Sally is a good girl. She never {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  up late. Her mother wakes her up（唤醒）at 6:00 a.m. From a quarter {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  six, she begins to do sports. The she comes back and has {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  at six forty. After that, she goes to school. Sometimes she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} her bike.
At school, Sally has seven classes on {#blank#}5{#/blank#} . Sally is good at（擅长）English. She san speak English very well. After school she often plays {#blank#}6{#/blank#}  games with her {#blank#}7{#/blank#} . Then she goes home by bus. She gets home before 6:00 p.m.. After
{#blank#}8{#/blank#}  she begins to do her {#blank#}9{#/blank#} . Then she {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  TV for a while, she always goes to bed before half past ten.

The verb “chat” means to talk (to someone) in a friendly, informal (非正式的) way. Today there are many{#blank#}1{#/blank#} on the Internet where you can chat. You can chat with people all over the world, in many languages and about many subjects. These places are {#blank#}2{#/blank#} called “chat room”. Sometimes you need to register (注册) to enter a chat room. This means that you need to offer a usename (用户名) and possibly your e-mail {#blank#}3{#/blank#} .Your usename doesn't have to be your {#blank#}4{#/blank#} name. It can be any name you want. When you have your username, other people in the chat room will call you by that name and{#blank#}5{#/blank#} else can use it.
Chatting is a good way to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} your informal English, Messages in a chat room are usually short sentences. Sometimes{#blank#}7{#/blank#} are not even sentences, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} just a few words that are not really grammatically (语法) correct. It's a typical way in which we {#blank#}9{#/blank#} in a quick conversation with friends. To save time, people often use abbreviations (缩写形式) like TTYL (talk to you later) or IDK (I don't know). So don't go to a chat room to practice “perfect English”. Go to a chat room to practice informal English and find new {#blank#}10{#/blank#} You can even use a chat room to help improve your typing skills if you want.

    Many people like to watch TV. Watching TV is one of the most important {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (activity) of the day. TV brings the outside world closer to people's homes. Some people say the world is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (small) than before because of TV.

    What's going on in {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (other) countries? How do people live in places far away? Is there a good sports game somewhere? What's living in the deepest part {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the sea?

    If you want {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (answer) these and other kinds of questions, just turn {#blank#}6{#/blank#} TV. You can see a lot and learn a lot. Of course, people can also learn through reading or {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (listen) to the radio. But with TV they can learn better and more easily.Why? Because they can {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (hear) and watch, too.

    TV helps to open up our eyes. TV also helps to open up our minds. TV often gives {#blank#}9{#/blank#} new ideas. We learn that {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (new) and better ways of doing something can be learned on TV.

    I'm Zhao Kai, a student at Hongxing Middle School. The new term begins and I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a new friend at school. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} name is Alice Green. She is a(an) {#blank#}3{#/blank#} girl. She comes to China with her parents. She isn't heavy or thin. She is of medium {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. She is tall with big blue eyes and short brown hair. She usually {#blank#}5{#/blank#} glasses in class, because she is a little nearsighted.

    Alice and I are in the same class, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} we go home together after school. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the way home, we talk about many things. She often {#blank#}8{#/blank#} her hometown(家乡)—New York to me. And she invites(邀请) me to visit it. She enjoys music and {#blank#}9{#/blank#} singing hard every evening. So do you know what her dream is? She wants to be a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. She also likes watching movies and her favorite actress is Gillian Anderson.

    My family is {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(计划) a journey to China in the winter. Our first {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(选择) is to visit Beijing, one of the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(大) places in the world.. So we need to {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(预订) the plane tickets. To tell you the truth, we like going by train{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (好) . But we think it is too slow and it {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(花费) much time. Though going by plane is more{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(昂贵的)，it goes{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(快) and saves time. Some people may think it's not {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(安全) , but our family all{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(赞同)it's our favorite way to travel.