Tim: Hi, Lucy, this is my family photo.

Lucy: Is this your mother?

Tim: Yes, it is.She is a nurse.

Lucy: What's your father's job?

Tim: He is a driver.

Lucy: Is this your baby sister?

Tim: Yes, it is. She's two years old.

    Mary is a little girl. She is only four. She is not at school. She can't read or write. But her sister Joan is a schoolgirl. She is ten years old. She can read and write.

    One day, Joan sees her little sister in the room. She is at the table. There is a pencil on her hand. She is writing.

    "What are you writing, Mary?" she asks.

    "I'm writing a letter to my friend Rose."

    "Buy how can you? You can't write," says her sister.

    "Well," says Mary, "it doesn't matter. Rose can't read"

    It's eight o'clock in the evening. The Wangs are at home. Mr. Wang is reading a newspaper. Mrs. Wang is washing the bowls in the kitchen. Alice is sitting on the floor. She's playing with her doll. Eric is drawing a monkey in his bedroom. Grandma is tired. She's sitting in the sofa. The TV is loud, but she's sleeping.

    Jim comes from England. He lives in China with his father and mother now. He likes China and Chinese food. From Monday to Friday he goes to school. And he has no time to go home for lunch, so he has lunch at school. The lunch at his school is good. He eats fish, meat, vegetables and fruit. Jim can use chopsticks well now.

Landfills increase pollution problems by Peter Li

Although there are three landfills in Rainbow City, people believe that the landfills will all be full in 20 years because we are producing more rubbish than expected.

Pollution problems are getting worse. Therefore people ought to think about solutions. The environment will get better if people start doing something to help.

Miss Huo from the Environment Department talked about ways to reduce pollution. The Pollution is getting serious. Therefore, we ought to recycle more and stop throwing so many things away without thinking about the environment.

Now we're recycling things such as paper and plastic bags, but that's not enough.

We have to think about recycling more things such as batteries, washing machines and rice cookers.

There are many things we can do to protect our environment. We should take action now so that we all can live in a better environment.