Jack and his father use a computer at home. His father is a manager and often talks to his {#blank#}1{#/blank#} He also checks the times of trains, makes travel plans and buys tickets. Jack listens to music {#blank#}2{#/blank#} watches movies.

    Alice only uses the computer at school. She {#blank#}3{#/blank#} for information, does her homework, checks her email and talks with her {#blank#}4{#/blank#} in Australia. Mike uses the computer at home on Sundays. He sends email. And he plays computer (5){#blank#}5{#/blank#} too.

    To a Chinese, English is not so easy to learn. I have met many difficulties in the past seven years in learning English. But I managed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} them and made much progress.

    I can well remember the spelling and meaning of the words is the first difficulty I met as a beginner. But I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} out my own way to deal with them. As for spelling, I never copied {#blank#}3{#/blank#} new word again and again to remember it. As for meaning, I rarely recite its Chinese {#blank#}4{#/blank#} but often put the word into the sentence to learn {#blank#}5{#/blank#} meaning. Moreover, if you use a word quite often, its spelling and meaning will be no problem. About grammar and idioms, I have not read lots of grammar books. I only know some ordinary grammatical rules. By doing so, I come to taste out "a sense of English language". I can feel {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a sentence is good English or not. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, I want to say that overcoming all these difficulties needs perseverance. Every day, I spend {#blank#}8{#/blank#} least an hour on English. I believe, this is an {#blank#}9{#/blank#} reason why I'm able to make progress in {#blank#}10{#/blank#} English.

Simon: Hey, Anna. This is Simon, calling from the Old Town of Lijiang!

Anna:  Hi, Simon! You are already in Lijiang! Great to hear you! So{#blank#}1{#/blank#}do you like the Old Town there?

Simon: Oh, we love it very much. You know it is so different from {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

Anna: Really? How long are you staying there?

Simon: Four days. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}my dad has to go back to work next Monday. We arrived yesterday and visited the Old Town. Tomorrow we're going to Yulong Snow Mountain. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}save time, we're taking the cable car up there. If we still have time, we're planning to see Blue Moon Valley and Yak Meadow.

Anna: Sounds great! Oh, don't forget it's much colder on Snow Mountain. Be sure to keep {#blank#}5{#/blank#}!

Simon: Thanks! We're bringing sweaters and coats with us, so I hope we'll be OK. I'll see you in a few days! Talk to you soon.