My name is Bill. I'm from England. I am a worker. I work in a clothes shop. My wife , Ann, is a teacher. She teaches English in a junior high school. We have two kids: a son and a daughter. They are students. Jim is our son. Now he is in his favorite T-shirt and blue pants. Sally is our daughter. She likes blue very much. Now she is in her blue dress. My father's name is Robby. My mother's name is Diana. They are old and they don't work now. I have a brother. His name is Robert. He is a worker, too. My wife's father is Sam. Her mother's name is Rose. Her sister is Lily. She is a teacher, too.

    As a volunteer teacher, I traveled a long way to a small village school in Longzhou, Guangxi. On my way there, I thought about the village, the school, and the children there. However, my heart sank when I arrived there. It wasn't what I expected. It didn't look like a school at all! The school had only three rooms, one for Grades 1, 2 and 3, and the other for Grades 4, 5 and 6. There was a third one for me.

    The children welcomed me warmly on my first day. They asked me a lot of questions, and I told them stories about myself and my life in Beijing. The next day, I gave them a test to find out their level（水平）. To my surprise, though the test was very easy, over half of the students couldn't pass it. I knew they needed me.

    I was busy preparing lessons, reading test papers every night. I enjoyed teaching these lovely and hard-working children, and I could see that they were making progress with my help. I have also learned a lot from them. I understand their lives better, and we are now good friends.

    I have worked in Longzhou for a year now. I'm happy, and the experience has been very useful for me. I love the small village and the children. In fact, I would like to continue working here.

    Hi, everyone! My name is Guo Ailun. And my English name is Allen. I come from Liaoning, China. I'm 22 years old, and I look really tall and strong. I'm a basketball player. I love basketball very much and I play it quite well.

    My uncle was a great basketball player in the national team (国家队) in the past and my father loves basketball too. So I started to play basketball early. And I began to play for our country as a player when I was only 14. Basketball is my favourite sport. I play it every day. It makes me happy.

    Tony Parker is my favourite basketball player in NBA. I want to be a member of NBA and play with Parker some day. I hope my dream comes true.

    Do you want to be a basketball player like me? Then you must play it hard.

A: Hey, did you hear the news? The Zhengzhou—Xuchang subway has opened!

B: No, I didn't. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}?

A: It started at 6 a. m. on December 26th.

B: Good news! I plan to take it. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}?

A: There are 27 stations in total on this line, covering both Zhengzhou and Xuchang.

B: It's a really convenient way to travel between the two cities.

A: {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. It not only improves transportation, but also is good for the trade.

B: I'm just going to visit Henan Museum in Zhengzhou this weekend. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}?

A: Of course. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}?

B: How about 9 a. m. at the gate of the station? This is going to be such an exciting experience.

Hi, My name is John Walsh. I'm1 Alberta. Do you know where Albert a is?2 a beautiful place in Canada. I'm a Grade Seven student. There are about 20 students in my class. My3 are very nice. They are11 to 12 years old. We all like4 . And our favorite sport is basketball. We often 5 it after school. It helps to keep us healthy and it's6 . My classmates and I want to make some pen friends. 

We want to 7 about books, sports and things at school with you. You can write to us at777friends@gmail. com. In your8 , please tell us about you. How old are you?9 do you come from? What's your favorite thing to do? And you can also ask us 10 . We are happy to tell you things about us. We hope (希望) to get your e- mail soon!

① ChatGPT, a smart AI chatbot（聊天机器人）tool, has swept the education world in the past months. According to a US survey of more than 1, 000 students, over89 percent of them have used ChatGPT to help with their homework. 

② Some schools in the US, Australia and France have banned（禁止）the use of ChatGPT. In the US, for example, New York City public schools banned students and teachers from using ChatGPT on the district's networks. 

③The move comes out of worries that the tool could make it easier for students to cheat on homework. Some also worry that ChatGPT could be used to spread incorrect information. 

④Besides bans, teachers are making changes to their classes to avoid the use of ChatGPT. Some college teachers in the US try to include more speaking exams and handwritten papers instead of typed ones. 

⑤ However, not all educators say "no" to ChatGPT. Some Canadian universities are making laws on its use, for both students and teachers. They have no plans to completely ban the tool so far. 

⑥ Bhaskar Vira from the University of Cambridge, said that bans on AI software like ChatGPT are not sensible（明智的）. "We have to know that AI is a tool people will use. What we need to do is to' adapt our learning, teaching and examinations'. That way, we can be honest while using of the tool".