If you enjoy reading, don't miss Shakespeare and Company when you visit Paris. It's a famous English-language bookstore. An American, Sylvia Beach, opened the first Shakespeare and Company in history in 1919. She did more than selling books. Her bookstore was also a library, and she even had beds for writers visiting there. Ms Beach was not only kind to people but also good at choosing books, so her bookstore was often visited by writers like Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. But in 1941, after the Germans took power in Paris, Ms Beach had to close her bookstore.

    In 1951, another American, George Whitman, opened another English-language bookstore, Le Mistral, in Paris. Since then, just as Ms Beach did, Mr Whitman had also made his bookstore a library for people to borrow books, and a free hotel for writers to stay in. To remember Ms Beach, Mr Whitman changed the name of his bookstore to Shakespeare and Company in 1964, two years after Ms Beach died.

    Next time when you are in Paris, don't forget to visit this nice bookstore and see if you can spend a night there.

    Mary is a six-year-old girl. She often goes to the shop and goes to the church (教堂) with her mother. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    One day, when they are in the church, the pastor(牧师)asks, "Who wants to go to the heaven(天堂) ? Please put up your hands. "All the people but Mary put up their hands. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

    "I want to go home with my mother," answers Mary."

    When they get home, it is dark. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} She is very busy. She washes some clothes.  She cleans the table and the chairs. Then she wants to sweep the floor. But the broom (扫帚) isn't in the room.

    "Could you help me, Mary? Would you like to go. out and bring the broom for me?"

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    "Never fear, God can help you,"

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} She puts her hand out of the door.

"Just because you can't see something, that doesn't mean it's not there." This old saying is quite meaningful for British artist Willard Green. The items he creates are so tiny that most of them fit on the head of a pin (针). You can see them clearly through a microscope (显微镜).

At every one of his art shows, people always ask the same question, "▲"

The answer is "Very, very carefully." So carefully, in fact, that he actually slows his breath down and works in between breaths. Willard usually works patiently under a microscope using special tools that he creates. To paint his works, he uses the hair from a fly(苍蝇) as a paintbrush.

Creating these detailed works is a very long and difficult process, and it isn't always enjoyable. "It is a terrible dream when I start but a nice dream when I finish," he says. A single item can take at least several weeks to complete.

People have asked Willard why he chose to do something that needed effort and took time. When he was young, Willard was not a strong student. He had difficulty in reading and spelling words. Some kids used to call him a loser. This made him feel small, so working on little things helped him to feel big. The smaller his work got, the bigger he felt. A newspaper reporter said, "Though his works of art are small, Willard is a great artist!"

Sarah Chang loves playing the violin very much. She says that the violin is one of the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (close) music to the human voice. Sarah was three years old when she learned how {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (play) the violin. Her parents helped her a lot. At the age of five, she {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (accept) as a student at a famous music school called Juilliard. Her parents were amazed!

Sarah's father was her first teacher. He taught Sarah {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (he) and often took her to the concert. Sarah's mother is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} music teacher and she helped Sarah learn to read music. She also wrote music {#blank#}6{#/blank#} her free time.

Sarah's whole life has been wrapped up in her musical talent. She started to play with {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (musician) when she was eight years old. So far, she {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (record) some of her music on CDs. A famous musician named Ychudi Menuhin said that Sarah was the most perfect violinist he had ever heard.

Sarah {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (usual) travels to play with different people. She says that her whole life is planned. Sometimes, she doesn't like that. She wishes that she had more free time. However, she also says that {#blank#}10{#/blank#} she doesn't touch a violin for a few days, her fingers will miss playing. For her, violin is the most important thing in life.

Good morning to you! 1 name is Kate White. 2 is my given name. White is my 3 name. I'm 4 English girl. I am tall and I have blond hair and big blue 5 . My telephone 6 is 6875-9013. I'm in No. 2 Junior High School now. Welcome 7 our school! Mr. Yang is my Chinese 8 . I like his Chinese 9 . Li Ming is my new classmate. He is a Chinese 10 . He likes his Chinese class, too. Li Ming and I are 11 friends. Look! 12 is that? Oh, it's a 13 . It's Li Ming's pen. Is the pen 14 ? No, it's not black. It's blue. His favorite 15 is blue. Do you want to know us? Please come to our school.