Dear Mom,

Today is Sunday. I don't go {#blank#}1{#/blank#} school. I stay at home. So I can {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (write) to you now. Every day, I go to school {#blank#}3{#/blank#} seven thirty in the morning. We have four {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (lesson) in the morning. We read {#blank#}5{#/blank#} write in Chinese at school.

There are fifty-five students in my class. Four of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they) are Americans. The other students are {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (China). Chinese people are friendly. Now I have some Chinese {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (friend). My classmates {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (be) all my friends. They teach {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (I) Chinese. I can speak a little Chinese now. Please don't worry about me.

Yours,
Kate

Computers make people's lives really easy. People can use their computers for working, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (shop), or playing games. Laptop (笔记本) computers make people's lives even {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (easy) as people can take laptops anywhere. They can work, shop, or play games any place {#blank#}3{#/blank#} any time. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} there is a problem with laptops. People can {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (burn) by them!

People who sit with laptops on {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they) legs for hours and hours have noticed they get dark marks on their legs. The hot laptop is toasting the skin. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (doctor) have noticed more people show up with "toasted skin syndrome (综合症)". The marks are not {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (danger), but they look strange because they are just in one spot on people's legs.

Companies that make computers tell people not {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (let) warm computers touch bare skin for a long time. Wearing pants and putting a laptop's case under the laptop is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (usual) enough to protect one's skin from the computer's heat.

My cousin Tommy was born in a small city in 2009. It's in the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (西方) of Germany, and it has a population of about 2,000,000. There are lots of things to do, with a library, a park, a zoo and a{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (体育馆). Tommy likes playing basketball, he thinks it is an {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (激动人心的) sport. He does well in it. The city is also famous for its beautiful lakes and some famous {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (大学).

Last weekend, the weather was fine. Tommy's classmates wanted to play with him. Tommy {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (提议) to go to the zoo. There were many people in it, so it's very {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (拥挤的). The children were all interested in the animals from foreign countries, especially pandas. They all {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (同意) that pandas were very cute. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (然而), they were sorry to know that pandas and many other animals were in {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (危险). Many wild animals don't have a safe place to live, and what's more, there isn't enough clean water to drink. At last, they decided to save their pocket money to help {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (保护) animals.