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    Some people have a very poor sense of direction(方向). Unluckily, I am one of them. I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.

    When I was a little girl, I never dared to ask people the way. And so I used to walk around in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.

    Now I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often get helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. If someone asks me the way somewhere, I will say, "Sorry, I am new here."

    Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps, I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn't want to keep him waiting.

    When I just got to my office, the secretary(秘书) showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine(想象) how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight.

My name is Linda and I live in London. I'm1 English teacher. I teach English in a middle school.

School begins （开始） at 7:30 2 the morning. I leave home （离开家） at 7:00 and take a bus to school. I 3 work （工作） at 4:00 in the afternoon. My work is 4 and I like it. 

After work, I play 5 with my students. Volleyball is my favorite 6 . My father is my volleyball 7 . He plays very well. I play with 8 every week. My son, Joe, is ten years old. He 9 volleyball. He likes basketball. He has four basketball 10 every week. He wants to be a basketball player.

Ye Shengtao was a famous Chinese writer. He created the first collection of fairy tales(童话集) named The Scarecrow(《稻草人》) for Chinese children between 1921 and 1922.

Ye was born in 1894 in Jiangsu. He once worked {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a teacher in a primary school He often told his students stories from Chinese and foreign classics. His students were all happy {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (listen) to those stories.

In 1921, Ye {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (begin) to write fairy tales for a magazine. He finished his first fairy tale Little White Boat in November of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} same year. In the following seven months, Ye wrote {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (many) fairy tales than before. And they made up The Scarecrow we see today.

There are two kinds of stories in the collection. The {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (one) story is about children's innocent smiles and beautiful feelings like Little White Boat. People's hard life like The Scarecrow {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (describe) in the second story. In the story, the scarecrow often sees poor people's difficulties in life, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} he isn't able to stop them from happening or give people a helping hand. He feels very helpless and falls down in the field at last. Ye wanted children to care about what happened around {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (they). And he hoped children could understand adult's {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (sad) after reading the collection.

Good works always stand the test of time. Nowadays, Ye's fairy tales are still popular with children.

I have many(许多) teachers now and I like them all, but my favorite teacher is my English teacher, Mary. Mary is from the UK. But she likes China very much. She thinks China is great. She loves Chinese food. Do you know what she likes for breakfast? Bread and milk? No, she doesn't. She only has noodles(面条). Hot pot(火锅) is her favorite and she always eats it on Saturday and Sunday.

Mary has a daughter and a son. Her daughter's name is Ella. Her son's name is Mike. They are8 years old. They go to the same school. They like hot pot, too. They are all in Chongqing now.

We have English from Monday to Friday. So Mary is very busy. But she is always nice and happy. All my classmates like her and her classes very much. She always plays English games and sings English songs(歌曲) with us. We can play games in class, too. It's great fun!

Now I think I can do well in(擅长) English because I have the best(最好的) English teacher.

Recently we did a survey in our class in order to learn about students' dream jobs. 

I hope everyone can realize their dreams in the future.