Everyone needs friends. There is an old saying, "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." But how do you find real friendship and keep it?

    The American writer--Sally Seamans tells young students some smart ways to find friends. Sally says finding friendship is just like planting a tree. You plant the seeds（种子）and take care of it to make it grow.

    First, you should choose a friend. What makes a good friend? It is not because a person has money or good looks. A good friend should be kind and patient. For example, if you have a bad day, a good friend should listen to your complaints(抱怨) and do his or her best to help. To make a friend, you cannot be too shy. You should make each other happy and share your life.

    But things cannot always be happy. Even the best friends have fights. What should you do when you have a fight with your friend? You have to talk to him or her. When there is no one around, talk to him or her honestly. If he or she doesn't want to talk, you can write a letter.

    There are some steps to be friends again.

    Tell him or her how you are feeling; say what your friend did wrong and explain why you did this or that; Don't forget that friendship is the most important thing in your life.

    Do you like to tell stories? Do you like to write? Sometimes those questions have two different answers.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} However, it can be hard to write them down on paper.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Even professional(职业的) writers do not write everything perfectly the first time. They have to revise(修正) their work. When you revise your writing, you look for ways to change it that will make it better.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} You make sure that you have used capitals(大写), periods and other punctuation marks in the best way. You look for words that can be taken out or changed for different, more exciting words. You make sure that your words help the reader get a picture in his mind when he reads them.

    Writing is one of those skills that take practice. The changes you make can turn boring words into exciting words.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Don't be afraid to make changes. The first time you write on a topic, you get your ideas down on paper.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} It's making it ready for readers to enjoy.

根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺，内容完整，并将其标号填写在下面题号后的横线上。

A. You check your spelling.

B. Revising your writing is important.

C. Many children love to tell stories out loud.

D. Revising your writing is cleaning it up.

E. It can make your ideas come alive.

⑴{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Around(在……周围)my house，there are lots of shops. I can almost buy everything. In front of my house is a big park. I usually spend most of my weekends there. There is a cinema on the left of my house. On its right is a great supermarket.

⑵{#blank#}2{#/blank#}My mother works in a bank near my school. So every day, I can take her car to school. The bank is between a supermarket and a bookshop. After school. I often read in the bookshop first and wait for my mother to finish work. And then we go home.

⑶{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Shanghai Museum is in the center of the People's Square. It has 4, 000 square meters. In it there are so many books, paintings, and other things. People from all over China like to go there to visit. If you have time to go there, you'll have a good time.

⑷{#blank#}4{#/blank#}My home town is a beautiful place. It stands near a small river at the green hills(小山). It has many tall buildings and great streets. Trees and flowers are everywhere. Sometimes, I swim in the river with my friends and sometimes, we have fun in the green hills.

⑸{#blank#}5{#/blank#}My school lies in the south of Changchun City. It is famous in our city. It has 24 classes, 8 classes in each grade. The number of the students and teachers is over 2,000. In the front of the school stands a tall classroom building. At the back of it is a lab building and a new library.

A. Day of my mother and me

B. My beautiful home town

C. Something about a museum

D. The change of my home town

E. Something about my school

F. Something around my house

    These days, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" is the wrong question to ask children in the USA. The question should be: "What job are you doing now？"American companies are employing more and more young people as consultants(顾问)to evaluate(评估)products for child consumers. The 12-to-19 age group spends more than $100 billion a year in the USA. Specialist agencies help manufacturers ask kids about all the latest trends in clothes, food and other markets. One company, Teenage Research Unlimited, has groups of teenagers who give their decisions on products like jeans. Another company, Doyle Research Associated, holds two-hour meetings in a room called the "imaginarium". Children are encouraged to play games to get into a creative mood. They have to write down any ideas which come into their heads.

    Some manufacturers prefer to do their own market research. The software company Microsoft runs a weekly "Kid's Council" at its headquarter in Seattle, where a group of school children give their decision on the latest products and suggest new ones. They are called young consultants. One 11-yearold consultant, Andrew Cooledge, told them they should make more computer games which are suitable for both boys and girls. Payments for the work are increasingly attractive, Andrew Cooledge was paid$250 and given some software. However, even if their ideas are valuable, the children will never make money. They cannot have the copyright to their ideas.

Why Live Near the River?

Imagine pioneers traveling west in the 1800s. In those days, it was hard to find running water and shops where to buy things. As time went by, most pioneers had to make their homes near a river so that they could get water easily.

How did rivers help people live in the past?

Back in the pioneer days, people grew their own food, caught their own fish, and collected their own water.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}People also used rivers as roads, traveling on boats. Traders shipped goods (货物) to people from other areas.

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When building many factories right next to rivers for the water's power to make machines work, some people choose to live near a river for working. They use the river to ship large goods, and some of them work at these factories where power factories provide electricity for homes and businesses.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}

Who wouldn't want to live near a river?

Some people are nervous about living near rivers because rivers can cause floods (洪水). Every once in a while, floodwaters rise higher than a house, ruining (毁坏) many things in the house.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Such waste causes water to smell bad and pollutes the crops (作物) we eat. Water and crops in polluted areas can make people very sick.

How do people decide where to live?

 {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Rivers can provide jobs and fun activities in a beautiful place. However, those living by rivers should be willing to accept possible problems as well.