A: Hi, Li Mei. Where did you spend your holiday last month?

B: In London.

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B: By plane.

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B: It was rainy and cool.

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B: I stayed there for 10 days. I found many interesting things there.

A: Really? Could you give one example?

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A: That's interesting. I want to know more about the English way of life. Where can I get the information?

B: Why don't you find it on the Internet?

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    In the countryside of China, many people are moving to cities to find work. They move because often there isn't much work in the countryside. Service like hospitals and schools are usually not very nice there.

    But in the big cities like London, New York, Pairs, people are moving out. They want to live a quiet life. They don't like the city because the city is noisy and dirty. The traffic is heavy. Living in the cities costs too much. They want a house with a garden and clean air. So they move to the countryside with clean water and green trees. There, they begin new lives and try to make new friends.

    Britain is f{#blank#}1{#/blank#}as a country of animal lovers, and a many families have at least one pet. Americans also like animals, and about 60% of American families have a pet. People from other countries say that Americans think so much about animals and take them as well as people.

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    We can watch stories about animals on TV. Animal World is very good. We can know more about animals. And we can see many other animals we can't see in our life.

    Animals are our friends and we s{#blank#}6{#/blank#}take the animals as our friends.

Once, there were two hard- working children, Che Yin and Sun Kang. They love reading, but their families were poor and couldn't buy lamp oil(灯油) for the children to study at night. How did they get over the difficulty? Here are their stories.

 Che Yin's story began on a hot summer night. He saw fireflies (萤火虫) flying and an idea came into his mind. He caught some fireflies in a cloth bag and hung it up (悬挂) as a light. He spent all of his summer nights reading like this.

 The other story happened in winter. Sun Kang woke up on a cold night. He saw the moon shine so brightly on the snow and it made the night brighter."I can read with the light!" he thought . So he took his books outside and read, even though it was very cold.

 Later, Che Yin and Sun Kang became successful. Their stories were turned into the Chinese words nangying yingxue. Difficulties can't stop young minds from learning. If there is a will, there is always light on the road to knowledge.