Dear Kangkang,

      Can you help me? I have too many rules! I have to get up at five thirty every morning. My mom goes to work at 6:30 a. m, so I have to cook breakfast! After breakfast, I run to school because I can't be late. At school I have more rules. Don't be noisy and don't talk in class, and so on.

      After school, Dad says I can't go out with my friends. I can only go out with them on weekends. I can't have a rest after school. Why? Because it's a rule again—do my homework after dinner. I also have rules for sleeping! I have to go to bed before half past nine. Rules, rules, rules!

      I can't stand（忍受）them any more. What can I do?

      Write to me soon!

Yours,

Li Lei   

    Mr. and Mrs. Brown are our English teachers. They have two sons. They are Dylan and Cole. They are students in the same class in Beijing Yucai School. Dylan and Cole are very cute and they look the same. They have big eyes and blond hair. Their mouths are small.

    Dylan and Cole like different colors and different clothes. Dylan likes black. He is in a black T—shirt and black pants. His shoes are black, too. But Cole's favorite color is blue. He is in a blue coat and blue pants. His shoes are pink. They look very cool.

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    The sea has always interested man. From it he can get food, minerals (矿石) and treasure. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}But he could not go far under its surface.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#}However, he is not a fish. He must breathe air, so he can't stay under the water's surface for any length of time. To explore deep water, man faces even more dangers and problems.

    A diver who wants to stay under water for more than a few minutes must breathe air or a special mixture of gases. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}He can carry a tank of air on his back and breathe through a nose and a mouthpiece. Water weighs 800 times as much as air. Tons of water pushes against a diver deep in the sea. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    When a diver is under great pressure, his blood takes in some of the gases he breathes. As he rises to surface, the water pressure becomes less. If the diver rises too quickly, the gases in his blood form bubbles(气泡). The diver is then suffering from the bends(减压病). The bends can cause a diver to double up in pain. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. His body is under great pressure.

B. For thousands of years, he could sail on it.

C. They can even kill him.

D. He can wear a diving suit and have air pumped to him from above.

E. Man wants to explore deep into the sea.

    When I was young, my family lived a hard life in the country. The roads in the country are not good. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} One evening we were visiting some relatives and the weather was very bad.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Dad carried me on his back. Mum gave her coat to my brother. We walked together in the rain for more than one hour.

    I was fat at that time and Dad held me for a long time.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} He almost fell down many times. I tried to get down and walk myself, but I couldn't do anything because I was just a little kid.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} The rain had come through the leak(有裂缝的) roof and water was everywhere. Mum put bowls all around the house to try to catch the rain. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} She carefully placed us on the remaining dry place. I fell asleep soon. When I opened my eyes, I found Dad and Mum were sleeping in chairs, both having caught a bad cold.

A. As you can imagine they are difficult to walk on.

B. I thought he must be tired.

C  It began to rain on our way back home.

D. Then she put me and my elder brother to bed.

E. We didn't say any word on the way.

F. When we arrived home, the inside of our house was full of rain water.

Dear Mr. Zhang,

    Next week, a group of exchange students (交换生) from the USA will come to visit Taizhou.

    I make a plan for them. We will eat breakfast at our school first. Then we can take them to Mei Lanfang's Former House (故居) by bus. It takes only 25minutes. They can learn to sing Beijing opera there. In the afternoon, we will go to Tiandehu Park and take some photos there. In the park we can have a picnic as our lunch. Then we will go to the cinema to watch a new film. After that the girls can go to the shopping malls to buy things they like and we will take the boys to our school playground to play football for one and a half hours.

    In the evening we shall invite(邀请) them for dinner in a restaurant. They can try Chinese food. I' m sure they will have a good time in our city.

Yours love,

Tony