My name is Lisa and I am 12. Now I am in the 1 club. This is because my best friend Anna. She is the same age as me. She is from Canada (加拿大). 2 is thin (瘦的) but not very tall.

    I 3 Ann on our first day at our new school. No one says to me and I am not 4. I find a seat on the school bus and sit there. Then, I see a 5 and she sits next to me. She is Anna!

    She asks me, “6 are you not happy?”

    I 7 her, “No one likes me here.”

 “I see. No one likes me, too. I am new,” she says to me.

    Anna is the only one who says to 8 on the school bus. That's why we become friends.

    Now, Anna is my best friend. She is very kind, 9 she can sing and draw very well. I 10 the art club with her. We go to the club on the weekend. I am very happy to know Anna.

    What will life be like in 2050? It's difficult to   1 . In the year 2050 everyone will have a   2at home. The computer will show people many things. There will  3  be machines in the future. They can do lots of things  4   people. Then people will work only two or three days in  5   week.

    Now let me tell you about my    6   in 2050. In the morning, robots are going to cook breakfast for me. Then I'm going to  7  to work. I can get to my office in my car soon. I'm going to 8 my work in three hours. In the afternoon, I will go home and talk with my friends through a cell phone. I can talk with 9at the same (同一的) time. In the evening, I'm going to fly to another (另一个) city and have   10 with my parents. It is Sunday tomorrow. I am going to fly to the moon to spend my weekend.

ABADA    BACAD

    Mr Green is a teacher. He 1 from America. He is a tall man 2 a pair of glasses. He now works in a middle school in our city. He has fifty students. He often says his class is too big and it is difficult for him to 3 with every student in English. He is strict 4his students' studies. He often encourages his students 5 hard. He enjoys drinking black tea and green tea. He likes Chinese food very much 6 He doesn't like drinking milk. He likes playing football, but he 7well in it. His son and I are in 8 class.9 name is Jim.  We are10 We often study and play together.

Run for Class President

    Two months ago, when our class election (选举) started, I decided to run for class president. I enjoyed speaking in public and got along well with people, so I felt it easy to win. But I was 1 that people would feel bad for me if I lost.

    I was busy preparing in the following week. My plan wasn't to make promises to do things I couldn't 2 but to show my class why I wanted to be president. I put up my posters in hallways and in the classroom. I also spent three hours writing my speech, saying that I was the one they could turn to whenever they had a problem. Since I was 3 prepared, I felt that my chances of winning were strong.

    However, when I gave my speech on Election Day, the response (反应) wasn't what I had 4. Few people actually listened. When it was my opponent's (对手的) turn, everyone was screaming his name. His speech was short, but all to the point. By then, I realized I should have made mine shorter and clearer.

    It was obvious who would 5. For the rest of the day, I felt like it was over. I wanted to just go home and cry, but I made it through.

    My 6 was right: I didn't win.

    The next day, people were still talking about the election. I just pretended (假装) not to hear. But later, things got better. People 7 about the election and talked to me just as they did before.

    I don't regret putting time and energy into the election because I've learned that things aren't always going the way I expect. And moments of failure like this build 8—since then I've learned to face disappointment and grown stronger.

    Children love their parents, but I didn't get on well with my parents before. I hardly talked to my parents, because they liked to 1 me with my sister. And that made me unhappy. I sometimes argued 2 them for that.

    However, I wanted to show them that I could do things as well as my sister. Then I began to spend most of my free time painting in my bedroom. Luckily, my art teacher, Miss Green, 3 to help me a lot. She taught me some drawing 4 to improve my painting. She was the only person I would like to talk with.

    One day, I told Miss Green about my problem. She encouraged me to enter a painting competition. In her mind，the best way to communicate with my parents was to prove（证明）5. I took her advice.

    Several days later, Miss Green told me the result. I was very happy and excited 6 I won the first prize! My parents were very 7 and I could see that they were very happy. And they began to care more about me. Now 8 between my parents and me have become very good. And I think it's very important to have someone to talk with.