Three years ago,we lived in a small house.There was a small tree near the house. There was a small dog in my house.Now we live in a big house.There is a big tree near the house.There are three dogs in my house.

    Amy's home is far from school. Every day she gets up early. First, she goes to the bus stop on foot at7: 10 a.m. Then she goes to the post office by bus. At last she goes to school on foot.

    I have many toy animals. Look! This is a monkey. It is lovely. I like it very much. That's an elephant. It is big and strong. What are these? They're pigs. They're cute and fat. Where's my dog? Oh, it is under the table.

    Let's go to the nature park. There are many trees and flowers in the park. There is a river in the park. There are many fish in the river. You can go boating. You can fish. You can swim. You can play football, too.

    Look at me. I'm Zhang Peng. I'm a boy. I'm tall and thin. I have a small mouth. My eyes are big. I have a Teddy bear(泰迪熊). It has two small eyes and a big nose. It's very cute. I like it. Where is it? Is it on the desk? No! Is it in the box? No! Oh. Look! It's on my bed.

There aremany idioms in China. Most of them have only four Chinese words. But there arerich stories in the Chinese idiom book. Do you want to know more about theidioms? Let's take a look.

In theSpring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu and the State of Yue were neighbours.But there were always wars between them.

During onewar, Wu defeated Yue. Goujian, the king of Yue, was caught. Fuchai, the king ofWu, sent Goujian to do some hard work, like feeding horses. Goujian was veryangry, but he didn't say anything. He just did what Fuchai asked him to do. WhenFuchai got sick, Goujian looked after him day and night.

Threeyears later, Fuchai let Goujian go back to his own state. After getting home,Goujian began to plan his revenge(复仇). He didn't want to forget his hard time. So he slept on thebrushwood at night and tasted the gall every morning. The brushwood was coldand the gall was bitter, just like his days in Wu. Goujian kept asking himself,"Did you forget the past time three years?"

Goujianworked hard all the time. He worked with farmers and trained with soldiers. Hemade his people rich and his state strong. A few years later, Goujian led hisarmy to defeat Wu.