Is it good to be in the middle? Sometimes, no, like when you're in the middle seat on a long car ride. But sometimes, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, like when you're in the middle of a great movie. What will happen next? Middle school is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} bit like that.

Middle school is called middle school {#blank#}3{#/blank#} it's in the middle of your school years. Elementary school is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} you. High school and possibly college still await(等待) you. Middle school often includes sixth, seventh, and eighth {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, but you might go to middle school earlier or later, depending on how it's done in your area.

    For a kid, going to middle school is often a big change:

       ·First, it often means moving to a new {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, which takes some time to adjust(调整) to.

      ·Second, it may mean taking a different bus, with different students.

      ·Third, the friends you {#blank#}7{#/blank#} in elementary school may end up going to different middle schools.

    All that can make you {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a bit scared on the first day of school.

Other things that probably will be different are the teachers and the work. Have you heard that middle school teachers are really mean and the homework is really, really {#blank#}9{#/blank#}? Oh, dear. We've heard those, too, but usually they're not {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. Yes, you'll like some teachers better than others, but middle schools are not special for teachers!

    I have a good friend，Joanna．I  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}her well．She is a nice girl but she is not very {#blank#}2{#/blank#}．You can see books, pens and notebooks are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in her room．In the school, she always asks．" {#blank#}4{#/blank#}is my pen? Where are my books? And where are ．．．?" I often {#blank#}5{#/blank#}her．This morning, Joanna can't {#blank#}6{#/blank#}her English notebook， and she {#blank#}7{#/blank#}find it．so she asks me to help her．

Matt: Why were you late for class today, Kevin?

Kevin: My alarm clock didn't go off! I kept  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  , and when I woke up it was already 8:00 a.m.!

Matt: Oh, no!

Kevin: So I just quickly put on some clothes and  {#blank#}2{#/blank#} out of the door. Matt: You didn't eat breakfast, did you?

Kevin: No, I didn't even brush my  {#blank#}3{#/blank#} or wash my face! But before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.

Matt: Then how did you get here?

Kevin: {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  , Carl's dad saw me on the street and gave me a lift in his car.

Matt: Well, at  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  by the time you got to school, you were only five minutes late for class.

    Goldilocks was tired. She saw three chairs in different {#blank#}1{#/blank#}: big, middle and small. After she tried {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, she sat on the small one. But it was broken(坏了) because Goldilocks was very heavy.

    Then, Goldilocks {#blank#}3{#/blank#} into the bedroom. There {#blank#}4{#/blank#} three beds. She chose the small one and slept in it.

    When Baby Bear saw his empty (空的) {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and broken chair, he cried. He found Goldilocks in his bed and {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, "There's the bad girl!" It woke up(唤醒) Goldilocks. She jumped up and ran away.