Kitty is from England. Now she lives in China. She is fourteen. She is at a girls' school in Beijing. She gets up at seven. Then she has a wash and has breakfast at eight o'clock. After that, she goes to school by bus. She has four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. At school, she studies Chinese, Maths, History and so on. She studies very well. She has lunch at school, but she comes home for supper. After supper, she does the homework. She goes to bed at nine. On Saturdays and Sundays, she usually gets up later and she doesn't do any homework. She usually plays games with her friends. Sometimes she watches TV with her parents. She is a lovely girl.

    People have always wanted to know what our future will look like. Go on reading this text, and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.

    How can we know what the future will look like? To be able to understand the future, you have to know the past, what has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but people are driven by the same basic needs as they were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.

    What inventions have really made a different in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have changed most people's everyday life are telephone, radio, television, computer, the car and the internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster cars, trains, etc. In general, people have been working hard in the last 150 years to make inventions that will make the world a better place. Since there is still much to do in the area, this will be important for at least the next 150 years.

    Why do we need to guess the future? Guessing the future is important for two reasons: First, we need to start to think about what kind of future we would like for ourselves and our children. And then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give us the best future.

    Travel Tips for Holidays Abroad Everyone loves holidays abroad. They give us the chance to see some sights, have some fun and relax. However, holidays aren't always a great experience. Follow these tips to make sure you enjoy your holiday.

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    Please get everything ready. Every year, thousands of people miss flights because they are not ready, they arrive at the airport too late, or even go to the wrong airport!

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    How much do you know about the place you are going to visit? Learning a little about the culture of a country will help you a lot. Learning a few words of another language can also help you make new friends.

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    Try to keep the place that you visit clean. Don't throw rubbish here and there. You'd better use buses or trains instead of taxis when you arrive.

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    You can help a local community a lot by staying in local hotels and eating in local restaurants. This means that your money will go to local people.

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    You don't want to forget your holiday. Write a book about your holiday. You can show it to friends, or just use it to remember all the good times you had! And don't forget the new friends you made during your holiday. Then next time you go on holiday, you can visit them again.

When we build a new house, we often buy something beautiful to decorate it. The painting is always the first thing we want to buy. People from all over the world mostly like western paintings. But as a Chinese, I think Chinese paintings are the best.

Chinese paintings are one of the oldest kinds of paintings in the world. Chinese artists first started painting over two thousand years ago, and painters in China are still using many of the same ways today.

Chinese painters usually paint natural scenes(自然景观), animals or people. We can only see buildings in Chinese paintings when they make up a small part of a natural scene.

There are two kinds of traditional Chinese paintings. The first one is the gongbi style. People need a lot of time to make this style of painting, because they paint everything in great detail(细节). This style often uses a lot of colour. Long ago, most painters in China used the gongbi style.

The second style of Chinese painting is the ink-wash painting(水墨画), Painters usually finish ink-wash paintings very quickly and they may not always have much colour. Ink-wash paintings have fewer details, because the painter is trying to show something with just a few brushstrokes(笔画). Most ink-wash artists do not work as painters. They paint as a hobby. But a good ink-wash artist can still become famous.

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How to eat for lunch and dinner is quite different in the two countries. Most Americans only have a short time to eat for lunch. So they eat a small lunch. After work they will have more time {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (eat) a big dinner. Also, a big dinner at home with all the family talking about their days is a way {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (take) a good rest after a long, hard day of work. 

Eating at restaurants is quite different. In China, people like talking and laughing while eating. Very often you can hear people {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (talk) and laughing loudly and they are just having a good time. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, in America it is not {#blank#}8{#/blank#} this. They want a quiet place where they can eat a good meal far away from the noises of the outside world. If someone is talking too {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (loud), the manager of the restaurant may come and ask them {#blank#}10{#/blank#} be quiet.