The students were having their chemistry (化学)class. Miss Li was telling the children what water is like. After that, she asked her students, “What's water?” No one spoke for a few minutes. Miss Li asked again,“Why don't you answer my question? Didn't I tell you what water is like? ”

    Just then a boy put up his hand and said, “Miss Li, you told us that water has no colour and no smell. But where to find such kind of water? The water in the river behind my house is always black and it has abad smell.” Most of the children agreed with him.

“I'm sorry, children,” said the teacher, “our water is getting dirtier. That's a problem.”

    Look! Here is a photo of my family. The old lady is my grandma. She was a singer many years ago. My grandpa was a doctor. He worked in a hospital. My parents are teachers. They teach in different schools. My father teaches Chinese. But my mother teaches English. They like working at school. The lovely girl is me. I'm Lili. I like dancing.

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    Most people have flown a kite or have seen one ride and dip(下降）in strong spring wind. Not so many people know that kites were first made in China thousands of years ago. The ancient Chinese were making and flying kites even before they were writing.

    A long time ago, the Chinese made kites to use in wars. They would fly these war kites in the dark. The kites were fixed(固定）so that they made strange sounds. Men at war would hear these sounds and run away. They thought those strange sounds were made by gods in the sky.

    The ancient Chinese also flew kites to bring good luck and to make their crops grow rich and tall. Sometimes they tied long strings(细绳）and hooks(钩) to their kites. Then they would fly the kites over water, letting the hooks hang down to catch fish.

    The Chinese use sticks(树枝), strings and paper for their kites. Some of these kites look like animals or trees. Others look like birds or houses.

    I have a friend. He is Jack. He is eleven years old. He is in primary school. He likes eating hamburgers, hot dogs and ice cream. He eats them every day. He doesn't like vegetables or fruit. He eats tomatoes once a week. He goes to school from Monday to Friday. He likes English and maths. He doesn't like PE. He never plays sports. On weekends, he often stays at home. He does his homework and watches TV. He likes watching cartoons on TV. He also often plays on a mobile

phone(手机). I don't think he is healthy or strong.

Landfills increase pollution problems by Peter Li

Although there are three landfills in Rainbow City, people believe that the landfills will all be full in 20 years because we are producing more rubbish than expected.

Pollution problems are getting worse. Therefore people ought to think about solutions. The environment will get better if people start doing something to help.

Miss Huo from the Environment Department talked about ways to reduce pollution. The Pollution is getting serious. Therefore, we ought to recycle more and stop throwing so many things away without thinking about the environment.

Now we're recycling things such as paper and plastic bags, but that's not enough.

We have to think about recycling more things such as batteries, washing machines and rice cookers.

There are many things we can do to protect our environment. We should take action now so that we all can live in a better environment.