Today is Sunday. It's Lingling's birthday. She is fourteen years old. She wants to have a birthday party at home.

    She invites(邀请) her friends to the party, and one of them is her best friend, Mary. They come to Lingling's home at 6:00. They have some fruit and drinks at the party. They sing Happy Birthday in English to Lingling. After that, they eat a big birthday cake and play games. All of them are very happy. Lingling's friends go home at half past ten in the evening.

    Animals are our friends. Sometimes they do funny things. Look at the pictures from an English newspaper. The Daily Telegraph chose some funny animal pictures from 2015. Get ready for some good laughs.

①Kate: My friends and I really like to watch the monkey take pictures.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} 

②Mike: My favorite animal is a squirrel. The squirrel can eat nuts.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} 

③Gina: I don't like animals, but I enjoy watching chipmunks smoking. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 

④Jack: I want to go to an American aquarium to watch the whale's show. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} 

⑤Scott: I really want to know how Chaska can read newspapers. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  

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    Breakfast cereals(谷类早餐食物) are popular in many countries. In the USA, they are served in nine out of ten homes. They are made from grains(谷物)such as corn, wheat and rice. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    In the beginning, cereals were healthy food. In the late 1800s, some doctors in the USA made them in hospitals and gave them to their patients. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} However, this soon changed, and from the 19305, some companies began to add sugar to their cereals and sell them as children's food. They made a lot of money this way, but they weren't healthy food anymore. These days some children s cereals are 50% sugar {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    This is how cereal in different shapes, like stars and balls is made

    First, the grain is taken to the factory, where it is cleaned and checked.

    Then it is prepared for cooking. It is made into flour(粉) and mixed with other ingredients(原料){#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    When it is soft, it is put into special machines which make it into shapes like stars, circles or even letters.

    The shapes are baked（烘烤） in an oven to dry them. Then they are "puffed "in another machine to make them light and full of air.

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    In the old days, people got the news from the radio .In China, almost every family had a big radio in the 1970s. They usually put the big ⒈ _____________ on the table. ⒉ It was hard for people to carry it.

People could listen to some interesting stories and cross talks (相声) on the radio. People enjoyed the stories told by pingshu artists (评书艺术家) , such as Shan Tianfang, Yuan Kuocheng and Liu Lanfang. The famous stories were Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Legend of Yue Fei. People could also know the weather report from the radio. ⒊收音机在人们的生活中非常重要。

    Now great changes have taken place. People not only carry pocket radios, but also have MP4 players. They can get news from the TV, the mobile phone and the Internet. They can also communicate with friends by email. What a wonderful life we have now!

    We live on the earth. We use the sea around us. What do we take from the ocean? And what do we give to it?

    We take fishes from the ocean—millions of kilograms of fish, every year, to feed millions of people. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}We take minerals (矿物) from the ocean. We can get salt by evaporating (蒸发) seawater. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}such as gold. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Seaweed (海草) becomes food of many kinds—even candy and ice cream—as well as medicine. Believe it or not, fresh water is another gift from the sea. We can't drink ocean water. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}But ocean water becomes fresh water when the salts are removed. In the future, we will find ourselves depending more and more on fresh water from the sea.

    The sea gives us food, fertilizer, minerals, water and other gifts. What do we give the sea? We pollute the ocean all the time. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Throwing waste into the ocean is killing off sea life. Yet as the world population grows, we may need the sea and its gifts more than ever.

    We are finally learning that if we destroy our sea, we might also destroy ourselves. Hopefully, it is not too late.