Because of the high price of housing, many of us are living in smaller spaces than we'd like. However, living in small spaces is not that bad. It has some advantages.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} It can take thousands of dollars to make a large space look better. Small spaces, however, make decorating simpler and more affordable. Instead of many pieces of large, expensive furniture, you only need a few to make your style. You'll have plenty of money left for other things.

    They're easier to clean. This must be one of your favorite things about living in a small space. The bigger the space is, the longer it takes to tidy up. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}That's why small spaces are welcomed by those who like being surrounded by cleanliness and don't want to spend much time and energy in keeping them that way.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} It takes a lot to pay for heating, cooling and electricity, which can also cost much energy. When you compare the electricity bill of someone living in 500 square feet with that of someone living in 3, 000 square feet. the difference can be great, We use less energy and produce less waste when we live in small spaces. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    They're easier to show your own style. Have you ever walked into a large home that feels more like a museum than the small home of someone you know? It's usually not the most familiar or welcoming atmosphere. Actually, you want your home to show your personal style. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. They're cheaper to decorate.

B. No one wants to spend hours just cleaning.

C. So it also does good to our beloved Mother Nature.

D. They're money-saving and environmentally friendly.

E. It is much easier to decorate a small home in your own style.

Every school day, we use schoolbags to carry all of our things to school. They are a big 1 of our lives. But have you 2 thought about the history of the schoolbag?

In the Han Dynasty (汉朝), students in old-style schools used bamboo boxes to 3 books to school. People think the bamboo boxes to be the 4 schoolbags. There were usually two or three layers (层) in the box. Kids put different things 5 books, brushes, ink stones and paper in the boxes.

Hundreds of years later, people developed a new kind of schoolbag 6 the budai. The budai was lighter than the bamboo box. People can carry it 7 . With the founding (成立) of the People's Republic of China, military rucksacks (军用帆布包) became popular. Many people carried them 8 they were in school. Ask your grandparents or parents 9 these bags. Maybe they can tell you about their 10 of carrying them when they were in school.

A new style of school bags 11 in recent years. Many of them have colorful and fashionable designs on them, such as pictures of cartoons or pop stars. And they are 12 comfortable to use. Some students pull wheeled bags filled with heavy textbooks and 13 carry backpacks.

Electronic (电子的) schoolbag are being used in many places now. Students don't 14 carry heavy schoolbag to school anymore.

Do you know what future schoolbags will be like? Let's 15 it.

We have learned English for several years, so we can read English books and magazines without the teachers' help. We feel good when we finish 1 an English story or a whole book 2 ourselves. But3 can we be a better reader?

It is important 4 some suitable books. Then what books are suitable? Well, I think we should first choose books that are not too difficult or too 5 . Then when we are reading, we should 6 let new words take too much of our attention. Just do as we often do in our own language. While we are reading, try to 7 the meanings of the new words, and try to decide which of the key words we could guess and which we have to 8 in the dictionary.

If we follow these 9 , we will be10 in reading English books and magazines.

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My new friend

Hello! My name is Li Hua.

Friends are very important in everyone's life because friends are always there when we need them. A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

My friendship with Sue started 30 years ago with a snake. A few months after I moved into an apartment (公寓), one day, my next-door neighbor, shouted to me for help because a snake was sleeping near her door. I made the snake run away and made a new friend. Soon Sue invited me over for dinner or left home-made food at my door. When I went to my beach house, Sue helped look after my pet and water my plants. And when she wasn't home, I did the same for her. When she traveled, she'd remember to bring me wonderful gifts, but her smile is always the greatest gift of all.

In 1997, I had a lovely child and Sue looked after me and him. Years later, I returned her kindness. I helped out when her husband was in hospital, staying with her and talking about and sharing everything with her.

Unluckily, in 2019 the pandemic (疫情) happened. My husband lost his work and my son couldn't be back home because of the virus (病毒). I was worried about them and I didn't know how to fight the pandemic. But Sue appeared to help us in time. She shared food and medicine with us. Without her, I couldn't go through difficult times. I was the luckiest one in the world.

A wall might separate (阻隔) our apartments and masks (口罩) can separate the viruses, but nothing is able to separate true friends' hearts.