Tom with his family 1 near the sea. Their house is not very high, but it is beautiful. There 2 big trees and a small garden in front 3 their house. They plant flowers in the garden. Some of the flowers are red, some are white 4 some are blue. Tom and his family love 5 garden very much.

      6 Tom and his sister go to school 7 bus. The bus is comfortable. There are air conditioners in the bus. And it is a double-decker bus. After school, they sometimes help their mum 8 some shopping at the shopping centre, and sometimes help their dad in the garden. At weekends, they often take some photos by the sea. 9 summer, they often go swimming 10 their parents.

    There was a time when no one knew the name Harry Potter. Now the adventures of this extraordinary student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are read in over 45 languages, including Russian, Thai, and even ancient Greek. No one can explain the Harry Potter phenomenon (现象) – not even J.K. Rowling, his creator.

    J.K. Rowling was born in England in 1965. From a young age, she knew she wanted to be a writer. When she was 6, she wrote her first story—about a rabbit that gets sick. At school, she used to make up stories to tell her friends.

    After graduation from college, she worked as a secretary. But she didn't give up her dream.She spent her lunch hour writing stories, mainly for adults. Then in 1990, on a train trip to London,she got the idea from the boy wizard. She says he just appeared in her head. She soon created many other characters to help Harry fight the forces of darkness.

    She kept working on the story while she was teaching English in Portugal, where she married, had her first child, and divorced (与……离婚) a year later. When she returned to England, she brought back a box of Harry Potter stories.

    After returning home, she was broke and living in a small house. She continued writing, and in 1995, finished the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It was published (出版) in 1997 and became an unexpected bestseller.

    Rowling's life has changed a lot. She has become internationally famous and now earns around $40 million a year. She remarried, had a second child and lives in Scotland now.

Why do you open a school? If you ask Nadia Lopez this question, she would simply answer: to close a prison. Lopez is the founder of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public school in Brooklyn. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

To set up the school, Lopez faced many challenges. The greatest challenge was to get in touch with children without hope. At first, Lopez only had 45 kids. She once asked some girls, "{#blank#}2{#/blank#}" The answer was, "I don't know if I'm going to live that long." or "I have a lifelong goal of working in a fast-food restaurant nearby." These students had no idea that there were great chances outsider their neighborhood.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} And they have tried their best to keep their students active an hopeful. "We call our students students 'scholars（学者）' because they are lifelong learners. I chose the colors purple and black to remind students that they are excellent. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} They can be future engineers, scientists and even leaders who can and will take over this world," Lopez said.

A popular New York blogger heard about the school and wrote a post about it, telling people how the children struggled（挣扎）, and why people must make education the most important thing. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} About 1.4 million dollars were raised for the school and its students got to take field trips to colleges and universities.

"Up to now, we have had three graduating classes（毕业班）. They have nearly 200 children," said Lopez.
 

Three hours, thirty-five minutes and thirty seconds. It took Belachew Girma the 1 to set a world record (纪录). This man from Ethiopia didn't set a world record for running or jumping. He set the world record for laughing. That's 2 ! Belachew Girma laughed for more than 3 hours without (没有) 3 !

However, Belachew Girma didn't always like to laugh. In fact, he wasn't very happy in the past. After his wife (妻子) died, Belachew Girma thought he would 4 laugh again. Then, someone taught him how to laugh. Belachew Girma started to know: laughing made him feel good. So he wanted to laugh all the time.

Belachew Girma practiced laughing night and day. The only time he didn't practice laughing was when he was 5 . Someone told Belachew Girma about a laughter 6 and he decided to take part in it. He went on practicing his laughing 7 . After laughing for over 3 hours, Belachew Girma 8 the competition. He 9 a world record holder (持有人)! He didn't have time to be sad or to worry 10 he was always laughing.

Belachew Girma wanted to help 11 by laughing. He travelled around the world to 12 with people about his experience (经验). To Belachew himself, laughing saved his 13 . Today, he finds poor kids and teaches them to laugh. When kids laugh, it 14 their sadness. The laughing makes them feel much happier and 15 . It helps make their lives better.

Belachew Girma knows: The more he laughs, the more others laugh too. By laughing, he expects to make the world a happier place.

I'm Mary from England. Now I'm in a middle school in Beijing. I'm in Class 5, Grade 7. Look! This is a photo of our classroom. There are twenty-one desks and forty chairs in it. Two students share a desk. And there is also a desk for our teachers in the front of the classroom.

Our classroom is big and tidy. There are two maps in the classroom. They are a map of China and a map of Beijing. There are no computers in the classroom. But there is a bookcase (书架).There are many books in it. We can read them, but we can only take one book at a time. There are only a few books on our desks. Most of our books are in our desks. We like our classroom very much. What about yours?

London Transport Museum

London Transport Museum was set up in 1980. It brings to life the history of London's public transport network — its buses, trains, tubes and taxis, from the 19th century to the present day.

The museum has two sites in London. The main site in Covent Garden is open to the public every day. It reopened in 2007 after a two-year repair. The other site, located in Acton, is known as the London Transport Museum Depot and is open on visitor® days throughout the year.

Opening times (the main site)

• Museum galleries

Open daily 10:00- 17:15

• Museum shop

Sunday-Tuesday 10:00-18:30

Wednesday-Saturday 10:00-19:00

Museum tickets (the main site)

• Adult: $17.50

• Children and young people aged 18 and under: free (Children aged 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult.)

You can save by booking your ticket online at $16.

For more information, visit https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk.