Mary is a student. She enjoys {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(run). Every morning, she starts to run near her home{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (介词) six o'clock. She also {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (like) ball games. After school, she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (join) her classmates to play basketball. She {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (eat) well too. She has three {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (meal) at school. Her favourite food is {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(dumpling). But the dining hall is small with only ten {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (table). The students are always {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(wait) there. Now it's time for dinner. Mary is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (walk) to the dining hall.

    Jerry comes from Paris. He came to China {#blank#}1{#/blank#}his parents two years ago. They live in Beijing now. Jerry {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（study）in a primary school and he enjoys {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（eat）Chinese food. He loves traveling. Last weekend, he went to Hangzhou with {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（he）family. It was an interesting and beautiful city. On Saturday morning, they visited the West Lake. They took {#blank#}5{#/blank#}walk around the lake and enjoyed the beauty of the nature. In the evening, they went {#blank#}6{#/blank#}（shop）. The shop was very crowed（拥挤的）and Jerry {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（get）lost. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（luck）, he found his parents with the help of the policemen. On Sunday, they went to Hangzhou Zoo. There {#blank#}9{#/blank#}lots of animals. Jerry likes elephants best because they are cute and smart. They went back to Beijing by plane at night. It was an {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（excite）trip.

Videos of the granddaughter of American President Trump showing her Chinese speaking skills became very popular on the Internet. In the video, Arabella {#blank#}1{#/blank#}a popular Chinese song and recited two Chinese poems by a Tang poet.

More and more kids try to learn Chinese just {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Arabella. About 50. 000 American students {#blank#}3{#/blank#} now studying Chinese." Because of China's fast growth, Chinese is more useful {#blank#}4{#/blank#}other languages, "said Scott Mcginnis, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} language expert(专家).

For example, in 1999, only three Chicago schools had {#blank#}6{#/blank#}classes. This year more than thirty do. In many US cities. students take Chinese lessons during holidays or on weekends. But Chicago schools teach Chinese during the school days. Last year China gave them 3.000 textbooks {#blank#}7{#/blank#}they had done a good job.

Although Chinese classes are becoming popular, it is still {#blank#}8{#/blank#}of the most difficult languages. It {#blank#}9{#/blank#} an English speaker about 1,320 hours all to become good {#blank#}10{#/blank#} Chinese, but 480 hours to learn French, Spanish or Italian.

 Millie Wesley @ milliewesley 5-10

 Hello! My name is Millie. This is a picture of me and my friends. My friends' names are Fred, Sandra and Jim. 

 Fred is 11. His first name is Frederick but we always call him Fred. Oranges are his favorite food. 

 Sandra is 10. We are the same age. Jim is her brother. He is 12. They have a dog. You can see it in the picture. It is small and its name is Bobbie. 

 My friends and I are in the same school. Our school is next to a park. After school, we often play baseball in the park. It is our favorite game. 

# Friendship #MyFriends @ Frederick @ Jim @ Sandra