Some students are going to some different places this weekend. Where are they going? Can you find their places they want to go?

{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Sally: I have a pen pal in Wenchuan. Some days ago, I got a letter from her. She said she needed some school things. I bought some and I want to post them to her. So this weekend, where will I go? Do you know?

{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Ricky: I don't like weekends. For me, I have no weekends. My parents usually ask me to go to evening school to learn English and other subjects. I always feel tired. That's why I don't like weekends.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Barbara: I love weekends. I can do what I want to do. I want to go to a quiet place to study because Mid-term Exam（期中考试）is coming. I want to borrow（借）some books from that place and return（还）some to that place. Do you know where I want to go?

{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Angle: This weekend will be an exciting one for me. My parents are going to take me to have something special in the place. It is said that we can try some Indian food. Isn't it interesting?

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}Stella: I want to relax myself on weekends. This weekend, I want to do something different. I want to go to this place. There, you can see many kinds of animals there. And children like to go there with their parents.

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    It is necessary for children to help their parents with housework. But most parents may find it difficult to get their children to help with it, because children usually enjoy playing games instead of doing housework. However, I have some good ways to get my children to do housework. Here is an example.

    "Mum, what's next week's housework? Let Kitty and me choose the cards. I can't wait. It's interesting!"

    When my son, 7-year-old Tommy shouted, I began to put all the cards on the sofa. On the cards, I wrote some words like these, "wash the car, take out the rubbish, make the bed, do the dishes, clean the living room, sweep the floor, wash the clothes, take the dog for walks, water the flowers" and so on.

    Kitty and Tommy chose two cards for each day from Monday to Friday. Then they wrote them down on their notebooks. Tommy likes to take the dog for walks best while Kitty enjoys cleaning the living room. Soon the two kids had fun taking away all the cards. And I didn't need to worry about the housework again. Of course, on weekends, I usually do the housework myself and set the children free.

No one knows exactly when jazz was invented, or by whom. But it is said that it began in the early 1900s. Jazz was a new kind of music, for America and the world, and New Orleans was {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(它的) birthplace.

Who were the jazz pioneers?{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(大多数) were blacks. This music was not written down, and at first only blacks played it. It was hard for white musical people to learn the new style. But soon they were playing jazz, too.

The popularity of this music{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(传播) from New Orleans. It traveled up the Mississippi to Chicago, then to Kansas City and New York. By the 1920s, there were many jazz musicians, both black and white. Many of them were{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(著名的). A man named Louis Armstrong is one of them.

Louis Armstrong was not only a born musician but also hard-working. He had a good{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(感觉) of humor and a big smile and he always smiled happily. These personal qualities were{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(珍贵的) in his life.{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(在……以后) he became famous, he traveled around the world. It seemed that everyone wanted to hear Louis play. But life was not always easy,{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(尤其) at the beginning.

Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 in New Orleans. His father never went to school and his mother could hardly read. When Louis was still a kid, his parents{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(分离), and Louis lived with his mother. How hard their life was can be imagined! However, Louis smiled through{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(一切). He later wrote, "My whole life has been filled with happiness. Life was there for me and I accepted it, Whatever happened has been valuable to me. That's the beauty of it. I love everybody."

Hello, my name is Martha and I'm 13 years old. I 1 in a middle school near my home. I like my school because there is a big 2 and I can read many interesting books there. In our class there are twenty-seven students. Our classroom is large and 3 . Everything is in the right place. We put our 4 in the bookcases at the back. We 5 some pictures of famous people on the walls. There is a 6 on the front wall. It has a big screen. With its help, we can study well. My desk is 7 and my chair is yellow, too. My schoolbag is on it. Ms Reed is our class teacher and she teaches 8 . She is really 9 , and she often helps us study English after class. My good friend is Ella. We often help each other because she 10 next to me. We are seatmates. 

I'm very happy studying in this school.