Mary Dexter is a student．She is from the USA．She studies in a middle school． 1  Her favorite subject is science．Though Mary is only 13 years old，she begins to think about her future(未来)．After she finishes high school，she wants to study at a big college(大学)in SanDiego． 2

    Mary wants to study marine biology．That is to say,she will learn about all the animals in the sea．And San Diego is a great place to study marine biology because it is near the sea，and the city has a great Sea World．People can see many sea animals there．

     3 "I want to work with sea animals and help them．"says Mary．

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    Hello! My name is Wendy. I live in the city. My family doesn't have a car, so I go to school on the bus. There are four people in my family. They are my parents, my brother and I. We live happily together.

    At school, I study very hard. I am very good at English. I often help my classmates with their Chinese and English. I enjoy learning.

    I am a quiet girl. I like reading and listening to light music. I have some friends. We always spend time together, they are very funny and friendly. I wish we can be friends forever.

    There was once a stone(石头) in the center of the garden of a family. Whenever the family passed through the garden, they would always make a detour(绕路) round the stone.

    One day, the son said to his father, "I hate that stone. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}"The father said, "It was there when your grandfather was alive. It is so big .I'm afraid we can't move it. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}"

    Twenty years later, the son grew up and had his own son. One day, his son said to him, "There is a big stone in the garden. Shall we move it?" He said, "That stone is too heavy. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}"But the son made up his mind to move it.

    One morning, the son brought some tools(工具) to the garden. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} He thought it would take him the whole day to move the stone. To his surprise, he spent only ten minutes before the stone was moved. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

Have you ever driven through a red traffic light? Have you ever parked in the wrong place or driven faster than the speed limit (限制)? The answers are probably "yes". Every year {#blank#}1{#/blank#} of drivers become "offenders" (违法者)—they break the rules of the road. But what are punishments {#blank#}2{#/blank#} this offence?

In most countries drivers have to pay a fine (罚款), {#blank#}3{#/blank#} $100—$300. But in the USA, Australia and some {#blank#}4{#/blank#} countries offenders also get points on their driving license (驾照). After they get a certain number of points, they can't {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

Life is difficult when you can't drive. So far some states in the USA have {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a new way to avoid this——Traffic School. Offenders have a choice: They can get points on their license {#blank#}7{#/blank#} they can do a course at Traffic School.

Traffic Schools run "driver improvement courses". They {#blank#}8{#/blank#} about $100 and take from four to twelve hours. Most people do the course in a {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, but in some states drivers can do the course online. Drivers learn the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of the road and they learn how to be better drivers. They don't have to take a driving test, but at the end of the course they have to pass a written examination.

A beach trip can be fun and relaxing. To have an enjoyable beach trip, you need to make plans for it. Here is some useful information(信息).

Decide which beach to visit. Have a discussion(讨论) with your family. Before you look for information online, sit down and talk with your family to learn about their ideas. Write down their ideas so that you won't forget them. For example, maybe your daughter wants to look for sea shells and your son wants to try some water sports.

____One of the most important things to bring on a family beach trip is a cooler (冰桶) full of ice and things to eat and drink! Because you will spend a few hours on the beach, your family will need some food and drinks. It's better to bring lunch for everyone. Some good beach food and drinks are fresh fruit, sandwiches, juice and so on.

Plan activities for your trip. The best part of a beach trip is that your family can play together! Make sure that you bring things that your family want to use when they are on the beach, such as sand toys, frisbee (飞盘) and cards. If you want to stay by yourself, you can also bring some books to enjoy yourself.

With good preparations, you are sure to have a good time on the beach!

①Winter can be a hard time for animals. The weather may be very cold. Food can be hard to find under the snow. How do animals live in this season? Let's have a look. 

②In autumn, when the weather gets cool, some animals go away from cold places. Some birds fly south together. They move south because the weather there is warm and food there is easy to find. When spring comes, they will return. 

③Many animals store(储存) food before the cold days. That is what a pika(鼠兔) does. A pika looks a little like a rabbit, but with short ears. Pikas live in high mountains where winters are long and cold. In summer, they prepare lots of grass to eat in winter. By the end of summer, a pika may store about 22 kilos of grass. 

④Some animals change themselves to live in winter, like snowshoe rabbits in America. In summer, the rabbits' fur is brown. But they grow new, white fur in winter. The new fur keeps them safe in the snow. In autumn, they eat to get fat(脂肪), because the fat can also help them keep warm in winter. 

⑤Other animals sleep all winter long and don't eat at all. Before winter, these animals eat a lot to grow fat. When winter comes, they go to sleep. Black bears in cold areas make warm beds to sleep in. Some of them can sleep for seven months. By the time spring comes, they have lost most of their fat.