Hi, I'm Betty. Do you want to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} friends with me? I'm an English girl. This year I'm eleven{#blank#}2{#/blank#}old. At school I like English, math and science. I{#blank#}3{#/blank#}like music. I can sing and {#blank#}4{#/blank#}the piano well. It's my  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}to be a musician.

    I have good habits. I get{#blank#}6{#/blank#}early and go to bed early. I eat lots {#blank#}7{#/blank#}fruit and vegetables every day. In the morning I {#blank#}8{#/blank#}with my father for half an hour. I eat{#blank#}9{#/blank#}and exercise every day. So I'm very healthy.

    Please be my friend! My telephone{#blank#}10{#/blank#} is 878-0909. You can e-mail me at betty1999@126.com, too.

    Reading is very useful for English learners. When you're learning English, listening, speaking and writing are very {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, but reading is also very helpful. When you read, you can both learn some new words and learn how to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} them. When you read, it gives you a good {#blank#}3{#/blank#} for writing.

    Read something at your right level. Read {#blank#}4{#/blank#} that you can more or less understand. If you need to stop every three words to use a dictionary, it's not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} for you.

    Try to increase your vocabulary. If there are 4 or 5 new words on a page, try to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} their meanings. Then look them up in a dictionary after reading and write them down in your notebook. Try to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} them.

    Try to read regularly. Reading for 15 minutes every day is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} than two hours every Sunday. Fix a time to read. For example, you could read for 15 minutes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} you go to bed or at lunch time.

    Read what interests you. Choose a book or a magazine that you like. You can also read newspapers, for example, 21st Century. There is always {#blank#}10{#/blank#} in it.

    Have you heard{#blank#}1{#/blank#} this short story? It's about a deer (梅花鹿) who lived in the forest. He had large and beautiful antlers (鹿角). The antlers protected him from being hurt by other animals, so he was always {#blank#}2{#/blank#} because of them.

    One day, the deer went to a river to drink water. The water was{#blank#}3{#/blank#} clear that it was like a mirror (镜子). When the deer looked at himself in the water, he smiled. "I look like{#blank#}4{#/blank#} king," he said, "And this forest is my country." Then he noticed something else." My legs are thin and my feet are small," he said. "They look so weak. I hate{#blank#}5{#/blank#}."

    While the deer was thinking this, he felt something strange. A hungry tiger was {#blank#}6{#/blank#}behind a tall tree near the river. As{#blank#}7{#/blank#} as the deer saw the tiger, he ran away quickly. The tiger ran after him and tried to catch him.

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#}to his thin legs, the deer reached the trees first. But his large antlers got stuck in (卡住) some small sticks of the trees. He couldn't move at all and then the tiger came and caught him.

    The deer cried out, "I love my antlers, but they made me{#blank#}9{#/blank#} into trouble. Though I hated my legs and feet, they helped me run faster and jumped over stones. I was so{#blank#}10{#/blank#}! In fact, they are all important to me!"

A: Hi, Jeff! This movie is on in so many movie {#blank#}1{#/blank#}these days.

B: Really? My friend saw it last week. He told me that it {#blank#}2{#/blank#}a great movie.

A: Yeah. Would you like to go to {#blank#}3{#/blank#}it this evening?

B: Sure, Which do you think is the best movie theater near here?

A: City Theater. It has the best {#blank#}4{#/blank#}and the best seats.

B: But it's too far. And it is the most expensive, I think Gold Theater is the best one.

A: How much is a ticket there?

B: It's only fifteen yuan if we show {#blank#}5{#/blank#}our student ID cards.

A: Great! Let's go there at 6:30 p. m.

B: OK. See you then!