My name is Tom Brown. I am an English boy. (1) I am twelve. I am a middle school student. From Monday to Friday I am very busy. We have six classes a day. At school, I like doing sports, (2) like playing basketball, tennis and soccer. So my favorite subject is P.E.. Mr. White is my P.E. teacher. He is very cool. After school, our P.E. teacher plays games with us. We students all like him. (3) I don't like math because it is too difficult for me. (4) But my math teacher Ms Smith says it is interesting and useful. So I must work hard on it.

    These days, a new kind of restaurant is becoming popular. People who go there can not only enjoy their meals, but also enjoy playing computer games and chatting on the Internet. Wink is the restaurant's name. It is in Los Angeles, and it's about fun and food.

    In Wink, there are no waiters or waitresses around you. The screens have replaced(取代)them. You can order the food you want by touching the screen in front of you and runners will bring it to the tables. You can also play video games with the people at the next table .The screens can show music videos, movies and so on. But mainly they are used to show video games.

    It's an interactive(互动的)restaurant where you will control your meal and your time. The service is fast and the runners know clearly where to go. There will be no waiting for a waiter and no misunderstandings(误解)in the kitchen. Different kinds of food are served at any time of the day. Wink is a place which hosts “room games”, where every table in the restaurant can have a video game competition at the same time.

    The owner of the restaurant hopes that Wink can make it easy for people to be interactive having fun and enjoying a delicious meal.

    Earth Hour started in Sydney on March 31st, 2007. It calls on families and buildings to turn off the lights from 20: 30 to 21:30 on the last Saturday night of March. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} A year later, on March 29, Earth Hour 2008 became a global activity and was supported by 50 million people from thirty-five countries. On March 28, 2010 over 100 cities in another eight countries took part in it. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} In 2012 in China, there were many cities taking part in this activity, especially some large cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai… Many citizens consciously( 有意识的) turned off lights in the hour. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} In colleges some students held some activities to make all the students leave their dormitories.

    It was 20:30, Beijing time. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} In Shanghai some people were taking a walk with their families or friends. And in Ningbo some young people were holding a party in a park, singing and dancing. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

    Earth Hour has a variety of activities, but the final goal is the same, that is focusing on(聚集) climate change and protecting the environment for individuals.

A. The people from the three cities felt very relaxed.

B. In 2007 more than 2.2 million homes and businesses turned off their lights.

C. And without lights, they could also enjoy themselves.

D. Some people in Beijing were having a nice talk with their friends.

E. Earth Hour came to China on that day, too.

A. Start Today

B. Ask for Help

C. Find Your Dream

D. Learn From Other People

E. From Dream to Real Life

    There was a little boy with a bad temper(脾气). His father gave him some nails(钉子)to drive into the fence(栅栏)when he lost his temper.

    The first day the boy drove 37 nails into the fence. Then it began to become less. He found it was easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

    Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to control his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

    The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but you look at the fence. It will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar(伤痕)just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound(伤口)is still there. A verbal(言语)wound is as bad as a physical one. It is important to practise self-control.

    We all have our own ways of sharing our life experiences with others.

    Photographers use cameras, artists use brushes, musicians use songs and writers use stories.

    Spencer Johnson's story Who Moved My Cheese? shows changes exist in(存在于) our life. Life changes and so do we. We must change ourselves to face the changing environment, or we will fail.

    Just look at the cycle (循环) of        Trees bud (发芽)in spring and in summer their leaves turn green. In autumn, their leaves start to fall onto the ground. When winter arrives, there are no leaves on trees. Next spring the cycle begins again. Since we know there are cycles in nature, we can prepare for them. We know it is colder in winter and hotter in summer, so we can dress properly.

    Since we accept the cycles of nature, we should also accept the changes in our life.

    We can prepare ourselves for changes by becoming more flexible(灵活的).We can regard the changes in our life as chances. As long as we keep changing ourselves, we can keep up with the changes in our life.