Wang Kai is my new friend. His father, Wang Ming, is a doctor. His mother, Liu Ying, works in a big clothes store. They are very busy every day. Wang Kai is 13. He is a student in NO.1 Middle School. There are twenty boys and fifteen girls in his class. They are all friendly to him, and they often help him.

    Liu Tao is Wang Kai's classmate, and he is his good friend, too. He often helps Wang Kai with English. Wang Kai's Chinese teacher is Mrs. Dai. She is friendly to Wang Kai, and her classes are very interesting. Wang Kai likes her and her classes.

    Once upon a time, there lived a teacher in a small town. He often taught his students in special ways. Once he sent four of his students to go to a small farm to see apple trees in different seasons. The first student went in winter, the second in spring. The third in summer. And the last in autumn.

    After the four students came back, the teacher called them together. They pictured (描述) their feeling to the teacher. The first student said that there were no leaves on the trees. It made him very disappointed. The second student said his eyes were full of light green. It made him feel hopeful. The third one disagreed. "What are you talking about? How pretty the trees were! The sweet smell of the beautiful flowers spread(传播) here and there." The last one shook his head. He only saw a lot of apples on the beautiful trees.

    The teacher smiled and told his students none of them were wrong. They each just saw one season. He continued, "The trees are not the same in different seasons. You can't judge (判断) a tree by only one season. Don't let the regret of one season destroy the beauty of the rest.

    Everything has different sides in our life. Don't hurry to make a conclusion(结论) before seeing the whole of it.

    Long ago there was a man with the name Smith. He made a living on making caps. One day he went to sell his caps. He went through a forest. There were many monkeys in it. It was very hot and the man wanted to rest a little. He came up to a large tree, put his caps on the ground, took one of them and put it on his head. Then he lay down and soon fell asleep.

    "Where are my caps?" Smith cried when he woke up. He looked up and saw many monkeys in the trees and each monkey had a cap on its head.

    "Give me back my caps!" The man shouted at the monkeys. But the monkeys didn't understand him. They only laughed. The man got very angry, took off his own cap, threw it on the ground and cried, "If you want all my caps, you may take this one, too!"

    And what do you think happened? The little animals did the same. Each monkey took off its cap and threw it on the ground. The man was very glad. He quickly collected all his caps and went on his way.

Chinese names are different(不同) from English names. In China, the family name is before(在… 之前) the given name. For example, my name is Li Daming. Li is my family name and Daming is my given name.

In the UK, people's names usually have three parts(部分):the first name, the middle name and the last name. The last name is the family name. The first name is the given name, and the middle name is the given name, too. For example, my friend is Jim Daniel Brown. Brown is his family name. His given name is Jim Daniel.

People use(使用) Mr. Or Ms. before the family name, but not before the given name. So you can say "Mr. Li" or "Mr. Brown", but you can't say "Mr. Daming" or "Mr. Jim".