Linda is from {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. She is thirteen. Her sister's name is Sally. She is only five {#blank#}2{#/blank#} old. Linda is in No.2 Middle School. She is a good student. She {#blank#}3{#/blank#} beautiful eyes. They are big and black. She is a good football player. Her {#blank#}4{#/blank#} star is David Beckham(大卫·贝克汉姆). Her father is a teacher. Her mother is a teacher, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. They have a big house and a car. She has a happy family(家庭).

    When you get up in the morning, do you find it hard to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} what clothes to wear?

    If so, you probably need help to make the bigger choices in your life, like what to do when you're {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    Brave New Girls, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} by an American author Jeanette Gadeberg, will help you make such choices. To make them, it says, you must be a brave new girl. A brave new girl is the one who's confident, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and happy. A brave new girl can realize her dream.

    To be brave, you need to make decisions by {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Other people may tell you what to do, but you should not listen to them. You should only do what you want.

    If you always wear clothes {#blank#}6{#/blank#} your favorite TV star, for example, you should stop {#blank#}7{#/blank#} so. Instead, you should become your own star and wear the clothes you like.

    The book also says that girls must start becoming more confident. If you're confident, you'll {#blank#}8{#/blank#} in life. A good way to become confident is to realize that you are as {#blank#}9{#/blank#} as boys. You just look at their grades!

    Today's brave new girls will become tomorrow's brave new women. Only in this way can you achieve your dreams and become who you want to {#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

    The {#blank#}1{#/blank#}pyramids were built around 2560B.C.The largest one of them is the Great Pyramid of Khufu. It's one of the Seven Wonders of the World .The King, Khufu, built the Great Pyramid as his tomb. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}show that it {#blank#}3{#/blank#}1000000 people over 20 years to complete it .

    The Great Pyramid was{#blank#}4{#/blank#}a unique building in the 19^th century A.D. At that time it was still the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} building in the world .According to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} research, the ancient King ,Khufu ,ordered his men to build the Great Pyramid stone by stone .The biggest stone {#blank#}7{#/blank#}as much as 15 tons .Each stone was fixed so well, though the ancient workers didn't have any modern tools .The Great Pyramid has four sides and each sides is 230.4 meters and 146.5meters high. At that time, there were no modern {#blank#}8{#/blank#} or equipment, so how did the ancient people build the Great Pyramid? To this day, it still a mystery .But many scientists continue to study their{#blank#}9{#/blank#} .The completion of the Great Pyramid{#blank#}10{#/blank#}the achievements of ancient working people.

    Captain Joseph Mackey's airplane was flying over the ocean on its way to Great Britain when engine trouble started. He turned back and made a crash-landing at night in the deep snow of Newfoundland, All the men in the plane were killed except Captain Mackey who was badly hurt.

    Captain Mackey waited all the next morning for an airplane to come{#blank#}1{#/blank#}him. In the afternoon he set out to find help. He went about a mile but found that he was too weak to go on through the snow. Half walking and half{#blank#}2{#/blank#}, he made his way back to the plane.

    The second day many planes passed above him, but none of the pilots saw him. In his plane was a flask(长颈瓶)of aluminum(铝)powder. He poured this on a huge stone to make the stone shine, but the wind blew it off.

    The third day Captain Mackey heard a plane coming nearer, flying very low. It flew right over him and passed on. Then he gave up hope of being found. In a few minutes the plane returned, and the pilot dipped(稍微降低) one wing to get a{#blank#}3{#/blank#}view. He had seen the aluminum powder blown by the wind on the snow.

    The pilot came for a better look, and then he saw Captain Mackey{#blank#}4{#/blank#} his arms. Jim Allison, the pilot, was an old friend. Allison quickly climbed higher and sent a radio message. In a short time a plane came and dropped a sleeping bag, food, medicine and tools for Captain Mackey. Later two men arrived with a sled to rescue him.

☆ It's a letter from Tom to Kitty.

☆ It's the first time for Tom to write to Kitty from Penfriends magazine.

☆ Pay attention to the format (格式）of a letter.

 ( 注意：文中不得出现具体人名、校名等个人信息，否则不予评分。)