A. At that time they believed that the girl was really a true princess and they asked the prince to marry(娶)her.

B. One night there was a storm. The guards(警卫)of the palace heard someone knocking at the palace gate. When they opened the door， they found a woman was standing outside the gate. And the woman said that she was really a true princess.

C. The next morning, the queen asked the girl how she slept. "Very badly!" said the girl. "I can't close my eyes all night. I am sure that there's something in the bed. I must lie on something hard so that my body is black and blue."

D. Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess. He travelled the whole world to find one. But he returned sadly. He didn't find one.

E. The queen heard about this. She asked the servants to make the bed for the girl. They put a pea on the bottom of the bed, they also put twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdown(鸭绒被) on the pea.

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    Tom comes from Australia. He studies in a middle school in Tianjin. He usually gets up at 7: 00 a. m. and then reads Chinese. He has breakfast at 7: 30 a. m. And then he goes to school by bike. He is never late for school. Classes begin at 8: 00 a. m. He has four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. He has lunch at 12: 30 p. m. at home with his parents. They both work as reporters at a TV station. After school, sometimes he plays volleyball with his classmates, and sometimes he reads books in the school library. He goes back home at 4: 40 p. m. After supper, he always studies Chinese. He goes to bed at about 9: 10 p. m. He likes China and he thinks Chinese people are friendly and he believes he can make many friends here.

Customs on Eating

    Food in China and western countries is different. China has about 5000 years' old history. They may spend half of their time on food. Chinese people choose food very carefully. They only use. fresh materials (新鲜的材料) to make food. For example, they only eat fresh fish. Chinese have a lot of ideas for cooking. They can cook a chicken in over ten ways.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Western countries, like England or America, don't have fresh food because they buy their food from supermarkets which only sell stored materials (储存的材料).{#blank#}2{#/blank#}They are healthy for man's body. Western people do not have many skills for cooking, and mostly they only boil, steam (蒸) and bake the food. By the way, western people are very good at making desserts and chocolate. They can make very good cakes and chocolate{#blank#}3{#/blank#}

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    Chinese people only have three meals during a day. But western people may have more. They usually have afternoon tea when they would have fruit, cakes or biscuits with cheese.