Rosa liked making up stories. She was sosure that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the wholeclass believed her! At first she supposed it was1. Now, as she got up to talk before theclass, she knew that making up stories had some way of coming back to make yousad.

    Rosa's parents were separated. Nine monthsout of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street.But when summer2, she went to her father's farm inArizona.

    The farm was great! Rosa rode horses andhelped with some farm work. Her father, however, was so3 that he couldn't find time to go to otherplaces with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would meet her at theairport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the city he wouldalways buy her a present.

    When summer came to a close, Rosa returnedto her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about theirfamily trips. Rosa wished she had a4totalk about too.

    Not long after5 began, Rosa was looking through travelmagazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting places, likeEngland and Germany. When Rosa's friends asked what she had done in the summer,she made up something that was not6. Remembering the travelmagazines she had read, she told her classmates that she and her father hadgone to England.

    When the class began studying England, MrThomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could7 about her trip to England!

Last Saturday evening, my old car broke down on my way home. It was 25 kilometres away from my 1 , so I wanted to take a bus. 

I went to a bus stop and then a bus came. But it was not the 2 bus for my town. The bus driver was 3 and she told me that I needed to take the No. 5 bus. I 4 there for about thirty minutes, but no bus came. At last a 5 came to me and a woman walked out of it. I got a surprise. She was 6 the bus driver. 

"I got to7 that the bus to your town couldn't come, so I come back here. I can't8 you here," she said. "9 my car and I will drive you home. " Her words made me feel really10 .

On the way she told me a11 . A week ago, there wasn't gas(汽油) in her car. An old man drove12 to a gas station and then back to her car. When I got to my house, I wanted to pay some money to13 her, but she didn't take it. "I only want to do something for others, " she said.

I learnt a lot from the woman,14 I joined a club called "Giving a Hand" later. Now I can also do something to15 those in need.

Many people go back to work in big cities at the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(开头) of the new year. They want to live in cities because of these {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(优势).

First of all, you can go shopping for almost everything in shops or online. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(百) of people shop in supermarkets every day. There you can buy {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(新鲜的) fruit and vegetables. Many people like {#blank#}5{#/blank#}( 比较) the prices before buying something. Some shops are {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(开着的) for the whole day. If you buy something online, you {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(收到) it in just a few days. Second, in big cities, students can have more interesting lessons each term. They have a better chance of getting good {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(分数) than students in the countryside. Besides, it's easy to get {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(到处) in big cities. That's because people can take the underground to someplaces that are far away. And it is usually {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(便宜的).

So where do you like to live, in big cities or in the countryside?

My name is Jim. I have a nice family. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}They are my grandparents, parents, uncle, aunt, cousins, sister and me. I'm the one in red.

Can you see my grandparents? {#blank#}2{#/blank#}My grandfather is 67 and my grandmother is 65. They are nice.

My parents are next to my grandpa. My father is a teacher in a middle school. My mother likes dogs.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} He is my uncle, my grandparents' son. My aunt is English. Now she is in China with my uncle. Those are their daughter and son.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} She likes yellow. Her jacket is yellow. My cousins and my sister are in No. 5 Middle School. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

Ben and Tim are good friends. They were very active before. They played games together outdoors a lot. But now Tim is not active any more. He has some bad habits. He watches too much TV and plays too many computer games. Ben worries about him.

Ben sends his friend a poem:

You can be a couch potato and watch TV all day.

But don't do that. There is another way!

Move your body, get out and have fun.

Fresh air, a bike ride, playing in the sun!

Tim gets home from school. There is a letter at his front door. It's Ben's poem! He reads the poem and he laughs. He writes a poem back to his friend:

Your poem is funny,

But I feel really lucky.

With a true friend on my side,

My world will be open wide.

Let's meet tomorrow at six o' clock,

And we can go for a good walk.

Hello, I'm Kate. I study at a middle school in Ningbo. There are different kinds of sports clubs. They make our school life fun. I'm a basketball lover. There are a lot of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}of famous basketball players in my room. Liz is my best friend. She loves sports, too. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}are her favorite things. She {#blank#}3{#/blank#}two baseballs, three ping-pong bats and a tennis racket. But she can't play tennis. I can't, either. Mr. May says he can teach {#blank#}4{#/blank#}to play tennis. Wow, that {#blank#}5{#/blank#}great!