I am Frank. In our western countries, there are four seasons or 365 days in a year. Usually, we sleep 8 hours every day. So we have 122 days for sleeping. Then our study or work time is only 243 days left. But there are 52 weekends in a year. Each weekend is two days. We lose another 104 days a year for work. It takes up about one hour to have breakfast and supper. This comes to 15 days over a year. Four free hours each evening takes up 61 days. But we can't work all the time, so we need holidays. We have to remember that we get 2 days' holiday at Easter, 3 at Christmas and 1at the New Year. There are also 4 Bank holidays. Take those 10 days away and we have 32 days for work. But then we have one and a half hours' lunch every day, and half an hour's coffee break. That comes to 30 days a year. This means that we have only a few days left for study or work every year. What about you in China?

    Here are some nice things on the teacher's desk. They are for some of us.

    This is a yellow notebook. It is for Jenny. 1 is Jenny's favorite color. On the notebook is a2. It is for John. John is always late（迟到）for school, the watch can 3him.  Is that new green schoolbag nice？ It's 4Wang Peng. His schoolbag is too old, so he needs a new one. Oh, that is a black 5for Kate. She can listen to（听）English on it. And that is a blue pen for Bill. He 6his pen.  Mr. Li buys（买） the new one for him. Here is the 7thing. It is an English dictionary for me. I like 8, but it's not easy for me. So 9English teacher buys the dictionary for me. She thinks it can help me learn English well.

    We're very happy to have10nice things from our teachers.

Mr. Smith is 100 years old, but he is very healthy. He can read, play chess with people, and take care of himself(他自己). Many people want to know his secrets (秘密) about keeping healthy and living a long life. Here is what Mr. Smith says:

"My secrets are simple. You can learn them easily. First, you should go to bed early and get up early every day. This is a good habit. For me, I usually go to bed at 9:00 at night and get up at 6:00 in the morning."

"Second, do more (更多的) exercise. I always go out for a walk before having breakfast. In the morning and afternoon, I do some simple exercise, too.

"Third, make more friends. I have many friends. Some of them are old. Some of them are not. It makes me happy to be with them. That is also important to live a long life."

    Have you ever ridden a Ferris wheel lately? Can you imagine the flying feeling as you are pulled up to the top and then moved down to the bottom quickly again?

    Today a Ferris wheel is usually 40 to 60 feet tall. That seems very high when you are on the top looking down. But the first Ferris wheel was 264 feet high- taller than a twenty-story building! Can you imagine the view from the top of that?

    The first Ferris wheel was built for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The people who planned the fair were looking for an attraction that would bring people to Chicago. George Ferris handed a drawing of a giant wheel that people could ride on. At first everyone laughed at his strange idea. But Mr Ferris did not give up, and finally the idea was accepted. The ride opened in June of 1893.

    Today's Ferris wheels have 12 to 16 seats, which each carry 2 or 3 people. But that first one had 36 enclosed cars, each holding 60 passengers. When filled, it carried 2,160 people. During that summer in Chicago, about 1.5 million people rode the Ferris wheel.

After the fair, the ride was moved to a nearby amusement park built especially to show off the wheel. In 1904, it was moved again一to St. Louis for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. After the fair there, the wheel stood unused. In 1906, it was finally sold to a company for scrap metal(废金属).

    Luckily a Chicago bridge builder, W.E. Sullivan, figured out how to make a smaller Ferris wheel that could easily be taken apart and put together. In 1906, he started the company that still makes many of the Ferris wheels used today.

    But, whenever you ride one, remember that it all began with George Ferris's strange idea!

Betty is the new monitor of Class 4, Grade 7. How can she be {#blank#}1{#/blank#} good monitor? {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (Betty) teacher Mrs. Brown tells her like this: 

Study hard and get high scores. Show everyone you are a good student, and you can {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) their monitor. 

Be nice to other students. You are their monitor, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} you are also their classmates. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} be friends with everyone. Then they'd like {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (listen) to you. 

{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (not talk) at the class. When the teachers are out, your classmates like to talk to each other. Want them to keep quiet? Don't shout. Use {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (word) like "Please" or "Thank you".

Talk with your classmates. Ask {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (they) "Do you think I am a good monitor? " or"What can I do {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (help) you?", so they would like to talk with you about these things.

Tony lives in a big house, and his family is rich (富有的). He has a bad 1 . He always wastes (浪费) food. For example, he 2 eats half of an apple and throws away (扔掉) the other half. His mother always 3 him not to do that, but he doesn't 4 his mother. He thinks his father has a lot of money, so it's not a big deal. "My mother is too strict 5 me," he says. He doesn't like exercising, 6 . His home is not far from school, but he never walks 7 rides a bike to school. He asks his mother to take him to school in the 8 . He says to his mother. "We have a car, so 9 do I need to ride a bike or walk to school? Walking 10 me tired."

One day, in a geography class, his teacher 11 some pictures of Africa to Tony and his classmates. Many 12 have no food to eat there. They are thin because of hunger (饥饿). Their teacher asks them to 13 money and do something to help them. Tony feels 14 for what he did before. He knows what his mother did is to help 15 develop (养成) good habits.