My name is Sam. I am a junior high school student. My school is close to my home, so I always go to school on foot. Classes start at 8 a.m., and I am seldom late. I like Geography best. I enjoy learning about different places in the world.

    In the morning, we usually study Chinese, Maths and English. We have our morning break at 9:50 a.m..  When the bell rings, I run to the playground with my best friends Tom and Jack. We often play games. Break ends at 10:10 a.m..

Lunch is from 11:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.. Afternoon classes end at 3:30 p.m. Then Tom, Jack and I take part in the school bank practice. We make great music together.

    I always have a good time at school.

    With the rapid development of science and technology, communication methods of people have changed a lot in the past years.

    As we all know, in ancient times, people communicated with people who were far from them only by letters, which took a very long time to get the message.

    In the 19th century, telegraph was invented, but it was not widely used, letter is still the main method at that time. In1836, John Coker invented the first electromagnetic telegraph(电磁电报机) in the world, then telegraph appeared and was popular, which was much faster than letter, bringing great convenience to people.

    As time goes by, telephones become increasingly widely used. Now, the phone has been developed as mobile phone, fixed telephone, Internet telephone and other kinds, being an essential communication tool in the modern information society.

    In addition, network communication is popular as well. It is especially widely welcomed by the youths. A great number of people communicate with others on the Internet by using software, such as email, QQ, WeChat, bbs, MSN and so on. Using software is easy. A computer which is connected to the network is enough. In China, WeChat has become the most popular communication software nowadays. WeChat, known as Weixin in Chinese, is a mobile phone text and voice messaging communication software which is developed by Tencent. People can make video calls that not only can hear the sound, but also can see the people you talk to.

    In 2011, when British photographer David J. Slater was visiting a park in Indonesia, his camera was taken away by a group of black monkeys. The result was hundreds of monkey selfies(自拍照). The best ones show a monkey smiling toothily for the camera. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Nobody knew they would create a copyright (版权) battle three years later.

    Last month, a website put the monkey selfies online under a collection d free photos without Slater's permission (允许). {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

    However, the website refused to do so. They said that according to US copyright law, whoever pushes the button on the camera owns the copyright to the photo. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    They said, "US copyright law says that works that come from a non-human source can't ask for copyright. That means monkeys don't own copyright. "

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} He said he bought the cameras; he spent a lot of money traveling to Indonesia, and it was his carelessness that allowed the monkeys to take his cameras away.  All these have made him own the pictures, no matter who pushed the button. In a sense, the monkeys helped him take the photos, Slater said.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Who do you think will win this interesting battle?

A. It was the monkeys but not Slater that pushed the button.

B. As of now, there has been no result in the Monkey Selfie case.

C. Slater then sold the photos and they became popular on the Internet.

D. Slater asked the website to take them down since he owns the copyright.

E. Slater argues that the pictures belong to him as they were taken from his camera.

    One day a tiger catches(抓住)a fox in the forest. Before the tiger could eat him up, the fox cries out, "You can't eat me. Don't you know that I'm king of the forest. If you eat me up, all the other animals in the forest will be angry with you. "The tiger doesn't believe him." How can such a small animal be king of the forest?" He asks himself. "If you don't believe(相信)me," the fox says, "then take a walk with me in the forest．You can see for yourself whether(是否)they are afraid of me." The tiger thinks it is a good idea, so the fox walks in front and the tiger goes behind. When the other animals see the tiger coming, they run away as fast as they could.

    "See for yourself, Mr. Tiger," he calls out quickly. "All the animals are afraid of me."

    "Yes, yes," the tiger says. "You are quite right." He then lets the fox go.

When I was very young, people in our village lived by planting fruit trees. My grandmother always took me to the orchard(果园)on the hill. At that time, they had to carry water from the river at the foot of the hill to halfway up the hill. Even though we worked so hard, the production level of fruit was still low because it was short of water there.

One day, two young men led a group of workers to our village. They learned about the difficulties we faced, and later, canals and other projects began to be built in my village."Who are they? "I asked."They are good men from our government," my grandma replied.

Shortly afterwards, I moved to another city for my junior high school. The only reason I ever came back to my hometown was my grandmother.

One day, my family and I made time to return. We were surprised because everything had changed. The canal ran past every orchard so villagers didn't have to go up and down the hill anymore. The river was now so clean that fish swam happily in it. When we arrived home, my grandma took out some fresh pears and apples. She told us that after the water conservation project(水利工程)was completed, a policy(政策)was made to encourage more people to increase the fruit production with clean water in the river.

Thank those good men who have devoted themselves to the development of our countryside. Nowadays,people work hard to live in a big city. However,we should not forget our hometowns where we are from.

Most of us have three meals a day. We take food for granted (想当然) and we don't think about it. 1 experts argue a food crisis (危机) is coming. This crisis is going to make us 2 the way we think about food. 

Food is 3 great need because of the growing world population. By 1960, the population was about three billion. It doubled to about six billion by 1999. By 2050, this planet will need to 4 at least nine billion people. As a result, the food prices get higher and higher. 

So, what can a 5 and crowded world do? One suggestion is to eat  6 meat. Meat uses more natural resources than grains (谷物). It requires more  7 to produce one pound of meat than to produce one pound of grain. It also requires between 5 and 10 times more  8 than vegetables. So, eating less meat will provide (提供) more land for farming, and it will 9 water.

To eat less meat, people will need to change their eating habits. That will not be 10 . Americans, for example, have always loved meat. In general, they eat twice as much meat as people in other 11 . At the same time, in developing countries like China and Brazil, sales of meat have doubled in the last 20 years.12 will double again by 2050. The growing need for meat will  13 putting pressure on natural resources. 

The world population is increasing, resources are becoming fewer, and food prices are rising. Therefore, we need to rethink 14 we eat every day. For meat lovers, they don't need to give up meat 15 . But they need to eat more grains and less meat.