Dear James,

    How are you? I want to tell you about the ways (方式) my family go to work or school. My parents are teachers, but they are not in the same school. My father's school is far from our home. It's about five kilometers. He drives his car to school every day. My mother usually walks to her school, because her school is near our home. I have two brothers, John and Peter. John is a high school student (高中生). He likes taking a bus to school. He thinks it is fun, because he can meet his friends and tall with them on the bus. It takes him thirty minutes to get to school. Peter and I are students in a middle school. My mother is in the school, too. I always go to school with Peter. We ride our bikes to school for ten minutes every school day.

    What about you? How do you get to school?

Yours,

Amy

It was only a dollar. Ben saw it on the floor as he sat at the back of his math class. He could take it for his money, but he picked it up 1  and brought it to his teacher, Mattison.

Mattison was a little surprised, 2  many people would just keep it. She advised Ben to tape（用胶带粘住）it to the whiteboard where she always put 3  things. Maybe the dollar was the money for lunch or bus tickets for the student who lost it. A day or two later, neither the teacher nor her student 4  it.

Rose, a senior, asked Mattison why it was there. The teacher was still waiting for the owner, so she 5 , "I don't know." Rose took the tape from Mattison's desk and taped a 6 dollar to the board.

The two dollar bills, side by side, woke some things in Mattison's students. They taped up7 bills. The experienced teacher started to leave the tape next to the whiteboard. The effort（努力）snowballed and it really made a great difference.

The amount（数量）went on growing until it 8 $175. That left Mattison to decide on the best 9 . Mattison asked her students if they'd like to use the money 10 something good. Their answer was to tape more money to the whiteboard to push the amount.

When my father was getting ready for work, our house was ruled by knocks and words. He used to come downstairs to breakfast. The morning paper lay beside his plate. He always read the' Deaths' first; and then he knocked once on the table. One of my sisters brought hi toast, already buttered for him.1 he said nothing, but once I heard him say, "I love you very much, Edith. I would love you more if you buttered my toast on2 . "He read the paper all through breakfast. 

Two knocks on the table meant 'I am ready for my tea', If a single knock followed, that meant 'More toast, please. ' After breakfast he said, "Boots. " The paper was3 for him over the back of an armchair. Yesterday's paper was put on the chair for his feet, and his boots were brought to him, freshly cleaned. He read standing,4 putting on his boots and tying the laces. 

With one boot finished, he said, "Bus. " At that point one of the girls went outside to the garden gate and waited there. Her job was to stop the bus when it came. It came early sometimes, and it had to wait for my father. "Overcoat, hat. " One of my sisters had already brushed his overcoat. Now she held it open for him and guided his arms into it. Then she pulled his jacket down under the coat.5 girl came with his hat, nicely brushed. "Handkerchief, pipe. " They were brought and put, with his tobacco, into his pockets. He looked out of the window and said either 'Walking stick' or＇Umbrella'. It was handed to him. 

Ready now, he was still reading the paper. He did not put it down until he heard the shout "Bus coming! " Then he kissed my mother and went out. The girls breathed freely. How lucky a man is to have a wife and five daughters at home!

Introduce Myself

Hello, everyone! It is happy to meet you in the new term.

 My name is Mary. I'm a student. I have a good 1 . Her name is Nancy. I go to school and have 2 with her.

 In my school, many students have lunch in the school dining hall. Nancy and I eat there 3 . Today we have beef noodles for lunch. There are some 4 and carrots in the noodles. I say to Nancy, "The beef noodles are 5 and I like them. But I don't like carrots. Do you like them?"

"Yes, I do, "says Nancy. "But I don't like potatoes. "

"You can eat my carrots and I can eat 6 potatoes. "

"That's a good 7 !"Nancy says.

 After that, we exchange(交换) our vegetables.

"It's important for us to eat many kinds of vegetables. They are good for our health, " Nancy says. "How 8 this? I try to eat potatoes and you try to 9 some carrots. "

"OK, "I say. I know Nancy is right,10 we exchange our vegetables again. It's great and fun.