提示：⒈妈妈生病了，我早晨6点起来做早饭；

⒉因为昨晚下大雨，今天停水了，只好到楼下取水；

⒊饭后做作业一个小时，然后做家务；

⒋下午看了一会儿电视，然后打扫房间，浇花；

⒌晚上和妈妈聊了半个小时，现在必须去睡觉

了。

Dear Jim，

    How's everything? I have had a busy day today.

    Take care!

Stephen

    What time of day can you think most quickly? Are you a morning person?" Or does it take you a few hours to get your brain going? A lot of recent research suggests that we should pay attention to our body clock. It can tell us what time of day we can perform best at.

    Many people work best later in the morning. This is because the body's temperature takes time to rise through the day. Taking a warm shower when you wake up can help your body's temperature rise quickly.

    But everyone's body clock is different and some are special. Morning people will get up early and work better early in the day." Evening people will work later, but work better towards the end of the day.

    Research shows that we're better at some activities at certain times of the day." Physical performance is at its best between 3p. m. and 6p.- m.-,- so it's better to exercise later in the day.

    Between noon and'4p. m. , people begin to pay less attention. This is because we think less quickly after, a big meal. Research also shows we become sleepy around 2 p.m. This is why people in Spain take a short sleep in early afternoon.

    Finally'it is best to eat when we' re active. This allows our body to burn calories (卡路里) better and stops our blood sugar levels from getting too high.

I wake up at six in the morning. Dad is putting the cows and sheep onto the trucks. Mom is putting my favorite milk food and some dried meat (肉干) in a bag. We will start driving to another past ure (牧场). We won't forget to take our yurt(毡房) with us!

 My family moves like this four times every year. It's a tradition (传统) of the Kazak people in Altay, Xinjiang. We have about 100 sheep and 40 cows. We move to different places as the seasons change. So, our animals can always have fresh grass to eat.

 Kazak people have been traveling this way for thousands of years. In the past, it took people about ten days to get from one place to another. If it rained or snowed, traveling was even harder. Luckily, now we have trucks. It only takes us five hours on the road! And as we move from place to place, our lives keep getting better and better.

Many of us like to read books. We read everything from fiction to nonfiction. In the past, we could only read traditional paper books. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

Now, we can read e-books most of the time. They still have covers and pages, but they're not made of paper. Instead, they're pictures on a screen. Some people love to read e-books. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} They can read them on their mobile phones and computers. However, in another way, they're not so great because they have changed the way people read.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} Sometimes, we feel like we're in the stories and forget the real world while reading traditional books. However, that's not true with e-books. With them, we might not focus on the books and we may pay attention to other things.

When we read an e-book written in a foreign language, we may meet new words. That takes us out of the stories and to an online dictionary. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} During surfing, we can also chat with our friends, check our emails, surf the Internet, search for things to buy, and more.

In a word, e-books are becoming popular. They make a difference on our reading habits. Our eyes stop reading everything on the page. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Some people don't mind that, but for others, it takes the fun out of reading.

A．We can look for key words to get information quickly.

B．From e-books, we can easily change to something else.

C．They have front and back covers and many pages in between.

D．With traditional books, we mainly pay attention to the stories.

E．E-books are great because people can carry a "library" of books with them all the time.

写作要点：（1）你未来想成为什么样的人； （2）原因是什么；（3）怎么做成为更好的自己。（4）……

写作要求：（1）文中不得出现任何真实信息（姓名、校名和地名等）； （2）语句通顺，意思连贯，书写工整； （3）词数不少于80词。（文章开头已给出，但不计入总词数）

How to Become a Better Me?

Everyone wants to be better than before. 

Hello! My name is Linda. I'm 36 years old. I'm {#blank#}1{#/blank#} London, England. I'm a teacher and I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} science in a school. There {#blank#}3{#/blank#} forty-five students in my class. They are very {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. They love me very much. So they always talk many {#blank#}5{#/blank#} with me. I love my students and I'm happy to be {#blank#}6{#/blank#} teacher.

Now I'm in my office. You can see a computer, some books and two {#blank#}7{#/blank#} on my desk. In the first photo, you can see my husband David {#blank#}8{#/blank#} my daughter Alice. David is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} actor in a theatre. Alice is a student in my school. Look at the other photo, I am {#blank#}10{#/blank#} tennis with my students. We always have a good time after class.