Everyone likes living in a clean and comfortable environment. If the environment(环境) are bad， it will affect our body， and make us not feel well. Sometimes we may be terribly ill. At that time we don't want to work， and we have to stay in bed and rest at home. So the environment is very important to us.

    It's germs(微生物) that makes us ill. There are germs everywhere. They are very small and you can't find them with your own eyes， but you can see them with a microscope（显微镜）They are very small and there may be hundreds of them on a very small thing， Germs can always be found in dirty water. When we look at dirty water under the microscope， we shall see them in it. Germs can also be found in air and dust（灰尘）. If you cut your finger， some of the dust from the floor may go into it， and you will have much pain in it. Sometimes the germs will go into all of your bodies， and you will have pain everywhere.

    To keep us healthy， we should try our best to make our environment cleaner and tidier. This needs us to work together.

    Mr. Tanaka is a teacher in a city of Japan. He usually visits many countries during his holidays. He speaks English very well. Then he wants to learn Chinese and goes to China. So he goes to evening classes and has Chinese lessons. He studies very hard.

    He has a lot of friends. They often talk with each other and help each other. He often tells his friends that he does not have any trouble with Chinese but the Chinese have a lot.

    There is an apple tree, and it loves a little boy. The boy also likes to come and play around it. One day, he needs a toy, but he has no money, so the tree asks him to sell all the apples on the tree. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Then the boy grows up(长大). He becomes a man.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}The tree is very sad. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} “Come and play with me!” the tree says. “No, I have to work because I must buy a big house.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}” the man asks. “Sorry, I have no house, but you can cut down all my branches(树枝) and the trunk(树干). You can build the house with them,” the tree answers. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}After many years, the man becomes older, and he comes back again. “I only have the stump(树桩), but you can have a rest.”

    Remember to love your parents at any time !

    Jada and Jessie are twins. They were born on August 5. They are ten now and in the fourth grade. Jada and Jessie do everything together. They are in the same class. They dress alike. They look the same. People always get confused (困惑 ). This really makes Jada and Jessie laugh. Teachers always get them mixed up at school. Even their father has trouble telling them apart (分辨). Their mother doesn't, though. She always knows who they really are, Jada and Jessie often try to confuse her, but it

has never happened.

    Their elder brother, Jared, is fifteen. He can't tell the difference between the two sisters. He doesn't even try Jada and Jessie have the same friends. Their friends always mix them up. It doesn't matter to Jada and Jessie.

    One day, their father told their mother to get one of them a different haircut so that he could tell them apart. Jada and Jessie were horrified (恐惧的). They didn't want to look different. They liked looking the same. Their mother came to the rescue ( 拯救), and refused to make them cut their hair. The girls were happy just the way they were and didn't want to change. Their dad just shook his head. He would have to stay confused. Jada and Jessie didn't care. They knew who they were, and that was all that mattered .

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It's early in the morningand the alarm clock has already rung several time. You have to pull yourselfout of bed and rush to school because you're afraid of being late for school.

As a school student, this is probably a commonexperience for you. But thanks to new rules, students in Zhejiang andHeilongjiang provinces can now stay in bed longer than before.

On Feb 23, the Zhejiang Department of Educationannounced (宣布) a new rule that asksprimary schools to start school later. According to the rule, start times couldbe different among different grades, with students in Grade 1 and 2 starting noearlier than 8:30 am.

A similar guideline (指导方针) was announced by the education department in HeilongjiangProvince on Feb 24. Students from all primary and junior high schools in theprovince have been required (要求) to arrive at school noearlier than 8 am.

According to a 2016 study by the ZhejiangDepartment of Education, half students in Grade 4 slept nine hours or more anight, while the enough sleep time for primary students in 10 hours.

"I welcome the new rule so much. It is sucha wonderful rule that gives my son enough time for breakfast, which isnecessary for his health and growth", a mother named Xu Li said. She isfrom Hangzhou and his son is in Grade 1. These changes have received muchpraise as they make students get enough sleep and enough time for breakfast.

Pushing back school times isn't unique (唯一的) to China. In the United States, schools in at least 21 statesbegan to start school later in 2017, as studies have shown that later schoolstart times could be good for students' development.