Children across the world are taking pictures of their school meals. They are sending these pictures over the Internet to a young girl in Scotland. Then she shares the pictures and stories with people around the world.

    The girl's name is Martha. She likes to write. So Martha decided to start her own blog. Every day, Martha writes on the Internet about the meals she eats at school. She also takes pictures of the food.

    Martha is very honest about the food. She does not just describe the food. She judges (评价) the taste of the food. She also judges how healthy the food is. Sometimes she likes the food, and sometimes she does not. Now, other people send pictures to Martha. Students around the world share their pictures of their school food!

    Martha also started her blog for another important reason. She began to raise money for the organization (组织) Mary's Meals. Mary's Meals works in the East African country of Malawi . It provides food for children in schools. Martha encourages her readers to send money to Mary's Meals to help build a kitchen.

    Martha hoped to raise about 10,000 dollars. But the total reached 100,000 dollars and still keeps on growing!

    Martha's blog has also helped to improve meals at her school. Martha and her school friends found their meals improved since she started writing her blog.

    No one knows what will happen to Martha's blog in future. But already this girl has helped to change the eating experience of many children just by sharing pictures of her school meals.

    Isaac Newton, the great British scientist, is often so deep in his thoughts that he will forget to eat his dinner.

    One day his friend came to have dinner with him. Dinner was put on the table but Newton didn't come out of his study（书房）. His friend sat down and waited for him. After waiting for quite a long time, he decided that Newton must be so deep in some new theory that he forgot all about the dinner. So he began to eat the chicken without Newton.

    When he finished, he thought he would play a joke on his friend. He put all the chicken bones（骨头）back on the dish and covered them with the dish over. Then he left Newton's house. He was quite certain that his joke would work.

    Several hours later, Newton came out of his study, feeling very hungry. He saw the table was ready for dinner and so he sat down. When he lifted the cover and saw the bones of the chicken, he was greatly surprised. He turned, looked at the clock, and saw that it was long past his usual time for dinner.

    "Well, well," he said to himself, "I thought I ate nothing, but I am wrong." He got up from table and went back to his study and began to work again.

Dear ninth-graders,

This week, you are taking a number of important tests, but there is something more important that you need {#blank#}1{#/blank#} know: These tests can't measure (衡量) all the things that make you wonderful and special. The results of these tests can't tell you everything.

There {#blank#}2{#/blank#}not any tests to measure how kind you are to your friends, or how much you love to draw. The people who mark the tests don't know how helpful you are to your Mom and Dad, or how caring you are when playing {#blank#}3{#/blank#} others in the playground. They don't know how bravely you share your weekend stories with your friends, or your performance in sports, music and art. Besides, these tests will not measure how much you have improved on some-thing, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}how much you love a certain subject.

We hope you can know about these and try your best. Always remember that there is no exam in the world {#blank#}5{#/blank#} can measure all the wonderful things that make you, YOU!

From,

Your English teachers

要求: 

1. 语句通顺, 意思连贯, 语法正确, 书写规范; 

2. 必须包含所给提示问题, 并做适当拓展; 

3. 词数不少于80。(文章开头已给出, 不计入总词数) 

Dear Sandy, 

I'm glad to hear from you. I know you're going to have dinner at your Chinese friend's house. Here is some advice for you.

……

Yours, 

Li Hua 

One day, New York was struck(侵袭) by a terrible rainstorm. The streets were full 1  water and the underground system almost came to a stop. 

Unluckily, this happened during the morning rush hours. Many people who were going to work were 2  to go home. Some tried their best to 3  a taxi or to get on a bus. Still others faced the storm 4 . walking miles to get to work. 

I happened to be one of the people on the way to work that morning. I went from an underground line to another only to find that most service had 5 . After making my way through crowds of people, I finally found an underground line that was 6 . 

However, there were so many people waiting to 7  the underground that I could not even get down the stairs to the 8 . So I took the train going in the 9  direction, and then turned back to the downtown train. Finally, after what seemed like forever, the train 10  my stop. Then I had to walk several blocks in the heavy rain. 11  I finally got to my office, I was tired. And I was totally 12  through. 

My co-workers and I spent most of the day drying off. 

When it was 5:00 pm, I was ready to go home. I was going to 13  off my computer when I received an email from Garth, my director: I would like to thank all of you who had the 14  and finally came to work. It is always reassuring(令人感到宽慰的), at times like these, when workers so clearly show their attention and devotion(奉献) to their 15 . Thank you.