Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The day after it has been known as Black Friday. It is the start of the holiday shopping season，and it has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the US since 2005.Most stores offer big sales on Black Friday. They open their doors quite early in the morning. They try to attract shoppers with big discounts. Some items(商品)like TVs and clothes are much cheaper than usual. Stores may even lose money on these items. They hope that shoppers will buy gifts for other people while they are in the store. Black Friday is a great time to go shopping. However，there are problems. The biggest one is that there are not enough low—priced items. Each store may only have a few. So people stand in long lines to get them. They may wait three to four hours before a store opens.

    Today is Lily's birthday. It's June 2nd . She gets some presents and cards from her friends. Her grandparents give her a lovely doll. Her mother buys her a lot of delicious food. She climbs mountains with her father. She is very happy today.

    Long long ago, there was a poor man. He had an orange tree. On the tree, there were many fine oranges. One of them was very big. It was as big as a ball. Nobody saw so big an orange. The poor man was very happy. He gave it to the King(国王). The King was so glad that he gave the man a lot of money for it.

    When a rich man heard of it, he said to himself, “It was only an orange. Why did the King give so much money for him? I would take my gold(金的) cup to the King. He would give me more money.”

    The next day when the King got the gold cup, he said to the rich man, “What a beautiful cup! I would show you something wonderful. This big orange is for you.”

    Life（生活）was different in my grandpa's hometown many years ago.

    In the past, people cooked on a fire. They didn't have TVs or radios. There were no buses. They had to live in small houses. They didn't have enough food.

    Now, there are lots of buses and cars in Grandpa's hometown. They live in big houses or buildings. They cook with natural gas（天然气）and have lots of food. They can use mobile phones（手机）. They even have computers and use the Internet.

    Hello, I'm Xiaoyong. I'm a clever boy. I'm ten. I like football and basketball. I don't like swimming and skipping. I like riding bikes, too. I have got (有) two toys. One is a car. The other is a ship. The car is blue. The ship is yellow. I like them very much.

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