Dear Han Mei,

      Thank you for your letter. I  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  China very much. And I  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  to go to China with my parents. We want {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Beijing. I know something {#blank#}4{#/blank#} China from your letters. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. I don't know much about Chinese food. Could you tell    {#blank#}6{#/blank#} something about it?
I like  {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  and fish very much. You tell me you {#blank#}8{#/blank#} eat rice, vegetables and chicken.   And your {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  food is jioazi. What kind of food   {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  drink can I have in China? Please tell me.

    Now we meet Fantine. She is young and beautiful, and in love with a man in Paris. But she {#blank#}1{#/blank#} no family, and no money.

    Men are not kind to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. The man in Paris walks away, and leaves poor Fantine with a little girl {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Cosette. Fantine must find work, but {#blank#}4{#/blank#}?

    Fantine has a child but no husband, and a woman without a husband is nothing. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} than nothing. People are not kind to a woman with a child but no husband.

    They turn their faces away, they close their doors, they say, "There's no work for a woman {#blank#}6{#/blank#} you."

    Fantine likes her daughter {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, but what can she do? So, in 1818 in a village near Paris, she leaves her little daughter with Monsieur and Madame Thenardier. They ask for seven francs a month. Fantine {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the money, holds her daughter in her arms for the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} time, and leaves. She takes the road for her home town, and tears are {#blank#}10{#/blank#} down her face.