Mike and Peter are good friends. They are students. Mike's birthday is in the eleventh month of the year. Peter's birthday is on October 1st. Mike likes playing basketball, but Peter likes playing soccer. Mike often wears spots shoes to play basketball. He likes white spots shoes. Mike's birthday is coming. Peter goes to a sports store with his friend, Bill. At last, they buy a pair of white sports shoes for Mike. When Mike sees the shoes, he is very happy.

Personal Information of Teachers

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Jane Birch is from America. She can speak5 languages and has been to 14 countries. She is very popular with students and has many ways of learning foreign languages.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Daisy Chambers, a smart lady, is good at playing the piano. She has been learning it for ten years. Amazingly, she learns it all by herself. Many students are her fans.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Rod White is a creative teacher and inventor. He believes that invention is for every one and everyone can be an inventor. In his class, students find it great fun to do scientific experiments.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Emily Roy has written many stories. Students love reading her books. She always recommends good books to her students. She plans to write a book to share how reading changes her life.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Lewis Nichols is an excellent swimmer. He takes part in the winter swimming competition every year. He thinks that swimming in cold water builds up not only his body but also his will.

    Mark and Betty are brother and sister. They love to play on the1. They think it's very2to play there. They go to the beach by3every weekend. They live far away from the beach, so their father usually4about two hours driving them there.

    Last Sunday their father was very5and couldn't send them to the beach. Mark and Betty6very bored at home. They thought they must solve (解决) the7quickly.

    Then Mark came up with an idea and said to his father, "I have a good8, Dad. We can live near the beach. Then Betty and I can go there every day, and you don't need to drive us there."

    His father looked at him up and down and smiled, "Sounds really good. But the houses near the beach are very9. I must work hard to buy a10. Then you can go to the beach every day."

Taking Root.

How many kinds of plants are there in the world? Lucy Braun wondered that as a child. She showed great interest in plants at a young age. She often had energetic walks with her family through the nearby woods. Some plants and wildflowers seemed to shout at her with their wildcolours. Others hid behind rocks.

Lucy looked at the shapes of leaves as she walked in the woods. She kept a record of what she saw. She also learnt to draw what she saw. Then she could compare all kinds of plants. Later, Lucy grew more and more interested in botany, the study of plants.

Branching Out

At university, Lucy took classes in geology, or the study of rocks and minerals. Her work with geologists changed how she looked at the natural world. She continued her studies in botany as well. Lucy also took classes in ecology (生态学). Lucy believed that plant life in some areas was able to move to other places over time.

In Full Bloom

In 1917, Lucy began to teach botany at a university. She lived in a house near the woods. Lucy collected plants from all around the country. She took many photos of them, too. Colour photography was still new then. Because of that, people enjoyed her lessons and photos a lot.

The    ▲     of Labour (劳动)

Later in her life, Lucy wrote many field guides. In 1950, she published her most important guide. It describes the plants in the forests across the country. Ecologists still use it to study changes in the forests over time.

Today, Lucy has a few plants named after her. One of them is Lucy Braun's snakeroot, which is now in danger. Lucy's work in the protection of nature may help prevent its disappearance.

Lucy Braun lived to be 81. In her years as a botanist, Lucy collected nearly 12,000 plants!

Cai Xuzhe dreamed of flying high when he was young. He was a new face on the Shenzhou-14 team. He spent 12 years as an astronaut（宇航员） getting ready for his first trip to space.

"I am happy and proud but feel more about my duty（责任）," Cai told reporters. Cai and other two team members, Chen Dong and Liu Yang, left the earth on board the Shenzhou-14 spaceship in June of 2022, for a six - month stay in space. They finished the work of building the Tiangong space station.

Cai was born in 1976 in the countryside of Shenzhou City, Hebei Province. He showed interest in planes as a child. When he heard a plane flying past, he ran out and looked at it till it flew away.

Cai went to an Air Force flight college（空军飞行学院）. After finishing college, he began to work at an airport. The airport was in poor condition. However, he studied and trained his flying skills there carefully. InMay 2010, Cai became a Chinese astronaut and underwent（接受） hard training. He did best in his training and finally became a Shenzhou-14 team member. He tried his best to make his dream come true.

Mr. and Mrs. Green have three children. They are all girls. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Sue is fifteen, Rose is twelve and Kitty is eight. Their father, Mr. Green, is an English teacher. Their mother, Mrs. Green, is a nurse. They love their children very much.

Sue, Rose and Kitty all like fruit. But they don't like the same fruit. Sue likes apples. Rose likes pears and Kitty likes oranges. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Sue likes red. Rose likes yellow. And Kitty likes purple. They often have clothes in different colors. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} They call Sue "Apple", Rose "Pear" and Kitty "Orange". The children like their nicknames (绰号) very much. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Do you like their names?

A. They like different colors, too.

B. They are Sue, Rose and Kitty.

C. So you can know them from their clothes.

D. Now Mr. and Mrs. Green don't call their names at home.

E. They think the names are interesting.