Hello! Look here! There's 1 apple tree behind Dick's house. Dick is near the tree. There are some apples 2 the tree. Dick is looking 3the apples. They are big and red. Dick is hungry. He wants to 4 an apple. Dick isn't tall. He is short. He can't reach(够到) the apples. He puts a 5 under the tree. Can he reach the apples on the box now?6, he can't. He is too7. Here comes Paul. He is Dick's brother. “Hello, Dick,8 do you want to do?”

     “Please help9, Paul. I can't 10 the apples.”

     “Here you are, Dick. One is for you, and one is for me!”

     “Thank you, Paul.”

    Laura lived in a small village near the sea. One day she decided to go for a swim in the sea. She knew that the sea near the1had a strong tide(浪), but she was a good swimmer, so she wasn't 2. Laura left her friends lying on the sands and ran into the sea. She swam quite far out from the beach and waved（招手）to her friends in the distance. After a short while she decided to swim 3. She tried her best, but she couldn't get any closer to the beach. The tide kept4 her back. She waved her arms in the air to let her friends know that she was  5, but they just waved back, for they didn't know what she 6. After a long time, Laura become very 7  and she couldn't swim any more. Her legs8and she lost hope. Suddenly, her foot touched 9! All the time she had been swimming in a place where the water wasn't deep! When at last she went back to the beach, one of her friends asked," Did you10 your swim?" "Yes, it was lovely," she answered. She never told them what really happened.

On the first day of our science class, Mr. Jackson gave us a talk about an animal called Wampus(猫豹). 1 told us that the Wampus lived on the earth millions of years ago during the Ice Age and died out because of climate change. We all listened 2 and took notes of everything he said. Later we had a 3 .

When the exam paper was returned 4 me, I was surprised and sad. There was a big red"×"through each of my 5 . I failed. But how Came? I had written down 6 Mr. Jackson said in class.

Then I found that no one 7 the test at all. What happened?

"Very simple,"Mr. Jackson explained."I had made up that story about the Wampus. There had never been such an animal, 8 the information in your notes was not correct. Do you want to get 9 marks for incorrect answers?"

We were angry. What kind of test was this? What kind of teacher was Mr. Jackson? How was it possible 10 us students to doubt what the teacher taught us?

"The zeros on your papers will be 11 in your grade books," Mr. Jackson said. And he did it.

Through this 12 , Mr. Jackson hoped that we would learn something. Teachers and books are not always 13 . In fact, no one is always right. Mr. Jackson told us not to let our minds go to sleep. Instead, we should keep thinking all the time and speak up if we think there are 14 in our teachers' words or in books.

We should form the habit of 15 and develop the ability to decide by ourselves. What a special lesson Mr. Jackson gave us!

Ghosts of our loved ones

Many people think things like ghosts and death are scary. But in fact, we just had a festival celebrating these things.

Every year, on the 15th day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar, we celebrate Zhongyuan Festival, or Ghost Festival. It is on August 30th this year. On this day, families light lanterns to help dead people find their way home. But at the same time, living people don't want to stay out at night during Ghost Festival. They believe ghosts may hurt them.

Ghost Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, or Qingming Festival are both holidays that honor the dead. During Ghost Festival, the spirits of all dead people are honored. But we only honor our dead family members at Qingming. People believe the spirits of the dead would come back to Earth during Ghost Festival, but not during Qingming.

In Chinese culture, death is a scary and heavy thing. People are mostly afraid of it. But in some other cultures, death is a less gloomy（阴郁的） thing. 

In the US, people remember the dead on Halloween. But they make it a fun festival. People wear scary clothes. Children do fun things, like trick-or-treating.

In Mexico, the Day of the Dead is a time for the living to connect with the dead. They make dolls of the dead and tell stories about them. There are also parties at night. Whether you like it or not, death is apart of life. Understanding death can help us cherish(珍惜) our time here and live best lives.

 Tomorrow is Emma' s first day of junior high school. Her mother buys her a new schoolbag. It is red. Emma is excited to have it. She sits on the chair and packs her schoolbag.

 First, she puts her pencil case into the schoolbag. What's in the pencil case? Look. She has two pens and three pencils. She also has an eraser and a ruler. They' re all in her pencil case. She also puts her colour pencils in the pencil case. She can draw pictures with them for her art teacher Mrs Green. Next, she puts her scissors(剪刀) in it. She wants to make cards with them for her friends. Then, she puts all her textbooks in it.

 Emma puts all the school things in her schoolbag. What a great term it can be!