Emilyand Alex were happy when their family moved to a house with a very big garden. Theycould climb up trees, grow flowers and even play badminton. They liked to watchthe birds flying among the trees in the garden. They even started to put food outto attract（吸引）more birds.

    Everythingwas fine for a few days until one afternoon there was a strange bumping noise ona window. Emily went outside and found a small bird dead on the grass. Its neckseemed to be broken.

    "Itmust have flown into the window," Alex said when his sister Emily called himto have a look. "Ah, yes, look here. You can see the mark where it hit thewindow. There are a couple of tiny feathers stuck(粘贴) on the window."

    "Poorthing!" Emily said.

    Duringthe next month, another five birds died in the same way. "Why would they flyto the windows?" they wondered. Finally they found out the truth. When thebirds were flying, they couldn't see into the rooms. All they saw was the reflection(反射) of the garden. They thought that they were flying into trees becausethey saw trees reflected by the window.

    "Somethinghas to be done to save the birds." the parents decided.

    At first,he family tried keeping curtains（窗帘）across the windows, but thismade the room dark. Then they bought some strong black paper and cut out the shapeof ahawk. They made six hawks—one for each window. They stuck the hawks to the windows. They lookedpretty and did not keep out much light. When the birds saw the hawks, they wouldfly away.

    Afterthat, there were no more dead birds. The family were much happier.

The school music club opens. Tony wants1 the club, but he doesn't want to go alone(独自地).He wants to ask his friends to go to the2 with him. So he calls them at home, but everyone is3 .

Martin4 his homework at home. It usually5 him two hours to finish it. Peter is writing an e-mail on the6 to his friend Gina, a girl from Australia. He is telling 7 about his school life. He doesn't like music. Gina doesn't like music，8 . Lily likes music very much. Lily and her classmates are having a music festival.9 Miss Brown is teaching them10 songs at school. What about other friends? Alice is having her11 birthday. Her parents are making dinner for her. Kate is helping her brother12 his English. He always doesn't do13 in his test. Tom is playing baseball with his sister. It's his favorite14 .

Tony is not happy15 no one can go to the club with him.

A short video series called Escape from the British Museum(《逃出大英博物馆》) was quite a hit(成功). It tells a story of how a Chinese cultural relic(文物) ran away from the British Museum and found its way back to China.

In the short video series, a girl played the role of an ancient Chinese jade teapot(玉壶). She escaped from the British Museum and ended up in the street in London. She came across a young man there. He was a Chinese news reporter. She thought that the young man was her family, so she asked him to take her back to China.

Why did the two main characters decide to make the short video series? They saw someone's comment(评论) online and drew their inspiration(获得灵感) from the comment. Then, they went to the UK and spent months researching and preparing. It took them around three months to finish the video series. Although the video series is less than 30 minutes, it touched millions of Chinese people's hearts.

The short video series is not only fun but also educational. It tells us Chinese that it's time to bring the long-lost Chinese cultural relics home. China lost a lot of cultural relics overseas. There are more than 23,000 pieces of Chinese cultural relics in the British Museum. There is a long way to go to bring them home.

On September 27th, Cui Chenxi, 13- year- old skateboarder(滑板运动员), became China's youngest gold medalist(奖牌得主) at the Qiantang Roller Sports Centre in Hangzhou. She {#blank#}1{#/blank#} gold by scoring 242.62 points. Cui said,"I always wanted to win gold. This match is different {#blank#}2{#/blank#} other matches, so I wanted to win this one." When the reporter asked if she was worried before the match, she shook {#blank#}3{#/blank#} head and said," My dad told me to stay relaxed, enjoy the match and show my skills. As long as I {#blank#}4{#/blank#} my best, I have no regrets."

Cui only took up skateboarding in 2020. In skateboarding, injuries(受伤) often happen. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} when talking about the pain and the difficulties, Cui said," When I started skateboarding, I{#blank#}6{#/blank#} it was great fun. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} , I found people got a lot of injuries while skateboarding. But that is where the spirit(精神) of skateboarding lies." Getting injured is just part of the {#blank#}8{#/blank#}, and she pushes through it and keep going on.

As the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} member of the team, Cui is popular with other young players. Most of people think that Cui is the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of Team China. She is quite excellent. And she will stand together with other young players to get more medals for our country in the future.

Linda is our new classmate. She is a left-behind(留守的) child. Her parents 1 in another city. She lives 2 her grandparents.

It's November 8th and it is Linda's thirteenth 3 . My classmates and I want to have a 4 for her. In the morning, we decorate(装饰) the 5 with some beautiful paper and balloons(气球). Judy and I buy a 6 birthday cake for her, so everyone can have a taste(品尝). On the cake, there 7 a red flower. The party begins 8 9:30. Tony lights the candles, and then we 9 the song Happy Birthday to You to her. Linda is very happy.

After 10 the cake, we dance and play games in the classroom. All of us have a good time.