Look at this photo. It's a photo of my two good friends and me. The boy is Tom. 1 is from America. The girl 2 red is Helen. She is from England. And I'm from Australia, my name is Lucy. We3 in the same (相同的) school.

    Tom likes sports very much. He often 4Ping-pong, baseball and basketball after class. He has a great sports collection: some ping-pong balls, two ping-pong bats, eight baseballs and two 5. He thinks it's relaxing and 6 to play sports every day.

    But Helen thinks it's boring. She 7 sports every day. She likes 8. She has many books. She reads every day. I don't have a great collection. 9 I play sports every day. I also (也) 10 sports shows(  节目 ) on TV. I think sports are good for me.

    Benjamin is the unluckiest boy in the world. He 1 falls ill(生病), but if he falls ill, it is on the weekend. He is a good student, but when he takes a test, his pen 2 . His bird sings very well, but when he asks 3 to listen to it, the bird becomes silent(沉默的).

    But Benjamin thinks he is 4 boy in the world. He has wonderful parents and a lovely sister. He has a singing bird. His classmates are friendly to 5 . Benjamin is always happy and he is kind.

    One day his mother 6 him some money to buy an ice-cream. When he 7 the ice-cream shop, he saw an old man outside it. He had old clothes, terrible glasses, and he looked 8 . Benjamin thought he was poor. He decided 9 the ice-cream and gave the money to the man.

    "Thank you. You are a kind boy. But I' m not poor. Keep your money, I'm the richest man in town and sometimes I wear old clothes to see 10 people do," the man said and gave the money 11 to him.

    The man took Benjamin to the biggest 12 in town and said, "Choose 13 you like. I can buy you the most expensive one." Benjamin asked, "Can I choose 14 ? "Of course," answered the man.

    Benjamin chose the newest radio because when his bird keeps silent, he can at least listen to it with his friends. He then bought a new pair of glasses 15 the man.

    Helen is a student. She usually gets up at 6:00 in the morning. Then she has 1 at 7:00. She goes to school2about 7:30. She is never late for(从不迟到) school. Helen is a clever girl,3 she doesn't have any friends.

    One morning, on her way to school, she 4 a yellow cat. She thinks,“The cat can't find 5way home.” So she 6 it to the zoo.

    Then she hurries(急忙) to 7 but she is late. All the students and her8 look at her. Her face looks red.

    After(在……之后)class, her teacher says to the students.“ Helen is a 9 girl. She finds a cat and takes it to the10”Now all her classmates like her.

    As we all know, Charles Dickens is considered to be a great English writer. He's very famous not only in Britain, but also in many other 1 in the world. He was born in 1812 and he lived in London. He wrote lots of books, and he also liked 2 He was an actor. Maybe it's interesting to hear that and that's 3 18 his books were so good. He gave the public readings of his stories that were very popular. His stories first appeared in a magazine in parts. People always wanted. 4 part. He wrote a lot, and most of them were popular. There were films and plays of them 5, Oliver Twist became a famous musical play, and Great Expectations became a wonderful 6 Dickens' early life was very hard. His family was poor, and his mother sent him to work in a factory when he was 12. He 7 it, but he used his experiences in his writing. He married Catherine Hogarth and they had a big family. He continued to write 8 he died. When he died in 1870, he was 9 a story. But what a pity! We'll never know 10 it ended.