Mrs. Green is going to hold a birthday party for Mary. Mary is her daughter. She is going to be thirteen years old. Mary's friends are going to come to the party. They are all girls.

    Mrs. Green is getting ready for the party. Mrs. White is helping her.

    "That's a nice cake," says Mrs. White.

    "Thank you very much," says Mrs. Green.

   Mrs. Green is going shopping now. She's buying fruit for the party. She buys a lot of pears, apples, oranges and bananas. Then she goes home.

    It's three o'clock in the afternoon. Now the first girl comes, then another. The party is going to start after thirty minutes.

    Holmes said， “Somebody sent a letter with five pips (桔核) in it from India， and arrived seven weeks later to kill John's uncle. Then they sent five pips from Scotland and arrived three days later to kill John's father. Now they have sent five pips to John from London!”

    “The letters are all from sea ports. The writer was on a ship when he wrote the letters，” I replied.

    “Very good， Watson! And John's enemy is in London already!”

    “Well， I hope they won't kill young John，” I said.

    But they did. The next morning， we read in the newspaper that a policeman found him die near Waterloo station. Holmes was very angry about it.

    “He came to me for help and those men murdered him! I'm going to find them， if it's the last thing I do!” he said to me， and he hurried out of the house.

    At night， when he came back， he was tired， but pleased， he said， “I know the names of John's enemies! And now I'm going to send them a surprise! This will frighten them!” He took five pips from an orange and put them in an envelope (信封). On it he wrote “S. H. for J. C.”

    “I'm sending the pips to captain James Calhoun. His ship is called the Star. He and his men are sailing back to Georgia， USA.”

    “How did you find him， Holmes?” I asked.

    “Ship's papers，” he said， “I've looked at hundreds of them today. Only one ship， the Star， was in the three ports at the right times， this morning the Star left London to sail back to Georgia. I found out that the captain and two of his men， all Americans， weren't on the ship last night， so I'm sure they killed John. When they arrive in America， they'll get the pips and then the police will catch them!”

Last Saturday, our class went to the science museum. We {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (visit) the dinosaur （恐龙） room. All of us {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (be) very excited. Dinosaurs lived in the world millions of {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (year) ago. But now they have died out. There was a robot dinosaur in {#blank#}4{#/blank#} museum. It could make sounds and walk just {#blank#}5{#/blank#} real dinosaurs. 

Some dinosaurs were scary （吓人的）. We were afraid {#blank#}6{#/blank#} them. We even {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (watch) a large dinosaur "eating" a small animal. Some dinosaurs looked very big, but they only used their {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (tooth) to eat plants, They didn't eat meat. Some dinosaurs could {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (fly)! 

Some scientists {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (study) the dinosaurs and they thought that these dinosaurs lived in trees and had wings （翅膀） like birds. So are birds part of the dinosaur family? It's really an interesting idea.

How do you get to school?Do you walk or r{#blank#}1{#/blank#}a bike? Do you go by bus or by train?For many students，it is easy to get to school. But for the students in one small village in China，it is difficult. There is a very big river between their school and the village. There are no b{#blank#}2{#/blank#}and the river runs too quickly for boats. So these students go on a ropeway to cross the river to school. 

One 11﹣year﹣old boy，Liangliang，crosses the river every school day. But he is not afraid because he loves school. "I love s{#blank#}3{#/blank#}time with my classmates and teachers. "Many of the villagers n{#blank#}4{#/blank#} leave the village. They wish that they could find an easy way to go out. Can their d{#blank#}5{#/blank#} come true?

A novel is a long story, usually a fictional book, which describes human experiences and interactions. It is in the form of prose(written or spoken language in its ordinary form), rather than poetry. The English-language novel, as we know it today, mainly began its development in the 1700s. Realism became important in literature at this point. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} It was in this time period and mode of literature that women writers truly came into their own. Two famous women authors who influenced the history of literature were Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf.

Jane Austen(1775-1817) was an English author. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

Jane's father was a priest. They were middle class, thought not rich. In the polite society of that time, which they were part of, the lives of girls and women were very much ruled by the social rules and morals of the day. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} The writer Walter Scott said of her novels, "That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with."

She was concerned with how women came to marry as it was not a simple matter of falling in love with someone in those days. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}The other problem was money; parents needed to provide women with some money to take into a marriage. Parents often tried to find their daughters the right partners. That's why Jane herself never married and died aged only{#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

A．Parents had to be of a similar social place.

B．This means that authors tried to have their novels reflect real life.

C．Jane saw the ambition(野心) of parents in many of these situations.

D．Jane's stories focused on middle to upper class society which she knew, and the place of women in it.

E．Among her most famous novels are Sense and Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice(1813) and Emma(1815).