Welcome to this short tour of London from Trafalgar Square．Now we are standing{#blank#}1{#/blank#}from the National Galley,a museum with a lot of famous{#blank#}2{#/blank#}．We'll walk along the red street to Buckingham Palace，the Queen's home．Opposite Big Ben is the London Eye．In it，you can see most of London on a(n){#blank#}3{#/blank#}day．The best way{#blank#}4{#/blank#}London is to take a boat tour along the River Thames．You can get off the boat at Tower Bridge．Next to it is the Tower of London，over nine{#blank#}5{#/blank#}years old．After visiting it，let's go back to the square to finish our trip．

    What kind of music do you like? How do you {#blank#}1{#/blank#}when you listen to your favorite music? Do you think music can make people feel better or help {#blank#}2{#/blank#}learn?

    Jen Morgan is a music therapist ( 治疗专家). She works with children with disabilities (缺陷). Jen {#blank#}3{#/blank#}music to help them learn new things. She can also help them with their {#blank#}4{#/blank#}and memory (记忆力).

    There are different {#blank#}5{#/blank#} for doing music therapy. Jen gets the children to listen to music and sing or play along. The children also enjoy moving to the music. Jen asks them to try to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}songs they like, too.

    Jen writes songs and uses them in her therapy work. "I've probably written more than 200 songs," she says. "I write songs about {#blank#}7{#/blank#} about getting dressed, about flowers, about my favorite food – you name it Sometimes the children help me write songs."

    Jen loves her job {#blank#}8{#/blank#}a music therapist "I'm very lucky to have this job," she says. It's {#blank#}9{#/blank#}to see how music can help children with disabilities Often children are {#blank#}10{#/blank#} when I first meet them. But they soon start having fun and enjoying the music. Music makes people feel good!

    People also love trying to memorize the digits of pi and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} against others to see who can remember the most. Many teachers hold class{#blank#}2{#/blank#} to see how many numbers their students can memorize. The Guinness World Record for{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the most digits of pi is held Suresh Kumar Sharma of India, who successfully recited pi out to 70,030 decimal places.

    Above all, Pi is about having fun with the number. People celebrate Pi Day by eating or throwing pie and with pi-related games and activities. This year, Princeton, New Jersey, held a birthday party for Albert Einstein whose birthday also{#blank#}4{#/blank#} on March 14. There was also a "Walk a Pi Event "where people walked 3.14 miles together. Just like the number itself, the possibilities for Pi Day are truly endless.

    Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother reads magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we{#blank#}1{#/blank#}life without paper or print?

    Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could{#blank#}2{#/blank#}be produced one at a time by hand and they were expensive and rare. Because there weren't many books, few people learned to read.

    Then printing was invented in China. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. Then more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and{#blank#}3{#/blank#}spread quickly.

    Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}MP3 players.

    Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? I am not sure.

    I have got a good friend Betty. She's an Australian girl. She {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in Sydney with her parents and her little brother. Her father works in a museum. Her mother teaches English in a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Her little brother Jimmy is only four. He doesn't go to school.

    Betty is a very {#blank#}3{#/blank#} girl. She likes swimming and playing ball games. From Monday to Friday she is at school and her parents are at work. But Jimmy often plays {#blank#}4{#/blank#} his dog Bobby. After supper her father watches football games on TV. Her mother does {#blank#}5{#/blank#} reading and Betty does her homework.