Do you know He Jiong? Lots of young people in our country know him and the programme Happy Camp.

    He Jiong was born in 1974. When He Jiong was in the high school, he was famous as a radio host(主持人). In 1990, he worked for Hunan Economy(经济) Radio. He began to study in Beijing Foreign Language University in 1992. After graduation in 1997, he worked in the university as a teacher. In 1998, he began to host a programme on Hunan TV. It's called Happy Camp. Stars from all over the country come to this programme. They tell their stories or play games with the viewers(观众). The programme is so popular that it wins many prizes.

    I felt very sad not to be able to get the ticket to the film Titanic last Friday. I learned in the newspaper that tickets could be bought at the cinema box office in Richland Hills every day between 10：00 a.m. and 4：00 p.m. Because I work from 9：00 a.m.to 5：30 p.m., the only time I could go to the cinema was during my 45-minute lunch time. It is a pity that the cinema is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round(往返)trip in 45 minutes.

    Last Monday I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes, waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one coming around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip-so I had to go back to the office. The same thing happened on Wednesday. On Thursday my luck changed, I got on a bus right away and arrived at the cinema in twenty minutes. But when I got there, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for fifty-five minutes. I found that I would not have enough time to wait in line. I caught the next bus and went back across the town.

    Then on Friday I understood my only hope was to make the trip by car. It was not cheap, but I felt it would be worthwhile to see the film. The trip by car only took 10 minutes, but it felt like one hour to me. When I reached the cinema, I was delighted to see that nobody was waiting in line. But I quickly found out that it was because they had already sold out all the tickets.

At Haiga Primary School in Liupanshui, Guizhou Province, Gu Ya, a 27-year-old rock singer, works1 a volunteer teacher who helps children in mountainous areas learn to read music and play the guitar, opening up their eyes to the outside world.

When he got there, he found the school was in2 condition and there were only 12students.3 of the kids were too shy to look at him. As time went by, Gu4 realized that they were lonely because their parents mostly worked in big cities. The headmaster of the school told him that they had to5 not only children's studies and lives, but also their mental state(精神状态), helping them learn to dream and be more confident.

One day, while Gu was playing the guitar during lunch break in his room, he noticed that the children who6 behind the door were staring at his guitar. At that moment, Gu felt like he was making a connection with the children through music, so the idea to teach7 guitar and music came to him. "I know the8 of music. Although I don 't know children very well, music can build a mutual (互相的) understanding and trust between us,"Gu said.

The school's headmaster and teachers tried hard to borrow guitars9 the children could learn music. "To my surprise, the children learn very quickly. They have changed a lot so far. It is the old10 that brings new life to Haiga Primary school," Gu said.

In 1826, a Frenchman named Nieple needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.

The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. The kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype. Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all over the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains.

In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard.

Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were life like. 

Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed the author's ideas and feelings, like other kinds of art.

Dear Aunt Petra,

I'm writing to tell you about the great time we had last weekend. I think mom told you we were going to Manchester on Saturday. Well  , we went to see a football game there, because the team (队) of Manchester United was playing with the team of Liverpool. My father didn't go, because he doesn't like the two teams; he likes Chelsca and Arsenal. I really enjoyed the game but unluckily Liverpool lost the game. The game was 2-0 to Manchester United.

 On Sunday, the weather was not that good, but we still spent the day looking around the city. We got lost because we didn't have a map. It wasn'ta big problem because we asked a policeman for help and he showed us where to go . We visited the Lowry Museum. There are some interesting paintings. And they are from a well- known painter named LS Lowry. There is a picture of one of his paintings in the letter(信) , Hope you like it.

 Yours,

 Jamie