There are many mice in the city. One day, a man comes. He says, "I can help you. Give me a bag of gold." "Sure," the people answer. The man plays magic music. All the mice walk behind him. There are no mice in the city now. The man says, "Give me the gold, please." The people don't want to give him the gold. The man plays magic music again. All the children walk behind him. The people have to give him a bag of gold. The children come home.

    Spring Festival is an important festival in China. At Spring Festival, people buy some flowers and put them in their houses. The children get red packets(红包) from their grandparents. They burn firecrackers(爆竹). And they have a big family dinner. They eat dumplings. They can see dragon dances(舞龙) and lion dances(舞狮). It's very interesting.

    Sandwich was an Englishman. He lived in the 18th century. Sandwich was rich, but he liked to play cards for money. He often played for 24 hours, and didn't even stop to have his meals. He asked his servants to bring him some meat and bread. He put the meat between the two pieces of bread and held the food in his left hand while he played cards with his right hand. People liked Sandwich's way. From then, people ate bread and meat as Sandwich did. From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food sandwich today.

The Twin's Birthday

    Today is the twins' birthday. They are twelve. Jim, Mike, Kate and Bill are the twins' friends. They want to buy some things for them. There is a big shop near their school. It sells a lot of things. From the shop people can buy some food, some drink and some school things, like cakes, apples, milk, oranges, hamburgers, exercise books and so on. The shop closes very late. So they can buy things on their way home. They buy a big cake, two boxes of colour pencils, an orange yo-yo (溜溜球) and some nice exercise books. They want to buy two dolls and two toy trains for the twins. But all the dolls and toys are too expensive.

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