Americans with small families have a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(面包车).

    A small car can hold four people and a large car can hold six people but it is very crowded(拥挤的). A van can hold seven people easily, so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to go for a holiday. They could all travel together.

    Mr Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. The sixth and seventh seats are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases when they travel.

    Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family is travelling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are travelling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.

In your life, you are sure to have met thousands of people. Can you remember everyone's1 ? Maybe not.

I used to be in a nursing school. During the third month there, we had an important2 . I studied very hard for it. I finished all the questions3 until I read the last one, "What is the name of the woman who cleans our classroom?"

Just then, I was4 at the question! I saw the woman almost every day, but I could only remember what she looked like. How could I know her name? Finally I had to5 my paper without finishing the last question. My classmates didn't6 it, either.

After class, one of my classmates asked the teacher if the last question would affect (影响) our7 . "Of course," the teacher said. "In our life, we will meet a lot of people. Many of them are important and8 to us, although they might play different9 in our society. Anyway, they are worth our attention and care, even if all that we can do is just to smile at them or say hello to them."

I'll never10 the test. Don't ignore (忽视) anyone who should be kindly treated. Sometimes just because of those people, our world changes for the better.

Yao Jian has been teaching in the Sandun Primary School in Datong, Shanxi Province for more than 20 years. In 1998, he chose to teach village children after graduation. At that time,the conditions of the village school were terrible. Some students had to bring chairs from home to school because there weren't enough chairs. The number of students became smaller and smaller because many villagers took their children to cities. Some teachers left the school to search for better jobs too. The teachers who stayed there had to teach all the subjects.

"I come from the poor countryside and know how important education is for village children.I will continue teaching in the school till the last student leaves."Yao said.

Because of his great work, Yao was made the headmaster of the school in 2004. In the same year, his wife started working as a teacher there too. They took good care of the students as if they were their own children. Yao used to have a heart-to-heart talk with other teachers so that they could feel at home in the school and like their work.

Many of the school's graduates have entered college. Jiao Shufeng, one of them, said,"Yao was my favourite teacher. He helped me form good study habits. I was lucky to have him as my teacher when I was young. Inspired by him, I plan to be a teacher and help more left-behind children to get better education."

Madison Checketts is a 12-year-old girl from Utah, the USA. She has always loved the 1 . When on vacation with her family in California, she couldn't turn a blind eye to all the plastic water bottles 2 her favorite beaches. So she decided to focus on (专注于) 3 plastic litter.

When Madison started researching plastic water bottles online, she found that Americans use more than 35 billion plastic water bottles every year, and most of them are not recycled 4 .

So Madison tried to 5 an environment-friendly water bottle. After lots of research and hard work, she designed the Eco Hero-an edible (可食用的) water bottle. People can poke (戳) a(n) 6 at the top of it, drink the water, and then eat it. It 7 only about $1.20 to make one.

"It took a lot of effort to develop the Eco-Hero," says Madison. "I just kept trying something new, and 8 it didn't work, I would do more research and try again. As for the future of the Eco-Hero, I want to do more tests to improve it and make it more stronger, bigger and be able to last for a 9 time. Also, I hope my invention will inspire (激励) 10 to make a difference, even if it's just in a small way."

1.描述房间物品及其摆放位置;

2.谈谈你对自己房间的感受。

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2.文中不得出现真实的人名和校名。

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