1name is Wei Hua, I 2a girl. My 3 name is Hua and last name 4 Wei. I'm a 5.  My teacher is Mr Li, he is a good teacher. Tom is my 6,7last name is Green Tom and I 8 good friends. We are in Class 3, Grade 1.Tom9 a nice mother, 10father is good, too.

    I work as a taxi driver for nearly ten years. It's a 1 job most of time. I like to meet different people. I always work 2, because there are too 3 cars during the day. I live 20 kilometers outside of London and I go to 4at 5:30 in the afternoon. I usually go home between two and three o'clock in the morning.

    There is a very strange and interesting thing one night. I take a woman with a little dog5home. When we get to her house, She can't find her key and purse (钱包). So I wait in the car with the dog and she climbs in through the window.

    I wait for half an hour. At last I want 6 what is wrong with her. I tie (系) the dog to a tree and 7 in through the window, too.

    A policeman passes by and he thinks I am a thief(小偷). I argue(争论) with the policeman. The 8 .akes the dog barking loudly. The old woman wakes up and goes out of the 9. Because just now she goes to 10  and forgets me and the dog at all!

    When I was a boy of twelve, I lived in South Carolina with my family. Every morning many 1 would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn't any sound that can be 2 than the song of the birds. I decided to 3 a young bird and keep it in a cage so that I could have my own musician. I finally caught one and put it in a cage. The bird was 4 and cried loudly, but finally it became quiet in its new home. I felt happy and 5 my little musician carefully, giving it food and water.

    The next day, the bird's mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird 6 up everything she brought. But the following morning, I found it lying on the bottom of the cage, dead. I was very 7! What had happened?

    Arthur Wayne, a famous scientist, happened to hear me crying over the death of my bird. He told me the 8. "A mother bird, finding her young child in a cage, will sometimes bring it poisonous food. She thinks it's better for her young to 9 than to live in a cage."

    Since then, I never catch any birds or put them in a cage. All the birds have the right to 10 in the sky.

    Like most Chinese, Mr. Zhang has a traditional family. 1 he and his wife are middle school teachers while their 6-year-old son is a pupil. Mr. Zhang's mother lives with them and helps them 2 the kid. They love one another and live a happy life.

    Yesterday it was Mr. Zhang's mother's birthday. The couple wanted to do3 to show their love for her. After a big dinner, Mr. Zhang brought a basin (盆) of warn water and asked his mother to  sit 4 the basin. He took off her shoes and put her 5into the water. After that he began to wash them 6His wife helped to comb his mother'® hair slowly. Seeing this, the boy7his mother's example. He tried to comb his mother's hair, too. But he was not 8 enough to do that. So he brought a chair and stood on it. Everyone could feel the warmth and love in the family.

    As we all know, it is a good Chinese tradition to respect the old and take care of the .young. We should try our 9 to care for our family. We must visit our parents as often as possible and have a 10 with them on happiness. The phone even though we may work far away. Indeed, family is a place of happiness.

    Today is Sunday. Mr. Smith drives the car to the zoo with his family. They want to see animals. They get to the zoo at 9:00 in the morning.

    They see smart elephants, cute pandas and many other animals. Mrs. Smith's favorite animals are elephants. They are very friendly and they have long noses (鼻子). The elephants from Thailand can draw very well. They're one of Thailand's symbols. Look at the small panda. He looks unhappy. He can't find his mother. The visitors(游客) can see the animals, but they can't give them food. Too much food isn't good for them.

    Welcome to the zoo and play with them.

   In thetime it takes you to read this sentence, the population of the Earth will have grownby 10 people. That may not sound much, but it is about 14,000 people an hour. Thatis the same as adding most of the population of Germany to the world every year!

   Most of these new people are born in developing countries. These countriesare found in much of Africa, South America, and parts of Asia. In the developedcountries of Europe and North America, the population is growing very slowly. Thisis because women in these countries have, on average, only one or two children.In the developing countries, many women have five or more children. In 1950, aroundone quarter of the world's population lived in the developed countries. By 2050,these countries will be the home to only around one tenth of the world's people.

   In the developing countries, more than one billion people already live belowthe poverty line (贫困线).These people don't have enough food to eat and they live in poor housing;children get little or no time at school and suffer from many kinds of diseases.

   The United Nations (UN) tries to guess population growth. At the beginningof the 21st century, the world's population was around six billion people. The UNhas said that the world's population will level off at 12. 5 billion people by theyear 2100. Other people think the world's population will continue to grow, reaching14 billion people before it becomes stable or even falls.