Dear Alice,
    I just received your letter. And I was very surprised to know that you decided to drop out of school and wanted to be a model（模特）.
Being a model for a living is not easy. In fact, a famous person like me has a lot of problems that you couldn't see. I can't eat what I like, even though I'm very hungry. Keeping thin makes me look more beautiful on the stage because no one would like to see a heavy model.
Besides, I have to wear a heavy coat in the hot sun, in a swimming suit in the cold air. And practicing walking nicely every day is tiring for me.
You might say I made much money from modeling. But my dear niece （侄女）, you have to know that money is nothing, knowledge is everything. School is important and everyone should go to school for a certain period of time. The longer they stay at school, the better they will be. Very often, I hope I can give up my job and continue my studies at school. But it is very difficult for me to go back to school again. I am too old to go back to school now.
    You are a pretty young girl with a bright future. You only have one year to finish your studies in high school. A year is really short. Please do consider my words carefully before you decide. Of course, there is only one thing I care about, and that is your happiness.
Love,
Emma

    In April this year, lots of bags full of small change(零钱) were seen at bus stops in Tianjin. They were made for passengers to turn their notes into small change. And such an idea came from four students from Zhongbei Middle School, Tianjin.

    "People will surely feel worried when they take a bus without coins. We just want to do something to help them," said Wang Yongcun, 15, one of the four students.

    The four boys spent their whole weekend making the change bags. After that they went to see the number of the passengers at each bus stop near their school, and then chose the top six stops to put the bags.

    Many people think that the four boys have really done a good job. But, things didn't go as the boys thought. Two days later, they found that the money was gone, and that even the bags were taken. It really made them sad but they would not give up. Their classmates and teachers came to help them in time. They put their pocket money in bags again. And the teachers also taught them to make better change bags. They tried their best to do it.

    The four boys feel very happy because they have done something good for the passengers. Their warm hearts are moving. More and more people are beginning to join in the activity.

    Rose is a student from the U. S. She is in Shanghai with her parents now. She doesn't know Chinese, but she is trying to study and speak it. She often tries to speak Chinese with her Chinese friends. Sometimes they don't understand her, because she can't speak Chinese well.

    It's Saturday morning. Rose goes out. She is on her way to the park. She is going there to see a flower fair(展销会). But she doesn't know how to get there. She asks a Chinese boy the way. The boy can't understand her. Then she takes out a pen and a piece of paper. She draws flowers on it, and then gives the picture to the boy and says something about it. The boy smiles and then shows Rose the way to the park.

Long time ago, there lived a king. He was irresponsible (不负责任的). He 1 cared about his country and people. All his people were unhappy about this. 

One day, the king went hunting in the forest. After some time, he felt 2 . He came to a lake. When he drank water from the lake, he saw a swan (天鹅) 3 on a big stone nearby. "I want to catch the swan!" he thought. 

As soon as he held up his bow (弓), the swan was gone. To his surprise, he heard a sweet voice, "You must come to the wonderland. "

The king said, "Please 4 me the way to the wonderland!" "Do good things for your people, and I will come and 5 you there, " the voice replied. With this in mind, the king dressed up and went out into the streets. He gave some 6 to a poor old man. After the old man accepted it happily, he began to chat with the king. When they talked about people's life in the country, the old man became 7 and said, "Do you know why I'm so poor? It's because of our king! He has done 8 for us. "

9 , the king heard the swan's voice again. "Listen! It seems that you are doing something good only because you want to go to the wonderland. That's not enough. You should always take care of all your people and be kind to them, " the swan said. 

The king realized this was 10 . He became responsible and worked very hard. Finally, he understood that making his country a great place was like making a wonderland of his own. 

My pen friend is Lily. She lives in New Zealand. It's next to Australia. She is a smart girl. She likes football. She wants to be a football coach( 教 练 ). She goes to school on foot. She has a brother. His name is Jill. He is only five. He likes singing. Her father is a baseball player. Her mother is a reporter(记者). She works in a TV station(电视台). She is 40 years old She likes using computers. They both go to work by car. They are very happy. 

Brenda was a girl with one big dream. She wanted to play the 1 in a band. But there was one problem. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to 2 a lot. But she lived next to a lot of old people. The sound of beating drums would make them feel 3 .

 Brenda was a very kind girl. She tried to find a way to practice her drums 4 bothering(干扰) other people. 5 she tried playing in the kitchen, and even in the bathroom. But there was always 6 who could hear the noise. That made her feel sorry so she spent most of her time playing on books and boxes.

 One day, while watching a 7 program on TV, she heard that sound cannot travel in space because there's no air. At that moment, Brenda decided to become a 8 astronaut.

 After a lot of hard work, Brenda built a space bubble. It was a big glass ball connected to a machine. The machine could draw(抽出) out all the 9 inside. All that would be left inside were drums and a chair. Brenda 10 the space suit(宇航服) she made, entered the bubble, turned on the machine, then she played the drum 11 .

 Soon, Brenda became 12 . So many people came to see her play in her space bubble. Shortly after, she started to give concerts. 13 , Brenda was a real musical astronaut, and went far beyond her first dream of playing the drum in a band.

 Years later, when people asked her 14 she could achieve all this, she thought for a moment and said," These people next door are old and I need to 15 about their feelings. If not,I wouldn't go such a long way to find a solution, and none of this would have ever happened."