It's Sunday morning. The students of Class 3 are giving their classroom a good cleaning. Miss Huang, their teacher, is working with them. The children are busy. Some are carrying water; some are cleaning the windows; others are sweeping the floor. Zhang Hua is putting up a map on the wall. It is a map of China. Wang Fei and Wei Qing are mending some broken chairs. The children are listening to the radio while they are working. The classroom looks nice and bright after the cleaning. The children are very happy. They go home for lunch at noon.

    Hello，my name is Danny. I am a tall boy. I have a big face and two big eyes. I can read books and write English. I am a good student. I have a happy family. My father and mother are teachers. My father is 35 years old and my mother is 33 years old. My father is tall and thin. He can swim and dive. My mother isn't tall. But she's thin. She can draw nice pictures.

    A brown duck meets a sad cat and asks him, "Please tell me, OK? I can do a lot of things for you." "Oh, no. You can't." The cat shakes his head and goes away.

    The duck keeps up with the cat and asks him again. The cat cries, "I want to buy some flowers for my mother on Mother's Day. But I can't find the flowers." The duck claps his hands happily, "I see. I can help you."

The duck points to the other side of the river and says, "Look there. There are many beautiful flowers. "So the cat climbs up a tree, "Wow, how beautiful they are!"

    "But I can't swim. How can I get there?" The cat is worried. The duck says, "Don't worry. I can swim. You can just sit on my back."

In the river, the duck tells the cat, "If we help each other, we can do many things."

A: Hello, Sydney 8679132!

B: Hello, Mum!

A: Oh! Hello, Jack! How are you?

B: Fine, thanks, Mum. What about you?

A: I'm fine, too. How is it going there?

B: It's good. What's the weather like in Sydney?

A: It's very sunny here. Here is summer now. It's very hot.

How is the weather in Beijing?

B: Oh, there is a lot of snow here. It's very cold. Because it's winter here.

A: You'd better wear warm clothes.

B: OK, Mum. Don't worry. I like to play with snow.

To: liyun@penfriend. com

From: alice@ penfriend. com

Dear Li Yun,

    I am happy to be your pen friend. I live in Australia. I have a twin sister Ann. We look the same, but we don't like the same things. I like swimming, diving and riding my bike, but Ann likes drawing pictures and making kites. I like sports, but she likes art. I like beef and coffee, but she likes fruit and milk. Tell me something about you. What's your hobby?

Yours,

Alice