however, 6 to jump as hard as he could, and at last made it out. When he 7, the other frogs asked, "Didn't you hear us?" The frog, who had a poor 8, explained, "I thought you were encouraging me all the time. "

    The story teaches us a 9：There is power(力量) of live and death in the tongue. An 10 word to those who are down can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.

    Last year I was very lucky to have a week's holiday. So I wanted to spend 1 in the best hotel I could find. That was 2 I chose The Haven in a country park. I thought I would be able to escape problems and pressures of daily life. But, just 24 hours after arriving there, my wife and I 3 problems with the restaurant and security.

    We were ready to return to our room when we saw two policemen 4  closely at the building outside. One of them showed us how 5 in through the windows into our room. It seems that the hotel has no locks on the windows. 6 we were a little worried, our concerns were forgotten 7 when we saw a good-sized bed, a flat-screen TV, a spa bath which more suggested a comfortable stay.

    Things started to go from bad to worse the following morning when I found the restaurant only served low-fat meals: six days of rabbit food and only 8 meat and fruit. What had I let myself in for? Nobody had told us what the food 9 like before we booked. I ordered my breakfast 10 my will anyway, but I had waited forty-five minutes for it to arrive. This was not the service 11 I had expected.

    That afternoon, when we returned from a tour around 12 university nearby, we found that nearly £200 13 from our room. The Haven refused to pay back the money. They claimed that they 14 not be responsible for any loss if our window was not locked.

    My holiday was then a total failure. I thought a "haven" was sure to be a quiet and peaceful place. But in fact, I have experienced 15 stress and worry in that one day than I usually do working in the office for a week.

Today is my birthday. I'm 16 years old. I'm not a little boy running in the hallways(走廊) at school. I wanted to know who would 1 my birthday. I really wanted to have a birthday cake because I wanted to 2 .But I got up and found my 3 didn't do anything. My father was 4 a newspaper on the sofa. My mother went out to buy some things for lunch. I5 my computer and went online. There were just some people online. No one said 6 about my birthday. After thirty7 , my mum came back. She went into the8 and cooked. It seemed that the world forgot me and I wasn't9 at all. I said to myself, "You are 16 now. You're not a child. Forget your birthday."

But when I was doing my maths homework, my 10 came to me and asked, "What kind of cake do you want?"11 a surprise(惊喜)! At that time, I didn't know12 to say. I chose a chocolate cake in the end. I knew that the whole world may forget me,13 my mum wouldn't.

Also, when I went online in the evening, I talked to my friends. Many of them said happy birthday to14 . And my phone was full of text messages(短信)saying"Happy birthday".

It was a(n) 15 day after all!

Hello, I'm Tom.  I come from Cuba (古巴), but recently I moved to China.  I started a new school life here.  It was a big change for me because the school life in China is quite different from that in Cuba. 

School in China starts at 8:00 a. m.  and ends at 4:00 p. m.  The new school is much better than my old school in Cuba.  For example, it is bigger and more beautiful than my old one.  I thought that I might be lost in the first week.  Luckily my new classmate Wang Lei is very friendly.  He showed me around the school.  He is my good friend now.  We always study and eat together.  We go to the canteen for lunch.  The cooks in the canteen cook various (多样的) traditional (传统的) Chinese foods.  They are very delicious.  I hope that one day I can also learn to cook Chinese dishes. 

In China, we don't have so much homework to do every day.  After school, I only have to do my homework for about twenty minutes.  I can go to sleep early.  It's good for my health. 

I start enjoying my school life here.  I am always having so much fun!