Dear Ricky,
How are you {#blank#}1{#/blank#} on? Thanks very much for sending me the pictures and the English reading materials. From the pictures I can {#blank#}2{#/blank#} that your school looks very beautiful. The reading materials are very useful and {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. I can learn a lot from them. Some stories are so interesting that I like them very much.
Now I don't have {#blank#}4{#/blank#} time for my hobbies. I am busy getting ready for the coming exams. I'm working hard at all my lessons because I want {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a better result.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours,
Wu Ming

E．Finally a good chance came．
F．They are all very delicious．

    Each day in the United States, one person uses about 575 litres (公升) of water. In Japan, one person uses about 374 litres of water. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in Kenya, one person uses only about 20 litres.

    Tomoyuki Tsutsui and Keitaro Kakoi are {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (Japan) university students. They raised money online to help people in Kenya. They wanted {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (they) to drink clean water. Tsutsui lives in Kisumu, Kenya. He lives in a house without running water, also {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (call) tap water. He knows {#blank#}5{#/blank#} difficult it is to live with little water. Most people cannot have water {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (easy) because there is no tap water in their houses. So, it's hard {#blank#}7{#/blank#} them to get water. They carry a tank (箱) of 20 litres three {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (time) a week. It is very heavy.

    Some residents (居民) can't go to northern Kisumu for water because it is too far. They must use rainwater or buy it from the shop.

    Tsutsui and Kakoi have a lot of money {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (solve) these problems now. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} company is laying a water pipe from northern Kisumu. When they finish the work, the residents of southern Kisumu will get water without travelling a long way.

    My seventh grade English teacher was named Mr. Forest. He had dark hair and a bushy(浓密的) beard. All of the student liked him because he picked out really good stories for us{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(read) in class. Well, we all liked him until he{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (return) our graded homework.

    When he gave back my paper, it looked like it{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(cover) in blood. He{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (check) everything and made comments with a red pen .There were so many marks and comments that you couldn't even tell what I had written. Mr. Forest wanted me{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(fix) everything.

    At that time, I was sure Mr. Forest didn't understand anything about being in the seventh grade. Why was he was strict with us? It seemed unfair! When I got older, though, I realized I was getting fewer and fewer of those red marks in my homework. By the time I got to high school, I was already a pretty good writer.

    Now I am a teacher and I put red marks of my own on students" papers. I don't understand their problems. But I do it so that my students can be the best.

    {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (learn)is like building a house. If you don't have strong bricks on the bottom, the home{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(stand). If Mr. Forest had not been so strict with me with his red pen, I wouldn't be who I am today.