Magic is fun and pleasant whether you are a magician （魔术师） or whether you are watching it being carried out. To be a good magician, you have to be great together with your hands and great at keeping the audience (观众) paying more attention to you than the trick. You will find a number of websites to get you to start learning and practicing magic tricks. You will find a number of advantages of learning magic online. Here are some steps for you to start.

    Before you start learning magic online, make sure that the website you are interested in is real and it's going to teach you what you want to discover.

    Once you have decided on the website you are going to use to discover magic online, take it slow. Begin at the beginning and don't rush into anything stupid. Although you need to wait to get better, it's going to pay off within the end whenever you are performing your magic shows with success.

    Whenever you have discovered the magic tricks you'd like to discover, take a look at the website to see if they offer classes to help you discover the tricks. These classes can make you an expert at the magic tricks you'd like to discover, making you look much better whenever you show off your new talent.

    Finally, practicing helps you get more experience to do the magic tricks. Don't forget that confidence comes from experience. You can also practice for family and friends and then ask them for their feedback(反馈).

    I have three friends. They are Lucy, Mary and Mike. They have their favourite pets(宠物). The dog is Lucy's favourite. She thinks(认为) it can help us and it is our good friend. Mary likes the cat. She thinks it is nice to play with it. Mike says his favourite pet is the bird. It can sing very well.

    Bikes and cars are two important things. Many Chinese people have cars now, but most Chinese people still like to ride bikes. Do you know why?

    We all know that the bike can't go quickly, but it's easy for people to buy and ride it. As for the car, it needs too much money.

    Most Americans live far from the center of cities or their working places. So they need cars to go shopping or go to work every day. Most Chinese people live near their working places, so they don't need cars to go to work. And it's good for the environment(环境) if people stop driving. So there is a day called “No-Car Day” on September 22^nd every year.

    For me, I like to go to school by bike. It is easy and healthy.

Julie: Look! The elephants are eating grass. They are so big.

Susan: They are big and friendly to people.

Julie: There are giraffes over there.

Susan: What are they doing?

Julie: They are playing with the elephants.

Susan: Do you like giraffes?

Julie: Yes, I do. They are very cute.

Susan: Are the koalas there sleeping?

Julie: Yes, they are. They usually sleep during the day.

Susan: Is the lion eating there?

Julie: No, it isn't. It's relaxing. It relaxes for 20 hours every day.

    One sunny afternoon, I went for a walk on the beach. There I saw a special crab (螃蟹). It had two claws (螯).一个螯比另一个人螯大得多、长的多。I had never seen such a crab before. So on my way home from the beach, I walked into the library.

    Luckily, I found a book named Come with me to the Edge of the Sea. It had many pictures of animals living near the sea. The pictures of male fiddler crabs (雄性招潮蟹) looked quite like the crab I found on the beach. I learned a lot about that kind of crab.

    Sometimes a fiddler crab puts the small claw across the big one. It looks like it is playing the fiddle (violin) when it does this, so some people call it the fiddler crab Sometimes it waves its big claw. It looks like it is saying hello. That's why other people call it the calling crab. Fiddler crabs' eyes are on long eye stalks (眼柄). They can put up their eye stalks to look around~ It makes them look taller.

    These crabs are very small. There are lots of other, bigger beach animals that want to eat them. They dig holes in the sand (在沙子里挖洞). The holes are their homes. They are safe inside them. Sometimes the sea water can bring food into their holes.

{#blank#}1{#/blank#}⑴14-year-old Tony likes history best and likes reading books about history.

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{#blank#}4{#/blank#}⑷12-year-old Lucy is imaginative and she likes reading adventure stories.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}⑸14-year-old Bob always has much homework to do. He wants to learn how to make a homework schedule(计划表).