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    It is hot and wet in Chongqing these days. I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the weather here but I love the food and scenery(风景). This morning, it was rainy. We didn't have any special {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. My parents and I just stayed at the hotel and I felt really {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. Luckily, it stopped raining at noon. We went to eat {#blank#}4{#/blank#} special- Chongqing hot pot(火锅)for lunch. There is a big {#blank#}5{#/blank#} between Chongqing hot pot and Beijing hot pot. The food here is really spicy(辛辣的) . After lunch, we {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to visit Foreigner Street in Chongqing {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a visitor told us that it was a good place to visit. Foreigner Street is really {#blank#}8{#/blank#}! There are lots of old buildings and nice food from all over the world. We {#blank#}9{#/blank#} Italian coffee, Indian cakes and British tea there.{#blank#}10{#/blank#} was nice and we really had a good time in this street.

    Many years ago, there was a family named Franklin. They lived in Boston. There were five girls and six boys in the family. On a January day in 1706 another baby was born. The boy's mother and her husband gave the boy a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} —Benjamin. Benjamin was the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} of all the children. He could read when he was five and he could write when he was seven. The next year his parents sent him to {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. At school Benjamin was good at reading and writing, but not good at math. He read all of his father's {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. And when he had money, he {#blank#}5{#/blank#} went to buy books. He liked books. They told him {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to do something. The boy liked to use his head and tried to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} ways to help people enjoy life more. For example, he tried to know if there was some way to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} farther, maybe with something on his hands or feet. Slowly a picture of swimming shoes, or paddles, grew in his {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. The paddles must be neither too{#blank#}10{#/blank#} nor too small. And they must be neither too heavy nor too light. At last he invented the paddle for swimming.

    I'm Yu Fei. I come from No. 1 Junior High School in Ji'nan. It is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} beautiful. My friend Xiaoli is in this school Xiaoli is of medium {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. She has {#blank#}3{#/blank#} hair, a long face, a small mouth and big {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. She is thirteen. She is in Class Five, Grade Seven. She is a good student, and she is good at painting pictures. She hopes to be an {#blank#}5{#/blank#} when she grows up. She has two good {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in her school. They are Lucy and Lily. They are {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. They are twins. They are fourteen They have big noses and big eyes, and they are very {#blank#}8{#/blank#} and thin. Lucy, Lily and Xiaoli are in the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} class. Mrs. Smith is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} English teacher. She is friendly to them and often helps them.