We have a two-day holiday every week. We don't have any lessons on Saturdays or Sundays, so every weekend I have a good time.

    On weekends, I like taking a trip. I sometimes go to the country with my classmates by bus to breathe(呼吸) the fresh air, watch the green hills and the blue sea, and walk in the beauty of the countryside. Sometimes I go for a picnic in the open air with my friends by bike. There we draw many pictures and take photos. Sometimes I go to visit a place of interest with my parents by car.

    Sometimes on Saturdays, I take a long trip with my parents. We don't go home at night and make a fire on the hill. We sit around it, singing and dancing happily. If we feel tired, we get together, look at the stars and chat for a long time. And then sleep for a few hours.

    My weekends are always full of interest and happiness.

    In North America, people are always in a hurry. Children have special lessons or sports activities after school. Parents often work late and don't get home until 7 or 8 o'clock at night. More than 50% of women work at full—time jobs, and many people do part—time work.

    When a family wants to eat a meal together, often(A) there isn't enough time to prepare the food.  That is why fast food is so popular in North America.(B) People spend about 40% of their money buying fast food.

    Fast food is the food ____(C)___ pizza, sandwiches or fried chicken. People can buy the food from a restaurant chain(连锁) like Pizza Hut, McDonald's or KFC. (D) Fast food saves work and time, but it is usually junk food.

    Fast food is popular in many countries. American fast food companies(公司) now have restaurants all over the world. But not everyone is happy about the spread(扩张)of North American fast food. Some people in Italy want to fight against(抵制) it . (E)They don't want any more fast food chains to open in their country. They also want to fight against the spread of fast food everywhere in the world.

    Marco Polo was from Venice, Italy. In 1271, at the age of 17, Marco went on a trip with his father and uncle to China. Today people often travel to different places around the world. But it was very hard for people from Europe to visit China then. After three and a half years, the Polos reached China in 1275.

    While he was there, Marco Polo worked for Kublai Khan, the emperor of China. He was able to learn and experience many things that were new to Europeans. In his diary, he wrote, "Kublai Khan's palace is the greatest I've ever seen. The streets of the new capital, Dadu, are so straight and so wide." Paper money also took him by surprise, since it was not yet in use in the West at that time. Homes were heated with "black stones… which burn like wood." Those stones were coal, and most of the Europeans knew little about it then.

After 17 years in China, Marco and his family finally returned to Venice. After he returned home, Marco completed a book called The Travels of Marco Polo, full of facts about his wonderful experiences in China.

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    Mickey Wilson set out to have fun skiing on a Colorado mountain. But he ended up saving a man's life.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}The story was published on Facebook and had been shared thousands of times in the past 24hours.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Chairlift carry people from the bottom of a mountain to its top, so they can ski down the hill. Wilson's friends was wearing a bag on his back. When it was time for him to get off the chairlift, the bag became caught.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}The lift circled around and started to bring him back down the mountain. The man was hanging from the chairlift, with the bag tied around his neck {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Other skiers gathered under the man's chair and tried to think of a way to reach him, but they could not get him down.

    Wilson had an idea, he climbed up a very tall tree and then climbed across the chairlift's wire to reach his friend. He used a life to cut off the strap of the bag that was caught .His friend fell over three meters into the snow where rescue workers were waiting.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Wilson said he was confident to help his friend because of his e xperience as a professional slackliner.(职业绳索运动员)

A. He could not get off.

B. Wilson said his friend was not able to breathe.

C. Wilson said his friend became caught on a chairlift.

D. They brought him down the mountain and took him to a hospital .

E. Later, Wilson used social media to report on his story of rescuing a friend.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Being angry doesn't really solve much, but what people do when they feel angry is important. The goal is to calm down and try to solve what is bothering you. This is hard for some kids and adults, too. Instead of calming down, some kids might keep getting more and more upset until they explode like a volcano!

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You can train you temper.

A. You can train you temper.

B. Some kids get angry more often or more easily than some other kids.

C. Kids should be allowed to express their feelings, even angry ones.

D. Everybody gets angry sometimes.

E. In fact, they usually mean that a kid behaves badly when feeling angry.