Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Italy. He is best known as an artist today. One of his famous paintings is called Mona Lisa. However, Leonardo had many other natural abilities. He was also a great inventor. Many of his inventions have become important in modern day life.

Although Leonardo hated war, he invented many different machines used for war. His most special invention was the machine gun, which was produced and used in war many years later.

      By watching the way birds fly, Leonardo tried to find out the secret of flying. Among his sketches(素描)we can see several objects. We consider them as modern flying machines.

      Leonardo spent many hours thinking about how to make good use of time. He developed ideas for labor-saving machines like cutting machines.

Leonardo was a strange man. He didn't eat any meat, which was very unusual in those times. He never published (发表) his ideas and scientific discoveries. He usually used mirror writing, which looks like writing in a mirror, starting from the right side of the page and moving to the left.

      We have very little of his work today. Leonardo finished only a few of his paintings. He left many unfinished because he thought they were not perfect. No one in his life time knew how great Leonardo was. We now believe, however, that he was one of the cleverest men the world has ever known.

    Good morning, everyone. I want to 1 you about my neighbor(邻居)，Mr. White. There are 2 people in Mr. White's family. Mr. White is a manager of a big shop. Mrs. White teaches English in a university(大学).Her students like her very much 3 she is interesting. The Whites have two 4 . The son is Tim. He is thirteen. The daughter is Nell. She is twelve. There is also a brown 5 in their family. 6 name is Stella.

    Mr. White loves sports and he is good at playing tennis. Mrs. White likes 7 . She draws many beautiful pictures. Tim 8 listening to music. He has many CDs. Justin Bieber is his favorite singer. 9 is Nell's hobby? She likes doing some 10 . She has a lot of books in her room now. On Sunday, then take their cat to the nark and they often have a .good time there.

    It was such a beautiful day that I drove to go for a look in the country. On the way back home, my car 1.

    It was out of gas on a lonely road far from a town, I decided to walk 2 I got help. I had walked almost a mile before I finally found a house near the road. I was glad to see it 3 it was getting dark.

    I knocked at the door and a little old lady 4 long gray hair came out. She said. "I've been 5 for you for a long time, Come in, 6 is almost ready."

    "But I only come for some gas," I answered. I couldn't understand 7 she was talking about.

    "Oh, Alfred! Gas? You used to like tea," she said.

    I quickly explained my problem， 8 she didn't seem to hear me. She just 9 calling me Alfred and talking about how long it had passed 10 she had seen me. She acted very strangely and I felt very 11. As soon as she went to get tea, I ran out of the house as fast as I could.

    12 ，there was another house down the road and I was able to buy the gas I needed. When I told the man about my 13 , he said, "Oh, that's Miss Bronte. She lives by herself in that big house, She's strange. She's out of her mind. But don't worry. She won't hurt anybody. She is still 14 the man she was supposed to marry thirty years ago. The day before their wedding he left home and 15 came back because of the war."

I still remembered the first day I met Jane. When she walked into the classroom， all the students were very {#blank#}1{#/blank#} because there was a big red birthmark（胎记）on her face. Jane didn't know at all even though some bad boys played jokes on her and laughed at her. Instead， she was always {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

I {#blank#}3{#/blank#}why Jane could always be so happy. So one day， I went to her and asked if she knew there was a red birthmark on her face. She replied that of course she knew. Whenever she looked in the {#blank#}4{#/blank#}，she could see it. 

"Then how can you live happily all the time？ Don't you think the mark makes you {#blank#}5{#/blank#}？"  I asked. 

"No， actually， the mark makes me special. I always tell {#blank#}6{#/blank#} that I have no way to decide what I look like， {#blank#}7{#/blank#}I can decide what I want to be. I'm much luckier than those that can't walk or run. At least I'm a healthy 

{#blank#}8{#/blank#}. "Jane answered with a smile. Jane's words opened a new world for me. At that moment， I understood the world {#blank#}9{#/blank#} than before. If the world is looked from a bright way， some bad things will be good {#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

Do you enjoy your school life? Now let's go into my school life together.

I'm Susie Green, a student at No. 3 Middle School in Shanghai. Ms. Liu is our math teacher. She is very nice. All the students like her. Heidi Smith is my good friend here. She enjoys reading books very much. And she is also good at singing and dancing. We love Chinese classical poetry(中国古诗) very much. So both of us join the Chinese club in our school and we want to talk about the poetry about autumn(秋天) next Friday.

What's more, the Chinese corner(汉语角) is also my favorite at school because I can practice my Chinese by communicating(交流) with other students there. We always have a great time telling interesting stories together.

That's my school life here. How interesting it is!

Have you ever heard of friendships among animals? At a zoo in Germany, an unusual friendship developed between a cat and a bear. 

No one is quite sure {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the friendship first began. One day, some {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (keep)in the zoo noticed a black cat was in the bear's cage, and the two animals were playing together peacefully. They were surprised how well the small cat seemed {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (get)along with the large bear, The bear keeper thought {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (stay)with the bear might be a dangerous thing for the cat but it was actually not. And later the pair and their unusual friendship{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (become)a hot topic at the zoo. 

After several years, a new cage was built for the bear {#blank#}6{#/blank#} , the cat was still in the same cage, so it walked around {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (angry)and cried to be with the bear. The bear keeper finally took pity on it and let it stay with the bear. The cat and the bear got {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (close)than before. They often sat together and shared meals {#blank#}9{#/blank#}the sun. 

Sometimes it may be natural for animals to have {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (they)own ideas about who would make a good friend. These may surprise humans, who usually expect animals to form relationships with others of the same species