There is a man and he calls the police when he loses a pet. He a lways asks the police to help him look for it.

    “I lost my pet bird，”he tell the police one day.“She can sing songs. Can you find her for me?”

    “I'm sorry，”the policeman says.“It isn't our job（工作）to look for birds. If you leave a window open in your house，the bird may come back.”

    Another time，the man calls the police and says，“I lost my cat. （A）你能帮我找到他吗？He can  talk. ”

    “I'm sorry，”the policeman says.“（B）It isn't our job to look for cats. You should put the telephone down quickly. Maybe（也许）he is calling you now and tells you where he is. ”

    A king received a gift of two great falcons (猎鹰), and they were really beautiful. He gave the birds to his head falconer to be trained.

    One day, the falconer told the king that although one of the falcons was soaring (高飞) high in thesky, the other bird couldn't move from its branch (树枝) since the day it arrived.

    The king called on many falcon trainers to train the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly.

    After he tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "Maybe I need someone morefamiliar (熟悉的) with the countryside to work out this problem.” So he asked his men to go and get a farmer.

    In the morning, the king was surprised to find the falcon was soaring high above the gardens. The king asked the farmer, “How did you make the falcon fly?” The farmer said to the king, “It was very easy. I just cut the branch which the bird was sitting on".

    We are all made to fly. But sometimes we just sit on our branches, don't want to leave the things that are familiar to us. So sometimes our lives are boring and not exciting. Let us learn to cut the branch that we are familiar with and free ourselves to a brave soar!

    American schools are quite different from those in China. In America, at the beginning of the term, students must select (挑选) their subjects and teachers first.

    Selecting is very important for your marks in America. So at the first term, don't select too many subjects, or you'll feel very nervous and tired. Then you have to ask for some teaching plans. There is some information about subjects, time arranging, marks and textbooks. At the same time, you must choose the teachers. Different teachers have different teaching methods. If the teacher is called "killer" by the last grade, many students will give up choosing him, because this kind of teacher will leave too much homework, too many exams and give too low grades. There is another thing after you select the subjects and teachers. How to buy textbooks makes each student feel hard. The textbooks in America are very expensive. Each one is about $30—50. In order to save money, many students buy some used textbooks, and some students usually borrow textbooks from the school library.

    In class, discussing is very important. The teacher encourages you to ask questions or show your own opinions. They don't usually ask you to sit well. Instead they allow you to sit or stand anywhere you like.

I am Mandy and I live in the city with my parents and my little sister. The city life is boring sometimes. I love going to my grandmother's village(村庄). 

It is so much fun living in the village. I like collecting leaves (收集树叶) there. I usually do it on my way to the only shop in the village. They have many different shapes. Some are like a heart and some are like a hand. . . I can make a lot of things with leaves. One fun thing is making leaf pictures. 

This is how I make a leaf picture. I take a leaf out and I also need paper, glue (胶水), a brush(刷子) and paints (绘画颜料). First, I glue the leaf onto the paper and wait for an hour. Then, I paint over the leaf and the paper and let the paints get dry(变干). Next, I take the leaf off the paper. There it is—a beautiful leaf picture on the paper!

I sometimes make birthday cards or other things with the leaf pictures. My friends like them very much. I tell them，"They are not just gifts from me. They're gifts from my grandmother's village！"

Class One was having a meeting. The students were having a discussion in the classroom. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}were they talking about? The topic was the best invention in our normal life. Tom thought the clock was the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} useful. It could tell the time exactly. W{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the clock, we didn't know when to leave for school. Maria showed us a crayon on the desk. It could be used {#blank#}4{#/blank#} draw beautiful pictures. So it was helpful. Peter preferred computers. He said that the world {#blank#}5{#/blank#} connected together by computers through the internet. We could get the information far away in a minute. There were also tiny computers inside the patients, bodies. These computers were used {#blank#}6{#/blank#}treating illnesses. Lily was certain that the robots were important. The robots {#blank#}7{#/blank#} worked in the factories helped people perform different tasks. It's no doubt that all of above changed our habits, they make us work and live more comfortably. P{#blank#}8{#/blank#}in the future we can invent something for ourselves. I'm sure we have the ability to be a real inventor.