Hollywood is a shiny, bright place. It is the movie capital of the world. And it is also one of the tourist destinations (目的地) in America. In 1911 the small, peaceful village of Hollywood in California was voted to become part of Los Angeles (洛杉矶). Today, over 100 years later, this village has grown into the home of one of the most well-known industries in the world — the American film industry.

    With this growth came many well-known symbols. There is the famous Hollywood sign which stands above the hills of the town. The first sign was built in 1923. Then there is the Hollywood Hall of Fame (名人堂), where great actresses, actors and directors leave their footprints or handprints. Norma Talmadge was the first actress to do this in 1927. But the most famous of all is the Oscar Academy Awards. Every spring, a large number of actresses, actors and directors wait excitedly and nervously to find out if they have won an "Oscar". This year was the 85th Oscar Academy Awards. It was held on February 25 in Los Angeles. Ang Lee, a Chinese director, won the Award for Best Director again. It was the second time he had won the Award.

    Nowadays it is the home of films, and thousands of hopeful young actresses, actors, writers and directors still come to "the Dream Factory" every year. But not all Hollywood dreams have been happy ones — as one actress, who later died tragically (悲惨地), said, "Hollywood is a place where they will pay you 500 dollars for a kiss, and 50 cents for your soul (灵魂)."

Hollywood

    Spending time in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good bookshop, no assistant(店员)will come near to you and say, "Can I help you? "You needn't buy anything you don't want. If you want to find some books, the assistant will lead you there and then he or she will go away. He or she seems not to be interested in selling any books at all.

    There is a story about a good bookshop. A student wanted to buy a very useful book in the bookshop. But it was too expensive for him to buy. So every afternoon, he went there to read a little at a time. (One day, however, he couldn't find the book from its usual place. He was leaving when he saw an assistant signing(示意)to him. He was surprised that the assistant pointed to the book in the corner. "I put it there so that people couldn't see it or buy it," said the assistant. Then he left the student to go on with his reading.

John is twelve years old. He had a bad cold and coughed (咳嗽) day and night. He went to see a doctor. The doctor gave him some cough medicine(药物).

There is a schoolbag here.Look {#blank#}1{#/blank#}the schoolbag.The {#blank#}2{#/blank#}of the schoolbag is black.I think it's a boy's schoolbag.Yes!I can see a {#blank#}3{#/blank#}on the schoolbag.It is Lin Tao.It's Lin Tao's schoolbag!Let's see {#blank#}4{#/blank#}is in the schoolbag.Oh，there is {#blank#}5{#/blank#}English book，a Chinese book and a dictionary in it.The English {#blank#}6{#/blank#}is yellow.The Chinese book is blue {#blank#}7{#/blank#}white.The dictionary is red.Oh，there is a pencil box in it， {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. It's a black pencil box.There are nine things in the pencil box，two pens， {#blank#}9{#/blank#}pencils，two erasers and a ruler.

Lin Tao's schoolbag is nice and clean.I will take the schoolbag to {#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

Hello! My name is Bill. My school has a library. The library is not big, but it is nice. About 6, 000 books are in it. About 5, 000 of them are in Chinese, and about 1, 000 are in English. 

I like books very much. I go to the library every day. Miss Yang works(工作) in the library. She can always help students find the books. 

We have a computer room in the library. The students need(需要) their ID cards to go into the computer room. We have classes in the computer room, too. 

Our library has the Lost and Found, too. Mrs. Black works there. My friend Lucy helps her every afternoon. Mrs. Black is very happy to help the students find their things. 

Do you have a library in your school?