Mark and Betty are brother and sister. They love to play on the1. They think it's very2to play there. They go to the beach by3every weekend. They live far away from the beach, so their father usually4about two hours driving them there.

    Last Sunday their father was very5and couldn't send them to the beach. Mark and Betty6very bored at home. They thought they must solve (解决) the7quickly.

    Then Mark came up with an idea and said to his father, "I have a good8, Dad. We can live near the beach. Then Betty and I can go there every day, and you don't need to drive us there."

    His father looked at him up and down and smiled, "Sounds really good. But the houses near the beach are very9. I must work hard to buy a10. Then you can go to the beach every day."

Jack's friend Sally isn't fine these days.

One day she asks Jack for help. And she tells(告诉)Jack about her food. For breakfast. She always eats some bread. For lunch, she always has some chicken. She likes eating ice-cream and a hamburger in the evening. 

"They're not healthy for you, Sally," Jack says. "I know, but I like them," Sally says. "What about vegetables? Do you like eating carrots?" Jack asks. "No, I don't," Sally says.

"Sally, don't eat ice-cream. You must eat some vegetables and fruit. They are healthy food," Jack says. "I think you're right," Sally says.

In the next days, Sally always eats vegetables and fruit. And she is well now.

①Many people think wheat straw（麦秸） is the waste on the farm. However, Wu Cui, a straw plaiting （ 草 编） artist from Helan County, Ningxia, can turn straw into eye-catching artworks.

②Wu, 29, is the sixth-generation inheritor（第六代继承人） of straw plaiting. Learning from her uncle, Wu made things with straw when she was a child. She made the straw-plaiting her job after she finished college three years ago.

③Before plaiting straw, Wu usually spends a long time finding the right straw. Then she ties them up and dries them. Also, Wu needs to put the straw in warm water so that the straw won't break easily. Choosing from materials is the first step. And then Wu needs to sketch（素描） the piece on paper, which requires drawing skills. Next comes the weaving（编织） , shaping and finally the preserving of the work.

④"In the past, we could see straw products（制品） everywhere in the countryside, such as straw hats and straw shoes. But the world has changed. There are so many things for people to choose from. So we need to find other ways to share the art with people," Wu says.

⑤When asked about her plans, Wu says she wants to di g deeper into the traditional culture and make more creative（有创造力的） works.

On Jayne's {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（twelve） birthday, she called to tell me that she would come to visit me. This morning, she kept sending me {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（message） on her way to our house in Virginia, the US. 

"Grandma, can you put some snow in the fridge? That way, I can feel snow {#blank#}3{#/blank#} I get there, "she wrote. In the past 12 years, Jayne had lived with her parents in the south of Georgia, the US, so she had never seen snow before. 

"Yes, I will, " I wrote. "There is still some snow on the ground in the yard. " And I sent her a few photos of it. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, the weather report brought me bad news. It said. the weather would be sunny at noon. This made me {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（feel） worried. 

In the afternoon, they{#blank#}6{#/blank#}（final） arrived. Jayne got out of the car first. She didn't even have time to hug us. She ran into the yard and put {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（she） hands in the snow. She looked so excited. It was great that the sun didn't come out that day. 

"Grandma, the weather is so cold, but I enjoy playing {#blank#}8{#/blank#} snow, " Jayne said. Then she started to build a snowman. After working for a while, a lovely snowman {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（finish）. At last, she put her hat on its head. It looked nicer and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（smart）. She kept playing outside until her hands got wet and cold. 

Watching her playing in the snow made me realize that small things can also make us happy. 

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3.60词左右。

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