Mrs. Green is going to give a birthday party for Mary (Mary is her daughter). Mary is going to be thirteen years old. Twenty friends of Mary's are going to come to the party. They are all girls. Mrs. Green is getting ready for the party. Mrs. White is helping her.

  “Let's make a pretty cake,” Mrs. White says to Mrs. Green.

  “OK. Thank you very much.”

    Mrs. Green is going shopping now. She's going to buy fruit for the party. Mrs. Green buys some fruit. She buys a lot of pears, oranges and bananas. Then she goes home.

    It's three o'clock in the afternoon. Everything is ready. Now the first girl is arriving. The party is going to start in thirty minutes.

A man:Excuse me, how can I get to Beijing Station?

Franks:Go along this street. Turn right at the first crossing and Beijing Station is on your right.

A man:Wait a moment. Go along this street, and Beijing Station is on my right.

Franks:That's right.

A man: I want to go to the History Museum,too. Where is it?

Franks:It's on Renming Road. You can take bus No.1.

A man:Thank you very much.

Franks:Not at all.

    Last week we talked about growing potatoes. Today we will talk about growing another root vegetable, carrots. Carrots are easy to grow and easy to harvest. They taste good. And they contain a lot of carotene (胡萝卜素). When we eat the carrots, our body makes carotene into vitamin A(维生素A).

    When we think of carrots, we usually say carrots are long, thin and orange. But carrots are in many different sizes and shapes. And not all carrots are orange. Sometimes we have green carrots with yellow inside.

    Carrots should be planted in the sand. The soil also should have no rocks.

    Wu Dong has a good friend. His name is Tom. He is from English.

    They are in the same class. They live near the school. Every day they go to school together. Tom likes China and Chinese food. He likes noodles and dumplings very much. From Monday to Friday, they do homework together in the afternoon. On Saturday and Sunday, Tom helps Wu Dong study English and Wu Dong helps Tom speak Chinese. They learn from each other.

    There is a new park near my house. It's a fine day today. My family and I are in the park now. On my left, there is a big tree. On my right, there is a big lake. There are many flowers and trees near the lake.

    There's a small hill behind the lake. Near the lake, there is a sign: "Don't swim in the lake!" There is a playground in the middle of the park. There are some shops near the gate. They are not big. The park is so beautiful.

    We like it very much.

    When I grow up, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to move somewhere interesting. Paris sounds like a city that I could that enjoy. There are lots of an exhibitions there. I want to be an artist. So how am I going to do it? First, I'm going to find a part-time job for a year or two and save some money. Then I'm going to be a student at an art school in Paris.