Mrs. Green is going to give a birthday party for Mary (Mary is her daughter). Mary is going to be thirteen years old. Twenty friends of Mary's are going to come to the party. They are all girls. Mrs. Green is getting ready for the party. Mrs. White is helping her.

  “Let's make a pretty cake,” Mrs. White says to Mrs. Green.

  “OK. Thank you very much.”

    Mrs. Green is going shopping now. She's going to buy fruit for the party. Mrs. Green buys some fruit. She buys a lot of pears, oranges and bananas. Then she goes home.

    It's three o'clock in the afternoon. Everything is ready. Now the first girl is arriving. The party is going to start in thirty minutes.

    There are four seasons in China.   March, April and May make the spring.   June, July and August make the summer. September, October and November make the autumn. The rest(剩下的)of months make the winter.

The Australia's seasons are opposite(相反的). When it's spring in China, it is autumn in Australia.

Australia is in the south(南方)of the earth. June, July and August are the winter months. The summer is in December. January and February. It's very hot there, too.

Near the North Pole(北极)there are two seasons. They are summer and winter. The nights in winter are long. For more than two months you can't see the sun, even at noon. In summer the days are long. For more than two months, the sun never sets(落下), and there's no night.

Zhang Peng：Hi, Wang Ping. You look fine. How heavy are you?

Wang Ping：I'm 48 kilograms. You are thinner than me, but you look taller than before. How tall are you?

Zhang Peng：I'm 1.6 metres and 45 kilograms.

Wang Ping：Oh, really? You are 0.05 metres taller than me. But I'm 3 kilograms heavier than you. You should eat more.

Zhang Peng：OK, I will. Thank you.

    There are many more and more animals in danger at present, so it is our responsibility to protect them. It's wrong for people to hunt animals for their meat and fur, for they are our good friends. We should protect them instead of killing them.

    Pandas, which are one of the endangered animals, live in the forests and live on bamboo leaves. They can just live safely in the natural protection zones. We should stop killing animals and protect them.

    My name is Linda. My birthday is in winter. Winter is my favorite season. Christmas is in December. I can get many presents. It's very cold in January and February, but I can play in the snow, and I can go skating.

    Mrs. Jones is an American doctor. She is now in China. She works in a children's hospital in Shanghai. She likes the children and she likes to work for children. She works hard in the day time and learns Chinese in the evening school. She also learns Chinese from the Chinese doctors and her Chinese friends. Now she can speak some Chinese. She can read and write some Chinese, too. She says it's not easy to learn Chinese well. Mr. Jones, her husband is a teacher. He teaches English in the No. 5 Middle School. He works from Monday to Friday. He teaches3 classes every day.