This is my 1. How do you like it? I like it very much. It's always tidy. You can see a map of China and 2 pictures on the walls. My classmates and I draw（画）the pictures. We have a soccer in 3classroom, but you can't see it. It's under the  4 desk.

    Our teachers are always very5. They do many things every day. We have our lessons 6 8:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon.  7, we like playing games. Soccer is my favorite. My classmates like to play  8 with me because I can play it very well. Then in the evening, we have two more classes. I like to be with my classmates. I  9 a good time with them every day.

       10  about you? Do you like your classroom?

    "What's the matter, Mum?"

    As soon as I enter the door, I find that my mother is unhappy. It's unusual. She usually   1  the door and welcomes me with a smile!

    "She's dying," Mum says sadly. I  2 what she says. The tulip(郁金香), mother's favourite, is dying.

    A month ago, we moved 3 our new house and Mum bought a very beautiful tulip. Mum liked it very much.   4   she was free, she would sit in her armchair beside the tulip and enjoy its beautiful colour   5nice smell.

      She treated it like a baby and looked after it   6   . She put the tulip by window and moved it from one place to 7 to give the tulip enough sunshine. The first thing she did when she 8  every morning was to water the tulip. Mum also fertilized(施肥) it many times.

    She hoped that with great care, the tulip would become more and more beautiful and   9.But the tulip was dying because of too much sunshine, water and fertilizer.

    It's true that mother loved the tulip. But this kind of love 10 be harmful. Love can sometimes kill what you love.

    Hello! I'm John Brown. I'm an English 1, my Chinese name is wang Pen.2to meet you. I have a good family. There are five people in my3. My parents are teachers, they work(工作) 4China. My sister is 14, my brother is 15, I'm 13, we5 go to the same school. Look! This is my room. You can6my books and tape player in the bookcase. My schoolbag is on the7, my computer is on the desk, too. Next to the computer is a8. Two boys are in the photo. Do you know9the boys are? Well,10are my cousins, Bob and Tim.

    When I visit the Science Museum, I go to the Launchpad. This is my favourite room 1 you can do physics experiments. For example, if you want to fill a bag with 2 sand, you have to move a kind of truck on wheels into the correct position. I also go to the Rocket Show. You can learn how we travel 3 space and back again.

    Then I go upstairs to the Hmnan and Nature Room. You can 4 your speed with animals there. You hear a noise and push a button. If you aren't fast 5 , the lion catches you! I'm faster 6 all my friends, but the lion still catches me.

    There are also rooms on transport, the environment and space technology,7maths, physics and chemistry.

    You can do a lot of things in this museum, but you have to obey some rules as well. For example, you mustn't take photos of the 8in the museum. But you can buy postcards of them in the museum shops.   9, the Science Museum is free. That means you can drop in for a few minutes or you can stay as long as you like--it's open every day, from 10 am to 6 pm. So if you ever go to London, 10you visit the Science Museum. It's my favourite museum in the whole world.

    When I was eight years old, my mother told me to put my coat on because we were going to go somewhere1. Usually, that meant we were going to see someone important. I would at least get a new toy. I asked which one it would be that day, and she told me that I would get something 2than a toy. She said I would get "access（通道）to a world of toys." I had no real idea what she meant. Did that mean we were buying a toy 3?

    But we did not end up at any toy store. Neither did we finally see anyone we knew.

    4, mother pulled her car into a parking lot in front of a building that looked like something out of the past. It didn't have a modern5at all.

    We took stone steps up to the entrance. Only then I found out what this place was, because there was a sign that 6"Marcy Public Library". We pushed the door open, and my mother led me to the front desk. "I'd like to get my daughter a library card", she told the man7the desk. He asked her to fill out a form. "What kind of books do you like to read?" he asked. I was too shy to 8. I only smiled. "Well, you'll find it out in time," he said. I do not remember9I picked out that day, but I know that in the years that followed I read through books on history, books of poetry, and books about art. The library opened up a world that I 10knew that day.

    So my mother was right. Getting a library card was like getting the access to a world of toys.

    It's 12:00. Mom is not at home. No one makes lunch for Jenny and Frank. Frank wants to have some bread, but Jenny doesn't1it.

    "How about making fruit salad? We have2, oranges and bananas at home," Jenny says.

    "Sounds nice.3I also like some hot food," Frank says.

    Jenny4some rice, some eggs and two tomatoes. She has a5idea( 想法),"I can make tomato and egg rice for you. It's very6

    They have lunch at 1:00 p. m. Frank7the tomato and egg rice is great. And the fruit salad is nice,8. Jenny is happy he likes them.

    9the evening, Mom comes home. She is happy that Jenny and Frank have a good10. She says, "I'm proud(自豪的) of you. You can look after yourselves when I'm out. Great!"